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About Me
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This user identifies as male.
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This user cannot speak 日本語 and relies on Google Translate and Babel Fish, as well as proper grammar to get a basic understanding.
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Introduction
Pkmn veteran is a male of unknown age living in the Great White Nation of Canada. He has been on Bulbapedia since September 2007 but has been a fan of Pokemon since it landed in North America. He is currently seen lurking around random pages but occasionally edits character and shipping pages and has provided the Japanese characters for names. He might be considered to be a bit of a PearlShipper as he finds himself on this page often.
He is known as Pkmn_veteran on the Bulbagarden Forums as well as the Serebii forums, although he is more active on BMGf.
Background:
The Beginning
He had shown interest in the franchise when he saw the premiere episode of Pokemon in Canada back in the September of 1998. In December of that same year, he was able to see the Japanese version of the first Pokemon movie and spoiled the ending to his friends. However he did not own a Pokemon game until September 1999 when he bought the limited edition Pokemon Game Boy Color with Pokemon Yellow. He did not own any Pokemon cards until he bought a Team Rocket booster pack where his first rare card was Dark Muk. He became one of the first people in his neighborhood to own Pokemon Silver as he bought it as part of a Nintendo Power promotion that gave away other neat things such as Pokemon pins of Pikachu, Bellossom, and Lugia as well as the holofoil edition of the Official Pokemon Gold and Silver Player's Guide. But in 2002, he lost interest in the Pokemon anime near the beginning of Master Quest since he felt the show had became garbage. Around the same time, he lost many of his treasured holofoil Pokemon Cards as his brother had traded them for cards that were of little use to him. Thus causing the end of his Pokemon card collecting. For the years following, the only exposure he had to Pokemon was Pokemon Ruby and Emerald and one episode of the Advanced season (Sharpedo Attack!) for which he had shown some interest as Ash had a new outfit, Brock came back, he was traveling with a girl who was actually prettier than Misty and a nerdy schoolboy looking kid was along as well. But he did not continue to watch the series, instead focusing on Yu-Gi-Oh (not GX) and watching RAW episodes of Naruto which he couldn't understand, yet he liked the animation. In 2006, he was able to see the Legend of Thunder special and thought that the anime replaced Ash but the special was only for three episodes. In early 2007, Since Pokemon was on in the mornings before school, he started watching the Battle Frontier series of the anime (though not chronologically, blame the network) and had to take time to get used to the new voices. He also finished watching the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and tried to watch Deathnote but couldn't find the time.
Return to Pokemon
May 2007 was a big turnaround for Pkmn veteran. He obtained a copy of Pokemon Diamond for the DS and though school was pressing him for time, he started watching the Diamond & Pearl series of the anime and instantly became hooked on it as it was a big improvement from Johto. Since he couldn't wait for the new English episodes, he started watching the RAWs as well as the RAWs of episodes he saw in English. Then in September of that year, he joined BMGf and Serebii, which he had lurked on during Generation II. At the same time he joined Bulbapedia. More stuff will be put here and better organization will be done when time permits.
