Hard Enough by Viva01

Story starts out strong, with the major action arcs being quite well done. The problems start to crop up as the story continues, however, such as the decision to go down Ash storyline path. Mainly the issues rest their ugly heads in between the good arcs, during the rest arcs. At this point if becomes a more mixed bag, and the author starts to preach about whatever crap in plain cringe ways:



Author also starts to replace interesting characters from the source material with their own original characters. This might not be a big deal if the author was skilled in original characters, however, they are not. The author is best at taking already existing characters and putting an interesting spin on them, not creating originals. This is increasingly apparent as the story progresses.

Overall the story has some great moments, but you might have to skip over some garbage here and there.

#panic# no romance tag despite mc dating a character I do not wish to spoil for people just check chapter 8

Yes, just yes.

This is such a breath of fresh air. I've read some of the Pokemon stories here to try something different from the usual regressing/transmigrating/reincarnating/cultivation/fantasy novels that have filled my story library. But when they try to make them realistic they often miss the mark significantly and ruin it.

But this... This is a well thought love song to the Pokemon world. It blends reality seamlessly into the original charm so that it feels like it comes to life. It's got enough of the gritty side to be just realistic enough to pull off the warm environment evoked by the setting.

There is romance, at first it seems like it might be a harem but no, his significant other is not going to be permitting that in just the perfect hint of Yandere fashion appropriate to her character.

The MC isn't perfect, but in spite of that he is well enough written that it just feels appropriate without becoming annoying and you can really taste how the transmigrator blended into Brock's original personality.

Do yourself a favor, give it a read, it's worth the time spent at least to the current posted chapter 159.

It's really good. Though for me personally, I didnt like it that MC was brock because it messes up lots of things for the anime plot, A rock type specialist isnt my cup of tea either.
Story Development- there really isnt much I think. The novel starts when Brock has already established himself, even becoming stronger than champion Lance. Well, his family drama did make it more interesting.
Characters- The characters are well thought of. It gives more substance. Even the new brock, just the new personality he has made it interesting.

Though I wasnt that much excited because Im not very much interested on a rock type specialist, I still think its very awesome. I hope though that in this story, he doesnt go travelling with Ash. If possible, he travels alone and strengthen his pokemon more because theres so much potential in this story. Wished i could read more. I give it a 4.7/5

Story Development: A 4/5 only because the Background of the World, Quality of Writing and Characters improve it from a 3.5/5. The Story Dev. is eh. It's not slow nor fast but given that this was only published here 28 days ago the Story Development will be slow.
Writing Quality: Only thing I can really say is too many words that I forget what's what. Besides that a solid 4/5 at the bare minimum.
World Background: Its Pokémon. The rating is whatever you think it is.
Character Design: Well...it's Pokémon cant say much about that. So same as above I guess? I do like how we don't start at the beginning of MC's life and rather....maybe almost a year or 2 behind canon? Not to sure about the time but it should be around there

Tidbits: I do like how somewhat early on we can see how the MC has affected the world. Plus the relationship MC and Sabrina has is wholesome asf. I SWEAR TO GOD IF THEY DONT GET TOGETHER DESPITE THE AUTHOR CLEARLY DOING THAT

WHY, everyone of these stories coming out of the fanfiction genre has people taking over characters in the series. If you are a fan of these series as the authors portray themselves as CREATE A DAMN OC. They need to stop f#cking up all these series.

I find the story very enjoyable because it is written well and has an interesting concept of him being a gym leader. The chapters are long and thought out with characters being built up and emotions seeming logical.

Thing some people may not like are he has already developed a bit and it takes place after he has already caught a lot of pokemon. He is not really op and their also doesn’t seem to be any R-18 if that is your thing.

For a pokemon fanfic its a good one but im not to far yet so it may get worse

Kewl.