>>57574689Yeah, honestly I don't have an issue with those characters showing up in concept. Well Bill's dialogue kind of annoys me because in Japanese it's this Kansai dialect that mostly goes over my head, and then in translation he's super southern
(also weird they went with Rattata for the bodyswap thing when the sprite looked like Nidoran or something) , but that's my own problem. On the plus side Surge is just written like a standard anime tough guy in Japanese and not "meme foreigner who replaces all pronouns with shit like YUU and MII" like I think the games originally did, and that works better with him having more dialogue.
I guess my problem with some of the NPCs at times is more that, especially with the fan club stuff, it can sometimes feel like Red just doing nothing in the chapter until a Mandatory Action Scene comes up and it can get dull, it's like the pacing gets weird whenever he's interacting with people who aren't trainers. Especially compared to how chapters with the actual trainer characters usually feel tight as fuck. I kinda wonder if they could've just had Red get on the ship directly to find about the stolen mons and meet up with the fan club people afterward, just because the progression of him exiting and reentering the ship in the same chapter feels weird.
Also I didn't notice there was another manga thread up already (didn't recognize the thumbnail compared to MPJ) so if I post more Special stuff I'll move it there, sorry about that
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