I realized that I’ve reviewed all the main series Pokemon games here on the blog since Diamond and Pearl in 2006. So why break that tradition now? Let’s review the latest Pokemon games, Black 2 and White 2…
Real pokemon
April 29, 2011 by 14 Comments
This week has been unexpectedly busy for me, so today I’m just going to share something easy and fun…
Pokemon Black & White: questioning the morality of the franchise
March 21, 2011 by 27 Comments
Everyone interested in the new Pokemon games, Black and White, has more or less dabbled in some part of the games by now. Even in the anime blogsphere, lots of reviews and daily gaming logs have been popping up. But since I’ve already written a review of the game when I got the Japanese version, and I don’t have that much to add after playing the English version, I decided to focus this post on the specific conflict of the games’ storyline. It’s a conflict that has intrigued players because it does something unexpected – it questions the very morality of the Pokemon world…
Pokemon Black & White, and a look back through the generations
March 7, 2011 by 31 Comments
ポケモン・歴代主人公 by ムリエのデカパン
Pokemon Black and White, the latest games that begin the franchise’s 5th generation, just had their U.S. release yesterday. Ever since I’ve become an older Poke-fan, when new games come out I tend to reflect on the franchise’s past and how it’s evolved (no pun intended) over the years. Pokemon just recently had its 15th anniversary, and even after all this time, it’s still so popular even outside Japan – the recent mall tours to promote the new games, as well as the fact that there were lines at stores when the games were released yesterday, are just some evidence that Pokemon is certainly more than a passing fad. So how has it gone from the days of Red & Blue to the Black & White of today…
Pokemon Black and White mall tour
February 19, 2011 by 23 Comments
During February and March, mall tours promoting Pokemon Black and White are being held at various shopping centers across the U.S. in anticipation of the games’ release on March 6th. This weekend, the tour hit a mall not too far from me in Arcadia, CA. Being the hopeless Pokemon fan than I am, I of course had to go check it out…
Pokemon Black and White English release preview post
January 24, 2011 by 18 Comments
BLACKWHITE by ほう
It’s now a little over a month until Pokemon Black and White make their American debut on March 6th (and, for the first time, Europe will be getting the games two days before America on March 4th). Bits of info have been trickling in about the English release, particularly the English names of characters, places, items, and other aspects of the games…
Pokemon Black and White review (Japanese release)
October 9, 2010 by 20 Comments
イッシュ地方、新しい冒険へ by 蒼井
Pokemon Black and White mark the beginning of the 5th generation of the Pokemon franchise, introducing a new region and 156 new pokemon. They’re also the first games that are on the same console as the previous generation, the Nintendo DS, though they contain many advanced features that previous games do not have. Already B&W are top sellers, selling a record 2.6 million copies in just two days and having over a million preorders. The games have now sold 3,761,217 copies in sixteen days, ranking them the highest among Japanese game sales in the past two weeks.
I’ve finally played through enough of my copy of Pokemon Black to write a proper review of it…
One journey leads to another…
September 13, 2010 by 21 Comments
あしたはきっと by 鳥男＠シマママ！
Inspired by 2DT’s recent post, I’ve realized that I have yet to write my own post in the Diary of an Anime Lived series. Now I finally feel up to the challenge…
Anime characters and their pokemon equivalents
August 7, 2010 by 36 Comments
“biribiri”
I came up with this idea a while back and have been wanting to try it out. It’s a pretty random project I know, but I thought it would be fun. Turns out, I had a blast making it, so I hope you’ll derive at least some amusement from it too…
Pokemon Black & White starters and protagonists revealed!
May 12, 2010 by 37 Comments
Last updated: 05/15/10
Last night a magazine scan of the three starter pokemon and two protagonists for the upcoming 5th generation games, Pokemon Black & White, was leaked…