Airdate: June 15th, 2000 Summary: Our friends leave the Pokémon Center and run into a kid who got beat bad by someone near the mountain bridge. Team Rocket plan to tail the twerps, and Wobbuffet is still trying to establish itself on the team. Brock meets a girl named Micky, and warns her of aContinue reading “Pokemon 154: Hot Matches!”
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Pokemon 153: The Totodile Duel
Airdate: June 8th, 2000 Summary: Our friends are fishing to catch Pokémon when Misty lures in a tea kettle. Misty uses her secret weapon, her mini-Misty lure. Misty waxes poetic about her lure and her love of Water Pokémon. A Totodile jumps and presents itself to our friends, dancing on a rock. Misty and AshContinue reading “Pokemon 153: The Totodile Duel”
Pokemon 152: Hour of the Houndour
Airdate: June 1st, 2000 Summary: Our friends take a lunch break but Ash’s backpack is gone, there are some mysterious red eyes in the bushes. Brock finds a Pokémon footprint. Team Rocket steals Nurse Joy’s ham while her and Chansey grab some ice cream. Jessie presents the ham to James and Meowth, and the PokémonContinue reading “Pokemon 152: Hour of the Houndour”
Pokemon 151: Tunnel Vision
Airdate: May 25th, 2000 Summary: Our friends decide to go into the Onix Tunnel after a day’s rests, while Team Rocket enter the tunnel right away, and Snubbull and Jigglypuff are in the mix. Team Rocket runs into some Onix, and James and Jessie try and battle them but the Onix are not budging. TheyContinue reading “Pokemon 151: Tunnel Vision”
Pokemon 150: No Big Woop
Airdate: May 18th, 2000 Summary: Our friends are walking through the forest, when they fall into a nursery with a bunch of Wooper. Brock sees the preschool teacher and instantly forgives the Wooper who brought him to Olesia. Brock is smitten with Olesia, and the gang are smitten with the cute Wooper. Team Rocket areContinue reading “Pokemon 150: No Big Woop”
Pokemon 149: The Fire-ing Squad
Airdate: May 11th, 2000 Summary: Ash sends Tauros back to Professor Oak, but he keeps Heracross for a bit longer. Nurse Joy mentions the Fire and Rescue Grand Prix while trying to escape Brock, this man has a problem. Our friends check out the contest, meet up with Captain Aidan, and also get reunited with theContinue reading “Pokemon 149: The Fire-ing Squad”
Pokemon 148: Tricks of the Trade
Airdate: May 4th, 2000 Summary: Our friends are off to Goldenrod City, and they are walking through a beach town. They meet a boy named Benny who is raising a Wobbuffet, but wants to trade it. He tells our friends about the Pokémon swap meet. Jessie and James are pissed off at Victrebell and Lickitung,Continue reading “Pokemon 148: Tricks of the Trade”
Convenience Store Woman-Sayaka Murata
Published: 2016 (Bungeishunju) Setting: Tokyo Summary: Keiko works at the Smile Convenience store in an office district, and it is what defines her. She has worked their eighteen years, and the rhythms of her life match the sound of the bell, the speech patterns of her coworkers, and the hours of her shift. Keiko hasContinue reading “Convenience Store Woman-Sayaka Murata”
Pokemon 147: A Farfetch’d Tale
Airdate: April 27th, 2000 Summary: Our friends are walking through the Ilex Forest and Brock turns into a delusional old detective trying to find the way out. Team Rocket is hungry and tired, and our crew run into a boy with a Farfetch’d who won’t listen to him. The boy, Sylvester, gets advice from ourContinue reading “Pokemon 147: A Farfetch’d Tale”
A Wild Sheep Chase-Haruki Murakami
Published: 1982 (Kodansha) Setting: Tokyo, Hokkaido, Niigata Summary: In the third book of the “Trilogy of the Rat”, Murakami decides to blow it all up, in a good way. Our unnamed protagonist, I, meets a beautiful part-time call girl with magic ears, the secretary of the underground Boss of Japan, as well as the SheepContinue reading “A Wild Sheep Chase-Haruki Murakami”
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