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Pokemon Hate

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Mileyangel

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    Not really sure that this belongs here, but what the hey.

    Obviously, if you are open with your interest in Pokemon, or hell, even just MENTION liking it, somebody's going to make a smart-as* comment. So why do you think that is? How is Pokemon so different from any other anime/manga?

    I think it's because of Ash and his ever-changing cast of little buddies trekking around the latest region and impossibly coming out of every hardship just with that little Pikachu. The manga portrays a much more realistic, relatable, and overall more enjoyable Pokemon experiences.

    Although my fellow females are usually very accepting and even think that I'm cool for loving Pokemon, I've met more than a few smart-as* guys who think that it's "retarded" that somebody, especially a GIRL, would still like Pokemon. However, I am fortunate enough to have enough trust in myself and know exactly who I am. When somebody looks at me, reading one of my many dog-eared copies of Pokemon Special, smirks, and says, "Really? Are you seriously reading Pokemon?", I just smile and say proudly, "Well, yes I am. Good to know you're not blind. I actually really love Pokemon!"

    So, what are your experiences, how do you deal with them, and why do you think us Pokemaniacs get so much crap?
     
    Definitely the hardest thing about liking Pokémon is all the people who think that it stopped being cool 10 years ago.

    And since it stopped being cool that obviously makes it retarded automatically amirite or amirite?

    It's judgemental things like that which annoy me the most; those kinds of people are the people who will never give it a chance, no matter how much you prove the games and manga aren't as shallow as the anime (etc).

    I very much keep myself to myself. Both boys and girls alike think it's weird that I still play the new Pokémon games. However I'm completely open about it with my friends, quite a few of them love it too.

    Also I've been getting some of them into reading Pokémon Adventures! :D
     
    my manga's are good.since i onley got them 2 mounths ago,it was really confusing how it was backwards.but i still love the anime too.gliscor and all......i think the battle frontier series bring many thrills so i cant wait for the next frontier!
     
    As I recall, Pokemon was HUGE about ten years ago. I'm sure a ton of people have great memories from it. I know I do. So why do people act like they don't like it or that they don't remember playing it?
     
    Mileyangel said:
    As I recall, Pokemon was HUGE about ten years ago. I'm sure a ton of people have great memories from it. I know I do. So why do people act like they don't like it or that they don't remember playing it?
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    It was huge, it was phenomenal.
    People like to shrug it off with "it'll never be as good as the original games/anime" or "We were kids back then, we liked anything".
     
    I get those too, but I do my best to not tell anyone or let anyone see I'm reading the manga or whatever. Closet fan of Pokemon.
     
    Oh, the classic, "Why are people insulted for their interests?" debate.

    Pokemon was, indeed, completely and totally global ten years ago. You couldn't go into the nearby toy store as a kid without seeing Pokemon figurines, the original copies of the games themselves were always shelved, and the Pokemon Trading Card Game was infamous. I remember I used to collect them when I was younger because of my obsession with shiny objects. And that was in EVERY country that released them, not just Japan.

    It partly has something to do with the differences in cultures in certain countries. For instance, I know that in Japan, it would be completely impolite to make fun of a person or start laughing out loud because they were playing a Pokemon game. To heck with it, I saw a few adults playing the latest Platinum game on the train back when I was there in July. Pokemon's a lot more closer to home there, so a lot of more people like it, in general.

    Of course, there's also the anime. No matter what people think of it now, the anime, with Ash Ketchum and his abnormally powerful Pikachu, is most likely what people refer to from their childhood memories of Pokemon rather than battling Gym Leaders, or the various mangas out there (which are just not as popular as the anime itself, no matter how much love the fans shower upon them, unfortunately), and cartoons were more popular back in the day then video games, at least where I lived. People probably tended to watch TV in the mornings or whenever they had free time, too, rather than drag a cartridge around wherever the went, so availability for the games themselves went down, thus leading to everyone's favorite - bad puns, horrible cuts, and voice acting. The fact is that that the anime just didn't start off well, at least in my opinion, and that's what caused the 'nerdiness' of Pokemon to go up. Ten years pass, and the kids who used to love playing Pokemon are now legal adults, attending college, and starting up families. Add the previously mentioned nerdiness to that, and you've got one gigantic, adult, and fully operational Pokemon fan, from a 'normal' person's perspective.

    I'm a big closet fan, too. That's not to say that I know some people who also like the Pokemon games, or the manga, but they're my close friends. And I don't love every aspect of Pokemon, just parts of it (ex: I hate the anime, love the spinoff games, usually play the main games to get the storyline, and worship the manga series).
     
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    I don't mind people finding out anymore since it turned out all the people at my school courts(considered the coolest) all have a DS and still play Pokemon. And they all have Turtwigs hanging on their phones.
     
    Haven't encountered any Pokemon haters lately. I don't make it public, but if I'm playing Pokemon and someone asks me what I'm playing, I'll say Pokemon. Most of the time, they'll say "Oh, that's cool" or "Yeah, I remember that."

    The mainstream games are about the only aspects of Pokemon that I enjoy. I've never read the mangas, the anime is full of epic fail, and the same could be said of some of the spin-off games (PMD, I'm looking at YOU.)
     
