25 years in the making and we are finally here. Ash Ketchum finally takes the biggest stage at the Finals of the Pokemon World Coronation Series.
I have avoided writing about some fantastic battles that unfolded as the "Masters 8" of the PWC progressed, because with every win ash was registering, that too against the likes of Steven and Cynthia, it started to seem more and more likely this probably is going to be "it" for Ash's journey in the pokemon anime....that maybe he was finally ready to become a pokemon master and end his journey. And this was a feeling I wanted to avoid.
While that is what we've all waited for 25 years, it is very sad to even consider the fact we will not be watching Ash and Pikachu travel through the various regions, fighting for gym badges...entering the regional leagues....Ah the nostalgia!
Maybe our "ashy-boy" has indeed finally grown beyond regionals.
From watching Ash get booed by the crowd at the indigo league to him having a fan base of his own as he takes the battlefield maybe for one last time for the finals of the Pokemon World coronation series, we all grew up! And that's what makes Pokemon so special for me. It's sometimes hard to explain to people how an adult can still follow a cartoon so diligently. But you see it's not just a cartoon, it's a piece of our childhood that lived on.
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And you would be lying to yourself if you say you wouldn't give anything to get your childhood back for even just a single day.
And Pokemon remains one of the very, very, very rare few things that connect us to our childhood. Life has changed drastically over the last decade and we, the kids of the 90s have seen it all, lost it all. The precious moments that generally reminds people of their childhood, we lost it all.
Our parents and grandparents still had those stormy evenings with flickering lights of a hariken lamp, or while we played with the solitary candle to remind them of their childhood. Kids these days will still get to watch their kids dive nose deep into the mobile phones and ignore them to remind them of their own childhood.
We 90s kids have lost it all. Our childhood comprised of those stormy evenings, listening to ghost stories from our parents and grandparents' times. Our childhood involved getting out in the dark, watch the starry skies. Our childhood involved watching shows like tom & jerry, Mr Bean, Captain Planet, Pokemon, Dexter's Laboratory.... (Stuff kids watch these days disgust me, frankly)!
For all the things we have lost of our childhood, Pokemon survived. The journey of Ash Ketchum survived. And now that it seems to have come to it's final stretch, Good Luck "Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town!"
Give it all you've got!