Welcome to the world of POKEMON!
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Unlike many other children, I actually stumbled upon Pokémon by mistake. I used to watch a show called Samurai Pizza Cats, and I would watch it everyday and like all good things they come to an end. So with the series over I just thought they would just show reruns, Next day I saw something totally different... the first episode of Pokémon, and it changed my childhood forever. I gravitated towards Ash Ketchum like no other character, even more than Ryu or Solid Snake. He was 10 and I was 10, he was ummm... tan? Well a darker skin color than the usual white/light skinned protagonist and he was given a pet that shocks stuff! As empowering a child to run away and go be a Pokémon master is awesome but extremely irresponsible, especially when your 10 year old has a high chance to be violently murdered in the forest by Spearows. So I was hooked and later I found the games and by both watching the anime and playing the games every gym battle felt like me and Ash were one. Every time I lost a battle I never felt that bad because Ash lost and he never gave up so I didn’t either. So time going along being a Pokémon Master became literately an obsession. Gotta catch em all, rappin dat PokéRap , I wore my Ash hat whenever I played, hell I dressed up as Ash for that Halloween a simple blue vest, Pokédex calculator I seriously wish I had a picture to share and compare it to my cosplay now. It took me a little time but I did catch all 150, I was on top of the world, I became a Pokémon Master but my journey wasn’t done yet, the next then came the card game, it was short lived cuz I sucked at it but I really liked having the cards of my favorite Pokémon, especially that elusive Charizard... which I got last year, and I feel like a Badass. I was never a great card battler cuz of well… money! My mom would slap me if I wanted 6 booster packs at 5 bucks a pop. So I found a even cooler way to card battle... with the Pokémon card game on Gameboy and it’s much more cost effective and I learned about the cool rare Japanese cards.