I dislike the pokemon-type collecting junk and fighting over it kiddy anime. The sole purpose is intro characters and items that could easily made into toys so that kids will buy it. The stories are mediocre to poor and the animation is usually half-assed. Then, of course, these are the shows that get dubbed and shown on American TV. The uninformed masses are led to beleive that all animes are like pokemon so that anime movies like Princess Mononoke only get released in the "artsy" movie theaters that usually only carry the wierd experimental foriegn language films and thus relegating an awesome movie like Princess Mononoke to pit of obscurity.

Damn you Pokemon for throwing off the curve.