Wowies.
I've loved Poke' for a long time, too.
For me, it started when my grandmother bought me Pokemon Red Version. I wasn't to big on it, but my dad sure was. XD He played the game constantly. He picked out my first Pokemon, a Bulbasaur, which he nicknamed "Vinewhip". And me, being at such a young age, thought how strange it was that a grown-up could like a video game. So, I picked it up, and was instantly captivated, too. Within a week, I had gotten through half the game (quite a feat for me, as I usually put things off). I brought it to school; turned out all my other friends liked Pokemon, too. We banded together to form a team of PokeFreaks; on the playground, we would go outside onto the field and pretend to have battles. We started collecting the cards, too. Sure, we where teased, but undoubtedly, ever Pokemon fan has at some point.
When people started to tease me, I wasn't sure if I wanted to keep liking Pokemon anymore; I'm a complete wimp when people make fun of me. It became a thing where it was just something I did at home. If people asked if I liked it, I would lie and say "no". But, at home or with just my friends, I was a complete Poke' spazz. We would go to the movies and watch the Pokemon movies the very firs day they came out.
I'm not a big fan of the Anime anymore, I guess I just grew out of it. But I still collect the cards and figurines, and play the games with my friends. And every once in a while, we still make a bowl of popcorn a watch the "classics", like Pokemon 2000, or the First Movie.
All in all, it's been pretty good.

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Commander Mars of the ~Team-Galaxy-FC (Yus, the Pokemons kind)

Wow! I like your story about how you got into it, for me it was the other way round (my mum started playing FireRed last year and almost completed the national pokedex, but she didn't stay into it long sadly XD; )

I think every Poke-fan gets teased about it eventually, I think its cause Pokemon is stuck in the general public's mind as a 'kiddy thing' when in reality most of the kids who were into it back in the day were only into it because of it being considered a 'fad' back then, and its only really us, the older fans who've stuck with it, and the more newer fans of the series left now.

I didn't watch the anime for ages, about mid-Advance Generation, but I started watching it again with Diamond and Pearl as its gotten interesting again. And hah, wow. I haven't watched the Pokemon movies in ages, but I still have them somewhere around. I should go and watch them again just for the nostalgia. God I cried so much when Ash 'died' in the first movie.

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I'd put this in my journal if I had a subscription, I really would. D: *is too cheap to get one*

For me it's the same, except a little different. I got drawn into the fandom the same way most people did, except at a later date; I'm pretty young, so my first game was Sapphire. I'd heard of Pokemon way before that, of course, and had collected the trading cards for a while. I fell in love with it immediatley.

But I think the reason people think Pokemon is so stupid, silly, and/or nerdy is that they just take a glance at it and leave it at those impressions. They take for granted that that's all there is to it. If they actually played through a game, they'd probably come to see it the way a lot of fans do.

Another thing. I can relate to the way a lot of people think that just going around and catching pokemon and training them - what really keeps me in the fandom is the way everything has so much potential for fanfiction and things like that. There's so much left unexplained and so many little bits and pieces left to be put together into really amazing things. That's why I love it so much. That's what I'd say to someone who hates Pokemon - "Go read this fanfic, come back and now tell me what you think."

The end. xD Long-comment fads are cool.

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I cried when my dad bought the first movie. Then I cried when Ash "died", too.

I still love Pokemon alot, and I'm not afraid to say it anymore. Besides, I am completely used to getting strange looks from people, anyways. About a year ago, when it was like, my complete life, I started have Pokemon-related dreams. After that, I thought maybe it was a good idea to tone it down a little. O.o

Ah. Yeah. I loved the Kanto and Johto regions. After Hoenn started, I stopped watching what little of the Anime I did watch. But, I'm hearing good things about Sinnoh, yes? So maybe I'll look into that.

And, I've only read one of the Mangas, before, just a small one I picked up at a "Value Village". I liked it, but that's all I could really get into for the Manga because I have no clue where I would purchase it.

