Every Banned Pokemon Episode EXPLAINED

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  • The complete history of every banned, delayed or canceled episode of the Pokemon anime!
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    (0:00): Good Morning!
    (1:00): Beauty and the Beach
    (2:10): Temporary Bans
    (3:11): The Legend of Dratini
    (3:47): Electric Soldier Porygon
    (5:51): The Jynx Episodes
    (7:53): Pikachu & Pichu
    (8:19): Earthquake Episodes
    (10:13): An Undersea Place to Call Home
    (10:42): The Passimian Episode
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  • @JPRPokeTrainer98
    @JPRPokeTrainer98  7 місяців тому +180

    HAPPY JPR FRIDAY (youtube please dont d*monetize this, im beggin you)

    • @ginkage5863
      @ginkage5863 7 місяців тому +7

      Don't Jynx it 😆

    • @joopvanhedel1372
      @joopvanhedel1372 7 місяців тому +3

      Almost all banned episodes are the original series or an earthquake serious why every time there is an earthquake in the anime there is one in real life

    • @Josh-qt5zi
      @Josh-qt5zi 7 місяців тому +2

      Hey you got an Inazuma eleven to used for the TV warning part

    • @RetawMelon-ot8nl
      @RetawMelon-ot8nl 7 місяців тому +3

      i swear to god you made this exact video before, im having intense déjà vu and i hate it

    • @Jelly_shy_guy_man
      @Jelly_shy_guy_man 7 місяців тому +1

      LET ME SEE JAMES B00B$ PLEASE WAIT YOU JUST WANT B00B$ JAMES and don’t demonetize him

  • @Kreceir
    @Kreceir 7 місяців тому +1385

    Man I'm sure Lorelei would have been a lot of kids childhood crushes if the episodes weren't banned.

    • @oscarzxn4067
      @oscarzxn4067 7 місяців тому +131

      It was banned years later iirc so probably she still was.

    • @hilurgazzali9222
      @hilurgazzali9222 7 місяців тому +162

      I remember seeing her tho. She’s probably the reason why I like girls like her and found a girl like her 😂

    • @LuigiTheMetal64
      @LuigiTheMetal64 7 місяців тому +34

      Wrong because Kasumi/Misty sort of became the kids' cartoon crushes back in the day.

    • @grunkleg.3110
      @grunkleg.3110 7 місяців тому +32

      You could get the same effect from just playing the games

    • @MazterP28
      @MazterP28 7 місяців тому +11

      She was my favorite

  • @kaffka9221
    @kaffka9221 7 місяців тому +662

    I feel that the anime should've made a new Porygon episode several years later without the strobe effects to show they have adapted their animation style to be safer with the new technology available. They need to show that they learned from their mistake, not bury the problem under the rug. It's not like the internet is going forget about the incident anyway.

    • @jbcatz5
      @jbcatz5 7 місяців тому +69

      They hoped people would forget about the GS Ball and so many people asking about it prompted an explanation for why it was dropped from the anime.

    •  7 місяців тому +41

      Or maybe edit the original Porygon episode to be a continuous, unchanging white instead of the flickering red and blue.
      Maybe have the white gently fade in with the explosions like they have done many times after.

    • @erindavis5348
      @erindavis5348 7 місяців тому +4

      I swear I've heard that line before?

    • @ranting2daMAX
      @ranting2daMAX 6 місяців тому +11

      True. I LOVE porygon, it’s such a shame.

    • @Amins88
      @Amins88 6 місяців тому

      The problem wasn't the strobing effects. It was the insane overreaction from the public propagated by the media. Even if they changed the effect, people would still just see Porygon and lose their minds because people are panicky, irrational creatures.

  • @PokeMario-pk4ot
    @PokeMario-pk4ot 7 місяців тому +165

    Another fun fact about Tentacool and Tentacruel: it got banned initially for 9/11 and was then unbanned, but it got banned again after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, then unbanned later on

    • @robertlupa8273
      @robertlupa8273 7 місяців тому +40

      ...even though the footage of Tentacruel destoying a building was a part of the opening sequence. Whoops!

