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Daily Blog Challenge: January 7th
Today’s Theme: Favorite Anime Character
Note: This is the original anime so origin does not count.
It might be easy for the old schoolers to think of Ash. Ash was always one of my least favorite. He just seemed to get outclassed by most of the others he met. From Todd to Ritchie, they all just seemed a little cooler.
Most of my anime knowledge stems from the first two generations though I did see some of Hoenn.
So who is my favorite character? Gary.
Gary was the coolest dude ever. Gary was a good trainer. Gary had the pokemons, the cheerleaders, the car, the badges. He was everything Ash was not, remember the Krabby comparison
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Gary did not have people skills and did not relate to his pokemon quite like Ash, but he was the reason you wanted to become a pokemon trainer.
I always wanted more Gary in the anime. He had Squirtle and Eevee and Arcanine and loads other.
Did I mention Squirtle was his starter? Just saying. He knew what was up.
So who is your favorite character? Why? Good backstory? Attitude? Pokemon? Design? Let me know in the comment section.
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Daily Blog Challenge: January 5th
Today’s Theme: Lamest Pokemon Design
I do not like being negative, but Pokemon is not all gold. Sometimes it just misses the mark. Today were going to look at the lamest pokemon design.
Now, the community seems to hate on Jynx, Vanillish, Garbodor, and a handful of others. I dont necessarily hate any pokemon. If you read into the lore and Japanese culture, most pokemon make sense or, at least, become a little more reasonable to defend.
My beef lies in the pokemon that just seem like utter copy cats. Namely: Dedenne.
So, why dedenne specifically? Now, I may be incorrect, and feel free to correct me if I am, but most of the electric mouse pokemons that came after Pichu just seem like Gamefreak cashing in on Pickachu’s fame. I’m fine with ever generation have a pidgey-esque character, but Pikachu and his line should’ve been a one and done. His shoes are just to big to fill and I dont think any of the rip-offs have touched me the same as the original yellow haired rodent.
This wasnt the first example of ripping off previous pokemon either. Hoenn gave us a ton of new and awesome pokemons, but it also gave us some blatant rip-offs with slight spins. Wurmple’s line were copycats of caterpie, but I’m willing to let this pass because it was some of the early examples of evolution depending on gender(which is pretty cool.) Seviper, Plusle and Minun, and Feebas didnt help the cause either.
I find this to just be more lazy than bad or stupid. I mean, some of these example they tried to spice up a little, but Dedenne seems like they just made Pikachu a little smaller, orange, and gave him antenna whiskers and called it a new pokemon. At least, X and Y was able to give him a fairy typing to help try and make him a little unique.
Anyway, whats your least favorite design for a pokemon? Why? Did it look just plain dumb, or was there no originality to it?
Challenge: After you comment/think of your least favorite pokemon, see if it’s inspired by any Japanese legend or lore. You might be surprised what inspired some of those weird looking hooligans.
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Daily Blog Challenge: January 4th
Today’s theme: Which Pokemon has the coolest design?
Pokemon gets ripped on pokemon designe A LOT. and sometime it is well deserved. If you browse the library of pokemons you’ll learn there are actually a lot of cool ones. I self imposed the challenge of no legendaries because, honestly, Mewtwo, Deoxy, Darkrai, would easily win. So what everyday joe do I like most?
Magmortar. How I went about answering this question is “What pokemon would I not want to come bustling out of a bush on my adventure.”
Rather you like him not, imagine his hulking huge body covered in flames come tumbling out into the open where you are. He loads his two lava bazookas and… Bang.
You better hope you got a Squirtle.
There are others I love for looking awesome: Scyther, Blaziken, Bisharp.
Others for their lovable weirdness: Scaggy, Bouffalant
So what’s your favorite looking pokemon? Why do you like it? Awesome design, wacky charm?
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Daily Blog Challenge: January 3rd
Today’s topic: What Is Your Favorite Pokemon Evolution Line
I think the popular pick here is Syther and Scizor , but not to me. My favorite is Tyrouge’s line.
Tyrouge did a lot of cool things for evolution, much like a lot of Johto pokemon had done. Johto was full of experiments back in the day. It added breeding. This opened the door to baby forms that Kanto never had. Cleffa, Igglybuff, Smoochum, Elekid, Magby, and Tyrouge were baby forms added for preexisting pokemon. This element was so cool to me. They also took it a step further and added split evolutions, a characteristic previously only found in Eevee. Poliwhirl, Gloom, Slowpoke, and Hitmonlee and Hitmontop were the lucky few given split evolutions(Obviously, Eevee was given two more) .
Tyrouge’s line was the only given both.
Tyrouge would evolve into Hitmonlee if it’s attack stat was higher than it’s defense. Tyrouge would evolve into Hitmonchan if it’s defense was higher than it’s attack. Tyrouge would evolve into Hitmontop if it’s defense and attack were the same.
Tyrouge was extremely cool and I dare say has contributed the second most to experimenting with what we can do with evolution next to Eevee. The arguement could be made Tyrouge has done more, honestly.
Tyrouge is definitely one of the more interesting Pokemons.
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Daily Blog Challenge: January 2nd.
The theme of January is Pokemon.
Today’s Topic is Which Pokemon Would Be my Traveling Buddy
I like to think this question is asking if I were to randomly get a tv show cataloging my adventures in Pokemon, who would be my sidekick? The answer is Squirtle, but since I have already talked about him so much, I am going to give other pokemon a chance to shine.
So who would it be? Yanma!
I’ve loved Yanma ever since the good ol’ day, and really more so now that they are more available now that trading is easier than ever.
Yanma is precious to look at and can be ferocious in battle making him a wonderful partner.
The biggest drawback yanma has is not being able to learn a single HM. Not one. This was alarming to when I realized it. Just seems weird. I figured he could learn cut or, I dont know, Fly! But nope.
I am willing to overlook this because of his cuddly face and for the fact that I do not want to mess with something that see 360 degrees. No Thanks!
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January 1st! A New Year Update
Here we are! The first day of the year. The first blog of the year. The first update of the year. Honestly, I am super excited for this year. Why? Were trying something new here. I don’t want to call it a daily blog. No, it’s more of a challenge. Were going to do a 30 day challenges(Some months 28, some months 31). Each month will have it’s own theme. This month will be Pokemon. It’s one of my favorite topics and generally gets some response in the comment section when I do a pokemon post. So January 2nd through the 31st will be a daily post about pokemon. February will be the same style just a new theme.
I’ll try to keep Manga Mondays, Anime Reviews, Top Fives and Miscellaneous Reviews coming on a normal basis.
My school is starting back up and it should not interfere with the daily blog, but it might slow some of the other stuff down. I should also be starting my first semester as substitute this month.
Anyway, I know this is coming out on the 2nd EST. A late Christmas party had me out all day. Anyway, expect a new post later this day!
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