Eh. You're probably bored out of your mind now. I'll shut up now.

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Commander Mars of the ~Team-Galaxy-FC (Yus, the Pokemons kind)

I'm almost 21 now and I still love Pokemon. I have dreams about it too, but then again, I've always had really weird dreams, so I'm used to them. XD;

Sinnoh is awesome. They're really trying to stick to the games this time around, like the underground stuff, and even cycling road! XD All the Pokes have awesome personalities, especially Brock's, they're having Gym Leaders in more then one episode (Roark gym leader had 4 episodes, Gardenia had 3), they're keeping continuity, such as Jessie's flashback back to an episode in Johto with Blissey, and even brought back an 'character of the day' who appeared in an early Sinnoh episode, in a really recent episode. So yeah, its interesting about where they'll take the Sinnoh saga next, its been completely awesome so far.

I read the early Pokemon Adventures English manga books, I was sad when they stopped translating them. They really had an awesome storyline too, I try to follow it the best I can nowadays regardless. XD;

And nah, I'm not bored, I like listening to other people's Poke stories. :]

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_{Rock on.
Simply rock on. xD;
I remember the first time I saw pokemon...my cousin bought the video for the first so many episodes....it was love ever since. >3<}

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Weird dreams are fun. The inspire me most of the time when I can't think of anything to write.

Aww, now lookit what you've gone and done; now I'm all hyped up to watch the Anime again! When can I watch it? I don't have cable. Which sucks.

But usually, I get my share of what's going on in the Anime (and Manga, for that matter), that is if I want to, but reading summaries off of Serebii.net. It's ok, but it just doesn't really cut it. Some times people will scan pages from the Manga... but it doesn't really help much. I feel deprived as a PokeFreak.

Every once in a while, I'll see like a Poke VHS tape at a garage sale. It makes me feel nostalgic, especially the part where Ash challenged Sabrina. Then, I'll give it to my 8 year old neighbors, who are just as much PokeFreaks as I am. They get all happy and it makes me feel good. Then they look at me in awe as I tell them how much I know about it. It's pretty cute and funny.

Thanks for listening(reading)...

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Commander Mars of the ~Team-Galaxy-FC (Yus, the Pokemons kind)

Actually my pokemon craze began when my friend amy phoned me up and told me to flip the channel to the channel they were airing pokemon on. I remember it, it was the eps where pikachu and them got stranded on that weird pokemon island with all those mechanical pokemon and stuff.
Well it really started when my mom purchased for me, for christmas, Pokemon red and blue along with my blue gameboy pocket. The craze started and frankly never stopped, here i am 21 years of age and still collecting pokemon cards. Playing the pokemon games, even now as i'm a more advanced artist drawing pokemon pictures too!
I was teased about liking pokemon, but frankly I didn't care, i was even teased about being into anime, still am even by adults!
But i see it like this, if it makes me happy, which it does, no one elses opinion matters. My pokemon teams may not be fit for fighting outside the game but i use the pokemon i like and that's it. I won't use a pokemon i'm not comfortable with, i'm just no good that way. heck i get ragged on by other pokemon fans because i use arbok in most of my first generation teams!
So in short there is alot of hate outside and within the fandom but as long as there are people around who share my love and passion for pokemon the people who hate and argue with me mean nothing to me as frankly love is stronger than hate, and you've proven that you love pokemon just as much as i do, so that's enough for me XD

LONG LIVE THE POKEMON! eevn long after it's gone off the air XD

Dreams have done that for me too, when I'm thinking of something to write. XD;

[link] is a good place to start if you have bitttorrent, if not you can also find some episodes up on youtube if they haven't removed them already.

And no problem.

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WHOA Snazzyness! This site shall be fun...

Yeah, I've tried Youtube. The only thing I got to watch was the Raikou special, then they deleted that, too. Meh. Maybe they have it on Veoh...

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Anteaters = Yay
Commander Mars of the ~Team-Galaxy-FC (Yus, the Pokemons kind)