Oh. Em. Eff. Gee.

Pocket. Monsters. Special. Or PokeMon Adventures to those of you who aren't familiar of its Japanese name.

It fucking pwns souls. So WROOOOOOOOONG and so AWESOME at the same time.

I'm somewhere near the end of the Crystal arc right now - and though it isn't quite as bloody as the Red/Green/Blue and the Yellow sagas were, it's still rather winful. The art quality took a HUGE plunge during the beginning of the Gold/Silver arc, though - but that is to be understandable, apparently, considering that Mato, the artist (whom I was certain was male but is apparently female!), seemed to have suffered from some illness which caused weakness in her wrist - which is the reason she left after issue 9 and was replaced by some guy who actually does a better job than she did. >>;

Rather horrible official translation from the Gold/Silver/Crystal arc and on aside (the scanlated issues always seem to be so much better >>; That's what you get when you let a Singaporean company do the ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS what the desu) I'm REALLY enjoying this series and I'd really love to see where the series goes once Ruby and Sapphire roll in.

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Speaking of Pokeymans, I had the most vivid couple of mental images in the recent days about some of my RP and fic characters. It's nice to be able to have images like these again. I missed that. I still don't feel compelled to draw anything - I seem to be permanently artblocked lately - but I like it when I can conjure up clear and vivid images in my mind. ^^

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Also, on a side note, my Lunatone egg on GPX+ hatched and lo, it is SHINY. One of the only shinies I actually appreciate. Which didn't stop it from being named Majora and shoved into the PC where it belongs. XD

I got another Eevee egg. Hoping for a female just so I could have a female Umbreon named Dysnomia, but I'm not counting on a female. If it's a male, I'll just name it Endymion. ^^

Oh god Advil's close to evolving. At long effing last.