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From the same marketing masterminds who catapulted Pokemon into every U.S. schoolyard comes Japan's latest export: Yu-Gi-Oh!, featuring Yugi, a nerdy kid who uses magical powers to morph into a spiky-haired, hubcap-eyed hero with a grownup bod. Yugi is an ace cardplayer who battles (using cards, of all things) with electric lizards, man-eating bugs and all manner of mystical creatures in a complex, secret world that youngsters (mostly boys ages 9 and up) can't get enough of and--lucky for the kids--most parents can't be bothered to understand...
Despite plummeting sales of Furby- and Pokemon-related items this year, Hasbro returned to profitability in the third quarter, boosted by its slashng 750 jobs and consolidating toy operations at headquarters in Pawtucket, R.I. More sculpting and modeling is now done in China, closer to manufacturing plants. And the company points to rising sales of G.I. Joes--which began before Sept. 11--as vindication of its strategy of refocusing on core brands...
...rather, He-Whose-Name-I-Am-Sick-Of. I can just envision the hordes of would-be wizards, both young and old, stampeding theaters, wearing sorcerer’s hats and round glasses, even getting that oh-so-clever bolt of lightning tattooed on their foreheads: Think Pokemon and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, only a hundred times worse...
...mosques. Hard-liners in the pervasive religious establishment pose an absolute obstacle to liberalism, whether barring the teaching of 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...
...Protest music in other parts of the world is complicated by a dynamic unfamiliar to Western listeners. American political music is traditionally an individual's complaint about the surrounding society. Standing on a street in Lagos or on a beach in Brazil, or staring down an invading army of Pokemon and Britneys, however, it can be equally as radical to speak out for your society. To a protest singer in Mali or Haiti, is the target a government that stifles personal freedoms or a global juggernaut that threatens local traditions and economic autonomy? Is the oppressor the state, which might...