Hiya

OOPS

It's 9:30 and I only just realised that I hadn't posted yet today, despite having the page open for the last... 5 or so hours? I've been working all day, for the record, trying to copy a bunch of movies from one portable hard drive to the other, without doubling up (they both had over 400 movies to begin with)

Anyway, I couldn't think of anything useful to write about today, so I decided I am going to explain how I got into pokemon (which lead to most other anime/manga related obsessions)

The first time I ever saw a pokemon I was probably 4 or 5 in a park and happened to stumble upon a lost pokemon card (it was kabutops, in case you're wondering)

Confused, I asked my older brother about it as I believed whole-heartedly that he knew everything. Luckily for me, this time, he did.

He had apparently been introduced to pokemon before, and explained everything to me, and well, I thought it was pretty cool, but forgot about it soon after.

Then my brother got a gameboy colour (oh yeah) and one of the games he got was pokemon gold, and I started to take more notice of it (I worshipped my brother)

When we would go over to friends houses, he would play it with anyone who had a game as well, and I payed careful attention every time. Once my friend let me play yellow, it is to this day my favourite pokemon game.

A year or so later, I was stoked to unwrap a jetblack gameboy advance for my sixth birthday, followed by pokemon crystal, the first version where you could play as a girl.

So that may help to explain why I am the "intelligent" one when it comes to pokemon, I have been loyally studying it since before I owned a console to play it on.

And my obsession continued to grow, even after my brother stopped playing, and constantly told me how weird I was to keep playing, because my brother believes that the first 2 generations are the only ones that should count.

I now have a decent collection of pokemon games, both actual games and some on emulators, and I know more about pokemon than most people I know.

So yeah, that be my pokemon story

Ciao,

Shigure