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You can't go anywhere without seeing the face of that adorable electric mouse, Pikachu, or without hearing the name "Pokémon" (or at least hearing someone mispronounce it). And unfortunately, most of the people who can't even pronounce the word don't bother learning anything else about it either...and a majority of these people are the parents and teachers of kids who love Pokémon. And will somebody please tell the morons at the Star Ledger that Pokémon is also plural - there's no such word as 'Pokemons' (and, yes, they left off the accent mark, too¹)! In a 1999 WB11 commercial for the series, Brock, a Pokémon breeder and gym leader, said that "a grown-up who understands Pokémon is rarer than a Kabuto" (a prehistoric Pokémon), and I'm proud to say that I am one of those rare individuals.
I know this because I've been standing up for Pokémon for the past several years. It was my initial interest in the phenomenon that made me realize that I no longer (and probably never really) wanted to be a teacher. In schools where Pokémon was already named the enemy, where employees were expected to treat it as such with no questions asked, you can imagine the surprise when, while other teachers were confiscating Pokémon cards with no intention of returning them before the end of the year, I was sitting down with kids, talking with them about their newest and rarest Pokémon finds. And in the face of such blind prejudice, I had to find out more about the game and the world that was so easily understood by a seven-year-old, yet left my co-workers clueless (come on, iVillage², it's getting old...and so are Pokémon fans!). It was easy to see why kids were so fascinated by the world of Pokémon, but difficult to understand why adults were not. So I began to look into it, but instead of finding a list of reasons as to what adults could possibly have against Pokémon, I found a love for these 151 (now nearly 500 !) creatures and an entrance into their incredible new world...
Online since mid-2000, We All Live in a Pokémon World... is the ONE AND ONLY fan site devoted entirely to the defense and support of Pokémon, dispelling any and all misconceptions and accusations as well as emphasizing the values and ethics of our beloved game and animé.
"One hundred fifty-one joys...one hundred fifty-one dreams...one hundred fifty-one memories..."
-"Hyagojuuichi" (Pocket Monsters ending)
¹The Star Ledger published a (bad) review of Pokémon Heroes (2003) with said errors.
²The 2006 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was featured on the iVillage website, where the description of the 10th Anniversary Pikachu & Pokéball balloons claimed that only a 9-year-old child could understand the source of Pikachu's electric attacks (and anyone older need not even try to comprehend). Incidentally, this does not keep Pikachu from consistently ranking at or near the top in viewer votes.
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Text copyright © 2000-2010 by Kimberly (RageOfInnocence)
Pokémon © Satoshi Tajiri, Nintendo/Creatures, Inc./Game Freak, The Pokémon Company International
Most Pokémon sprites from the late great site Pokémonaholic;
the beautiful screenshots of Ash, Pikachu, Dawn, and Brock
are from the episode "Pokémon! I Choose You!" and Diamond & Pearl opening "High Touch!"/"Stand Up!" |
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