#Kireihana

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I will never, ever, ever understand why Deerling is not more popular, but I'm glad the BW! anime gives them so much love and they fill the forest bordering Nuvema Town. They're often in crowd scenes in the Best Wishes! anime, to the point that a user on here has managed to identify that BW! takes place in about half a year because the Deerling are consistently in Spring form in the first half and Summer form in the second half. ;3; (Deerling pixel art by ohdeerling--but the post has been deleted!)

So darling. So sweet. I have never loved a Pokemon this much before... and I'm very fond of the entire Litwick line. I love most fox Pokemon, love Eevee and Vulpix and Ninetales.

But Deerling... cute pastel fawns with flowers... their big, innocent eyes! Their cute, delicate, little limbs. Their adorable fluffy tails!

I think Deerling, various Grass, Fairy, and Ghost types are unique among my top favourites because I didn't become attached to them via a favourite human/trainer in the anime, but just for themselves. Like, I got attached to Arbok and Dustox because of Jessie training them (Arbok even made me love real life snakes and Dustox made me stop fearing moths!), but I wouldn't have likely fallen for them without loving their trainer first...

(Dancing Mawile animation by abgallery. ^^)

Before the introduction of the Fairy type, I used to just say I had Lass-like tastes in Pokemon, fff. Mostly the cute, pink, and round ones... Alcremie is another top Fairy favourite, but so is Mawile! If a Pokemon has both creepiness and cuteness going for it, that's ideal. The creepy-cute Fairy Tale Girls class is one I feel suits me more now!

I have always loved, for instance, many Ghost types because of my fondness for horror... I'm especially fond of Frillish, I find it elegant and beautiful, yet also adorable. I love their fairy tale royalty aesthetics, I love their cute, dainty lashes, their little crowns, their veil-like fluttering tendrils/tentacles, their ability to paralyze prey with their venomous embrace... even if I'm not fond of their evolved forms.

I adore so many Grass types that look like flowers, including the similar underrated (in my opinion) Hoppip line, Bellossom and Lilligant! They're cute, darling, and refreshing to look at.

Togepi was a childhood favourite, alongside Eevee and Mew, because of how adorable and baby-like I found it in the anime. I always loved the idea of being a mother, so Togepi was endearing!! I still have a Hasbro reversible Togepi plush from 1998. I took her with me before I began my first paying job in June of 2022. ^^

But I've never been so attached to a Pokemon that any time I see it, I feel this big of a burst of joy, and feel like it's truly mine, like I do Deerling. I'm almost happy it isn't absurdly popular, because it makes collecting it a lot easier, if there isn't much to collect. ^^;;;; A few plushies (Sitting Cuties, Jakks Pacific standing, musical--different sizes, different Season forms), a bunch of smaller and more cheaply made kid's toys, Jakks Pacific action figures, keychains, stickers, and trading cards.

(Deerling pixel art by starfruut.) I don't even want a huge collection, I'm happy with just a few pieces I really like, I love Spring Deerling most of all, but Autumn Deerling also grew on me.

[pahsy-paints]

Earlier this year I joined in on the Pokémon TCG collab through Artcollabfriends. Since the Neo Genesis Bellossom card has always been one of my all time favorites I just had to pick it!

For the entire collab please check out this video featuring all the cards! You can also check out the release tweet since most of the artists will quote retweet with their respective illustration. 

[tobiasdrake]

Johto League, Episode 6 - Bellossom's Battle Dancing!

Ash emerges from the deep woods and finds his way to one of those anime-exclusive cities that dot the map between locations: Lafall/Florando City, situated along Route 29.

Florando is a city rich in street performers. Among them, Ash meets a girl named Hikaru/Bailey who performs via synchronized dance between a pair of Bellossoms. Unfortunately, the Bellossoms are having difficulty mastering their finale.

What's worse, they have an important talent show coming up! Fortunately, Team Rocket demonstrates their knack for inadvertently helping people. After multiple altercations, the Bellossoms lock down their move and fend off the Rockets.

