August 2000 Old News

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Nyasu no Party, Pokemon Crystal, New E-mail
August 27th, 2000

Whee...now that school's started, these updates will be less frequent :(. But I still hope to do, at a MINIMUM, of once a week. But I'll probably do more.

Anyways, yesterday's Pokemon episode was mediocre, but the real treat was "Nyasu no PARTY." They played that last week, so what? Well, this week, they played it in JAPANESE! I'm not lying! Americans got to hear Nyasu's, Musashi's, and Kojirou's Japanese voices! And to top it all off, it was a nice TV version (instead of my crappy video file on my computer) so everything was clear, AND it was creditless! Yay! This was a totally unexpected surprise. I hope it wasn't a fluke and was Kids' WB!'s way of apologizing for the bad things they've done in the past. Keep it up, Kids' WB! Now let's hope for a good third OP...

Site-wise, I've added info on the just-announced game, Pokemon Crystal. I think I have info/pictures that other English sites don't have ^^;;. If anyone can translate the site, it's located here.

And I'm still working on that new section, but I'm not liking how it's turning out...at any rate, it probably won't be up until next weekend, or maybe even later. I hate to be endlessly promising things and taking forever to do them. Anyway, the only e-mail link that will work is on the front page...I've cancelled my AOL account, so any mail sent there will be bounced back.

Quick Update
August 21st, 2000

I've added a funny picture to the Humor section, Pimpachu. It's good for a laugh. Anyways, it's off to work on my new section (all I really have to do now is get teh permission to use some pictures).

Things to come...
August 20th, 2000

Sorry I haven't had a real content update lately, but I've been at work the past few days (and I got my driver's license!!!). *Sniff* only two days left of summer vacation for me!

Currently I'm working on a new section, so I'll finish that, add the button to every page, and update the e-mail links on every page (from Dogasu@aol.com to dogasu@earthlink.net).

Anyway, yesterday we got a new dub episode of Pokemon. I liked it...I've decided that Kabigon is cute! Anyway, the highlight for me was the dub of the song "Nyasu no PARTY," retitled "Meowth's Party." From what I can tell, it was pretty accurate translation-wise and the lip sync was excellent. If your're wondering, the big sign that said "MEOWTH'S PARTY" was there in the Japanese original. 4Kids didn't do any paint editing. "Nyasu no PARTY" is actually the end-theme to the Jouta League episodes, so I guess my prediction about them showing Jouta League stuff before finishing the Orange League was true. I hope that this year, the "Pikachu's Jukebox" thing will be dubs of original Japanese Pocket Monsters songs rather than brand new, made-for-America crappy music.

Well, until I get the new section up, go on over to the Anime News section for my two cents on the new season of Digimon (Japanese: Digimon Adventures 02). And I put a picture of the Ancient Myuu card in the Lugia movie section. In addition, I've made some corrections to the Netherlands Pokemon section located in teh Pokemon of the World section.

Lots of Little Notes, Ohtani Ikue'sBirthday
August 18th, 2000

On Tuesday's episode oF Rosie O'Donnel, Rosie was talking to Elton John about how good the movie "The Road to El Dorado" is and that how it's a movie that both parents and kids can enjoy. Yeah, it's a crappy Dizney-wanabee movie (unlike itan A.E...). Anyway, she goes on to say that it's not like the Barney movie or the "Po-KEE-man" movie. Excuse me, but did she just compare Pokemon to Barney, the big stupid purple dinosaur?! She continues, saying that you need a thesaurus to understand Pokemon. Come on, the concept of pokemon is not that hard! Kid catches little creatures to use in battles and become a Pokemon Master. It's not that hard! Besides, isn't "thesaurus" the wrong word for what she wants?

Also, do you remember back in May I talked about that Charizard shirt in Peebles (go to the May news-the link's at the bottom of this page)? Well, I saw a kid wearing a Pikachu shirt...but the katakana used was wrong! If you can read katakana, the shirt read "Hikachuu," not Pikachuu! I pointed it out to the kid wearing it, but he didn't seem to understand.

And today is Ohtani Ikue's birthday! She turns 35 today. Ohtani Ikue is none other than the seiyuu (voice actress) for Pikachu and Tosakinto (in Pocket Monsters), Mereru in Vision of Escaflowne, and Faye in Cowboy Bebop. Read all about her here.

Happy Birthday!

Fun with Manga
August 15th, 2000

I've got a ton of pictures for the PiPiPi Adventure manga, so go to the manga section to check them out. I've got picturs of most of the main humans and pokemon from this manga. And I HAD some scans from the Getto Da Ze manga, but I can't find them! Anyway, I've also added two entires to the Anime News section. Enjoy!

I'm now on Earthlink. My AOL account will be open for a few days, but if you *really* want to be sure that I get the message, e-mail it to my earthlink account (dogasu@earthlink.net). After I get a hang of the program and verify that it is indeed better than AOL (it doesn't take much), I'll take off my AOL account. The e-mail link has been updated on the front page.

Pocket Monsters was not created by me. It was created by Satoshi Tajiri and the crew at TV-Tokyo. Pokemon is (c) Game Freak, Nintendo, 4Kids Productions, Hasbro, Bandai, and a ton of other companies. When you have a popular anime like Pokemon, lots of people own it so it's impossible to list every company who owns a piece of Pokemon. No infringement of copyrights is meant by the creation of the web site. All images were gotten from official websites (Nintendo, TV-Tokyo, etc.) unless otherwise noted (I don't steal images from other sites!).