Recent content by Natu? Natu!

I see the games as inspiration rather than the one and only true description of battle mechanics. Pokémon can learn more than four moves, although there is some sort of limit to the number of moves a pokémon will master to the degree that it can be effectively used in a battle. In official...

I think it's useful to differentiate between a character being likable and a character being relatable. A 'bad guy' can definitealy be relatable, meaning that it is possible to relate to him and sort of understand his motives (preferrably he has motives beyond 'being evil' or 'not caring about...

My username kind of gives it away, doesn't it? That being said, I like Natu and Xatu mainly outside the games (meaning that they are pokémon that I would have if I lived in the pokémon world, but I'd also have an Espeon), while I find them slightly weak as team members in the game. In the games...

I think it's a bit like watching sports on TV, and you have the commentators analyse the match/performance, pointing out strengths, weaknesses and strategies of the teams/participants. Like sports commenting, pokémon match commenting can be done in good ways and in bad ways. I think it can add...

1. I would keep Ash as the main protagonist, because right now, he's basically so intimately associated with the anime so suddenly changing into another protagonist would mean that it would sort of be another anime to me. 2. I would let Ash develop more, and not suddenly forget everything about...

I write my stories in vim. I find it easier to concentrate on the story and writing that way (ie wothout any fonts or flashy page breaks or stuff). For timelines etc, I typically start writing them down on paper for the first sketches, and then I transfer them too to vim or LibreOffice. My third...

I like Serena. Not a lot, and not to the extent that I was disappointed when she left the show (after all other protagonist girls in previous seasons, I never expected her to stay after Kalos). Still, I like her. She was nice, and although her character development wasn't great compared to some...

It will only feel real if you know what you're doing. Nothing can destroy a the disbelief suspension of a story like when the authors tries to be specific to make the story "real" about a subject, and it is a subject you happen to know about, and you realise that the author has misunderstood the...

Linnean names can change (in fact, I think that he changed a few names himself in the different editions of Systema Naturae and Species Plantarum). Nowadays that typically happens when molecular data indicates that organisms' evolutionary relationship to each other is different than what has...

Of course it's possible to write about mental disease, as it is possible to write about anything else. There are some things that need to be kept in mind though. Some of them have already been mentioned by previous posters, others have not. 1. I would suggest considering not giving your...

I have never killed off any main characters. I'm in no way against doing it per se, I just haven't been in a situation where I have felt that it had been the right decision for the story. A risk with adding characters for the mere purpose of killing them off is that they typically aren't as...

I'm currently rewatching the anime - Ash is about to get his final XY gym badge - and I think it is quite enjoyable. Of course, as others have said, it is quite possible to start with any series as all pokémon apart from Pikachu will be new, and since Brock left, the travel partners will be new...

The games, the anime and the manga are mainly centered around pokémon rather than around the pokémon universe. In other words, what we are shown is only a very selected part of the world, that is the part of the world that is of interest to pokémon trainers. We know that there are highrise...

Cancer is basically when cells divide beyond control and have a potential for spreading. Most cancer cells have an unstable DNA, because many of the mutations causing an unstable DNA also increase the risk of developing cancer. That is not to say that they are the same thing. To a certain...

In the anime, J uses some sort of gun to capture pokémon, albeit not a real-world type of gun. As far as I know, real guns aren't used in the pokémon world; villains tend to use pokémon for the same effect, but given that a traditional gun causes mechanical damage by sending away a high-velocity...