Word: pikachu
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...beats the heart of a dangerously addictive video game. Aiai is the star of Super Monkey Ball ($50), Sega's first title for the Nintendo Gamecube. The game, which hits stores this week, sends Aiai and his pals through an endlessly shifting universe of tilting floors and floating bananas. Pikachu: watch your back...
...Darwin's theory of evolution or classes in figurative painting. An obsessive suspicion of Israel permeates Islamic teaching, Saudi-style. Earlier this year, a leading imam issued a fatwa against Pokemon, the Japanese animated series, after rumors spread that the name of one of the most popular characters, Pikachu, was a wily code...
...create long-lasting Lycra bucks b) eliminate the penny c) put Pikachu on the $13 bill d) print prefolded bills for more efficient g-string tipping...
...such a hit with parents. Nearly everyone likes Pokémon's cute figures, but Yu-Gi-Oh's dark story lines, leggy girls and terrifying monsters make Satomi Namikata, Hiroaki's mother, cringe. As her young daughter hugs a talking Pikachu, the best-recognized Pokémon character, mom frets: "The rules are so complicated and the drawings so scary that I'm sure Yu-Gi-Oh is meant for teenagers...
MEXICO Children in Pachuca gave Pokemon cards and dolls to their parish priest; he feared characters like Pikachu could lead to devil worship or provoke violence in young collectors...