gotta catch'em all

[XjapanFOREVER]

Originally Posted by Kiyuge

I grew up on the Amercanization of Pokemon but! I prefer Japanese voices over all. I dont know why but in almost every anime with Amercan voices I can barely watch it because it just bugs me. But I love Pokemon. Just the original Pokemon, not the Diamond and Pearl and all that.

Well, cheap American dubs are something we have to deal with, the voices in Advent Children: Final Fantasy VII spun me into a dimension of pissed off I've never been in.

I have heard the Japanese voices and they are cooler than the American counterparts, but overall the series just isn't as good as it used to be, most of my friends hate it anymore because it's "level of coolness" just down-spiraled.


btw, Nekozawa, I love your avatar.. XDDD

[manganimefan227]

Ya the series has become jus way too repeative and predictible.

[Maikaru]

I've never heard, seen, or even thougth of the japan versrion of it . I've gotta try it some time.

[Asakura]

Originally Posted by manganimefan227

Ya the series has become jus way too repeative and predictible.

And I assume your not 10 years old either The thing is is that the story IS geared tward young children. Young children like those stories. Teenagers, Young Adults, Adults not so much.

To:Maikaru

Y'know it took me awile to figure out it was anime too. Like I rewatched some of the first season for awile and I just now get all the references to Japanese culture. It's kinda like sublminal messaging in a way.

[nala]

I grew up watching Pokemon, but now, since they totally changed the voices...it's just plain weird now......Occasionally I try to watch the movies to see how they have progressed.

[manganimefan227]

Originally Posted by nala

I grew up watching Pokemon, but now, since they totally changed the voices...it's just plain weird now......Occasionally I try to watch the movies to see how they have progressed.

The movies seem a whole lot better than the episodes, even though they are just filler.

[Nonica]

I hate what pokemon has become but i still love it with the white hot intensity of a thousand burning suns.

[nala]

In fact...I think I still have some of my Pokemon cards...God, I was stupid to waste all that money on frickin playing cards....well, at least they'll probably be worth something in the future...I hope.

[Sangetsu]

Pokemon is still wildly popular here in Japan. I posed for a picture on top of a giant Pikachu at Tokyo Dome City a couple weeks ago. This morning I walked by the Tokyo Pokemon Center (funny that spell check says "Pikachu" is misspelled, yet "Pokemon" is correct, but I digress...), the store was full of high school girls in uniforms who were shopping for who knows what.

[nala]

???...Pokemon Center...