For an episode focused around Bellossom, this episode has surprisingly little to say about Bellossom. But I'm sure Bailey will be very happy when Gen 3 drops and introduces Pokemon Contests.

[nickitappreciation]

[deriloko3]

Do You Love It or Hate It? - Bellossom x Chespin by DeriLoko2

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NS032 - Celebi: A Timeless Promise - Full Summary & VA cast

Three years ago on a family trip to Hiwada Town in the Jouto region, Go met a young boy named Tokio who was searching for the Mythical Pokémon Celebi. But why does Go look so gloomy when he remembers this? Summary: Three years ago, Go met a young boy named Tokio on a family trip to Hiwada Town in the Jouto region. Tokio was searching for the Mythical Pokémon Celebi, and the two kindred spirits decided to search for it together, but Celebi turned out to not be all that easy to find. The two of them parted ways, promising to meet up again the next day to continue their search, but Tokio never showed up at the spot they had promised to meet that day. Flash forward to present day, when Go once again visits Hiwada Town and ends up encountering... Voice Cast: Daiki Yamashita: Go Megumi Hayashibara: Rabbifoot Shinichiro Miki: Strike Yuji Ueda: Kamonegi Risa Shimizu: Muma Sayaka Senbongi: Messon Kei Shindo: Kireihana Noriaki Kanze: Ariados Michiko Neya: Kurune Takayuki Masuda: Ikuo Ayahi Takagaki: Tokio Marina Aicholtz: Go's Smartphone Rotom Kenyu Horiuchi: Narration

Source: PocketMonsters.Net forums, source link in the source tag

...Well that’s new. No Satoshi or Pikachu. First time ever? Edit. First time ever, not counting specials and Chronicles.

[artikgato]

I unearthed my old journal from when I was 13 and oh boy

Playing Let’s Go Eevee has activated my nostalgia hardcore, and I got curious about whether I could find out exactly when I first got my original Gameboy Color and my copy of Pokemon Blue. Warning for rambling and nostalgia and direct quotes from 13-year-old-Arti’s journal below:

I first got my original Gameboy Color and my copy of Pokemon Blue on August 6th, 1999. I know this because in my (very embarrassing) journal I was keeping at the time I wrote: “I got a gameboy color and Pokemon. I’ve already made it to Fuchsia City!” I guess I was way more into the Pokemon anime at the time, because I then proceeded to ramble about that for a few paragraphs, and then proudly wrote this: (my 2018 commentary is in [brackets])

 “And I know about 161 Pokemon now! Impressive right? They’re called Mewthree (I think it evolves from Mewtwo?), Togepi, Pikablu [Marill, lol], Kireihana [This is Bellossom I think], Buru, Doomsay, Doomsday, Nidogod, Nidogoddess, Elekid, Hoho [Probably Ho-oh], and Tyranticas! I found out about them on the internet! There is a rumor that you’ll be able to get Togepi in Pokemon Yellow that’s coming out soon, but the rest are in the new games in Japan! I’m so excited!”

I was new to the internet, okay? (And it just goes to show you how pervasive the rumors about Mewthree/Pikablu/Nidogod & Nidogoddess were). Also I’m not positive but I think I hadn’t seen the first episode of the anime yet at that point? I know I started in the middle. I very clearly remember the first episode I ever watched was the Snorlax episode, which was definitely a rerun by then. 

The first entry in my ridiculous, embarrassing journal about Pokemon was from March 10th, 1999, in which I basically wrote “Pokemon is amazing and it’s changed my life forever!” but in embarrassing, 13-year-old-in-1999 speak. I then proceeded to write about Pokemon (mostly the anime) in every single entry after that in the journal, sprinkling in woes about being in school and how much it sucked to live in the countryside and how I missed California. But hey, I had Pokemon, so it wasn’t all bad, right?

I had an original character I kept drawing, who was going to be a “Pokemon Doctor” (as if Nurse Joy didn’t exist). My drawings weren’t very good.

