Mentions (9)
"Full Disney sleeves? Anime characters? Pokémon? I saw a girl tattooed with the literal Coca Cola logo and she explained she got it 'for her dad because he always drinks Coke'. Absolutely mind boggling."
"When I was young every cool thing came from Japan. Pokémon, DBZ, Melt Banana. All these things became popular naturally from my experience."
"Ken Sugimori's watercolor artwork of the original 151 Pokémon is amazing."
"It was only his second time ever having sex and now he lives with his mom in near entire isolation, playing Pokémon and watching anime."
"Tajiri sees some kid throwing a Poke Ball at an ice cream cone on their phone and is like 'oh god what have I done?' Like that feeling of knowing that you brought something into the world that practically everyone below a certain age knows and enjoys."
"I know consumerism is bad, but I remember as a kid I used to just go into a Target and there would be Pokémon cards sitting on the shelf. now everything is being "scalped", which didn't happen before, and now you either have to buy them for $60-100 a box on the second hand market, or wait for a "dro"
"One time when I was like 7 I had an evangelical cousin who didn't want to play with me because he said my Pokémon cards were from the devil"
"That really fucked with my head when I was a little lad. I was convinced that I myself was in a coma because the revelation of ash being in a coma and hallucinating the Pokémon felt like a message from the universe that was telling me that I was in a coma and I had to wake up lol"
"stuff from my childhood like the aforementioned Batman cartoons from the other post or old Pokémon games"