June-July Old News 2001

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Fixing Stuff o_O
Tuesday, July 17th, 2001

There's a reason why I don't have a real update today...while checking back over my site last night, I noticed that none of my movie 4 pictures were working. So the time I had allotted myself to work on scanning some pictures for the Humor Section was spent fixing all of those pictures. After trying and retrying and a little bit of trickery, I've gotten them all fixed. So go check them out. I would have had them up earlier, but Envy' server was in one of its moods and wouldn't let me upload anything. I also realized that I hadn't uploaded the pictures for the front movies page, so I went ahead and did that too.

I forgot to mention yesterday thatthe winner of the poll is Yu-Gi-Oh. I'm waiting for my tapes to arrive in the mail, so it'll have to hold off watching it until I get a chance to watch them. If it takes too long, I might go ahead and do the number two choice, Magic Knight Rayearth, since I own the entire series on tape ^_^. Either way, I hope to have it finished by the end of the week.

Maybe I'll get around to doing the scans later tonight. I'll try my darndest...

Busy Busy Busy!
Monday, July 16th, 2001

I got my new computer, and it came with a spiffy scanner! Yay! It's a really nice scanner and I've had no problem with the quality of the scans. In fact, it blows images up by something like 50% or so, so I shouldn't have any problems with legibility. It's also really fast. Zoom!

I'm actually still on my old computer, though, for this update because my website is on this computer. But Friday I'll be putting this hard drive in the new computer, and that computer should be online by then, so all will be fine. My old computer is actually on the floor right now, and I'm having to either lay down or sit on my knees as I type. Likewise, I can't do as much typing because it gets too uncomfortable. So in the case of the fourth movie summary, I typed it on the new computer, and then put it on a floppy to copy and paste on this computer.

Yup, that's my roundabout way of saying that I have a spoiler-filled synopsis of the fourth movie. I also have a ton of new pictures up from the fourth movie, so go check that out as well. And I also have soundtrack information. I also restored the pictures I had up before on the main movies page (the Mi surrounded by Annon and the picture of Serebii surrounded by that funky energy) because I recently found them when going through my files and I think they're too great to toss out. What else...um...new weekly picture and an updated episode guide (now I'm only one week ahead of TV Tokyo instead of three ^_^).

And I've finally updated Takeshi's bio with his Gold/Silver pokemon because I've gotten several e-mails telling me what his pokemon are and I've just been too lazy to update it. And while I was at it, I updated stuff on Kasumi's, Satoshi's, and Toru's bios. I've also changed something in the Pokemon English-Japanese list-I realized that my romanization of Bayleaf was really dumb, so I changed it.

Anyway, that's all for now. I just found out yesterday that I'm going to Otakon! Yippee!

New Stuff!
Monday, July 9th, 2001

Envy hasn't been letting me upload lately, so I'm glad that they've fixed whatever needed to be fixed.

How was everybody's Fourth of July week? I hope yours was fun...I spent mine watching a Lupin III movie with my friends-it's definately campy. It's like going back and watching old episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Good fun that.

Anyway, what have I been up to? Well, I found another Voice Actor Interview in one of my old Animericas, this time of Leah Applebaum. So I went ahead and typed it up for you guys. It's over in the Humans' Bios section. I've also updated the Places & Items Section with the names of every place found in the Pokemon Gold/Silver games. Now I need to do the same with Red/Blue/Green/Yellow.

Also, the fourth movie came out in Japan this past Saturday. If you go on over to the Movie 4 page, you'll see all the neat things that are being given away to people who buy different tickets. It's too bad that we Americans don't get such groovy promotions. Also, I've updated something in Vicious' bio, both on the Movie 4 page and in the Humans' Bios page. I'll get a detailed synopsis up after I'm done looking around at a bunch of different synopses that the lucky fans in Japan have written.

The poll at the bottom of this page will end at 12:01am ET on Thursday. As I'm typing this, Rayearth is in the lead, but only by one vote. So if you haven't already voted, do so by the deadline if you want to see your show in the Related Anime Section.

That's all for now. Tomorrow I'll be getting a new computer, and I think it'll be coming with a SCANNER! So if it does, I'll get to work on scanning a bunch of stuff for this site. This week will definately be a busy one...

It's up! A Brand New Comparison of Movie One!
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2001

I did it! After almost a week of rewinding and checking and double checking and triple checking and writing and typing and formatting-I've finally finished it. The comparison of the first movie is finally finished, and I expect lots of feedback. It's rather long, but it's filled with lots of information I haven't seen anywhere else. Enjoy!

I've also written a disclaimer on the main Episode Comparions page-that basically, when I use the dub name of a character, I'm talking about the dub. When I use the Japanese name, I'm talking about the original.

I'm going to end the poll sometime this weekend, so hurry up and vote! It seems that most people want either Yu-Gi-Oh (I guess since it's coming on TV this fall) or Magic Knight Rayearth, and that no one wants to know about Here is Greenwood :( No matter the outcome, the losing titles will remain for the next poll, and I'll just add a different title in the place of the winning one.