    • @Amins88
      @Amins88 6 місяців тому +14

      And then there was me who never missed it because it was just on the VHS copy I had.

  • @DigiRangerScott
    @DigiRangerScott 7 місяців тому +414

    The banning of the Mandarin Island Miss Match is incredibly unfortunate because the narrator’s narration in the next episode directly references it. Also The Legend of Dratini’s ban makes the Safari Zone arc rather odd because that was its meatiest part.

    • @wikiuser92
      @wikiuser92 7 місяців тому +31

      What makes that ban nonsensical is the fact that Jynx had less than a minute of screentime in that episode.

    • @DigiRangerScott
      @DigiRangerScott 7 місяців тому +22

      @@wikiuser92 And then you go from The Flame Pokémon-athon which is like in the Zone, but like, its farmy outskirts, I guess like the “crust” in a planetary metaphor. Then we have The Kangaskhan Kid which gets into its wild population more but The Legend of Dratini is like, THE Safari Zonest part of the Safari Zone. But NOPE, we go from saving Tommy to just HEADING TO A BRIDGE just in time for a storm impeding on sickly Pokémon! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Pokémon Shock only exacerbated the fact that the show burned through SIX BADGES in 32 episodes and in the 27 (counting HHJ and Snow Way Out) episodes between the Ninja Poké Showdown and Riddle Me This! Ash doesn’t catch a single goddamn Pokémon. Which would’ve made a GREAT photo opportunity for their new friend Todd Snap whose arc is during this stretch.

    • @wikiuser92
      @wikiuser92 7 місяців тому +12

      @@DigiRangerScott Season 1 was weird.

    • @DigiRangerScott
      @DigiRangerScott 7 місяців тому +13

      @@wikiuser92 Black and White kind of proved that the writers probably wouldn’t have been able to properly balance a “gotta catch ‘em all” philosophy. Like the original series, it stalls out after 30-or-so episodes. Except his ep 60-something capture becomes a major part of the team. But Palpitoad was severely underwritten

    • @ShadyRK9
      @ShadyRK9 7 місяців тому +7

      I remember going to the local library a few years ago and rented The Orange Island episodes and it HAD Mandarin Island Miss Match episode in it! I had no idea it later got banned!

  • @cyndawu1940
    @cyndawu1940 7 місяців тому +347

    The banned black and white team rocket and team plasma episode is the most unfortunate. It is such a vital episode for plot points + character development and they just decided to erase its existence rather than just delay the tv airing or upload the episodes online.
    The writing of black and white anime was so underwhelming because the writers were busy patching up the later episodes to erase mentioning of these events. If such an important episode was scrapped in any other popular anime such as shounen, anime+manga fans would be highly disappointed. Pokemon company ignoring these special episodes is such a bad decision.

    • @thedancingguy828
      @thedancingguy828 7 місяців тому +22

      thats the problem, gamefreak doesnt care that much about the quality in the anime (Sinnoh and Kalos were an exception), it was pretty much obivous in Unova

    • @WaterKirby1994
      @WaterKirby1994 7 місяців тому +27

      Black & White had bad writing before Team Rocket vs Team Plasma. Ash's Pikachu losing to a Panpour for no reason in the 5th Episode, & several other dumb decisions doomed Best Wishes & with the failure to introduce Team Plasma there was no chance of recovering. Getting Ash vs Roxie in a 6 vs 3 Battle instead of Ash vs Iris/Dreyden was disappointing. Also Ash vs Marlon should have happened & we can't forget Ash's League loss.

    • @pokelawe
      @pokelawe 7 місяців тому +12

      @@thedancingguy828Gamefreak has nothing to do with the anime lol

    • @thedancingguy828
      @thedancingguy828 7 місяців тому +9

      @@pokelawe pokemon company, you know what i meant...

    • @Furina-Simp
      @Furina-Simp 7 місяців тому +2

      Bruh I still wanna know what happened is there enywhere that I can watch it or it's completely gone?

