What is Saga Johto?

Well, Saga Johto (or SJ as we affectionately call it) is a fanfic written waaaaay long ago in 2008, that was born from the fact that I wanted to write a longer fanfic that was much more similar to the anime than we all watched and knew, I was eager to write battles and contests and develop the characters. But also it was born from a very ikarishipper heart (because at that time the poké-contest-ikari was the holy trinity, and I have to admit, I was part of Ikari FC) and little by little slowly this story grew and became huge, reeeeally huge. So much in fact that today, almost 10 years later, it continues to be strongly in my heart and that of those who at the time helped me with ideas, research, fanart, support of all kinds like even just some listening to my rants and planning. This fanfic may not be such big deal for many, but it truly marked a time for me, I made new friendships and reinforced so many others, developed imagination and writing skills and come on... even won prizes! XD For these and other reasons today in its almost-tenth anniversary it will come out again with a well-deserved remake and not only in Spanish but also in English! So I invite anyone willing to entertain themselves a few minutes with this story.

Saga Johto follows the story of Dawn and Paul, a coordinator and a trainer of Sinnoh and their trip around aaaaaall of Johto winning their respective ribbons and medals, meeting people, catching and training pokémon and going through entertaining, fun, difficult, and other sort of moments. It has little more than 100 chapters although they are relatively short (about 6 pgs/3000 words each on average) and it is NOT a fanfic centered on shipping /romance, thank you.

Some important points/details before reading the fic:
- I'll repeat (because this is important) YES, the fanfic is centered around Dawn and Paul, I won't deny the occasional shippy-ness that will happen from time to time but the main idea the fanfic is to take a similar approach to the anime so there is no romance, really. You readers can interpret things as you want.
- This fanfic was originally written at the end of 2008 so the Diamond Pearl series hadn't finished yet (in fact it was not even halfway) so many things happened later that would naturally affect the fanfic's canon and that's where the magic of retconning comes in. This includes (but is not limited to):
- Piplup not wanting to evolve.
- Pokémon that joined and left Dawn's team.
- Dawn visiting other regions and making cameos in general.
(If there is one thing that I totally nailed and I'm still proud though is that I totally called it that Zoey would win the Grand Festival, good one there, never doubted her. Of course, no one could have predicted how bad Kenny did on the other hand... shame shame.)
I tried to give a solution to all this but ooohh weeeell.
- It goes without saying that in the fanfic there won't be a single 5th, 6th and even less 7th generation pokémon, as well as mention of those regions or attacks/abilities/other things belonging to the games beyond DPPt. Fairy-type doesn't exist either, I'm sorry.

Basically the remake is nothing more than fixing the thousands of horrible horrible orthographic mistakes, rearranging a little the dialogues and certain scenes, change and update a few things here and there, but always maintaining the essence of that story that I wrote when I was 11 years old.

My most sincere thanks to my dear nee-chan Vali my co-writer, proof-reader and support in every moment (and also SJ's biggest fan XD) love you -w- 3

Without further delay (I think ...) I hope you like it and thank you so much!

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