Thoughts On The Pokémon Adventures Manga (Volumes 1-7)

I heard some shit went down in the manga, but my friend convinced me a while back to actually read the manga & I wanna pick up the manga again (I'm currently at the Gold, Silver & Crystal chapters). So I'll place my thoughts so far here (note, I've already been spoiled about a bunch of stuff cause I can't help myself ;_; also it's been a while since I've actually read it) [spoilers obviously]
(another note: I'm calling rival-Oak Green & dex-Girl Blue, I just like it better that way)
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TL;DR I luv it, period.

Jekyll & Hyde: the book's twist was more interesting

This might be rich coming from an semi-ironic Jekyll & Hyde musical fan & unironic ¨The Glass Scientists¨ fan, but I'll die on this hill.

So for those who haven't watched the OSP video on Jekyll & Hyde (+ didn't read or understand the original book): the two were the same person, NOT a split personality. The OSP video's comment section kept comparing Hyde to Jekyll's shitposting account and/or an addiction allegory and I think that's accurate.

Now, maybe it's just me, but ¨dude who uses a magical disguise to free himself in a bad way only for it to bite him in the ass badly¨ is more interesting than ¨good dude VS evil 2nd personality¨. + It wouldn't unnecessarily feed into the idea that people with Dissociative Identity Disorder have an evil personality that will do bad things. Not that it can't happen, but to my knowledge it's an overplayed & harmful trope.

I'd think if the split-personality idea that stuck to the Jekyll&Hyde concept wasn't a thing; it'd be a very popular villain idea. I mean a man who uses strange science to transform into a new look to do bad things? That's villain shit!

Even if you wanna make Jekyll/Hyde a good guy or just morally grey, it's possible to twist it into something angsty. Like ¨this man felt so trapped in his life that he felt that he needed to be somebody else¨ and/or simply just make the bad things he wants to do not actually awful. You could focus on the self-destructive part of the story & the tragedy of it.

There's even 3 options for something modernized already there:
- evil/morally-grey magical girl/guardian AU
- straight up the alt-account thing
- & sketchy Vtuber

I just kind of find it sad that the actual twist of the book was lost in translation. But that's just what kinda happens to old stories.