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in second or third grade (1997 or 98) my two friends' mom moved to Japan for a 9 months so she could teach at an international school in Tokyo and they came back with stories of the anime and little figurines of gen 1 pokemon like Caterpie saying "it'll be coming to america soon." and I was like "yeah right."
then 4th grade happened in 1999 and boy was I wrong