  • @RatedRMario21
    @RatedRMario21 7 місяців тому +251

    All these years later I still find it hilariously ironic that the canonically important Legend of Dratini was nowhere in Western existence while the next episode, canonically irrelevant The Kangaskhan Kid, *also* featured Jenny pointing a gun at Ash while additionally having a man with a Hitler mustache nearly kill a toddler by holding him outside a helicopter and dropping him. Not only that, Mr. Hitler Stache calmly tells Jenny the story and says/does nothing despite being a police officer and that apparently is perfectly OK

    • @northstarpokeshipper2148
      @northstarpokeshipper2148 7 місяців тому +37

      Yeah. You perfectly summed up why The Kangaskhan Kid is my least favorite Indigo League episode (besides Porygon, of course)

    • @ytk2508
      @ytk2508 7 місяців тому +16

      Oh, also, in the Japanese version, the kid…um…yeh no I ain’t writing this just look up the Japanese script

    • @legendofrayquazagaming5125
      @legendofrayquazagaming5125 7 місяців тому +17

      @@ytk2508I know what you’re talking about (Misty is ten, writers, seriously)

    • @keepitsecret-dl1pr
      @keepitsecret-dl1pr 7 місяців тому

      "for god's sake Japan!"@@legendofrayquazagaming5125

    • @gengarclefairy3475
      @gengarclefairy3475 2 місяці тому +1

      I have the entire first season on VHS and every time I see the khangastan kid it’s like a fever dream

  • @meandmyboys8728
    @meandmyboys8728 7 місяців тому +335

    Porygon did nothing wrong :(

    • @Shadow8332
      @Shadow8332 7 місяців тому +25

      But you can't ban pikachu

    • @Shigeru0508
      @Shigeru0508 7 місяців тому +30

      ​@@Shadow8332Porygon is basically Jesus

    • @ShadowEclipse777
      @ShadowEclipse777 7 місяців тому +56

      ​@@Shigeru0508 Porygon died for Pikachu's sins

    • @nijucow
      @nijucow 7 місяців тому +12

      Nor did Jynx

    • @FrenzyCh4n
      @FrenzyCh4n 7 місяців тому +2

      @@nijucowIts still a terrible pokemon in every way

  • @ChaosBuckaroo
    @ChaosBuckaroo 7 місяців тому +156

    Tauros has always been one of my favorite mons. It drove me crazy as a kid trying to figure out when and how Ash caught all thirty of his.

    • @nicholasfarrell5981
      @nicholasfarrell5981 7 місяців тому +13

      The one that bugged me was that the Farfetch'd episode (where Misty gets her Pokémon stolen) aired in the States _before_ the one where Jesse caught Lickitung, which means that she directly mentioned owning her second 'mon before she actually caught it.
      It also saddened me, since Lickitung was used so infrequently that this was the only continuity error caused by that mix-up.

  • @jonahdengler3858
    @jonahdengler3858 7 місяців тому +254

    Man, Earthquake is such an iconic Ground-type move and now it’s banned permanently from the series. 😔

    • @Ruhanthegod
      @Ruhanthegod 7 місяців тому +22

      I think it's fine, showing moves like bulldoze and earth power are much more suitable than showing a literal earthquake

    • @WaterKirby1994
      @WaterKirby1994 7 місяців тому +23

      I don't understand why Fissure was banned it's just making a crack in the ground that swallows & defeats the opponent. There's nothing to do with Earthquakes & the anime made later appearances of the move just a blast of energy coming from the ground.

    • @winterbear8633
      @winterbear8633 7 місяців тому +45

      @@WaterKirby1994 because once you pander to people's feelings there's no end to the nonsense

    • @alexg1778
      @alexg1778 7 місяців тому +10

      ​@Ruhanthegod if a cartoon earthquake bothers you I don't suggest watching the ending to LOTR Return of the King.

