August 2001 Old News

___________

New Episode Comparison
Sunday, August 26th, 2001

Hello! Cowboy Bebop is a really really fun series. I just started watching it again, and it's loads of fun. If you can't afford the DVD's (the boxed set is coming out this fall, and it'll come with a music CD, so you know I'll be getting that!) then at least watch it on the Adult Swim this coming up Labor Day weekend. Many people call Outlaw Star a watered-down version of Bebop (a comparison I don't like, because I think both series are great), so if you liked that you'll really like Cowboy Bebop.

Oh yeah...this isn't a Cowboy Bebop site...

I've got a new episode comparison up, this time for Episode 4. So check that out. The next one will be a little more fun, as Takeshi will make his first appearance. But that'll come later.

Also, a few people seem to be having trouble with my .mp3's. I'll address this now: you have to left-click the song names. Left-click. You'll be led to a Tripod page that'll have the link for you to download. I guess people didn't see the revised instructions on the top of each page, so I'm telling you guys now.

Also, Bulbagarden has finally gotten itself back up after almost a year of downtime. So go pay them a visit

New Rant
Friday, August 24th, 2001

German class is fun. I can count in German now. Yay! Anyway...

I've got a new rant up, the follow-up to the Kids' WB! rant I wrote many moons ago. It's all about Kids' WB!'s version of Toonami...hope ya like it! I've also updated the Episode Guide with some more dub titles...and the episodes are still being shown out of order. So if you're a Kids' WB! employee, count with me: 158, 159, 161, 163, 160! Very good! Have a cookie!

Anyway, that's all for now. Tschüs!

Songs Restored
Tuesday, August 21st, 2001

You know what? My college just got the Ethernet hooked up, so now my computer's gone from a 56K connection to a super ultra mega hyper turbo mecha kamehameha-fast connection. So with my super modem, I went and fixed all those mp3's that were broken. Head on over to the CD Guides to download the mp3's. I basically re-uploaded the mp3's on a Tripod account, since Terrashare shut down some time ago. It took me a total of ten minutes to upload those forteen songs with the Ethernet...at 56K, it'd take around...um...45 minutes per song, times forteen...well, it'd take a lot longer. And I wouldn't feel like leaving my computer on all night every night for a week while the files uploaded. So you guys benefit from my college's speedy connection.

And if that's not enough, I've got a new mp3 up...Type: Wild, English version! Yeah, it's not a song I'd listen to on a regular basis, but it's up there for you curious folks. I've also updated the Episode Guide with the new dub titles. I didn't get to see them (I found the local WB! station at around noon on Saturday, so I had already missed them), but I heard 4Kids reformatted the episodes--showing part of the episode before the opening credits (which the Japanese version never did), giving more hints during the "Who's That Pokemon?" segments...Anyway, this weekend they're skipping one episode, the Radio Tower episode (already planning next summer's "Lost Episode," Kids WB?) to air the Insect Park episode, where Satoshi catches a...eh, you'll find out. I'll have more stuff up soon!

Post-Otakon Update...OK, not really...
Sunday, August 19th, 2001

Otakon was...tiring. Yeah, that's a good word to describe it. I was on Security Staff, and that means I got my room and registration free. Good deal! It also meant that I worked mad hours, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many for my tastes. But it wasn't all work...I got to see the Mystery Anime Theatre 3000, which was very funny and put me in a great mood after a pretty bad day Friday. Saturday was working with cos-play for 15 hours, getting everyone set up. You definately come to appreciate everyone's hard work when you're actually doing that hard work. Sunday I was sent to patrol the dealer's room.

But the people were nice, and when I was working it wasn't horrible like a normal job because everyone was dressed up and people were nicer and sentences like "Have you seen my friend? She was dressed up like Anthy" made sense. And sure, the leaking tripropylene from the sewer explosion irritated my skin. But it was all good ^^;;

Leaking tripropylene, you say? Yup! Before the convention, there was a truck accident on the Bay Bridge, and a bunch of hydrochloric acid got into the water. And HCl is flammable. So there's the flammable HCl circulating throughout the sewers, combined with the already present and flammable methane gas that's in every sewer, and you've got trouble. Well, there was a spark, and a big explosion happened, blowing the manhole covers several feet into the air. To stop the resulting fire in the sewers, all the fire hydrants were emptied, and therefore the sprinklers in the Baltimore Convention Center, where Otakon was held, couldn't work since all the water was being used elsewhere. So the security thought "we can't use the sprinklers if there's a fire...EMERGENCY!" So the building had to be evacuated at like 2am Sunday morning. The tripropylene got into the air somehow, and that's why some people experienced aggravated asthma, lung troubles, or skin breakouts, that's why.

