How your money's being spent

Hey guys -- first of all, just wanna say thanks as always for the support. I wanted to give y'all an update on where that money's been going.

Today I was able to find a Nintendo Dream magazine that I *believe* contains the last of the Gen 5 Pokemon origin stories as told by Ken Sugimori. It should cover about 40 more Pokemon. I got it on a Japanese auction site for about $75 and it's supposed to arrive in about two weeks. So I'll let you guys know when that arrives of course. 

So a few weeks ago I spent $70 on some Japanese magazines, but unfortunately they were kind of a bust. But luckily, over the past week I hit some gold. I've heard rumors that Takeshi Shudo -- who was head writer of the first 5 years of the anime as well as the first 3 Pokemon movies -- was the creator of Lugia. So I searched through all 225+ blog posts he wrote between 2003 (when he started) up until his death in 2010. Everything he ever said about Lugia during those 7 years I sent to a translator, totaling $125 in translation fees.

While I was digging around in his blog, I found two ideas he had for ending the Pokemon anime series -- which are both pretty heavy. So I had those translated as well. I'm currently writing the commentary for a lot of these translations, and I'll post them here on Patreon in the next few days. Eventually they'll be made publicly available on my website as well -- after the corresponding video has already been finished.

I expect translations and tracking down rare old Japanese magazine interviews is how I'll be uncovering most new information moving forward. The attached art was made for free by a fan named Austin Short by the way -- don't worry, I'm not spending your money on title cards :)

Okay, that's the update for now. Cheers guys, thanks again.