Hello readers! I’m actually posting on Friday (gasp), I know it’s a shock. It was an uneventful week, but things did happen that I’ll talk about later. First though, there has been an update for PoGo that include several new Gen 4 Pokémon in the wild and 3 new lure modules that can help evolve into Magnazone, Glacion, Leafion and Probopass. I’ve only done the first and last, but I’ll do the others tomorrow or most likely during the community day for Torchic on Sunday.
I read more of Ascension Book One: Bloodline (almost finished) and reread Issei – The Gaming Gear, Naruto: The Game of Life and some of Death March and Harry Potter and the Stargate. The new chapters this week were – SAO: The Eroge, The Unseen Hunt, Master Potter of Kamar-Taj, Seerking’s Asylum (Mon & Fri), Mauling Snarks (Mon & Fri), Service with a Smile, Eighteen Years a Prodigy, Uzamaki Naruko: To the Victor, the Spoils V2, Heroes Assemble!, Ginny’s Plan, Titanfall, Kingdom Drabbles, Famiglia Drabbles, Short Story Drabbles (Thurs & Fri), Supernatural Drabbles & Taylor Varga.
I’ll be talking about Detective Pikachu and the Saga of Tanya the Evil movie so it’s time for a
*Spoiler Warning!*
Okay, so Detective Pikachu was amusing and cute and I enjoyed it a lot. I had wondered, even from just the previews, if Pikachu was really the dad. Thus, I was not surprised it was the case. I was interested in the fact the Mewtwo was the one from the first Pokémon movie (mentions of it being created in the Kanto region 20 years ago, and wouldn’t you know it, it’s been 20 years since the first movie) and wondered what happened with Ash in that world.
Moving on, I was also not surprised that the invalid father, not the son, was the culprit. Yeah, that plot twist wasn’t very twisty. What was, was that he wanted to take over Mewtwo’s body and put everyone in their Pokémon’s bodies. I mean really, I’m fairly sure only he benefited from that. What was really cool was the Ditto that could turn into humans. I mean, it was shown in Sun and Moon that they could do that, but wow!
The rest was fine, but not great. Oh, I’m not sure if I mentioned it, but the actual Pokémon movie this year is a remake of the first one, Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution. Not sure what they’re going to change, but could be interesting.
Onto the Saga of Tanya the Evil movie, it was interesting. It covers what happens in books 3 & 4, but changes where some of the interactions take place and advances some of the character’s story arc (I mean with Mary Sue [really, that’s such a stupid name]). I haven’t read book 5 (the last one out in the US and I can’t find translations for the other 5), but Tanya hasn’t met her again bookwise after a brief encounter during her days testing things near the England equivalant. However, in the movie, Mary and her unit are in Moscow when Tanya and her battalion attacked it. Mary encounters Tanya and see her father’s gun. She asks God (Being X) for help and has his blessing on her device throughout the movie. They encounter each other again when Tanya is defending her new base and Mary Sue almost kills her, but Tanya wounds her and Mary is rescued.
It otherwise follows the book faithfully including, amusingly or disgustingly, the creepy guy from the Russian equivalent who wants (sexually) Tanya (who I remind you is only like 11 or 12). The movie ends with Tanya and crew getting two months in the rear testing before (as always) Tanya’s good work gets her more subordinates and back to the front lines.
Also, I’ll talk about a fic by rayrae118 here because it definitely has spoilers. Don’t You Cry No More is an Avengers: Endgame fic where Cap goes back and returns the stones, with a twist. This Cap has made up with Iron Man and spent time with him and his family. When he returns the Soul stone last, he is given the option of giving up his life for Tony’s, which he does. It’s a sad One-shot, but worth reading.
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Following that I got an update for Price of Blood by ack1308 and realized I haven’t talked about it yet. It’s a Worm fic where after the locker incident and before the start of the story, Taylor is attacked by boys sent by Sophia. Before she’s knocked out, she finally gives the command to attack to her bugs and they don’t stop until she wakes up. Many people die and the PRT take Taylor in. Coil learns of Sophia’s imminent arrest; he convinces her the PRT is using her in an undercover operation and has her join the Undersiders. It’s interesting, but a very sad fic.
I also started reading The Mythical Codex to the Multiverse by (currently, I swear, this author has changed their name so many times) Myrddin de Celestis. It’s a compliation fic, but currently the author has been turning all of their older fics that they’re not working on into a single chapter and sticking them one by one in this one. [update, I even found that I’ve already made a page for them under Myrddin le Faye. The one fic, Mythical Night, will be added to the new page for them and the old page deleted.]
Of the original compliation fics, there were crossovers with Infamous (the Game about a man who’s given electrical powers), Battle Girls: Time Paradox (A young boy from our time ends up in an alternate past where there are only girls and he helps Nobunaga Oda) and A Certain Scientific Railgun (A Certain Magical Index side story focusing on Railgun). I’ll probably been working through them all of the coming week, so I’ll probably focus on each of such ‘chapters’ as their own fic (as they once were) and talk about them next time. Lol, it’ll be my ‘new’ quest!
The first one is starts at chapter 18 and is called Thunderbird of Ilvermorny and was a single chapter fic. It’s a HP fic sometime after the fall of Voldemort and Dahlia Evans goes to Ilvermorny in America. Doesn’t say much about who she is as it really only introduces the character. Hadn’t read this one before.
The other, and last one I’ll talk about today, was Star Class, a Harry Potter and Lyrical Nanoha crossover. It was a seven-chapter fic (that I had read before) where Harry and Ginny break free of their shackles (but not their multiple oblivations) and plan to die to in the Department of Mysteries. They end up far in the future and join an academy that trains to stop an invasion. They only briefly meet Fate and Nanoha, but it’s like in the six or seventh ‘chapter.’
That’s it for this week. I hope everyone has a great week and I’ll see you next Friday. May Your Heart Be Your Guiding Key!
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