Something big enough to temporarily bring me out of hiatus, the first Nidoran centric animation since Wherefore Art Thou, Pokemon, as far as I can tell. I’d argue Nido-overall since in the rest, they were footnotes, including The Heartbreak of Brock.
Anyway, it’s entirely in Japanese, but the story’s easy to follow, very cute, and wonderfully animated. Pokemon fans and Nido fans’ll enjoy, or at the least appreciate it. If you’ve got some free time, give it a watch and the vid another view so that maybe Game Freak will consider that perhaps the Nido line has some value. My feelings on it, which’ll definitely differ from probably 99.9%, though, is that I don’t really like the Pokemon franchise enough anyway to not feel kinda salty on how expressive everything other than the Pokemon are. And for Nidoran I’d argue it’s worse than Wherefore, at least he and the female Nidoran were allowed to emote at all back then. The mandates are in such strict effect that I can’t get invested, especially since I’ve long stopped caring about Pokemon trainers (as I’m sure a comic like Dumb Big Sister would prove). The story and the girl are adorable and well animated, but I just don’t relate to doing the trainer shtick anymore and haven’t for years. However, to its credit, it IS a Nido centric animation, so I still have to give it its due there if nothing else.
I suppose this comes with being hyper fixated on a Pokemon line, I’m surely missing the forest for the trees, here. Then again, TPC’s net worth proves they aren’t missing my not being all that invested, so I feel like it’s pretty much mutual.
