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VIOLET'S REVIEW EM ALL SPECTACULAR: The Charmander Line

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  Charmander  Next in the dex is Charmander. Immediately more recognizable as a reptile than the kinda-lizard kinda-frog Bulbasaur. Charmander is reasonablely cute, with wide blue eyes and a cheery smile, but not without a little menace, with sharp clawed feet and a tail ending in a fireball. Apperantly if that fire goes out the poor dear dies :( Charmeleon Again, I don't have much to say about this middle stage. It serves as a through point from Charmander to Charizard well enough. Not to say I don't like Charmeleon by any means, it's a very solid lizard monster. It's just not one I have much to say about.  Charizard  Charizard, oh boy. Lately this big fella has become particularly infamous, due to game freak's apparent obsession with shoving it, and anything gen 1 into basically everything. Well that's certainly a valid criticism, I don't think that's quite fair to our big almost-dragon buddy. Charizard IS cool. A charming fire/flying dragon with its b...

Hell teacher Nube Yokai

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check out this kickass theme song. Hell Teacher Nube, or Jigoku sensei nube, is a manga and anime about an elementary school teacher with a demon sealed in his right hand. Throughout the many chapters of the original run and sequel mangas, he protects his students from all manner of nasty yokai and supernatural phenomenon. Of course with a series like this there's bound to be tons of different spooks to be found, and in this post I'm gonna go over a few of my favorites.  99 Legged Bug The very first yokai of the series is described as a small parasitic worm that causes young children to be testy and irritable. This particularly strong one has been possessing one of the main kids, Hiroshi. What a cool design though! This fella brings to mind many types of parasitic worm like hookworms or tapeworms, but with a mouth full of sharp fangs, and a big eye socket full of deranged bloodshot eyes of varying size. Somewhat reminds me of a scuba mask oddly enough.  99 legs though? It does...

SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI REVIEWS:Jack frost and company

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  Shin megami tensei is a weird series. Mother of the persona series, probably one of the most popular bunch of games there is as of late, but ol' smt is nowhere near as well known.  For those uninitiated, Shin megami tensei games usually revolve around some sort of disaster happening and presents the player with 3 different ways they can go about playing depending on their moral stances. Oh yeah and there's demons.  That's all that I'm willing to summarize, and I do recommend playing one for yourself, besides we're here to talk about demons yeah?  Jack Frost Any series that has you capturing and fighting alongside monsters should have a mascot! Pokemon has Pikachu, Digimon has Agumon, and Smt's darling is Jack Frost. The good old Embodiment of winter himself. Old demon designer Kazuma Kaneko decided Jack Frost should be an adorable snowman in a silly jester getup, and I wholeheartedly agree. I think it's a very nice and simple design, while still being just...

VIOLET'S REVIEW EM ALL SPECTACULAR: Bulbasaur

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 That's right, Violet's reviewing pokemon! All of them! Violet's doing a pokemon now!  If somehow you've been living under a rock and avoided the multimedia mega franchise that is a "pocket mens", well I'm not gonna baby you! Look it up! Lazy bum! Anyway if I'm to review every pokemon, what better way to start,then at. Well. At the start. The very first Pokemon in the lineup. BULBASAUR  Good old Bulbasaur! For some reason the least popular of the three possible choices you start your Pokemon journey with,and that's a shame. Bulbasaur is a grass/poison type, which is weird considering most starters begin with only one type, but also because I don't remember the little guy ever doing anything with poisons and venoms.  But there are more pressing matters. Such as, what is a Bulbasaur? Lots of people seem content to say it's a frog. While I do see it, Bulbasaur has SAUR in the name, so it most be some sorta reptile then. But wait kinda reptile ...