    • @Ruhanthegod
      @Ruhanthegod 6 місяців тому +2

      @@alexg1778 I don't think earthquake would make sense in pokemon, earthquake just doesn't happen on one point, it happens on a large scale. imaging a digglet using earthquake, it would not only affect the opposing meowth, but also the entire region

  • @northstarpokeshipper2148
    @northstarpokeshipper2148 7 місяців тому +151

    5:19 Pikachu’s Goodbye wasn’t even supposed to be in the rotation at all. It was made during the 4 month break to try and make people forgive Pikachu for the accident HE caused and to reintroduce the Pokemon anime. Looking at the intended schedule, it was supposed to be Holiday Hy-Jynx, New Year’s Recap, Snow Way Out, and Battling Eevee Bros. No “Pikachu’s Goodbye” to be seen.

    • @General_Thanksgiving
      @General_Thanksgiving Місяць тому

      Man with that title people probably thought pikachu was retired and not Porygon

  • @giboit.
    @giboit. 7 місяців тому +45

    I´m pretty sure the episode where pikachu "leaves" was precisely made to remember people why they love pokemon and how much they don't want to see pikachu leave.

  • @ASMRDoodlez
    @ASMRDoodlez 7 місяців тому +217

    I looked into that narrator getting arrested in Japan. She had that episode, a TV ad, all of her music, and her clothing line all pulled from stores/taken off the air, and wasn't in any TV dramas for 8 years. You may think she tried to kill somebody or something, but no, she was doing meth with her husband. That is all. Japan really treats crime differently.

    • @robertlupa8273
      @robertlupa8273 7 місяців тому +34

      Explains why Giorno hates drugs so much.

    • @Triforce_of_Doom
      @Triforce_of_Doom 7 місяців тому +64

      Yeah Japan treats its drug use SERIOUSLY. One more recent thing that happened regarding that was the voice actor for a villain in the first Judgement game (spin off of Yakuza where you play as a lawyer turned detective) was caught doing drugs so they completely recast him and redid the character model's face since Yakuza games like to have the characters be modeled after their VAs like the week the game came out via a patch

    • @deepflare1028
      @deepflare1028 7 місяців тому +10

      ​​@@Triforce_of_DoomThe thing is this happend right after the game was released, so modders were able to bring back the original actor.
      Similar thing happend in Yakuza 4 Remastered with Tanimura having a different VA and face model compared to the original release because of something like a drug scandal

    • @flarestorm9417
      @flarestorm9417 6 місяців тому +24

      From what I hear, Japan treats drugs VERY harshly. Trafficking and/or producing drugs is apparently something even hardened criminals in Japan will often refuse to do. With the way the narrator was erased I thought they either committed murder or committed some serious sex crimes. Drugs are bad, but they aren't "never allow this person to work in the industry ever again" kind of bad depending on the circumstances.

    • @cherubin7th
      @cherubin7th 6 місяців тому

      Happens for weed users too.

  • @HoennMaster
    @HoennMaster 7 місяців тому +84

    I remember when Porygon-Z was introduced and I said “there’s no way it won’t be in the anime, what’s the point of making a new one if they aren’t going to show it!” Boy was I wrong. I want to see 2 and Z so bad.
    The Jynx episodes bother me because 4Kids knew how to edit and photoshop things…just change the color. So glad I have the old S1 and S2 DVDs with these episodes.
    The Rocket vs. Plasma episodes were a huge loss because BW was very good during those first 25 episodes. Once these episodes were banned, BW literally lost the plot and became very so so for the rest of its run.
    I wish they would release a “banned episode” DVD set. That would be awesome.

    • @WaterKirby1994
      @WaterKirby1994 7 місяців тому +11

      Conway should have used Porygon Z at some point in Sinnoh it would have been perfect for him. Agreed Jynx should have been painted purple in the Season 2 Episodes instead of banning them although 4kids wasn't dubbing Pokemon anymore by the time that those Episodes were banned. I have to disagree about BW starting out good.

  • @Ben-td3wi
    @Ben-td3wi 7 місяців тому +118

    Lorelei's dub name being changed to fit 2 syllables is pretty funny to me because 4kids could've just chose to call her "Lore-lai" instead of giving her a whole new name. Although it's still missing a syllable, its still close enough to her actual name.

