It is amazing how Pokemon is famous around the world. As you may know, Pokemon, comes from Pocket Monster, is originally a Japanese animation program about its main characters’ trip to become a Pokemon Master with their Pokemon.

I found that it is interesting to see the names of these Pokemon.
There is a Pokemon named Abra.   The evolution version of this Pokemon is Kadabra.   The evolution of Kadabra is Alakazam. Abra-Kadabra-Alakazam.  These three Pokemon can use magical power, of course.

It is also interesting to compare these names in English to in Japanese.
Most of Pokemon resemble animals, bugs, and plants, and named after accordingly.
For example, Pikachu, the most famous Pokemon, looks like a mouse with electric tail is named after the sound of lightning (’pika’ in Japanese) and how a mouse goes (’chu’ in Japanese). Pikachu is called the same in Japanese.   So as Butterfree, which looks like butterfly.
Meowth, another famous Pokemon, looks like a cat, is called ‘Nya-th’ in Japanese. In Japanese, a cat goes
‘nya’ instead of ‘meow’.  Easily understandable.  I personally like this comparison: Ninetales, a fox-like Pokemon with nine tales, is called ‘Kyu-Kon’ in Japanese (’kyu’ is nine, and ‘kon’ is a root and how a fox goes in Japanese).

Just a small tip to enjoy Pokemon from another aspect.

Ebay has a great line-up of Pokemon items, we know.  But Yahoo Japan has a better line-up of them, for sure.
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“Astro Boy” is a manga originally written by late Osamu Tezuka, a famous Japanese manga writer, more than 50 years ago. It became to be aired on TV as the first Japan-made animation in 1963 in Japan. It is about a robot named Atom who has a strong power and a kind human hearts to solve troubles with human beings around it.
In October this year, the movie “Atom”, based on “Astro Boy” was shown in the US and Japan. Some of the Astro Boy fans seem to criticize the movie since the arrangement is made a way too far from the original. While that criticism, it is said that the movie Atom will be reviewed to be a nominee of the Academy Award for next year.
Astro Boy is in any way a famous and well written manga and loved by many people around the world for sure.

There are a lot of Astro Boy items available on Yahoo Japan Auction. Some of them are rare things that you cannot find anywhere else.

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