User:ZenForce

Just a comic enthusiast that also writes fiction when my brain is not a chaos of ideas, which is really strange that not happen. -- List of Reviews:
 * Antibunny
 * Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell
 * Syd's World
 * Moonlace (Warning: NSFW)
 * Cigarro & Cerveja
 * Bongo and Luna
 * School Days (Warning: NSFW, or anyone in general)
 * Target Miss (Warning: NSFW, or anyone in general)

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Rating Summary

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Background
Okay, like the [http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/The_Fate! The Fate!] review done by Webkilla, I found this webcomic in youtube, via multiple harsh reviews about it. So I got curious and went to the site. Oh boy! This needed to be digged in a review.

Downfall
It’s bad since day 1.

Story and Plot
The story about four gay guys: The Prep, The Goth, The Nerd and The Jock, and how the Nerd met the other three and gets into the polyamory relationship. The rest is what you expect from romantic sitcom: The date in the arcade, playing videogames, the cheerling episode, bedrooms irruptions, etcetera. This is also combined with animu~ tropes like the flowers of happiness.

Art Review
When I said before that you have to tone down the bright of your screen, I was not joking. The colors are so fucking plain not even putting your browser in night mode will fix it. This palette is not a coincidence, because the author wants to be the closest to the manga, for the appeal. This is denoted when he used lots of effects from there, like the previously mentioned flowers of happiness, brush lines over the hair and glasses, the onomatopoeia that are written in thin lines, the lines of rage. The author even imitates the errors that have the mangas, and this really notable when it comes to the mouths. Here are some examples:

It’s really distracting such simplified mouths, so much which will distract you from what is happening in the panel. I don’t know what more highlight, since I’m not an expert in this type of comic, so I whoever can add opinions in this section, feel free of contribute here.

Writing Review
We will start with the names of the principal characters, or rather the lack of names. I don’t exaggerating when I say that they literally are called like the archetype that they represent and act. This is confirmed with the character sheets that the comic provide (Yes, this comic introduce the characters with a character sheets, just like The Fate!, but more impractical, since has stats that is hard to deduce what mean like a RPG videogame). I never seed something like this; I don’t know a comic that their protagonists are not named in absolute… Well, with the stickman gag-a-day maybe, but this does not enter in that genre. Now, you will ask: How do they call each other, since they don’t have names? Easy, all the time they are using puppy names, like “babe”, “sugar”, or other mellow nicknames. And since the protagonist has no name, forget about know the secondary characters, like [https://www.webtoons.com/en/slice-of-life/boyfriends/episode-35/viewer?title_no=2616&episode_no=35. this girl going along with the Nerd].

So, how they are? What is their personality? What you will expect from them? Well, there are a reason of they are called like an archetype; because they are an archetype in its whole. They are literally walking stereotypes. There is nothing that makes them stand out. Nothing at all. Examples: The handholding convenient interruption, the Nerd is a virgin, the Goth smokes like a fireplace, the Nerd is weeabo and repeat manga tropes in public, Prep also repeat ecchi and hentai stereotypes, etcetera. Hell, even when the comic tries to make them unique, it does it by putting them in other stereotypes, like the Jock being a scarycat; or the Prep being an alcoholic. These types of things have been seen thousands of times. Oh, and since this a polyamour gay comic, we have that type of stereotypes, like the arc of the quartet going to a pride parade.

Finally, for a webcomic that has a story so bland, it has so much “What The Fuck” moments, that will leave you scratching your head. Some of these moments are: “GTG I GOT ASS” in a note; the Jock and the Nerd almost fucking in middle of a dinner; [https://www.webtoons.com/en/slice-of-life/boyfriends/episode-35/viewer?title_no=2616&episode_no=35 Gotta go! I’m gonna be late for anime school]; AMONGUS *Music*. is more, and they are so off-putting that they will take you out of the immersion, especially with the selected vocabulary, with so refined words like: morosexual, G G E Z, hot choccy, vidya gamez, yummy, among others. I swear that when I saw these words being pronounced by college students in their 20’s, my reaction was like this:

Author Biography
Pokehidden (Onihidden, Pokefound, or whatever calls himself now) is a Brazilian artist and animator since 1997. Like the name suggest, much of his work is has pokemon in it, and of course cubs. He also is a brony, even has a ponysona called very originally Ponyhidden, adding to the chaos of names. He usually represents himself and his ponysona in a snowy place, for some reason. According to Wikifur, Onihidden draws on a Nintendo DSi with the DSiWare application, Flipnote Studio, whereas he would export the finished art to his laptop, at least he did it before.



His other works are Sunset Blade, like a collaborator, a roleplay game that is inspired in Dragon Quest, Lufia and Shin Megami Tensei; and Banned from Equestria (Daily), a the infamous MLP porn game that even Five Night at Pinga’s did a parody of it.

Well, if looked before, the author has a lot of nicks. That is because at some point he deleted the website and closed his tumblr page. I witness that, but I’m not sure of why he do that. But around the second half of 2010’s decade is where the public started to inform to this type of content, I get an idea of what happened. After that, the next thing that he did is get off form the internet forever… Or at least I would say forever, until recently he come back after five years, opening a Twitter, Inkbunny and Mastodon page under the name of Onihidden. In E621 link his art like Pokefound. There are even rumors that he has intentions to do a sequel of Banned from Equestria (Daily), but with G5 characters.

But luckily there are no hints of bringing back the website. Wait, so why to do a review of webcomic that is gone? Well, is because someone did an art archive of the website. There is also someone that did multiples screenshots of the website and updated it in Wayback Machine since 2014. There is a person that makes sure of keep this webcomic in internet and that where you and I should worry.

Final Puke
*Cof cof* Oh fuck, there is blood in it. Anyways, I like the art of Pokehidden, when it not has cubs, feral pokemon or feral ponys fucking. Pitifully, those three things is the majority of his portfolio. This webcomic is the worst example of the first thing, and if you want positive side of this, read the conclusion of the School Days review, it’s the same; oh, and also there no incest in this comic, so it’s something, I guess. Now, call an ambulance. Immerse myself in my traumas again it didn’t do me any good.

Links
I will not link anything of Pokehidden, Onihidden, Pokefound or whatever is his name now.