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banana500 wrote:

Hey you guys know about the banned anime episode "Electric Soldier Porygon" right?

It apparently aired once in Japan and gave nearly 700 kids seizures, sending most of them to the hospital.

I dared myself to watch one of the seizure inducing scenes, and while I'm not epileptic in the slightest, it really really irritated my eyes. D:

It's a shame, too, the episode had a really cool and promising concept.

If you want to experience the eye torture for yourself, I really don't recommend you do so, if you want your eyes to hurt for a few minutes. -.-

There are a few other banned Pokemon episodes, including one with excessive use of guns pointed but not shot at people, one with tons of earthquakes (not really sure why they'd ban it for that) and apparently one involving a swimming contest of sorts and they give James of Team Rocket um- ahem- *women breasts*
DISGUSTING in the least...
You can find lots of Pokemon info at www.serebii.net, you can also find every single Pokemon and a list of every episode aired in Japan (except banned ones i think although you can read about them somewhere on the site) and you can see pictures from the episodes going over the whole thing but not enough to really make out the story....

NeilWest wrote:

sparky2008123 wrote:

banana500 wrote:

Hey you guys know about the banned anime episode "Electric Soldier Porygon" right?

It apparently aired once in Japan and gave nearly 700 kids seizures, sending most of them to the hospital.

I dared myself to watch one of the seizure inducing scenes, and while I'm not epileptic in the slightest, it really really irritated my eyes. D:

It's a shame, too, the episode had a really cool and promising concept.

If you want to experience the eye torture for yourself, I really don't recommend you do so, if you want your eyes to hurt for a few minutes. -.-

There are a few other banned Pokemon episodes, including one with excessive use of guns pointed but not shot at people, one with tons of earthquakes (not really sure why they'd ban it for that) and apparently one involving a swimming contest of sorts and they give James of Team Rocket um- ahem- *women breasts*
DISGUSTING in the least...
You can find lots of Pokemon info at www.serebii.net, you can also find every single Pokemon and a list of every episode aired in Japan (except banned ones i think although you can read about them somewhere on the site) and you can see pictures from the episodes going over the whole thing but not enough to really make out the story....

They banned the earthquake one as it was made during the Japan earthquakes - which at the time seemed offensive. Next, there was another where a building (with a huge similarity to the Twin Towers) was blown up, and it was created at the time of the 9/11 attacks.

Wait a minute, wasn't that episode in Hoenn? If it was, that would've been 5 years later than 9/11.

Also the Porygon episode's concept was really cool too. It's like the PC storage system was messed up and Pokemon are getting lost in cyberspace, so Ash, Misty, and Brock have to go into the system and fix it. Then they become hunted by some antivirus who thinks that they're viruses.

The scene that caused the seizures was when Pikachu hit some missiles sent at them by an antivirus program with his Thunderbolt, and caused an explosion with flashing red and blue at an incredibly high frequency.

And this episode I think single handedly delayed the release of Pokemon to the US and Europe for another year. (The episode aired in 1997).

Last edited by banana500 (2013-01-03 12:29:50)

fillergames wrote:

banana500 wrote:

Also the Porygon episode's concept was really cool too. It's like the PC storage system was messed up and Pokemon are getting lost in cyberspace, so Ash, Misty, and Brock have to go into the system and fix it. Then they become hunted by some antivirus who thinks that they're viruses.

The scene that caused the seizures was when Pikachu hit some missiles sent at them by an antivirus program with his Thunderbolt, and caused an explosion with flashing red and blue at an incredibly high frequency.

That Rat deserves the ban then. It was not the Cyber-Ducks fault

Exactly.

But really, how could they just ban Pikachu like that?

fillergames wrote:

banana500 wrote:

fillergames wrote:

That Rat deserves the ban then. It was not the Cyber-Ducks fault

Exactly.

But really, how could they just ban Pikachu like that?

Use Richu. Problem solved!

