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Mom went to the airport yesterday morning to pick up Grandma Barbara. While she was gone, Dad had me and Brian move some heavy planks from inside the boathouse out to the side.

I sent a PM two days ago to that guy who hosted Ultimate Girls on YouTube, actually hoping to find clues as to where I might find the Makeruna! Makendo OAV (since both titles in question were never licensed for American release). He responded yesterday morning and suggested that I use BitTorrent to find it. In return for his response, I shared my fanfiction ideas (which were inspired from UG) by posting links to the initial ideas (twenty entries ago, formerly titled "Interesting ideas based on a crappy anime") and the past two entries of this blog in a reply message. I even edited the former entry so as to make more sense and be more up-to-date.

(Did I refer to Ultimate Girls as "a crappy anime" before? Well, it's no masterpiece, but it's actually pretty decent, in my own opinion. I continued watching it up until episode 8, and even re-watched the first four episodes just two days ago. I changed the word "crappy" to "mediocre" in the title of that entry.)

I asked Brian about BitTorrent, and he said he could take care of it for me. Later, however, Mom said that she doesn't want Brian doing that here. He downloaded it two years ago, and as a result, had to wipe out our hard drive. Most of our files were saved from deletion, but Mom's example of some of the files that were deleted were some pictures that Marie took when the two of them went to England in 2004. That is unfortunate, but Mom said that it was only a handful of those photos that got erased beyond retrieval. So, I suggested that Brian make use of BitTorrent at his school, if the campus does have a computer lab like at Dowling.

I re-received volume 4 of A Little Snow Fairy Sugar two days ago, and received the special disk of that anime just yesterday. I watched both episodes on the special disk yesterday, and plan to re-watch them before sending my current DVDs back to Netflix.

Last night, Dad and Grandma found The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring being aired on some channel (don't remember which). I joined them for a bit after eating some ice cream, and then went outside for a while. When I came back inside, Grandma was still watching it, and Mom and Brian had already joined her, even though Dad was doing something on the computer. I joined them as well. While I was watching it with them, Grandma and Brian thought that whoever was airing it cut out the scene where Gandalf is saved by an eagle after losing a battle to Sauron. It turned out that they misremembered, because it was actually a flashback that Gandalf explained to Frodo when meeting him at Elrond.

And, I decided to get ready for bed after the flashback in question. While I'm on this topic, I should mention that I remember when me and my family went to go see this at the movie theater a few days after New Year's of 2002. Me, Brian, and Marie saw the second movie a year later, but none of us ever watched the third movie. Grandma did, though, and she said it was boring to watch nothing but fighting, which mind you, she said is understandable since the plot has already built up as much as necessary.

Wanna know what I would compare event-only Pokemon to?

We just got back from Old Westbury Garden several hours ago, but I'll talk about that tomorrow when I post a regular lj-entry. What I'm about to bring up here is way off topic.

Anyway, it just occurred to me that one could compare a certain, Japan-exclusive game that was released in a certain year to any Pokemon that can (or could) only be obtained legitimately in a Nintendo-sponsored event. Or, at least I could. The Pokemon I'm gonna use as the example is Celebi, and the game I'm gonna compare it to is...

Getter Love!!

-Released on December 4, 1998, which was relatively early in my 7th Grade year.
-Only released in Japan, meaning that you have to import it if you want a copy. (Of course, I couldn't do this because my family didn't have the Internet back then.)
-Released on the Nintendo 64, which was my second permanent video game console (first permanent one being the Super NES; first one before that, not counting PCs, being the Game Gear, which we discarded shortly before getting the SNES.)
-Even though I had never even heard of this one back in 7th, let alone played it, this was one of the major factors that inspired me to continue working on Chronicles of 7th Grade half a year ago. Therefore, when it's time to proofread the document section by section, I'm gonna play each game that I played back in 7th, in the order that I played them, as I go along with the proofreading phase, and then top it all off with Getter Love!!

Celebi:

-Lives in Ilex Forest, which is passable after obtaining the second of eight (or sixteen) badges in the game.
-Not legitimately accessible unless you participate in a Nintendo-sponsored event. In this Pokemon's case, you also need to be playing Crystal (not Gold or Silver, according to Bulbapedia), and you need to have access to events in Japan, as no such events were ever held in North America.
-Debuted during the second generation of Pokemon, which is owned by the same company that made the SNES and the N64 (even though Getter Love!! was published by Hudson Soft).
-Fourth item in the pattern? Well, it's pretty long and contains spoilers for the ficseries that I've been planning. Click the lj-cut if you wanna know:

( Caution! Spoilers! )

Most E.O.s, rather than being transplanted into the game themselves, require an item (in this case, the GS Ball) that you have to obtain at the respective event. Seeing as these items can be obtained at any point in the game whatsoever (provided you got the regular Pokedex), one could say that getting the GS Ball before reaching the Ilex Forest would be the equivalent of pre-ordering Getter Love!! during the last few months of 1998.