Anyway, I got the e-mail address on each page updated now to my new Hotmail address, so I will no longer be checking my Earthlink mail. If I get earthlink mail, it'll be ignored. Other than that, I've got nothing. Sorry! I'm doing the finishing touches on an episode comparison and a new rant, but I'm not ready to post them yet. But I do have some new Manga release dates for ya. I'm still getting used to college (moved in on Thursday, so that's why

Oh yeah, the "Psychic Sidekicks" aired Saturday *yawns*...just another pointless filler episode. And the show Cubix got really high ratings.

Anyway, I'll be back in a few days with something substantial to update.

Fixed images
Wednesday, August 8th, 2001

I really really hate these kinds of updates...

You know...the updates where the webmaster just fixes something that he was too dumb to do correctly the first time? Well, that's what this is. I've fixed the sidebar images in the episode comparisons section--all I had to do was set the preferences to Netscape Composer a little differently, that's all.

Well, to make up for it, I've made a new weekly image for the sidebar. I'd also like to let you guys know that my e-bay sales were very successful. I really didn't expect to get as much money for the stuff as I'll be getting, and the only thing that didn't sell was the Bubblegum Crisis tape. Thanks to all the visitors of this site who bid, and if you're reading this, I'll be sending you an e-mail after this update is uploaded.

And I've got some news--first of all, this weekend, the "Lost Episode," "The Psychic Sidekicks," will air on Kids' WB! I didn't know it had even been cut, because it's hard to keep up with what episodes they've shown and which ones they haven't when they air them out of order. Anyway, be sure to tune in, because Kids' WB! only aired their last Lost Episode ("Beauty and the Beach") twice, if I recall correctly. So don't count on this Lost Episode to be re-runned often. I'll be at Otakon during the airing (it'll be aired at 8am ET), but that's why VCR's can be programmed -_^

Also, Kids' WB! plans to air new episodes of Pokemon starting August 18th. So basically, this weekend will start the new season, more or less. Also, Yu-Gi-Oh will begin airing September 15th, which reminds me...I have a write-up to do about that show. Hee hee. The work I have to do for this site is quite overwhelming, to say the least.

Well, off I go to update something else...see you soon!

More episode comparisons
Friday, August 3rd, 2001

Hi everyone! Buy my e-bay auctions. I've got two more episode comparisons. Buy my e-bay auctions. I've got the comparisons of Episodes 2 and 3, ending the three-episode beginning of the series. Please buy my e-bay auctions. I'm trying to plow through as many of these as I can before I get to college on the 16th, and I have a bunch of days off from work this coming week, so I should get at least two more done before I leave for Otakon. I'll be your friend forever if you buy my e-bay auctions. I've also updated the General Edits page with a little info about the dialogue in the series.

By the way, just wanted to remind you of my e-bay auctions ^_^.

Pocket Monsters Film Comic 7
Pocket Monsters Film Comic 8
Pocket Monsters Film Comic 9 (contains the never-aired-in-the-US Episode 35)
Pocket Monsters Film Comic 12
Pocket Monsters Film Comic 15
Pocket Monsters Film Comic: Orange Islands Volume 1
Dragon Ball Z The Movie: The World's Strongest (VHS, dubbed)
Dragon Ball Z Volume 3: Snake Way (VHS, dubbed episodes 8-10)
Bubblegum Crisis Episode 2 (VHS, dubbed)

Scans...GETTO da ze! And e-bay auctions
Thursday, August 2nd, 2001

I found the scans! Yay! So go look at them over in the Humor Section. I've also updated the Manga release dates--everything seems to be coming out on August 31st.

And, like some other site, I'm selling some stuff on e-bay to help me get money for Otakon, which will be next weekend. More money for Otakon means more money for stuff like...say, Pocket Monsters CD's. And maybe, maybe maybe, I'll be able to get the fourth movie soundtrack. The auctions last until Sunday, so please please buy!

Pocket Monsters Film Comic 7
Pocket Monsters Film Comic 8
Pocket Monsters Film Comic 9
Pocket Monsters Film Comic 12
Pocket Monsters Film Comic 15
Pocket Monsters Film Comic: Orange Islands Volume 1
Dragon Ball Z The Movie: The World's Strongest (VHS, dubbed)
Dragon Ball Z Volume 3: Snake Way (VHS, dubbed episodes 8-10)
Bubblegum Crisis Episode 2 (VHS, dubbed)

Please buy! It'll help me out tons!