Don't you mean Raichu? Or Pichu?
For some reason I accept your spelling mistakes more than I would if someone else made them cause in your sig it says "Grammar? Whats grammar?" LOL

Last edited by sparky2008123 (2013-01-03 12:39:01)

fillergames wrote:

sparky2008123 wrote:

fillergames wrote:

Use Richu. Problem solved!

Don't you mean Raichu? Or Pichu?
For some reason I accept your spelling mistakes more than I would if someone else made them cause in your sig it says "Grammar? Whats grammar?" LOL

The grammer thing is a long story. I would tell you. But its a sad story.

Anyways i ment Raichu.

Pikachu should frame Raichu for the seizures? Is that what you're saying?

haxcharsol wrote:

fillergames wrote:

sparky2008123 wrote:

Don't you mean Raichu? Or Pichu?
For some reason I accept your spelling mistakes more than I would if someone else made them cause in your sig it says "Grammar? Whats grammar?" LOL

The grammer thing is a long story. I would tell you. But its a sad story.

Anyways i ment Raichu.

Raichu should replace Pikachu for the seizures? Is that what you're saying?

I fixed it to say what i ment.

sparky2008123 wrote:

haxcharsol wrote:

fillergames wrote:

The grammer thing is a long story. I would tell you. But its a sad story.

Anyways i ment Raichu.

Pikachu should frame Raichu for the seizures? Is that what you're saying?

I think she meant that they should have used....yeah maybe use Raichu to cause the seizures. I mean it's not like Pikachu's gonna evolve any century soon anyway.

Or maybe he should frame Ash! THAT GUY NEVER AGES!!! 14 YEARS AND HE'S STILL 10!!!!!

He would be 25 or 26 by now if you go by how long the Anime has been going, but if you count each gen season region he went to as a year, he would be 14-15.

HotCocoa28 wrote:

sparky2008123 wrote:

haxcharsol wrote:

Pikachu should frame Raichu for the seizures? Is that what you're saying?

I think she meant that they should have used....yeah maybe use Raichu to cause the seizures. I mean it's not like Pikachu's gonna evolve any century soon anyway.

Or maybe he should frame Ash! THAT GUY NEVER AGES!!! 14 YEARS AND HE'S STILL 10!!!!!

He would be 25 or 26 by now if you go by how long the Anime has been going, but if you count each gen season region he went to as a year, he would be 14-15.

But it's like he goes through a whole region in a couple of months cause when the Unova region was "discovered" what did it say? Ten year old Ash Ketchum is blah blah blah going to region blah blah blah find new Pokemon blah blah blah never before seen blah blah blah...

sparky2008123 wrote:

HotCocoa28 wrote:

sparky2008123 wrote:

I think she meant that they should have used....yeah maybe use Raichu to cause the seizures. I mean it's not like Pikachu's gonna evolve any century soon anyway.

Or maybe he should frame Ash! THAT GUY NEVER AGES!!! 14 YEARS AND HE'S STILL 10!!!!!

He would be 25 or 26 by now if you go by how long the Anime has been going, but if you count each gen season region he went to as a year, he would be 14-15.

But it's like he goes through a whole region in a couple of months cause when the Unova region was "discovered" what did it say? Ten year old Ash Ketchum is blah blah blah going to region blah blah blah find new Pokemon blah blah blah never before seen blah blah blah...

Yeah but in an episode in the Kanto region Misty said it's been a year since they were in Pallet Town.
Is it possible Ash was born on leap year??? 

sonicpikmin wrote:

777w wrote:

imnotbob wrote:

Now you see why I didn't say it
Plus Alt brought it up
If you look further back

i wrote you a reply
but the bad internet connection killed it

luxray is cool
but not as cool as raichu
no pokemon can top raichu

I have a raichu.

Me too.
It's level 60 something.

My favorite legendary is Cobalion. My favorite non-legendary is probably Lucario.