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Pokemon x The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious

I've got an idea for a Crossover AU fanfiction between Pokemon and the Light Novel "The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious" where Seiya ends up in the world of "Pokemon".

Ristarte disguises herself as a human and claims to be Seiya's girlfriend Rika (much to the confusion of the people who don't comprehend what she sees in him). And here the "It's funny because it's true" kind of comedy starts: His overly cautious behaviour makes him inter-regionally (in-)famous inside the world of Pokemon. People perceive him with skepticism, which turns into respect when they see that his eccentric personality make him an extremely competent Pokemon trainer.

Over time Cynthia, May and Lillie join him and some trainers like Brandon and Bede attempt to imitate Seiya's philosophy but fail hard.

During their journey, Cynthia, May and Lillie develop deeper feelings for Seiya (resulting in some kind of "slow-burn harem comedy" where they flirt with him and he doesn't notice it).

This causes a huge character development in Ristarte. At first, she reacts with jealousy and possesiveness, but the more time she spends with the trio, the more she becomes broody - contemplating, if her feelings for him are healthy and if he shouldn't be with one of them instead.

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I've got an idea for a new weird crossover. The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and Scrooge is Dio's arch enemy.

Scrooge McDuck (taking Jonathan Joestar’s role)

Stand: Money For Nothing (Dire Straits)

Ability: Can create or manipulate material wealth out of seemingly nothing (e.g., coins, riches, gold bars). Defensive power—misfortune is converted into luck.

Huey, Dewey, and Louie (as support, analogous to Speedwagon/Zeppeli)

Huey: Walk Like An Egyptian (The Bangles) Can accelerate his movements and slow down opponents.

Dewey: Riders on the Storm (The Doors) Controls weather phenomena, particularly rain and wind.

Louie: Space Oddity (David Bowie) Induces temporary weightlessness or disrupts opponents' spatial perception.

Della Duck (Erina analogue)

Stand: Sweet Child O' Mine (Guns N’ Roses, passive Stand) Enhances regeneration and can alleviate poisons/curses.

Donald Duck’s Role & Stand

Donald, traditionally Scrooge’s nephew, embodies the hotheaded underdog and reluctant hero. Here, he starts as an outsider but becomes the "wild card" when the balance of power shifts.

Stand Name: Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Ability: Donald can "steal" others’ luck—misfortune clings to him, redirecting disasters unpredictably. In true Jojo fashion, his "bad luck" becomes tactical: he survives impossible odds but always suffers collateral damage (classic Donald irony).

Donald’s tragicomic Fortunate Son contrasts with other Stands—it’s self-sacrificing and chaos-driven, making him the heart of the story.

Magica De Spell – Black Magic Woman (Santana)

Weakens or temporarily hijacks Stands via shadowy "magic fields."

Witchy aesthetics, teleportation, subconscious manipulation.

The Beagle Boys – Breaking The Law (Judas Priest)

Merges them into a single overpowered entity, bypassing physics like a "glitch."

Flintheart Glomgold – Money, Money, Money (ABBA)

Turns anything he touches into currency, but greed destabilizes his power.

John D. Rockerduck - "Smooth Operator" (Sade)

Grants John the power to manipulate "connections" in any form—personal networks, contracts, even the relationships between objects, luck, and people. He can make intangible "lines" (contacts, business ties, bonds of trust) visible and influence them. Whatever John "networks" is steered to his advantage.

Relationship Manipulation: John can, for instance, turn two friends into enemies with a word or gesture, or skillfully pit rivals against each other so he always comes out on top.

Contractual Force: When he shakes someone’s hand or performs a (literal or symbolic) "handshake," he can extract short-term benefits—forging alliances, sowing discord, stripping others of opportunities, or gaining access where anyone else would be denied.

Threads of Contact: In combat, the Stand generates visible "ribbons" between targets, which John can control like puppet strings or tangle at will. He can disrupt movements, evade attacks, or turn enemies against each other.

Weakness:

The more he exploits others' relationships for his own gain, the more unstable his own bonds become. If he overextends his network or strains foreign connections, they may snap abruptly—resulting in a massive loss of reputation or control.

Exceptionally resilient bonds (like family ties or true friendship) are extremely difficult or outright impossible to manipulate—which infuriates Klaas, especially in battles against Scrooge & Family!

Visualization:

His Stand manifests as a slender, sharply dressed shadow with silvery shimmering lines stretching between its fingers and targets—sometimes elegant, sometimes like a net ensnaring foes.

J. Gander Hooter (SHUSH Director from "Darkwing Duck")

His Stand Imagine (John Lennon) pacifies aggression, serving as a narrative "reset button" during escalations.

Scene: First Hamon Lesson in the Highlands

Zeppeli: "Aye, Scrooge! Keep yer back straight—take a deep breath in… and out slow-like. Feel the energy flowin’ through ye. That’s Hamon, the world’s life force!"

Scrooge: "Life force? I thought me luck came from hard work!"

Zeppeli: "Ha! But Hamon’s the source o’ true power. Yer ‘Lucky Dime’ amplifies it! Now try the ‘Zoom Punch’—launch energy through yer finger!"

Scrooge focuses, thrusts his finger forward. Scrooge:

"Money For Nothing!"

A golden surge strikes true—Zeppeli grins. Zeppeli: "Bravo, lad! The first step to grand adventures!"

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Hipster!Izuku: "I wore my hair broccoli style before it was cool."

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People who mistake chocolate filled with pistachio cream for a new and innovative concept have probably never heard of "Mozartkugeln.