Back from the dead...sort of...
Monday, July 30th, 2001

There's a real reason I haven't been around lately, really there is...first of all, about a week ago, my dad and I went into my old computer and took out the extra hard drive, the one with my website files on it. Well, we take it out, and then put it into my new computer. Simple, huh? Not exactly--my new computer wouldn't recognize the extra hard drive, and it took us about a week to figure out what needed to be done. So now my second hard drive is up and working, which means I can now update this site again.

Well, then I found out that my computer had a virus on it. So I had to fix that--I'd like to thank Planet Namek for pointing the virus out to me (the anti-virus program on my computer is up-to-date to about...Monday? And it didn't pick up the virus I got!?). If you use Windows and have been getting e-mails that take a long time to load and contain something like "I want you to look at this" in the body of the e-mail, and an attachment or two that seems to be nothing more than a random .txt file, go here to fix it.

And my computer connection was really fudged up lately, so I've got that fixed (being on hold twice for thirty minutes each waiting for Earthlink's Technical Help to assist me isn't my idea of an afternoon well-spent).

OK, now back to business. I've got some various Pocket Monsters-related news:

As some of you who may keep up with video games may know, the upcoming Final Fantasy 10 for the Playstation 2 will feature voice acting. The game just came out in Japan (don't expect to see it over here until Winter-Spring 2002), and a list of the game's voice cast has been released. While most of the actors are obscure (a lot of them did motion capture stuff for Final Fantasy 8), one of the voice actors stood out. Sakaguchi Kouichi, the voice of Arbo and Arbok in Pocket Monsters, will provide the voice of Cid. I don't know if Cid will be playable like in Final Fantasy 4 and 7 or if he'll just be a spectator like in the other Final Fantasy games, but this is certainly a good role for Sakaguchi-san, as Cid is as important to the universe of Final Fantasy as the Chocobo and Moogles. This information has been added to the Seiyuu pages.

Wizard, one of America's most popular (if not THE most popular) comic book magazines has recently released a list of what they belive to be the top 50 anime of all time. What did Pokemon place? Number 47. I'm not as mad ast that as I am at the fact that they put so much crappy anime above Pokemon on the list. Ghost in the Shell? Blue Submarine #6? The original Voltron Defenders of the Universe!? Fatal Fury!?!? Ghost in the Shell bored me, Blue Sub #6 looked pretty but was pretty mediocre plot-wise, Voltron is just cheesy (and those little mice don't help), and Fatal Fury was just crappy in every way (the only time I watched the movie was at Otakon 1998, and that's just because that's the movie they were making fun of at Mystery Anime Theatre 3000). The scariest part about that list, though, was that I've seen well over half the anime in that list. Creepy...

This isn't really Pokemon related, but Kids' WB!'s Toonami starts today, and supposedly, they have access to all of Cartoon Network's Toonami shows. They'll be airing Dragon Ball Z at 4:30 for the first week of the block, and in future weeks they'll be airing other Cartoon Network Toonami shows. Here's the episodes they'll be airing:

So it looks like Kids' WB! is doing the same thing with DBZ that they're doing with Pokemon--airing the episodes in a completely random order. It's times like this that makes me think that Kids' WB! has this giant dartboard with all the episode titles on it, and they have a blindfolded man toss darts on it, see what episodes it lands on, and then make up the schedule from that. I mean really, how else would you explain which episodes they picked? In any case, I think it's weird that they show scenes from the Freeza saga on the commercials for the block but will skip the entire Freeza saga (about 70 episodes) altogether.

So now the news is over, so what have I done for the site? Well, I did have the scans put up, but I can't find the files right now, so after I find them I'll be sure to put them up.

I also forgot to give credit for the newest poster I have in the Movies section. So I put it up on the Serebii movie page. I wish it didn't look so bad, but it only loks that way because I had to shrink it down considerably to make it fit.

And because I feel so guilty for not updating in so long, I wrote up two new episode comparisons for you guys during my computer downtime--Episodes15 and 1. Yes, there's a reason I picked those two to compare together.

I'm changing my e-mail address again, because I can't check Earthlink e-mail from any computer other than the one at my house, and when I go off to college I'd *like* to receive e-mail. So I'm changing from dogasu@earthlink.net to dogasu@hotmail.com. If you have any e-mail to send, please send it to that address--I can't check my Earthlink account after I leave on the 16th. And if you sent an e-mail that I haven't responded to (there's quite a few o_O), please resend those to the new address. In the meantime, I've updated the sidebar with the new address on the pages I've updated.

I have to work for the next few days (I have a full-time job! Yatta! Okane GETTO da ze!), but I'm off Wednesday and Thursday, so I'll be sure to update something then.

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!).