#otoshi

[tobiasdrake]

Episode 73 - Marowak's Bone Club

Last week before the Pokemon League begins, and training has been a total bust. Ash goes crawling to Professor Oak for any last-second cramming tips he might have. His response is not promising: "Hell are you still doing here!? You know you have to physically be at Indigo Plateau next week, right? Gary already left some time ago!"

So I guess training's over and it's time to cross Victory Road.

Along the way, he's challenged by a Trainer named Saizo/Otoshi. (They changed his Japanese name to another Japanese name. Okay, localizers.) Without revealing how many badges he has, Otoshi challenges Ash to a serious wager; A Pokemon match for all the Badges the other has. (This is definitely a trick.)

The battle begins with Bulbasaur vs. Marowak. This is good for Ash according to Type Chart because Marowak is weak to Grass. But the Type Chart isn't everything. As a fully evolved Pokemon, Marowak has a strong edge, particularly in physical stats and HP, to compensate for that disadvantage. Worse, Bulbasaur's Poison Typing neutralizes their Grass resistance to Ground, so the advantage is fairly minor.

Otoshi also makes use of more advanced tactics. Ash foregoes status moves to try and muscle his way to victory via Vine Whip. But Otoshi spends a set-up turn for Focus Energy before coming in with Bone Club. One good, solid crit with vastly superior Physical stats settles the match.

With his back against the wall, Ash sends out Pikachu. This should be a terrible idea but yet again, Pikachu's unique ability to ignore Type Immunity allows him to take down Marowak with a Thundershock. (I'm surprised that in nine generations of games, they've never just gone ahead and made "Ignores Ground Immunity to Electric" an Ability that Pikachu can have. There are similar Abilities out there.)

Otoshi concedes immediately and confesses that he has no Badges and was trying to rip off Ash's. He did put in the work and collect eight Badges, but he fell for an old-school Team Rocket pifall and had them stolen.

(I love how, even when they screw off to go rob someone else, Jessie and James still wind up going the same way as Ash. They really are just cursed to forever be in each other's lives.)

Marowak briefly has a crisis of faith with regards to being Otoshi's partner, but then just sort of gets over it and comes back. Jessie betrays James and tries to take the Badges for herself so she can enter the League. And we find out that James plays the Pokemon TCG to try and understand the game rules better, which is probably his problem right there. Very different ruleset.

But ultimately, retrieving Otoshi's Badges proves from these three lunkheads proves about as simple an affair as usual. And then it's off to Indigo Plateau!

[akuma-no-riddle-cpr]

Artist: Minakata Sunao

[callmevenus]

☆*:.｡.o⭐Tenkuu Otoshi⭐☆*:.｡.o

[epikkuman]

I can't believe I thought of this mashup somehow (ref⬇️)

My first Akira fanart ever to be honest. The perspective part of the guitar didn't turn out very well, but I'm happy that the drawing overall looks pretty good 😋.

[97tears]

I have no idea if the eccentric bisexual man was in the show or not

[takechiii]

Here's the current status of my ANR collection. This anime surprisingly got a LOT of merchandise, and I am determined to hunt down every last piece

[ghostoffuturespast]

I thought while I’m lurking (haunting! hah) this place, I’d shoot you a message. I finally! read So It Goes, and let me tell you. I feel like I have a new appreciation of Grandpa. The face I made when she lopped all those heads off with monowire. Suddenly all the stunt bike VP makes perfect sense. What a mad lad, an absolute maniac. Also considerably pricklier than I would have expected from the VP, which is very pretty. Kind of meta tbh, I’m sorry Grandpa for judging you, you are not just a (very short) pretty face. The aikido, the monowire, love how it’s shown she is a good merc because of her skills and brains, she doesn’t need to be a huge bruiser. I’m 5’4, I was immersed 🥲🫡. The chapter where she got arrested and beat up officer creepo one and two while in cuffs was great. Liked seeing a corpo V and Jackie meet cute (meet shoot?) since it’s left vague in game. Loved it. Thank you for sharing, it’s obvious you’ve put a lot of yourself into making V your own character, time and heart.

GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Thank you!!!! You saying all this, it means so much to me, you have no idea T.T <3

I call her “Stinky Grandpa” here as a joke, but I don’t think most people here quite understand how accurate the moniker is. She’s very prickly and grumpy most of the times, and usually very sweaty from dismembering people, though I don’t think the implied age reflects her stuntwoman status. (CDPR could’ve made the monowire so cool, but did they? She’s a lot more beat up in my head than she is in the VP I take. The limitations of console. She’s been through the wringer on a number of occasions. Perhaps pretty at the right angle lol.) Writing’s been a strange, and very fun outlet, for my love of the action genre and as an additional way to train in aikido - having to contextualize the choreography in a way that makes sense for people who aren’t familiar with the art. I’ve snuck so much aikido into this fic - techniques and principles. As for the philosophy behind the martial art… We’ll get into that a little later ;) I’ve been holding onto a particular plot bunny since the baby days of this fic that I haven’t released into the wild yet and, so far, I don’t think anyone’s picked up on it.

I can’t take credit for Grandpa’s height though, that goes out to the badasses that I train with at my dojo and elsewhere. I’m perpetually in awe of watching these 5 foot and some change women chucking these 6 foot, 200lb plus men across the mat. Never get tired of it. Inspirational and aspirational. Anyway, thank you for reading my aikido/fan fic dissertation and messaging me this. Absolutely made my day and I’m gonna cherish this piece of mail forever <3

[bicokun]

Sydelle has aroused Ovid, but will it be enough to sack that seed?

[icliangyu]

Commission by Azu, we love women doing intimate things

[skylardoesthings]

my hobby is hyper analyzing the hissatsu's in IE and going "Wow i hope the animators get paid really well,"

I mostly do it to the season 2 hissatsu's, but theres a few token season 3 + 1 hissatsu's

[marblebees]

Last night was a much easier training session Thankfully, we got to work on counters to hip tosses but something tells me im not rlly gonna be using either for now…however. During randori i actually hit drop seoi against the guy I literally developed my ippon seoi to beat :-) i was sooooo beat up on tuesday but literally the practice on the move was worth it

[incorrect-akuma-no-riddle-quotes]

Shiena: You look so pretty today that I forgot how bad your personality is.

Otoya: Aw, thanks, babe.

[thetooncrew]

all we do is cross paths, you and me

[elcrin-the-frogge-lover]

Touhou Sprite Mini set 19

[rickyriddle]

@rainbowkittyblossomwings

For the second character (Shiena)

NOTP: MizoShie (or Shiena x any dude really)

BROTP: ShieHaru

OTP: OtoShie (no one is surprise here xD)

Second choice: HitsuShie lmao

Fluffy: SuzuShie

Angsty: ChitaShie

Polyship: SuzuKouShie

Weirdest pairing: IsuShie

[epikkuman]

guys let me cook