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After the Subprime mortgage crisis exposed systemic risks in the housing market, many experts warned that the next major financial problem for the U.S. could be the soaring credit card debt held by consumers.

Credit card debt, often unsecured and carrying high interest rates, posed a significant threat to American households’ financial stability.

This highlighted the dangers of an overreliance on credit cards well before the news about itch.io, Steam and the like served as a wake-up call.

Kill Credit card Companies

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Neon Genesis Evangelion x Basquash

I've got an idea for a crack crossover. NGE and Basquash. Basquash was an anime about Street Basketball played in giant robots.

The cast of Basquash ends up in Tokyo-3 and is shocked about where they ended up. Hilarity ensues when they suggest to NERV to fight the Angels with Basketball tactics and that they could teach the game to Shinji, Asuka and Rei.

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From a comment section about the USA getting a special TikTok clone.

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In a sane USA, all involved FBI employees would be thrown into jail for jointly committed armed robbery (I bet they came with tons of guns to threaten the USPV staff) and the jurist who signed the search warrant would be disbarred for complicity.

Avoiding false incentives while protecting the public from criminals with badges (and/or law degrees).

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Sounds like a story for a Punderworld fanfic.

As a joke you had always said "I dedicate this to Hades" as you threw away food scraps from your cooking and cleaning your plates. When you die you find yourself in front of Charon's boat with Hades sitting in it, seemingly very excited to see his most devoted follower in recent times.

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Two things I noticed while occasionally reading on CBR and Screenrant:

At least some of the authors seem to love to write articles following the cringeworthy pattern of "Stop liking things I dislike for not holding up to my modern sensibilities and neopuritan mindset."

At least some of the authors seem to love to write articles following the cringeworthy pattern of "What I wish to happen in the next season of [anime X]". That's especially obvious when the anime adapts a light novel or a manga and reading the source material could have shown the author that these wishes will probably not be fulfilled. You can (of course) do that, but at that point it makes more sense to just register an account at AO3 and write AU fanfics instead. And why would or should animation studios in Japan care about what some snotty, entitled, neocolonialistic Gaijin a thousand miles away thinks. These authors are not dealing with Marvel or DC which they can bully in the "social" networks until they buckle.

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The whole thing with TikTok reminds me of how authorities and juries allowed Monsanto to commit crimes for decades as long as it was a company based in Missouri. From the very second Bayer - a German corporation - bought Monsanto, they get clusterbombed with fines and lawsuits for the crimes Monsanto had committed before the merger.

I don't want to defend Bayer, but it often seems that many Americans view it as "unpatriotic" to impose fines or lawsuits on domestic companies, while doing so when the company is foreign-owned is seen almost as a patriotic duty.

At least, that's the impression one gets from the way authorities and juries have treated these cases.

In the case of TikTok it's Facebook which exists more than a decade longer and isn't banned for committing the same things US politicians accuse TikTok of.

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Context: Musk tells Germans to get over ‘past guilt’ at far-right AfD rally

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"The Penguin" vs. "Tulsa King"

Watching "The Penguin" and "Tulsa King" back to back is an interesting experience. Both shows are about a mafia guy as the protagonist who enters the drug business and has a black sidekick, but are vastly different.

"The Penguin" is the spinoff of an existing franchise, "Tulsa King" is an unaffiliated show.

Vic becomes Oz's personal driver after he attempted to steal the tires of the car while Tyson became Dwight's personal driver because he was a cab driver and thus a helpful local.

At one point, Oz basically asks Vic if he wants to leave him after everything he did for him. Dwight tells Tyson to think wisely if he seriously wants to be involved. Oz becomes a father surrogate for Vic while Tyson's father is alive and initially not happy about his son working for a sketchy looking Italo-American guy.

While Oz grew up in Gotham, Dwight was reassigned from a different state of the US. The Penguin's theme is backstabbing and Tulsa King's is loyalty.

Sofia Falcone was in an asylum for crimes she didn't commit because she talked to an outsider about her family and takes revenge on the people who brought her there by killing them. Dwight was in prison for a crime he was involved with and kept quiet about the "family" (but they aren't very grateful; see the paragraph above).

Dwight is a made man, something Oz will never be due to lacking Italian roots. Oz is not taken seriously due to this, while Dwight is both sneered at and respected for the outdated values he retained during his 25 years in jail.

Oz is driven by greed, envy and narcissism, Dwight is initially driven by pragmatism, with which he responds like “Okay, my bosses want me to expand our business into some flyover place. How could I do that?” and regularly criticizes people like Oz.

"The Penguin" is a mafia epos crammed into 8 episodes while "Tulsa King" is granted hilarious moments - sometimes intentionally and sometimes probably not. At least I chuckled a bit about a dialogue that went like (roughly reworded):

"I take the children and we move to Denver." "Why Denver?" "Because it's not Tulsa."

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Unpopular opinion: The Google search didn't need Prabhakar to suck. SEO and Google Adwords are the reason and they already existed before Google hired him.

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Atlantis and Atlanta. Am I the only one who felt reminded of a certain Futurama episode?

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People discussing about the best webbrowser.

Otter Browser: "Am I a joke to you?"

Me: "Yes, you are. At least right now. You don't support addons yet. What's the point of installing an Opera 12.x clone then? 🙄"

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Before I read that the "Make-a-wish" kid in season 1 episode 7 of "The Rookie" was a real one, the girl reminded me of Laverne Hookes from the Police Academy films.

Then I read that Marion Ramsey, the actress who played Hookes, died in 2021.