On August 4th, 1999, I wrote this:

“Nothing much happened today. I found out about a new show called Digimon that’s coming on Fox on the 14th at 10:30. I’m going to watch it! From what I got from the commercial it looks nothing like Pokemon. Some of the creatures looked similar, and there’s the name. Could there be a connection? I’ll find out!”

It’s amazing how blase I was about things that ended up being REALLY ACTUALLY VERY IMPORTANT. “Oh I got a gameboy, and I’ve already made it to Fuchsia City. But let me tell you about the Pokemon cartoon for 2 and a half pages!!” “There’s this new show called Digimon. Nothing important though. Looks kind of like Pokemon...” Oh my god, Younger Me.

I was also predictably terrible at the game at first. It somehow took me eight days to get from Fuchsia City to the Elite 4. “I just beat the Elite Four and I’m still working on Gary. All I have is Articuno and Moltres with no revives.” I distinctly remember that my team in the original game was my starter (Blastoise), a Raichu, a Butterfree, a Pidgeot, Articuno and Moltres. Team composition? What’s that? (I probably struggled a lot against Bruno.)

I also babbled about the first episode of Digimon, going on about how it looked really similar but there were a lot of differences. Because the Digimon could talk! And Pokemon is short for “Pocket Monsters” and Digimon is short for “DIGITAL monsters”, totally not the same! “They’re called animes - they all have big eyes!” wrote 13 year old me. 

New to the internet. Be gentle.

[gotojobin]

#ポケットモンスターサンムーン #ポケットモンスター #太陽と月 #PocketMonsters #PocketMonstersSunandMoon #Pokemon #PokemonSunandMoon #SunandMoon #ポケモンサンアンドムーン #太陽と月 #Nintendo #Nintendo3ds #KingDevinJoseph #キングデビンジョセフ #おたく #Otaku #オタク #GotoJobin #後藤Jobin #デヴィンジョセフ王 #Weeb #WeebDar #王デヴィンジョセフ #HappyNationalSelfieDay #HappyNationalSelfieDay2019 #NationalSelfieDay #NationalSelfieDay2019 #SoniaPokemon #SoniaJoseph #Sonia Battle Dancing of Kireihana! 」 Broadcast on November 18, 1999 Lafort Town, which reached beyond the deep forest. Satoshi and his family learn that the annual Pokémon Performance Competition is held here. There, Satoshi meets a girl named Hikaru who leads the dance unit of Kireihana, Hickeys. Hikaru is also aiming to qualify for the tournament, but he is worried that the last big trick, Moon salt, will not work. There, a group of rockets appear after Satoshi, and try to monopolize the pedestrian street, but they are easily taken away by the dancing battle of Kireihana https://www.instagram.com/p/By_cqqcH2dg/?igshid=10a7b3c69j83p

[mariethecrocheter]

Reflections of the Past Year & Thoughts For the Next

2016 was a pretty busy year, and for a whole lot of reasons. Some good, some bad, some...meh. (Whatever that means.)

I just wanted to take a few minutes to write about some stuff: a few games released over the past 12 months that were really important to me, some things that I plan to/hope to do over the next year, some personal challenges, and, most of all, my gratitude to everyone who has been putting up with me for the past...3+ years? That’s how long I’ve been on Tumblr? Time really flies, doesn’t it?

I have met so many friendly people through Tumblr and Twitter, and I am deeply grateful for all the kind comments and support! Let’s make 2017 a good one, right? Even though the rest of the world may be pretty bad right now argh

Anyways, time to briefly(?) delve DEEPLY AND IN A RAMBLING MANNER into some of the highlights of 2016 and discuss what’s to come in 2017!

First and Foremost: Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns Japanese release: 23 June 2016 North American release (tentative): 28 Feb 2017

A game celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Bokumono franchise! 1996 was the 20th anniversary of the series in the Japanese market, while 2017 is the 20th anniversary in the North American market. (And we now have two different series in the English-speaking world: the original series, now called Story of Seasons and localized by XSEED, and Natsume’s independently-made Harvest Moon games!)

