Monster Kids

It is humbling for your sense of individuality to realize that every aspect of a cultural phenomenon that was marketed towards you, hit you the exact way it hit everyone else. Each event mentioned in this book, I had the exact reaction described. I got the exact games at the exact times and saw the exact films on the same days and moved to Digimon briefly and had the same opinions that is described here and then fell off it for the same reasons, and I abandoned Pokemon for Yugioh at the same and for the same reasons. I am, I am sad to tell you all, a basic bitch.


Anyway this book was really interesting. I had never really learned much about the origin of Pokemon and various other Japanese anime/manga sensations around this time and how they all interacted with each other and were largely responsible for ushering in a very different era of gaming.

Also pokemon Crystal is the best