The BBS Magazine

Whether or not you watch the anime, there is one question you’ve probably heard of or discussed and that question will be answered right now! Why doesn’t Ash age? All throughout the series Ash remains ten years old. As I dug around and asked some friends on their thoughts on the subject, I found some legitimate, funny, and just plain disturbing answers to this puzzling question.

Well at least his hat changed.

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YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY KETTLES MY GOLDEEN? TRAINERS THESE DAYS NOT DOING THINGS THE RIGHT WAY!

JUST LOOK AT THESE WHIPPERSNAPPERS THESE DAYS. YOU EVER SEE A GOOD OLD FASHIONED POKÉMON BATTLE DONE FOR THE SAKE OF GRINDING? YOU’LL BE LUCKY TO NOW! INSTEAD OF MAKING THEIR POKÉMON FIGHT EACH OTHER TO THE NEAR DEATH OR BEYOND FOR A FEW HUNDRED EXPERIENCE POINTS, THEY JUST SHOVE THEM INTO THE DAY CARE! THE DAY CARE! IT DOESN’T SEEM TO MATTER TO THEM THAT IT’S A RIGHT RIP OFF – THEY TAKE YOUR MONEY EVEN IF THEY DIDN’T GO UP IN LEVEL AND THEN TRY TO PALM OFF THEIR UNCOOKED BREAKFAST TO YOU! RAW EGGS ARE TERRIBLE! BUT I DIGRESS. RATHER THAN TAKE CARE OF THEIR POKÉMON THEMSELVES THEY PAY OTHERS TO DO IT FOR THEM. WHAT LAZINESS!

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Jessie, James, and Meowth are widely viewed as completely evil people with no good in them in the black and white elitist society of the Pokemon world. However, this is not the case. Need an explanation? Read on!
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Pokemon Analysis: The Lotad Line!

Pokemon: From lilypads to…dancing pineapple ducks with sombreros. What’s not to love?

This is the first analysis in which a random number generator has determined the Pokémon line for us to examine! And what an oddball bunch we have here. They have it all, from a rarely-seen ability and certainly unique typing to what are frankly weird designs. It’s no wonder that the majority of people tend to prefer the Sapphire version exclusives to Ruby’s Seedot line.

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People frequently make references to external things in their work, be it to stories they like, or in-jokes between themselves and friends about jellyfish. With the good people in Game Freak however, some of their references within Pokemon are to other games – and interestingly they’re often games they had made themselves.

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The Pokemon world has just concluded its Pokeathlon Olympics, and what a week of leaping, running, swimming, teamwork and general bashing-up-each-other it was! Trainers came from all over the globe to duke it out against each other for that shiny gold medal. And let’s not take away from the silver medalists and those who netted shameful, shameful bronze either!

This year’s events went fairly smoothly, all things considered. The big four regions of Japan has a strong showing again, and Unova’s trainers this time performed better than the previous Olympics in the initial events giving themselves more time to recover from jetlag. The rangers of Fiore and Almia had a respectable showing as well, although some still hold that using Pokemon that they don’t actually own in a Pokeball was merely exploiting a loophole in current rules. Orre had a modest number of participants this year as Shadow Pokemon were no longer allowed due to the large number of injuries and broken javelins (an event that was also cancelled for the year, along with Dodgeball with Qwilfish), but a few medals were still taken out by the desert nation.

A small riot had broken out in Goldenrod (where many of the participants stayed in) when it was discovered the Game Corner had been replaced by Voltorb Flip, and the nearby National Park is now seeking damages from having hosted a few side events (both Tuesday’s and Thursday’s Bug-catching competition had to be cancelled), but otherwise it was a success all around, and one simply cannot wait for the next Olympics!

Below is a few of the highlights in events this year.

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PokeMusic: Viridian Forest

Every now and again, we’ll be looking into some tunes from the world of Pokemon and discussing their points of interest, leave a youtube video or few, and discuss if these tunes should have a jazz-style remix.

First up is Viridian Forest. The first major obstacle, if you will, for the player to overcome in RBY! As it’s from Kanto it has a number of versions of tunes having appeared four times, once for each of the first four generations in the main games (not counting Green). So there’s plenty to look into.

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It’s been a good while since the Wii was new and everyone was excited (or angry) about its Wiimotes and Miis and strange naming theme. Now it’s time to do it all again with the Wii U! Of course, one with even a passing interest in Nintendo consoles would wonder what it’s like and whether it’s worthwhile to get. And if one is a Pokemon fan, what possibilities it offers for Pokemon may also be of interest.

So why worry? Take this reporter’s word for it, as he got to try it out exclusively at a VIP event, and without killing anyone to get the chance either.

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So while now you can bask in the glory of Wyatt’s image every time you read an article here, there’s some other works with Wynaut and Wobbuffet in them that also deserve a spotlight. Here’s a few of them for your pleasure!

If you have any others you know of, then mention it in a comment, and we might add it into this post. And if you have made one yourself or want to create one, why not post one on the forum? We’re currently having a forum birthday event spree, and any Wynaut or Wobbuffet that get created during the week will get featured here as well! How’s that for free advertising of your work? Plus Wyatt will be happy too.

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What, you thought stuff this bad came free? Well you were wrong! In order to afford a regular meal for Wyatt and pay some medical bills after our conspiracist attacked a school, we’re running a few ads.
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