  • @cossakrose
    @cossakrose 7 місяців тому +42

    "A swimsuit pageant also involving Misty, who is 10 years old."
    Texas Child Pageants: "That's right! She's too old for that!"

    • @pokepress
      @pokepress 7 місяців тому +2

      One interesting thing is that the dub of that episode changes her dialogue to indicate she realizes how demeaning the contest is.

    • @EnelFan9824
      @EnelFan9824 Місяць тому +1

      Don’t forget dance moms 🤮

    • @pravednik1612
      @pravednik1612 13 днів тому

      @@pokepress ...когда проигрываешь парню

  • @hapetE
    @hapetE 7 місяців тому +52

    It's kind of a shame legend of dratini was banned, because on top of creating plotholes, it's actually a pretty decent episode too.

  • @WhiteRaven696
    @WhiteRaven696 7 місяців тому +57

    Interesting thing to note: Maddie Blaustein (Meowth) once confirmed that Electric Soldier Porygon was dubbed and edited to prevent more seizures. But because of the international ban, they couldn’t release it. There’s also apparently a dubbed version of the Dratini episode too.

    • @Xeno-The-Wanderer
      @Xeno-The-Wanderer 7 місяців тому +10

      So somewhere in the vaults they exist

    • @WhiteRaven696
      @WhiteRaven696 7 місяців тому +12

      @@Xeno-The-Wanderer yup. IIRC, the first banned episode to not have a dub was “The Ice Cave”. But everything from Kanto and the Orange Islands is dubbed, even if it’s unreleased.

    • @pokepress
      @pokepress 7 місяців тому +10

      I talked with Michael Haigney (the adapter) and he explained they started to realize they’d have to cut so much out of the Dratini episode it would be too short to air without some other content to fill the time.

    • @prayagsuthar9856
      @prayagsuthar9856 5 місяців тому +9

      Man, it would be really cool if those got leaked and put on the Lost Media Wiki, so we’d be able to see what those episodes sounded like (and looked like, for the Porygon episode).

  • @siriusgray
    @siriusgray 7 місяців тому +18

    Love how Holiday Hijynx is the most cursed episode of Pokémon ever. First it gets incredibly delayed in both Japan and NA because it was supposed to air after the Porygon episode. Then once it finally airs, it quickly afterwards gets completely banned because it features Jynx’s original design. All of this happening to Pokémon’s first Christmas special episode is just wild

  • @coldsnap5742
    @coldsnap5742 7 місяців тому +19

    That solves a Mandela Effect I thought I was suffering from.
    I KNEW I'd seen an episode where Lorelei showed up and was renamed Prima for whatever reason, but I couldn't find proof online that it aired here.
    Especially when Pokemon Puzzle League came out for N64 and they brought back her dub actress, but the voice clips had her say her name was Lorelei again.

  • @Borgdrohne13
    @Borgdrohne13 7 місяців тому +46

    sadly we will never see the 2 B/W anime episodes. Would love to see, how Team Rocket would interact with Team Plasma.

    • @deepflare1028
      @deepflare1028 7 місяців тому +2

      At least we got the Rainbow Rocket Saga

  • @meta527II
    @meta527II 6 місяців тому +14

    I love how they banned Legend of Dratini for using guns, yet Here Comes the Squirtle Squad uses guns yet no one complained about that.

    • @prayagsuthar9856
      @prayagsuthar9856 17 днів тому

      One reason I've heard for this is that there's simply...a _lot_ of gun scenes. There are _significantly_ more gun scenes in The Legend of Dratini-in other episodes, it's usually just one or two, while in this one there's guns for over half the episode.

  • @wikiuser92
    @wikiuser92 7 місяців тому +75

    Those two Orange Islands episodes getting banned because of Jynx is so lazy, because 1) Jynx had very limited screentime in both of those episodes, so editing out the scenes with it or editing her skin color would've been easy, and 2) we have entire episodes with Jynx's skin recolored, so not doing it for a few minutes of footage is just dumb and lazy.