There's so much that I can do for this site right now, so the next update will be whatever I feel like at the moment. But it won't be far away. That's all for now, and enjoy the new comparison!

Gym Leader Badges
Friday, June 29th, 2001

So yesterday I go to start working on the "Mewtwo Strikes Back" comparison. Thirty minutes later, I was up to the title screen. I had written over a page worth of notes just for the first ten minutes or so of the movie! So you guys are going to have to be patient on that one, because it's going to take a lot of time and work to get that thing done. I'm up to the part where everyone gets to Myuutsu's castle, so progress is being made everyday.

To keep this from being a "just checking in" update, I went to the Places and Items section and added information about all the gym leader badges. I've also included the Japanese names of the Hidden Machines. Enjoy!

A new comparison?! Can it be true!?
Thursday, June 28th, 2001

I've fixed the Episode Comparisons section (except the Jouto League pictures-that comes later), deleted the Opening Theme #1 Comparison (because it takes up a lot of space on my Envy account and it loads slowly and it was an all-around bad idea), and...drumroll please...a new comparison! I have a comparison up of the first Mini-Movie, "Pikachu's Vacation." I'm working on a "Mewtwo Strikes Back" comparison, but that'll take a bit longer because it's about three times longer than the Mini-Movie.

I've also gotten a new poll. Finally ^_^. Please vote quickly on this one, because I need the new write-up posted before mid-July to keep my "once a month" promise.

More new stuff coming soon!

~~Spring~~ Summer Cleaning
Tuesday, June 26th, 2001

I've been cleaning!

I've fixed all the CD cover images. So all those pictures in the CD Guide and the Movies section that didn't load before should load now. I've also gotten information about an American CD I didn't have any information about before, the Pokemon World CD.
I've updated the Seiyuu List to include characters found in the first movie-Boija, Sorao, Umio, and that Pirate Trainer who battles Satoshi during the opening song.
I've also updated the Movie Characters page with all the updated character bios I made for the last update. I've also added Mitsu-chan's American name.
Likewise, I've updated the Popular Pokemon section, now called Important Pokemon, mainly the Miscellaneous Pokemon section, with the updated bios I did for the Movie Section. I've also updated information about some evolutions as seen in recent episodes in Japan, like Takeshi's Golbat turning into a Kurobat. Nothing major's been added, just a preview of what to come when I get more time.
I've got an interview with Toshihiro Ono, artist/writer of the Pokemon: Dengeki Pikachu manga. It first appeared in Animerica Volume 8 #1. I've also gotten an interview with Veronica Taylor, English voice of Ash, also reprinted from an Animerica issue (this time from Animerica Volume 8 #7). Lots of neat behind-the-scenes info in each one. I know there's an interview out there of Rachel Lillis (Jessie, Misty), but the Animerica I have access to has holes in the article. If someone would like to type that up, I'd be really greatful ^_^.

That's all for now. Next is the Episode Comparisons section!

Quick...come up with a witty title for this update!! Too late!
Wednesday, June 20th, 2001

Oh my God, it's finished!! Hahahahaha!! Every page in the Movies Section has been updated, and I've even added a few pages. Revised plot summaries, information on the characters in the fourth movie, updated character bios...there's a lot of new stuff to look at. So have fun looking through hours and hours of work. I wanted to get some information up on the Myuutsu CD Drama, but I really needed to get this update up. It'll come later.

And guess what...I've only got ONE more section to fix before the site will be fully repaired! But before I fix that section and add the first of about thirty new episode comparisons, I need to fix the CD cover images and other images and links throught the site. Well, I'm off to college orientation. See ya soon!

Anime Section CD Guide Updates
Thursday, June 14th, 2001

Sorry, but no movies update this time. There's a LOT that I'm working on for that section (like re-doing the entire first movie section and adding a lot of information on the fourth movie) but it's coming soon. I worked all day Monday and Tuesday on it, and I've still got a bit to go. But I've made some other updates to tide you over until then.

Either Viz has added a listing to their releases page or I missed it the first time around, but I now have the release date for the third Pokemon Adventures graphic novel on the Manga page.

I've also updated the Anime section. I hope to showcase a different series each month, and now that I've said that, I'll probably fall far behind. I'll do my best ^^;;

And finally, I've updated the CD Guide. I believe I have every Japanese CD listed now, and I have all the major American ones listed. I also have a lot more images of CD covers (thanks to Amazon.com). Believe it or not, I found a bunch of those CD listings while searching for info on the various movie soundtracks. So that IS proof that I'm working for you guys!

Next up is the Movies section. For real.

*It seems that envy.nu needs the "http//" part in front of each link that leads outside this site. So I've fixed the links in the sections I just updated and in teh Links section. I'll do the rest with my next update.

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!).