Wack Anon: Wasn't going to say it, but yeah, the difference between the pokespe reread and the first time reading is so funny. It's like "Capitalism capitalism gender capitalism gender gender ecological disaster gender" and then right to "these are my babies and I want them to be happy. Diamond please stop doing stupid and reckless things, you could be killed!" It might also be because of how the writing did kind of shift in Gen 4 in part.

yeah there was definitely a tonal shift after gen 3 that affected how i engaged with the manga. and also i was so endeared by the dppt trio that my capacity for critical thought was replaced with "i'm love them".