Welcome to Pokemon Cupboard, a world for fans of all things Pokemon!

This is a world where I’ll be posting various things about the Pokemon franchise. Here I plan to talk about some of my favorite Pokemon, favorite locations in the games, perhaps reminisce about playing the games or my favorite episodes of the anime, and maybe much more.

About Me

I got into Pokemon during the mid to late nineties. At first didn’t want anything to do with Pokemon. Back then it was part of my nature to rebel against all things popular. But my opinion about Pokemon changed significantly after seeing the first four or five episodes of the anime. I got into the series and soon wanted to play the games. That Christmas I believe I had received a Gamboy Color and the Blue version of the Pokemon game.

Eventually I also played the Red and Yellow versions, mostly to see how they differed from Blue. I played the games that followed up until Ruby and Sapphire. At that point the anime had started to go downhill. I really didn’t like it when they replaced Misty with that girl May and her annoying little brother Max (god how I loath him). The games started to lose their appeal too. I didn’t like how Ruby and Sapphire didn’t have a lot of the Pokemon from previous games. Of course at the time I didn’t realize that they were going to do remakes of the first generation games.

Still, by that point I was no longer as into Pokemon as I once was. My focus had turned more to Yu-Gi-Oh! and other things. But I still keep tabs on the Pokemon franchise. I think that the anime is a lost cause, but I have read about the newer games, some of which actually look pretty good. I’m also currently working on a Pokemon Fan Fiction project. So in short I’m basically an old-school Pokemon fan.

Guest Posters

My interest in Pokemon ebbs every now and then. So to make things more fun and keep this world alive, I’m going to allow other Pokemon fans here on TheO to post things here. So like me you could post things about your favorite Pokemon or talk about your favorite anime episodes. But you can do so much more too.

  • If you play the games, you could use this world as sort of a journal and share your adventure with everyone. It doesn’t have to be the mainstream Pokemon games either; it could be Pokemon Conquest or one of the consol games.
  • Another use for this world could be to post Pokemon fanfics you may have created. Or perhaps share the profiles of your Pokemon OCs (if you have any).
  • Maybe you have some big Pokemon related art project you want to share. You could use this world to chronicle its creation.

You could do all that and much, much more. As long as it has to do with Pokemon, the sky’s the limit. So if you’re interested in becoming a guest poster, or maybe just have a few questions, please contact me via comment or PM and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

Current Guest Posters

umchan649 * dfdfdfdf * xXShayde WolfXx * Ikemarth * Ritsuki * elricbrothersfan

Trial of the Phoenix

Introduction: Here it is, my second Pokemon story. This is basically an AU to the anime. In fact it's sort of a prequel to my first Pokemon story, Fire for Ice. But you don't need to have read Fire for Ice to understand what's ...

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pokemon black journal day one

name: shiro
start date: 8/11/12
starter: snivy

Okay I started pokemon black today when I got my starter I fought my childhood friends Bianca and Cheren my snivy grew to lv. 7 after fighting them both after I leave Nuvema Town onto route one where Cheren and Bianca wanted to see who could catch the most pokemon there. I didn't catch any because I just wanted to head to the next city. We made it to Accumula Town to meet up with professor Junifer who explained the pokemon center. After leaving the pokemon center me and Cheren listened to the speech made my team plasma about liberating pokemon. Once they were done N challenged me to a battle with his lv.7 purrloin he all of his attacks were critical so I lose the first match -3- but after I came back and kicked his but and my snivy leveled up and learned vine whip. I went to route 2 and caught a lv 4 patrat and lillipup. Now I'm in straiton city I make my way to the dreamyard got me a panpour than I headed to the gym and there I was to fight Chile the blazing hot trainer he had a lillipup and a pansear. With the help from panpour taking out pansear I managed to beat Chile and get the trio badge. After I returned to the dreamyard to fight team plasma and get my C-gear from Fennel I immediately went to get a lv. 10 porygon from game sync. Later I started to go the Nacrene city well past it almost into pinwheel forest to get a timburr. after I went back to fight the gymand won thanks to timburr after that I went to the pokemon dream world got a skunty and gave it a rest.

snivy lv. 12
porygon lv. 11
timburr lv. 14
lillipup lv.8
patrat lv.4 kept forgetting about him
panpour lv 12

Legendary PKMN of the Week 4

It’s Saturday once again, which means it’s time to talk about one of my favorite Legendary Pokemon. For this week I thought I’d talk about the very first Legendary Pokemon I ever encountered in the games, the legendary bird of l...

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Character Salute: Team Rocket Trio

I’m a little bored at the moment, so I thought I’d go ahead and start up a new feature I’ve been thinking of doing. In the Pokemon games and anime there are plenty of awesome Pokemon, but there are also some good human character...

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SoulSilver Playthrough Journal - Day 4

Alternatively Titled: Sonic BOOM

Team:
Nami - Bayleef - lv. 22
Zoro - Onix - lv. 22
Vivi - Vulpix - lv. 19
Chopper - Yanma - lv. 20
Badges: 3

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Um...SURPRISE!

So I really did intend to only have one new teammate before taking on Whitney. However, while searching for my Yanma, the elusive 1% Pokemon I was speaking of, I found that I could get onto Route 36 and catch the Pokemon I wanted to earlier (for some reason, I thought you could only go to Route 35). So on Route 36 I caught my Vulpix, Vivi, with pretty much no trouble at all.

Then I went Yanma hunting. And it was rather annoying, but you know what? It took me longer to catch my Onix. So, while it was annoying at the time, I know it could have been much worse. I also wasted all my Pokeballs trying to catch the thing and decided that, before I threw Great Balls, I'd throw the two Lure Balls I had. Well, I caught my Yanma Chopper in a Lure Ball...Totally makes sense...

If you didn't notice, my team's nicknames have a running theme to them. I always pick a theme for my Pokemon's nicknames, and this time I decided to go with characters from the anime One Piece. So yes, Chopper is the name of a character. I didn't name my Yanma after a helicopter.

But anyway, I did some massive training with Vivi and Chopper and basically left Zoro and Nami in the dust because I'm a mean person. I got the radio card for my Pokegear and went off to battle Whitney. Her Clefairy was a joke, but her Miltank did give me a bit of trouble - damn that stupid Rollout! (shakes fist) But Nami dealt the finishing blow, Whitney whined a lot, and I got my third badge. HOORAY!!

I'm right now at the National Park to do a bit more training, after which I plan to wake up that Sudowoodo and open up the way back to Violet City. New team member coming rather soon! :D

Til next time, ciao!

New Pokemon:

Vivi
Vulpix - Female
Nature: Quirky
Ember, Confuse Ray, Will-O-Wisp, Quick Attack

Chopper
Yanma - Male
Nature: Bashful
Tackle, SonicBoom, Quick Attack, Double Team

-umchan649