There’s a link in the description so you can read Festival of Champions!

hey it's me, the translator for this! A few things to note at the end: the manga still actively is getting new chapters, with the most recent being this past Saturday. These new chapters were prequel chapters (0.1-0.3) and were released during comikets. Now that the prequel chapters are done, he stated that he will be going back to doing the main story chapters this next comiket (which is in winter). Was funny seeing this get recommended to me today lol, good video!

This doujin is pretty neat. I do feel like Green got a bit more "edgy", for lack of a better word, compared to his mannerisms when he started out in this doujin, but overall I am enjoying the direction this story is taking. I just wish it updated more frequently, because it's painful waiting for the next parts and not knowing if they'll ever be finished.

Something I don't see talked about enough in the context of green's raticate's death, is how the raticate acted on a spontaneous motion, as reflex to directly save green's LIFE, with Green failing to properly account and coordinate all his pokemon at once, not keeping their situations in mind in the moment, as he overinvests in the strengths of each of his pokemon invidually. Green likely percieves this moment as Raticate acting an emotional bond, which resulted in it's own death, and blames himself for fostering this bond. he makes up for this by simultaneously furthering the extreme, overdeveloped strengths of his pokemon, but ALSO coordinating them heavily like pawns on a chessboard - he never lets them out of his sight again. Which ironically, IS the REAL reason why he failed his Raticate. He failed to account for Raticate's personality and overall mentality towards battle, and failed to recognize his shortcomings weren't his lack of capabilities/competence, but him not managing his own mentality and personality which he imparted onto his pokemon. He rectifies the surface-level concept of Teamwork that his pokemon needed to survive moving forward, but STILL utterly fails to realize why his pokemon would act the way they do. It's absolutely BRILLIANT writing.

I really thought the story behind Karen was very impactful. The author tied Karen more into the elite four lore using the limited information we have been given in the games, which was fantastic and has been shown in other characters in the manga as well. It was a very unique and refreshing take on dark-type Pokemon that changed my perspective on them. Being a fan of Pokemon my whole life, I really thought I understood something as basic as types. But this author taught me something new. It is extremely impressive.

Man greens raticate dying being canonized feels so bad

I have never heard of this manga, I have to check it out. This sounds AMAZING. Growing up, I loved Pokespe more than the show itself because of how interesting the story was. Also because the trainers actually won battles.

With the downfall in quality of PokeSpe since BW2 because of the mangaka needed no draw BW2, XY and ORAS at the same time, my love of Pokemon has faded through time growing up. But Festival of Champions reignited my passion for playing Pokemon once again. I found this doujin in Pixiv years ago and I was in awed in the artstyle, the lore, the deep connection between 3 protagonists and their mons, the way he wrote the battle and how well he make newer gens characters relevant into the story. Festival of Champions will be my all time best Pokemon doujin forever.

You don’t know how long and hard I been trying to find this manga.

The first "season" of Pokémon Adventures is fantastic, I'll have to see how this compares as it appears to be a retelling.

Festival of Champions made me respect Raticate so fucking much. I went from thinking it was just some fodder pokemon that I one shot, to wishing we could've seen more of him. Really want to see more chapters being released at a consistent rate, but this is a doujin so the author can take as long as they want which I don't mind just as long as they don't forget or drop the series because this is honestly one of the best fan made stories I've ever read.

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The author dose an amazing job of naturally incorporating little bit of lore and influances from various different Pokemon continuities.

Had to evaluate how many types Gary's team could cover.

I apologize for only watching almost half of the video, but your video storytelling and editing is so good that it’s made me so excited to read this without spoilers. I’m leaving this comment in the hopes that someone comments under it to remind me to continue watching it after I’m done reading.

Thanks for the recommendation. good loooking out

The art looks amazing and the story telling is top of the notch. I love how the father went did into fleshing out the starters box art trainers, game freak / the Pokemon company tried to do something like this with the let's go titles but failed. I will definitely give this a read at one point.

Oh my god, am I happy this video popped into my recommended, what an evening I just had reading Festival of Champions. It's so gorgeous, and the story is so well crafted. It brought out a joy for consuming Pokemon that I haven't felt since I read the first few arcs of Pokemon Adventures.

Bro the transitions, the editing, the analysis, it’s just amazing.🤙🔥 The character breakdowns was insane 🔥🔥 keep it up bro!

I just read the entire series after watching your video. I seriously wish Pokémon would make stuff like this, I genuinely cried at some of the panels, pokemon has such the potential to pull heart strings like no other yet they never do.