I stole a post from Crazy Elf Boy...

Quote Originally Posted by Crazy Elf Boy View Post
My one possible contribute to this thread ever is this story (Yes OMG Windows Live messenger finally popped out a story which is interesting to me) The Top 10 most banned Cartoons, guess which is number 1

http://www.yourtv.com.au/news/?i=152429
So this is a thread where we laugh at people who think Pokemon is evil. OK, that joke was lame. But like mr_pikachu said, we haven't had too many discussions on anti-Pokemon movements these days. So here we can share opinions against Pokemon you have encountered. Of course, we can also tell our own opinions on those opinions.

Here in Finland people used to think they had a problem with Pokemon. It was somewhere around 2000, the Pokemon phenomenon had just landed in Finland. Adults protested because kids took their Pokemon trading cards to school and "ignored schoolwork because they thought about Pokemon all the time". So you couldn't take Pokemon Trading Cards to school anymore. Also the anime got its share, they accused it of hidden advertising. They first omitted PokeRap and Who's that Pokemon. Then the whole series wasn't seen in Finnish TV for a while until it got an absolution.

Personally, Pokemon had an opposite influence on me. For some odd reason, I was able to channel the energy which I got from playing and watching Pokemon to schoolwork. Yes, I'm strange.