Trio of Towns was first announced at the end of 2015, and released in Japan during the summer of 2016. I’ve been covering it on a side blog, http://friendsof3villages.tumblr.com/, so check that out if you haven’t already. (Seriously, though, I think about 90% of the people who subscribe to this blog subscribe to that one too, haha. Hooray for Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons love!)

@xseedgames is going to be bringing this title to North America early this year. Just a couple more months! 

Just a couple more months until we can shear our rabbits in English!! Heh heh. 

One question that I get asked from time to time is: is this game worth getting? If you liked previous instalments in the series (Story of Seasons, Harvest Moon: A New Beginning, etc.), then my answer would be YES!! If, like me, you really enjoyed those games, you’ll probably like this one. The controls and basic systems are very similar, but there are a lot of new features that will keep you busy. 

They made some improvements based on feedback they got about Story of Seasons: The story is easier to clear, there are more heart events for each marriage candidate, and the reverse confession/proposal scenes are pretty easy to trigger this time around. 

If, however, you weren’t as much of a fan of the two previous games, well... I’d still suggest you give this game a fair try if you get the chance, but I understand if it may not be your cup of tea. 

I haven’t had the chance to try Natsume’s new game yet (Skytree Village) so I can’t say anything on it. I do hope to get the chance to play it sometime, though! I...kind of have a backlog of games I want to/need to play... xD

The next most important game was Fire Emblem Fates, which came out in North America in February 2016. 

I have no physical copy of Fates or its Japanese version, so here’s a picture of the only physical Fates-related object I own: the beautifully boxed Japanese soundtrack! ...plus the other two games that made my year. Ahem. ^^; (And this totally wasn’t a test for photographing items on that shelf with the intention of later photographing some crocheted kitchen items I plan to sell. ...Kidding. This was a photography test. xD)

I’ve been doing some translations for the DLC here on this blog: http://fe14festivalofbondstranslations.tumblr.com/ Fellow admin Kiyoshi and I are going to finish up the Hoshidan Festival DLC soon, and...we’d like to translate more CD drama tracks. 

...I have no idea why the Nohrian and Hoshidan Festival DLC isn’t available outside of Japan, but I hope we see it released in the English-speaking world this year! I’m dying to see what kind of adjustments they make in the English version. The conversations give us more insights into character relationships, and perceptions of them can change or give us greater insight depending on how the conversation is presented.

I plan to do some translation comparison posts on Fates after the festival translation is complete. I have a couple of topics that I want to write about I just...haven’t yet. (Most of them involve Kana, Forrest, and Soleil, who seems to have more changes to her English support convos than any other character.)

Slight changes in her conversations with her mother, for one... Details later. Mwahahaha. (They’re slight, though. But kinda cool.)

The Surprise Hit (For Me): Pokémon Sun & Moon

Until December 2016, I hadn’t touched a Pokémon game in about 15 years. But, I have fond memories of the early games...

Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Blue Version (both for the Game Boy) came out when I was in high school. I scoffed at them until trying my brother’s Red Version one day when I was very, very bored...and I liked it! I had my own GBC and managed to get a copy of Blue Version, and I liked it a lot. I also got Yellow Version after it came out, and after Gold and Silver were announced and released in Japan, I was miffed that I would have to wait a year or more to play them. I was so miffed, I decided to get the Japanese versions (through...means that I later realized were less than legal ^^;;;;;;;) and teach myself Japanese! And...I managed to do it. Somehow. xD I went through the ENTIRE Silver Version with a hiragana/katakana chart, a dictionary, and basic grammar/phrasebook I repeatedly checked out from the library (and my dad later bought them for me). Maybe I didn’t understand much of what was going on, but I got enough out of it to enjoy the game.

In other words, Pokémon Silver Version was the MAIN REASON I took up the Japanese language! Crazy, huh? 

But then I started college and lost interest. Gaming had to take a backseat for a while, and I just didn’t want to devote time to another series. (I lost interest in Fire Emblem for a long time due to this and other reasons, too.)