    • @cupidok2768
      @cupidok2768 7 місяців тому +1

      Americans makes problem. Its a pokemon

    • @alexg1778
      @alexg1778 7 місяців тому +19

      I mean it's mainly stupid because it's pandering to a few cretins. I always just saw Jynx as what she was... A pokemon.

    • @wikiuser92
      @wikiuser92 7 місяців тому +13

      @@alexg1778 I agree. But America is a country full of highly sensitive people. Often oversensitive, if you ask me.

    • @cupidok2768
      @cupidok2768 7 місяців тому

      @@alexg1778 y americans so whiny and victim. And create issues

    • @ElectricalFlare7201
      @ElectricalFlare7201 6 місяців тому +3

      ​@wikiuser92 you sound like you've never seen blackface and racist caricatures of Black people in America before(looks identical to Jynx). Either that or your downplaying it. Real easy to say when the caricatures and negative imagery aren't about you I guess...

  • @rararoyo
    @rararoyo 7 місяців тому +18

    The Lorelei being named Prima to match the lip flaps doesn't make sense as multiple characters have dub names which have less syllables than their Japanese ones and 4kids would usually add extra dialogue when a character is saying their name if this was the case, plus there is also the fact that Lorelei is called "Kanna-sama" by Kasumi ( Misty) and "Kanna-san" by everyone else, which is more than 2 syllables. This was most likely just a case of 4kids not knowing Kanna (her Japanese name) was Lorelei from the Kanto series Pokémon games, in fact Prima is never mentioned as being a member of the Elite 4 in the dub of that episode.

  • @TKnHappyNess
    @TKnHappyNess 7 місяців тому +14

    The original Jynx can still be seen in a couple of episodes. Princess vs Princess has it as one of the Pokemon Dolls, and the announcer portrays one. Also the Who's That Pokemon for It's Mr. Mimie Time is Jynx

  • @ImyIsStillHere
    @ImyIsStillHere 7 місяців тому +28

    I remember first seeing the skrelp episode in Kalos Quest. I was so confused. I didn't know why it was placed there at the time.
    So for me the only thing that mattered about that episode was that one of Clemont's inventions did not explode?! ⁉️

  • @bacd-nn2lg
    @bacd-nn2lg 7 місяців тому +38

    Some of the banned episodes were pretty stupid, but other caused by natural disasters are understandable. Like Pokemon Generation 5 B/W anime main plot suffered pretty heavily from that tsunami.

  • @HerooftheWild
    @HerooftheWild 7 місяців тому +67

    Electric Soldier Porygon made me love Porygon and its evolutions and my hatred for Ash's Pikachu
    Porygon did nothing wrong. The yellow rat is the only one to blame

    • @fridaypurples2441
      @fridaypurples2441 7 місяців тому +9

      Yeah same, it's a shame my favorite Normal types haven't had a chance to be in the spotlight ever since that episode. Makes me love them even more.

    • @anyconsoleplayer
      @anyconsoleplayer 7 місяців тому

      THANK YOU! SoMeOnE WhO UnDeRsTaNdS!!!

    • @anyconsoleplayer
      @anyconsoleplayer 7 місяців тому

      PORYGON'S THE BEST NORMAL TYPE

    • @peacocca190
      @peacocca190 7 місяців тому +5

      Actually, Team Rocket is to blame. Pikachu’s attack only had that effect in the virtual realm and they were only in that realm because of Team Rocket.

    • @anyconsoleplayer
      @anyconsoleplayer 7 місяців тому +1

      @@peacocca190 BUT I WANT AN EXCUSE TO HATE PIKACHU

  • @MidoriNatsume
    @MidoriNatsume 7 місяців тому +42

    Banning the Passimian was one of the biggest clown moves in modern anime import.
    You have to actively be on search for controversy to see any blackface in Ash's disguise.

    • @Thedarksenshi
      @Thedarksenshi 7 місяців тому +6

      I agree

    • @Lorfo11
      @Lorfo11 7 місяців тому +5

      That's the USA for you.