    Spoiler:

    Anything that gets big enough is easy to make fun of. Look at Britney Spears, Star Trek, Twilight or anything else that has a huge following.
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    Personally, I haven't had to worry since I'm a closet fan.
     
    I don't think many people know I like Pokemon, probably because I don't really make it hugely obvious. However if someone were to ask if I liked it I would say yes. I wouldn't go on about how much I've played it and stuff though, because I would feel slightly worried people would think I'm weird. Bad experiences when I was younger... :P

    Basically when I was in year 4/5 (8 or 9 years old) I started being obsessed with Pokemon. And while the boys in my year obviously liked it, all the girls thought (or at least acted like) it was pretty lame. My best friend would always go on about how lame it was and how it automatically makes you lame if you like it, so I pretended to not like it in front of her so she wouldn't get angry at me. :P She feels guilty now though because she actually secretly liked it as well (though not as much as me). I always feel a bit sad when I think of that time though, because I used to shove all my Pokemon stuff in the back of my wardrobe when she came over, and even got my mum to put some helium balloon with a pikachu on in the cellar to hide it from her on my birthday. It made it burst and I felt so guilty to my mum. :(

    So yeah, that's why I always feel a little bit reluctant about telling people I like Pokemon, but I'm trying to be a bit more confident about my interests now I'm older. :P
     
    I don't care if people make fun of me, they will be out of my life in a few years, but these years will fallow me forever. I'd rather have more fun reading the anime at school, talking to my best friend about our strongest pokemon on the video games, and joking about how we should make the next school dance pokemon themed than please them (:
     
    I'm even WORSE. I've finished the ENTIRE National Pokedex and brag about it. People laugh, but you just have to remember, screw them. You barely know them and vise versa, so who gives a crap what they think? Just some encouragement^_^
     
    Well it's quite weird really. At my Primary School (I'm in the UK) something like half the guys played Pokemon, and all of them still do. I'm in the 4th Year of High School right now, and if anyone hears me and my old Primary School buddies mention it, they start to laugh. We just stare and them and say "what? It's well good!" and they just give us weird looks and walk away.. (It probably helps 2 of the guys who play Pokemon from my Primary are 2 of my Years strongest guys xD)
     
    I don't tell anyone I like Pokemon. I just keep it to myself. Not even my sister knows I like it. And if they did I wouldn't care. If someone made a smartas* comment i'd prob just hit them xD
     
    Sigh... I remember elementary (which was about 4 years ago) people were obsessed with the series. Even to the point where this guy actually had his own business selling people gameshark codes for the pokemon games. I swear I actually got him to give them to me free since Im a friend of his. He gave me infinate masterballs and all berries :D. Anyways, once elementary finished, all that changed. When I went into middle school, I was forced to closet myself. People would laugh at you for liking those games. Suddenly the pokemon world had changed. From something that would make you cool if you had now made you a laughing stock. You cannot mention it without people starring at you weirdly. But you know what? Im already starting to get over that. Ive started to become more outspoken about pokemon. Ive found out that SOME people actually dont care. Just the other day we were talking about how celebi compares to link from the legend of zelda (yeah I kinda guess why he didnt laugh, as he himself is a fanboy fo a series that is so pitifully shunned as well). I was also asking a friend how to load up a pokemon game using no$gba and he actually admitted he also played pokemon games and we both laughed.

    Plus, these people are strangers I hardly know, Im already at the bottom of the social chain, and most probably the people who make fun of you are the ones who will probably end up in a dump when they become of age. I could hardly care more anymore and frankly, anybody who makes fun of you for liking pokemon can just go to hell and drown themselves in a little pond... yeah think about that.

    Although, if you say you like the anime, I can kinda sympathize with those people. I really hate that pikachu and that fact that Ash's friends shift constantly. Other than that Im ok with the anime
     
    roacherman said:
    Plus, these people are strangers I hardly know, Im already at the bottom of the social chain, and most probably the people who make fun of you are the ones who will probably end up in a dump when they become of age. I could hardly care more anymore and frankly, anybody who makes fun of you for liking pokemon can just go to hell and drown themselves in a little pond... yeah think about that.
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    LOL, YOU GO!!! They probably have weird interests, too. I'm a VERY outspoken person. When somebody says or does something I don't like, I let them know. I mean, who cares what they think? They're all conformist Barbie-and-Ken Robot jerks(Wow, that sounded really emo!!!).
     
    My own bro wants to kill me for having Pikachu at the top of my "MUST-HAVES" list. Besides that, I encountered problems with some of the boys (yes, the usual "Wait, YOU like Pokemon?! You're a girl! I bet you watch it for the eye candy!" but no, I don't watch it for the eye candy, I watch it for the Pokemon), and they also ridiculed me.

    My fellow females didn't say anything, though, just teased me about my crush on Ash. I dunno why, but my crush is pretty much everlasting.
     
    Here the anime always mocked at, and because of that, liking pokemon in general is too.

    There's this one person who knows I like pokemon, and he's really annoying. Every time I see him, he mocks me. Always. Many people don't know I like, so if he would mock me when there are others around, my life would collapse. Lol, but it's true. It would spread like...something and soon everybody would know, leading to everybody mocking me every time they see me.
    Luckily my best friend likes me the way I am, so he won't care that I like pokemon. I'm not completely sure he knows, but I think so.
     
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