But, after hearing a lot of praise for Sun and Moon, especially praise about the story and character development (two things I love in a game), and attracted by the bright, cheery style, I decided to give them a try. And I love them! I’m fully hooked again! Goodbye, free time. Don’t need you anymore. 

The thing I found most intriguing is the number of languages available. This one was released simultaneously in English and Japanese!! I couldn’t even imagine that back in 1999 or 2000 or whenever it was that Gold and Silver were released!

I still have my copy of Yellow Version, and... I have my brother’s Red and (English) Gold versions. ...In fact, I have his Yellow, as well...? And where are my Blue and (English) Silver...? I have no idea, lol. He must have mine, and I have his...? Anyway, the battery that saves the data is long dead on all but one of them (I already forgot which one, though I know it wasn’t Gold but one of the older ones), so it doesn’t matter too much. 

In case you’re wondering: my favorite Pokémon of the original 151 (152 if you count Missingno! xD) are Clefable and Dragonair. (And Dragonite, but not quite as much.) Of the next generation, Pichu and Bellosom. (Who I always think of by its Japanese name: Kireihana.) I’ve now found myself quite fond of Lilligant (because it looks like Bellosom!), Comfey, and the various Oricorios! ...I’m a sucker for plant and fairy types, heh.

Moving Forward &  Personal Challenges & ...?

I want to branch out so I’m now doing a little work with Source Gaming, translating columns and such of one of my favorite game developer, Masahiro Sakurai. I’ve only done a couple, but this year I have some other interviews by a certain game producer that I want to translate and cover in-depth...

Yoshifumi Hashimoto Interviews

There’s a long interview with him in one of last year’s issues of Nintendo Dream. I’m sure others have already translated it, but... I want to do a FULL, thorough translation of the article because there’s a lot of interesting facts and trivia in it. He’s been the producer of the Bokujou Monogatari series since 2005, or for more than half the life of the series. (He took over upon the departure of creator Yasuhiro Wada.)

And there’s Mr. Hashimoto himself!

There’s an interview with him in the back of the guidebooks, too... AND some interesting trivia in the short official guidebooks! There’s a lot of trivia to be translated and shared! x)

In Conclusion

There’s so much to do this year, and I look forward to working on new projects when I’m able to! =D Unfortunately my health declined a bit in 2016, as some symptoms I hoped were temporary turned out to be long-lasting or even permanent, but it’s just one more thing learn to cope with and work around. That’s the nature of chronic illness, urgh. I’m used to it, but it still stinks. (In case you’re curious, I have something very similar to multiple sclerosis, so it really feels like I’m waging a war against the effects of time itself...)

Regardless of what happens, I’ve got a lot of stuff planned for the year. I’m especially looking forward to the English release of Trio of Towns, because I’m eager to see the writing in the English version! There are always small (and sometimes, big) changes and tweaks made to the localised English version, and comparing it to the Japanese one will be a lot of fun. I hope to get several more translated resident and heart events up before the game comes out in English, though! (And, if you must ask, my favorite bachelors are still Yuzuki and Ludus, and my favorite bachelorettes are the twins, Siluka especially. I like Kasumi a lot too. ...Actually, I like ALL the marriage candidates, so it’s hard to choose absolute favorites. The additional heart events and additional dialogue give the characters more depth and development than many of the previous games.)

That’s about all I have to say right now. Pretty much. Yep. Oh, wait, you read all this? Wow. xD Um, here, have a hug! **hug**

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Day 638 - Kireihana | Bellossom by AutobotTesla on… - pokemon fondos

[autobottesla]

Shiny Kireihana | Bellossom, Eneko | Skitty, Hasubo | Lotad

You can also ask for flat colors, like this commissioner did!

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[shychloe]

#ibebana #flowerarranging at #hyperjapan #bellossom #kireihana #flowers

[its-animeuniverse]

Bellossom (evolves from Gloom using a sun stone)

[sumaipon]

really wanted to take a few Bellossom pics today~