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Sooooo....  What's happening everyone?   

Woow, July 18th was last time I posted?   And It's November 19th now?  

Well, I dunno if anyone of you can forgive me for dropping off the face of the earth for the last 4 months.  I confess this has all been very much my fault.  I wish I had a good excuse, unfortunately I've been lazy in the extreme.  There is a story behind this laziness, but it's long and complicated, and none of you would probably care about it anyway.  lol.  Suffice to say I'm back home in the USA, got back from Japan in August, and I'm at school for my last year of college, after which I'll be going back down to work in Disney World.

So, what's happening with Pokemonfan.net you ask?  Hmm, an excellent question.  Well, I do enjoy being a webmaster, and I think I will in fact still be hosting and administering Pokemonfan.net, along with a new site I'm still trying to work on, though that's suffered from my chronic procrastination as well.

So, basically what's going to happen is one of two things.  Bgt and I spoke a while ago and he's interested in turning this place into something really awesome, that can compete with Serebii.  As am I.  The two of us have different ideas about getting there of course, and it really will depend on our mutual schedules, as we're both pretty busy, and I've not seen him for a couple months.  I have some ideas, in addition to a total revamp of the site's layout and navigational structure, and Bgt has some multimedia ideas that he very much wants to put into production as well.  I anticipate that the two of us will try and have as near complete renditions of each of what we want and then we'll compare them, and decide where to go from there.

That said, what happens in the mean time?  What about the other stuff I'd been working you ask?  What'll happen to PokeSocial?  I still intend to get everything done, but I have commitments which unfortunately must come first.  Pokemonfan.net and my other projects will get done, eventually.  As for PokeSocial, I intend to separate that from Pokemonfan.net and make it into it's own totally awesome site.

For the time being though, that means, essentially; and I can't believe I'm saying this, hiatus.  >.<   

Oh, and i noticed we've been getting spam bots who've managed to break through the filters, unfortunate. 

My apologies for worrying everyone.  I'll send out e-mails to all the registered users when the time comes. 

Hey guys,

Hope everyone's been doing well.  My apologies for the lack of anything decent to read on the frontpage here, I have been pretty busy as my time in Japan winds down; haven't even had the chance to put up pictures from Coro Coro. =(  In any event, earlier today I saw the new Pokemon movie, Advent of Arceus!  Just came out in theaters across Japan today, and I must say I was quite impressed. 

Before I get down to my actual thoughts on the movie, I wanted to mention that at the very end of the movie they showed a very short trailer for the next pokemon movie, and in the trailer they showed Lugia going after Ho-Oh; so it's confirmed that the next Pokemon movie is going to have something to do with the legendary birds again, and that's fantastic news to me.

In any event, I took video of the entire movie, which Bgt and I are going to toy around with before putting up a couple minutes of footage of it.

So, in any event I was pretty darn impressed with the movie.  Caution SPOILERS. :P

So the real point of this movie was really to just showcase the skills and legend of Arceus, that's about what it was all about.  I mean even Ash didn't get as much screentime as he normally gets, and had pretty much no decent pokemon battle, he was totally overshadowed by Arceus, Dialga, and Palkia.   Now if you've had an opportunity to read through the pictures of the manga adaptation of this movie that were in previous newsposts here on the site, you'll have seen the big bad guy of this movie who betrays Arceus and everything, and he's a king and what not, with that crown, and he's got a Heatran, so hopefully you know the guy I'm talking about.  In any event, this guy really gets very little plot development, even by the standards set by the pokemon movies.  I mean, even the guy who went after Giratina in the last pokemon movie had more plot development, and if you think about it, that's pretty sad.  Also slightly dissapointing is the fact that the fight scenes between Arceus and Giratina, Dialga, and Palkia, were a little too short and basically consisted of Arceus totally dominating all three of them at once, through the use of his plates.  Which made Arceus' defeat at the hands of this enemy king all the more annoying as Arceus should have been able to take that guy with ease.  Of course by this time, he'd given 4 or 5 of his plates to them, and it was that energy which was being used against Arceus, so I suppose it makes sense and all, but seriously, Arceus shouldn't have been having as much trouble as he was.  

Best parts of the movie included seeing Dialga actually send Ash and crew back in time, that was seriously hot.  Arceus getting trapped in a bubble of space by Palkia was epic.  Giratina coming in from behind to try and attack Arceus was pretty sick.  And the very beginning, which showed Arceus awakening was also filled with win.

Honestly the biggest problem of this movie is that it wasn't long enough, and would have been much better if Ash had a major battle, against someone, heck I don't even care who.  Given him a chance to fly on Staraptor for once, or something.  But otherwise, not half bad.  Though I dunno if this was at the level of the Mewtwo Strikes Back, it was definitley an excellent conclusion to the diamond and pearl trilogy.  We'll have pictures and video sometime later.

Seriously though, why the heck are Ho-Oh and Lugia Fighting!!!