I simply love the series itself, but in actual I'm not mad over these...
I used to collect the cards, but stopped a looong time back once I had a little more than 2000.
I didn't sell them, though, I have them stored somewhere in my house somewhat safely.
I will never sell them or throw them away, or give them away. They might not be something I play with or something I'm very concerned with, but they keep memories within them - strong ones.
About the anime, I loved the anime a lot up to the middle of Johto, when it started to get off track of its original feel, and later in Hoenn the anime sucked totally in my opinion.
I still know that if the decisions of remaking the episodes were given to me, I'd create them to be the best for myself - and if I ever go to heaven, I will actually remake these and live in the anime world, lol - yeah, I'm that great of a fan!
For the games, I played Crystal, then Red, then Gold, then Yellow, then Ruby and Sapphire, then Emerald, then Leaf Green, then Diamond, then Platinum, and now I will play Heart Gold and Soul Silver.
Yeah, I liked the games a lot, but even they are losing their original feel, as the competitive battle takes over the original purpose of these games - having fun, which is still the only thing I do.
So yeah, as much as a great fan I consider myself to be, I'm actually not mad over it, and neither do I spend most of my time with it.
I don't even have anything else except those things I listed up here. It just maybe my age for which I have no attraction to the toys and plushies and dolls of the Pokemon series.
But surely, peer pressure and stupid things like that will not get me off my favourite things.
I just do whatever I like, and I couldn't care less about what one random person has to say against these in real life. In fact, I have never let anyone except my little bro actually know that I even like Pokemon.
