All right, to everyone who is reading the reviews of this story, I want you all to know that I am starting my search for Starri. I'll be using all known public information and digging deep into Google in hopes of finding her. Wish me luck!

End goal: Contacting Starri to make sure she hasn't died.

For those wondering, she mentioned on her tumblr that amotodan is not discontinued as of jan of 2013. She also mentioned it might get a rewrite as she was 13 when she started it. As to where she's gone, it looks like she just forgot about it (best case scenario). We miss you Starri, come back soon!

hi

this might be a bit strange of a review, since i’m not really reviewing it. to be honest, i haven’t read this fic in years. i think i first read it in... 2013? it was a year after it updated. it’s really weird to think about, since it was way back in elementary school, and well, now i’m about to be a senior in high school.

i guess i just wanted to let you know, starran, on the very low chance you’re reading this, that this is the fic that started it all for me. for years, when someone asked me for my favorite fanfiction, my mind always came back here. the humor, adventure, even the silly tropes it played with, all spoke to me in a way that, extreme as it may be, really shaped me as both the person and writer i am today. funny enough, this fic even helped me figure out myself more, since crys here was probably the first time, in hindsight, where i got a crush on a girl.

i suppose the whole reason i’m writing all of this, aside from a vent, is to just say thank you. thank you for creating a story that sticks with me for seven years, even beyond my time of pokespe fanfics, even beyond this website, and for creating a world for me to enjoy, that entertained. it gives me a sense of nostalgia, strangely bittersweet as it may be. it, even with its cliches, or a plothole or two, you’ve created something fun. when i’m ready to just... give up on writing sometimes, i think what this fic taught me stuck, and keeps me going. sometimes, you just need to throw away feelings of something being just absurd, and enjoy yourself. like yes, these characters have a fan club. why? because it’s fun! it’s just, at its essence, a basis to what drives fanfictions for me. it’s such a good balance of humor, character, sad moments, triumph , action, romance...

i’m not really sure how to end this “review” honestly. i think to put it simply, my main point is... thank you. thank you so much. i hope you’re doing well and thriving wherever you are, starran. 3

I think the author forgot about this

this was my first fanfic ever way back in 2013, and it still hits different for me. i really wish this could have been finished, but nevertheless, i love it just the same. no fanfic has made me laugh and fangirl as much as this one has.

Can’t wait til it’s updated? Thanks

*humming* every time someone asks me what kind of fics i draw inspiration from, i always talk abt this one, and as someone who's just started to become more funny-on-purpose, i still look to this fic for inspiration. doesn't really matter that it's from a fandom i've never written for, or from one my readers might necessarily know, it always inspires me to go out there and let my characters be dumb and stupid and silly and petty because perfection can be so tiring. it can be fun if it's a coffee shop au or something, and those are nice and calming, but as someone who aspires to be hilarious, i guess i need that breath of fresh air from older fics like this that remind me that imperfections are what i like the best.
this is an imperfect fic. there are parts of it that haven't aged too gracefully. the grammar slips up in places. but you were, in your own words, young. learning. growing. in a time much different than today.
but like i said earlier, it's the imperfections that i like the best. it gives the fic, the writing, voice and character. reading this feels like a breath of fresh air. the fact that it is still clearly riddled with cliches should make that such a strange sentence to hear, but tropes have shifted in fandom over time, and these cliches just aren't common anymore. god, what i wouldn't give to find a modern fic in my fandoms where a bunch of characters get abducted to a super secret rich school that gives them literally anything they want so they forget about the fact that they were literally kidnapped and live a bit of a very wish-fulfillment-y high school life before they have to literally save the world (and also there are annoying fanclubs for absolutely no reason). a lot of the things put in here were clearly done just because they made you happy, and i think that was pretty cash money of you bc damn do they make me happy too.
i wonder how you've managed to smooth out all the bumps in your road so far. reading your final a/n, it's clear to see that you'd grown a lot in the short time between starting and last updating. it's been almost eight years since then, and i honestly cannot fathom where you might have gone since then.
i dunno what to say, man. i've written a fic inspired by question seven and a half. i'm posting this review on this particular chapter bc it was the one that inspired me to use blackjack (not strip blackjack in my case, although i thought about it) to get some truth to come to light in another one of my fics. the writing you've posted to this site has stuck with me so much as i've grown as a writer; i would not be where i am today without this fic.
i hope that someday, you'll at least be able to tell us you're okay. maybe you won't update any fics, and that's okay. maybe you'll just leave a little note on your profile saying you're leaving forever, and that's okay. i just want to wish you all the best. xoxoxoxoxo kind of thing and everything.
anyway, the plague is going around right now, so maybe i'll reread this cover to tentative cover while in quarantine. *finger guns out bc i have no idea how to finish this lol*

White day, then Christmas. Also, great job!

I just wanna say... man, I never did a review, and I thought I never would, but Amotodan is AWESOME. Great this last comment! Hope it lures the flamers away.

GO MIDDLE SCHOOLERS LIKE ME!

Re-reading... this is some good shit.

I really love your story!

i doubt this will ever be finished, but i do want to say that this fic was something i enjoyed reading back in the day. it was just so FUN and energetic and the plot line was just so crazy, but it worked. happy 1k reviews on this bad boy!

ok so! it's been a while since i checked on this story and it's really close to 1k reviews so i'm gonna help contribute to that.

I leave this review in the hope that once 1000 reviews has been reached, this story will be complete. This stuff is amazing.

I read this story a few years back, when I was younger and was new to Pokespe and fanfictions like these – in my mind, it was absolutely the best story ever written on this site.

(Though that's subjective.)

And when I moved on to other fandoms, I kept comparing and comparing the fanfictions to this. Things like, did they ever execute humor like Starran did? Is the plot so captivating that I spent days reading and re-reading it? As they said (forgot the source), comparisons are easily done once you've had a taste of perfection. Your story affected me in the best way possible. I published my first short story inspired by this book. Things like that seem so little, but it shows that wherever you are now, you have touched the hearts of people on the other side of the world.

And now I've grown up, writing this because class is so monotone today, and went back to this site which I haven't been on for years and thought – maybe Starran had updated? (Even if that hope is a dying flame.) And I thought I owe it to this story to write a review even if the author and its fans have moved on like me to new lives and new inspirations.

I'll end this by admitting that I still keep on hoping that you'll come back and finish this story for closure to me, and all the old readers that loved this story. But even if you didn't, thank you for writing this story and inspiring me to start writing.