My unexpected Pride icon: Pokémon, small fluffy monsters battling in a gender-fluid world | Life and style

Wolorsz, Wuking, Sari. I was walking until you got to Till, put the CD Barbie or BRITNEY SERARS on the table, and before the treasurer had an opportunity to ask if we wanted a bag, I was going out: “This is a gift for my sister, it’s not for me!” With a smile with my mother, they give responses like, “Wow, you will love her!” And “not my brother?” (If you are not already guessed, I have no sister.)

This was a regular event in my childhood in the early first decade of the twentieth century. I was very familiar with, even early at the age of five or six, that these were not the usual games that a young boy should play. Where was my country? Businessman Or a scalextric path? Why was the walls of a sleepy room covered with stickers from pop stars that wear crops and not football players with muddy knees?

Perby and Bretni may have been secret, but there was another phenomenon, and many other children of my life, soon they concluded: Pokemon. The privilege of the Japanese media-currently the highest level in the world-has reached the climax of “Bokania” at this time.

Video games, trading cards, statues, and anime TV series – Pokemon The universe was all of them. I was obsessed. My parents left upright when I was able to name all the original 151 types of heart, and less happiness when I painted a huge baki ball on the wall of a sleeping room in coloring.

As a strange child, I can love Pokemon freely. Unlike the media for other children and playing time, it was not a gender. While the siren maker and polyococci makers were clearly marketed towards the girls (and their possession was mixed with shame), no one had a problem in my love for Pokemon, because anyone could be a Pokemon coach, and for the time that everyone wanted to be one.

There was singing, Pokemon dance that was gentle and gentle, and this – shock! – I was attracted to. Nobody cares about the one who was your favorite, because everyone had the same goal: to become the final Master Pokemon. If we looked back, in an incredibly before its time, there was a neutral Pokemon between the sexes and sexual. There was even a little similar to the queen of clouds.

The human wicked on the original TV program, Jesse and James of the Team Rockting team, worn regularly linked to the opposite sex and the roles of the saboteur sexes, and this did not attract this kind of trivial concern about the “confusing” children that will happen today. Pokémon fans have long discussed anger in online forums, even if the stranger is not mentioned in the show. For this issue, regardless of strange crushing, relationships of two different sexes were not essential in the stories of presentation, too.

Pokémon “Contable”, but it was hardly violent enough to make me wander or bring me the way the characters mentioned in weapons from other TV series and video games. I felt excluded because the offers were not admired, but in the world of Pokemon, I installed it.

In 2016, augmented reality game Pokémon Go Capulted the privilege of returning to public awareness. By the end of the year, it was downloaded more than 500 million times. A society of LGBTQ+fans-whether teenagers for concession or adults who grew up with the original chain-are formed, and now it is common to see Pikachu in PRIDE or Get-ups is similar to Ash Ketchum (the original show of the exhibition) in the cloud bars. Since then, the concession has adopted this society, as he presented more clear human figures.

Although my relationship with Pokemon is still firmly in the early first decade of the twentieth century, I am grateful because it provided me with a world free of sexual standards that I did not attach, a world that protects me from judging what I really liked.

After I felt Bang of nostalgia when I started writing this, I looked for the soundtrack of the first Pokemon movie on YouTube, just to discover that nothing but Britney Spears’s teenager sings a song on her. It is made for children and is called soda pop, so it is clear that it is terrible. But if there is anything, the discovery of it is a complete circle for me, and in my opinion, it enhances the fact that Pokemon has a place in the culture of the stranger through and through.