Well I've lost the remote to the Sky box. That means manually using the buttons on the front to change channels. Combine that with the bank holiday tradition of putting complete crap on TV and the horror of getting up at 4pm (and even then I was woken by my phone) and you have a very bored NJ. Well having watched 5 minutes of Cheers on Paramount, Green Day on Kerrang, a bit of The Games preview on E4, the end of Linkin Park - Breaking the Habit (love that video) on Q and a bit ot US Weakest Link on Challenge I went to the ever reliable refuge. The cartoon channels. Now most of you will know that in some cases I find the word cartoon to be unfitting so me saying that is rare. Having flicked through Cartoon Network, Fox Kids, Boomerang, POP etc I came to notice a few characters I recognized. Jessie, James, Butch, Cassidy, Tracey, Jenny, Misty and Ash. I came to Toonami and found there what had kicked off my love of anime in the first place. Pokemon. Now in my video drawer under my TV I have a substantial collection. I have 7 Cardcaptors videos, a Beyblade video and most importantly 4 Pokemon videos. Since my DVD collection started growing at a scary rate I'd completely forgotten about this lot. Incidentally there are copies of Star Wars Episode 1, AI, Chicken Run, The Time Machine, Shrek and Eight Legged Freaks among all the anime. Watching that episode on Toonami I got a strange yet familliar feeling. It was the same feeling I got when watching Pokemon all that time ago in 1997. The same feeling I got whan watching Cardcaptors in 2000. The same feeling I got when watching Yu-Gi Oh in 2002. The same feeling I got when watching Dragonball Z in any of those years. It was the feeling of being a kid again, the feeling of just giving up caring about what people thought and defending what I liked at all costs. When people asked me if I liked Pokemon in year 7 I would always say yes. When people asked me that same question in year 10 I said no. A few days ago I was talking about selling my cards on eBay, I can't do that. My collection of cards is a reminder of who I used to be and when I get them out I still feel memories of Leominster and my past. My love of anime is evolving and maturing but no matter how many DVDs on my shelf are 12s and 15s I can never find them as enjoyable as I still find all the U rated videos in that drawer. I still have to hunt down the remaining videos in my Cardcaptors collection. None of you lot will ever understand this feeling.
Kinda related to all that lot, in the Cardcaptors universe it's Meilin Rae's birthday. A trip to Wikipedia did my knowledge the world of good.
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