Andy_san
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Yo!
I'm a 25-year old Swedish g33k from the capital - Stockholm. I grew up with a japanese friend who frequently visited his relatives in Tokyo and via him I got introduced to Pocket Monsters. I remember him coming home from a visit to Japan one sommer bringing two new gameboy games in japanese. He showed them to me when we were at school and suggested that we started playing them together. Even though I didn't speak a word of japanese at the time I got excited when he described the game consisting of capturing monsters and having them battle each other. So I borrowed the green version of the Generation I-games from him and we began playing at the same time - he played the red version since he said Lizardon (Charizard) was the coolest one - and began battle and trading monsters daily in school. I think we were like 8 years old at the time.
Since that day I became a huge fan of the series and that original Green version made me want to learn japanese - and so I did by taking classes in the language held by my friends mother in Jr High and High School. Of course, with the pocket monsters games/manga and anime series I became a fan of Anime and Manga in general. And like many others that grew up with the japanese versions I also became frustrated when the series began airing in my native language on tv since it felt like they translated and got everything wrong in comparison with the original script.
Until recently I was spending my time on the University of Karolinska, I've been studying medicine and health care sciences for 5 years now and a little bit of math and molecular biology. I'll be getting my master's degree in June and next fall I hope to start studying programming and computer sciences. In the future I'd like to become a civil engineer with focus on developing software for the health care system. During my spare time I spend most of my time playing video games, studying for exams, spending time with my pet ferrets and, of course, my girlfriend. I'm also political active.
I never go outside of my apartment without my 3DS in my pocket. Since the public transportation system is very well developed here in Stockholm I am in no need of a car and therefore gets lots of free time that I spend with playing my 3DS on the buss or the subway, just recently I beat Red in SoulSilver and my next project will be replaying the orginal G1-green version on my old dusty gameboy advance - with the goal on getting an early pikachu that I get to use surf with when completing Pocket Monsters Stadium (the japanese only one, a damn difficult task!).
And last but not least - created an account on Bulpapedia for the purpose of translating stuff into Swedish. I also plan to expand pages on japanese stuff, like the Pocket Monsters Stadium that never got released outside of japan. Maybe I'll do a walkthrough or two, if that would be of interest
Well, that's me in a nutshell. Aks me if you want to know anything about me or just want to talk.
Kind regards
//Andreas (a.k.a. Andy_san/Dr Emo)
I'm a 25-year old Swedish g33k from the capital - Stockholm. I grew up with a japanese friend who frequently visited his relatives in Tokyo and via him I got introduced to Pocket Monsters. I remember him coming home from a visit to Japan one sommer bringing two new gameboy games in japanese. He showed them to me when we were at school and suggested that we started playing them together. Even though I didn't speak a word of japanese at the time I got excited when he described the game consisting of capturing monsters and having them battle each other. So I borrowed the green version of the Generation I-games from him and we began playing at the same time - he played the red version since he said Lizardon (Charizard) was the coolest one - and began battle and trading monsters daily in school. I think we were like 8 years old at the time.
Since that day I became a huge fan of the series and that original Green version made me want to learn japanese - and so I did by taking classes in the language held by my friends mother in Jr High and High School. Of course, with the pocket monsters games/manga and anime series I became a fan of Anime and Manga in general. And like many others that grew up with the japanese versions I also became frustrated when the series began airing in my native language on tv since it felt like they translated and got everything wrong in comparison with the original script.
Until recently I was spending my time on the University of Karolinska, I've been studying medicine and health care sciences for 5 years now and a little bit of math and molecular biology. I'll be getting my master's degree in June and next fall I hope to start studying programming and computer sciences. In the future I'd like to become a civil engineer with focus on developing software for the health care system. During my spare time I spend most of my time playing video games, studying for exams, spending time with my pet ferrets and, of course, my girlfriend. I'm also political active.
I never go outside of my apartment without my 3DS in my pocket. Since the public transportation system is very well developed here in Stockholm I am in no need of a car and therefore gets lots of free time that I spend with playing my 3DS on the buss or the subway, just recently I beat Red in SoulSilver and my next project will be replaying the orginal G1-green version on my old dusty gameboy advance - with the goal on getting an early pikachu that I get to use surf with when completing Pocket Monsters Stadium (the japanese only one, a damn difficult task!).
And last but not least - created an account on Bulpapedia for the purpose of translating stuff into Swedish. I also plan to expand pages on japanese stuff, like the Pocket Monsters Stadium that never got released outside of japan. Maybe I'll do a walkthrough or two, if that would be of interest
Well, that's me in a nutshell. Aks me if you want to know anything about me or just want to talk.
Kind regards
//Andreas (a.k.a. Andy_san/Dr Emo)
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