wersterlobe

The world. The whole world.

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Pokemon, especially when I was growing up, was incredibly immersive. I didn't just play the games, and watch the show. I lived them.

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Part of that was due to the huge spectrum that Pokemon hit. They had the games, they had the show, the had the manga, and they had a plethora of side game that appealed to every single sense of your being to create a full and complete world. I've talked about them in the past in relation to this type of question, but I credit a lot of it to the Stadium games.

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You could watch the show, and truly believe in a living world. That by itself may not mean much, but then you play the games, and the world is all about you. And then you can transfer your work in that world into a complete stadium and see it in 3D models in front of your eyes. To a young lad growing up, that's pretty amazing emotionally

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And, you may have gathered from this stream, the music. The music... sometimes it's just great music, sometimes it's about a message, sometimes it's hella corny, sometimes you just like it because it's incredibly bad, but it all has one thing in common. It makes you -feel- and very powerfully so in some cases as well. Just look at the reaction of everyone when the first season Pokemon theme came on. It is so powerful, it truly makes you believe that the world is there and exists.

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I'm a big ass pokemon fan, in my mind I can't imagine alone who likes the series more than I do. I remember a lot in high school I would sit in class just building teams in my notebook, writing down movesets and items and all the rest of it. But they weren't always to actually battle with in the games, no these were teams I would make to use for myself in the real world. I used to tell my mate all the time "I can't wait to battle Ash", and he'd just reply with "I know dude, me too". I'm not crazy, I have no delusions that the world is made-up, but the believability of the world through the emotional connection it gave is phenomenal. As a credit to it, to this day, the easiest and most common lucid dream I have is being entered in a Pokemon tournament and going through all the rounds and becoming the champion. The second easiest starts off with me leaving Pallet Town at the same time as Ash and Gary. And I keep repeating those dreams in slightly different ways too because I love them, they are not just easy but they are the absolute best too.

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To answer your question in one line, I don't like Pokemon. I love Pokemon.

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