Bogleech / YMMV - TV Tropes

Broken Base: His Pokémon reviews are possibly the most controversial part of the site, many love them for the humor and interesting commentary, but just as many fans are weary of them for how predictable they can be (if the Pokémon is weird looking he likes it, if it is traditionally “cute” or “cool” he probably hates it) and how harsh Bogleech can be on certain Pokémon. Bogleech’s sometimes sassy responses to some fan reactions hasn’t helped.
Critical Dissonance: When he reviews any given work of fiction, this happens surprisingly often:
- He's stated on his Tumblr that he's not a big fan of Steven Universe, South Park, and most Pixar movies. The first is due to his dislike of its inconsistent pacing, the second due to what he sees as mean spirited and apathetic politics, and the third due to how formulaic he finds their earlier films to be (Finding Nemo, Toy Story 4 and Turning Red are the exceptions). He has warmed up to Steven Universe: Future though, especially noting how it has been giving Steven a more grounded and human personality and he enjoyed the movie a lot, especially its villain.
- On the main site itself, he's repeatedly voiced his dislike of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, mostly because of his opinion that it missed out on a chance to do something interesting with its focus on people playing a card game instead of the monsters themselves.
- He personally doesn't like any of the Steven Spielberg produced cartoons like Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs, simply because the jokes never clicked with him, though he does acknowledge their quality. He does like Freakazoid! though.
- In his Pokémon Reviews, he's come to the defense of a number of unpopular Mons, including Jynx, Klinklang, and especially Garbodor. Conversely, his least favorite is one that's highly popular and well-loved: Lucario.
- Digimon Adventure 02's YMMV page claims "You won't find many people who'll defend Shakkoumon." Turns out he's one of those people.
- And of course, his love of insects and other "ugly" animals could be considered this applied to real life itself, since so few other people seem to appreciate nature the way he does.
- This reaction is offset by him being open about his preference for creepy and "ugly" monsters, to the point long-time followers can predict when he'll criticize an otherwise popular monster design. It has come to the point where the inverse often happens. For instance, when reviewing Angemon, he gave it 5 stars and used the review to point out that he doesn't only like monsters within a certain niche.
Friendly Fandoms: With the SCP Foundation. They both frequently talk about the weird, the scary, and the surreal, monsters are common on both sights, and there are articles on Bogleech detailing his favorite SCPs. The fact that he's a member definitely helps.
Heartwarming Moments: Anytime he talks about a real-life animal. Despite how most of them are seen as disgusting, freaky, or scary by most people, he loves them all and makes that very clear. Except dolphins.
- This article starts out talking about Nessie, then branches out into Bogleech's love for real-life weird zoology in a way that's very heartwarming.
- A lot of his Anpanman character reviews qualify. The first one is both this and a major Tear Jerker.
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- Bogleech's love of Garbodor became canonized in Pokémon Sword and Shield when not only was it the only Pokemon not from Gen I or the current Gen to get a Gigantamax form, said G-Max form was also a major character's signature Pokemon. It even got a sympathetic backstory where as Trubbish, it was the only companion to its trainer, Oleana, who grew up in impoverished conditions, and even when beautifying her image and Pokemon team, she still considered it her favourite. Naturally, Bogleech gave her glowing praise in his G-Max Garbodor review, and one of the commenters joked that the site was secretly Oleana's online alter ego.
- From the very beginning of his Digimon reviews, he frequently complained about newer Digimon designs, claiming there would eventually be a point where he'd no longer be excited about any of them. After reaching Parasimon, he lamented he would never give out another 5 Gold Star rating, only making an exception for the box Digimon Bacomon (which he insisted was really going to be the last time this time). Then a bunch of X-Antibody variants of Halloween-themed Digimon came out just when he was nearly done with all the available Digimon at the time, and he gave most of them 5 Gold Stars.
- Bogleech's review of the Grookey line has him rant about how much he dislikes monkey creatures, even posting the iconic "I hate every ape I see from Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z." Then Zarude came along, he called it the coolest primate Pokemon, and gave it 5 stars.^noteI love you, Dr. Zarude!
Moment of Awesome: His review of Lucario in his Pokemon reviews, wherein he describes, in detail, why he doesn't like Lucario in a concise, analytical and mature manner (well, minus the rather silly Malicious Misnaming scattered throughout).
My Real Daddy: While the Luminous Big Kito Extrusion Nausea Maggots (aka Magboils) and Skilevaks (actually a name invented by a fan) may have started as cheap Halloween decorations, Wojcik has done more with them than whoever created them ever dreamed.
Tear Jerker:
- The first of his Anpanman reviews, which goes into detail about the tragic life of series creator Takashi Yanase, a tragic life that inspired him to make the series in the first place. The saddest part probably being this line
  Yanase shared all this and more in his first autobiography, and discussed repeatedly how much of his life and his perspective he put into his characters. Reflecting how other people had perceived him, he deliberately designed Anpanman to be a kind and gentle hero, but neither "handsome" nor "cool," and just like Anpanman, one of Yanase's strongest desires throughout his life had only ever been to be "useful" enough to be wanted.
- The "Don't Get Spooked!" game is mostly humorously tongue-in-cheek. Even in the parallel twisted version of the hotel, there are things that are more odd than outright horrifying. But in the Dark World, there is one monster, Babymama, that is genuinely sad. She's a woman that cannot give birth to the dozens of fetuses trapped inside of her. The concept sounds gross but the accompanying text makes it tragic:
  Babymama appears very pale.
  Babymama appears very lonely.
  Babymama is not well. She can never be well.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: His dislike of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime largely stems from this, since it focuses on people playing a card game rather than the bizarre and creative world that's hinted at within that card game. This seems to suggest a general lack of awareness of the franchise, as the card game was not initially part of the franchise's plot or premise. In fact, funnily enough, this was first brought up in the review of the Worm archtype, when the Worms actually were part of the Duel Terminal story that focused on the monsters and had no connection to the anime.
Ugly Cute: Some of the nightmarish things that show up are actually pretty adorable.

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