    • @ElectricalFlare7201
      @ElectricalFlare7201 6 місяців тому +2

      I don't t think it ever aired in the U.S so they most likely banned it on their own cause they didn't want to take any chances. Most likely due to him wearing the black facepaint while mimicking in playing with monkey-ish Pokemon(as monkey has been a long time slur towards Black people). I do think they could've just edited the face color for the U.S airings instead of outright banning it.

  • @tktyga77
    @tktyga77 7 місяців тому +12

    Ironically enough, A Sunken Place to Call Home made its debut in South Korea. Also, it seems like the Legend of Dratini may've aired in East Asia (not just Japan, but also Taiwan & South Korea as well as Hong Kong) similar to how Ice Cave did, given that both have titles in both Korean & Chinese topolects

  • @jahxthestreamer3510
    @jahxthestreamer3510 7 місяців тому +9

    I once as a kid had the vhs for spell of the unknown which has the pichu brothers short on it included. But sadly it’s been lost to time. One of the two holes in my original vhs collection

  • @starlitsorrow
    @starlitsorrow 7 місяців тому +5

    I wish they'd release the entire pokemon anime on dvd with every single episode on it even banned ones. It would be so fun to sit down and watch literally everything in order, plus theres also the history fact of it, these episodes were made and some are just lost to time?

  • @Skyraider359
    @Skyraider359 7 місяців тому +9

    I thought I was crazy when watching the BW anime when I would notice that something was wrong when I noticed plots were randomly dropped or that I missed something.

  • @matthewwasser5621
    @matthewwasser5621 2 місяці тому +3

    The probably could have changed the flash rate of the explosion of Electric Solder Porygon so it wouldn't cause health problems. I do have those Jynks Christmas episode from season one on DVD, probably from before the episode being pulled everywhere. I also have that Orange Islands episode with Lorelie in it on DVD. If those episodes have been erased everywhere then the DVDs could be worth a lot of money one day.

  • @DigiRangerScott
    @DigiRangerScott 7 місяців тому +12

    Goodness should we get JPR to cover the anime more?

  • @5Porygon
    @5Porygon 4 місяці тому

    Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. :)
    Jsi borec. Mám moc rád tvoji tvorbu. Zdraví Nogy.

  • @vincenthall5908
    @vincenthall5908 7 місяців тому +1

    I remember that Tower of Terror episode extremely vividly from my childhood- I was watching all of the episodes as they aired, so it must have played on WB pretty early on. Not a long temp ban lol

  • @MsElViktor
    @MsElViktor 7 місяців тому +8

    The Lorelei episode was banned? I didnt know about this. Jynx only appeared there for like 15 seconds.

  • @levimorton483
    @levimorton483 7 місяців тому +5

    It's kinda nice to go back in history and see where the anime F'd up. Because gosh dang, there's tons that can go wrong with animated episodes based on a popular franchise like Pokemon.

  • @VitorCaetanoNH
    @VitorCaetanoNH 7 місяців тому +3

    Crazy. I remember some of the first seasons episodes being banned, but not all, at least on Brazil. I remember seeing the tentacruel and the hunter episode.

    • @WaterKirby1994
      @WaterKirby1994 7 місяців тому +2

      Those 2 Episodes were just cut from rotation on Kids WB in The States, Cartoon Network was showing both "Tentacool & Tentacruel" & "The Tower of Terror" throughout 2003 in the same country. Kids WB viewers like to spread the myth that those episodes were banned.

  • @ShadyRK9
    @ShadyRK9 7 місяців тому +3

    And to this day Porygon is STILL banned!
    Also Fun Fact: while Tentacool, and Tentacruel was temporarily banned due to 9/11 it STILL had the giant Tentacruel destroying a building in the intro intact!

  • @thesupertoffeebros
    @thesupertoffeebros 7 місяців тому +1

    Funny thing is, I saw the Lorelei episode, not on tv or dvd or anything like that, I don't remember what was used to watch the episode, but I do remember it, and I did actually enjoy it, despite the error with Jynx using Ice Beam, but it showed Ice Punch.

  • @pmossvbsPKMN
    @pmossvbsPKMN 4 місяці тому +5

    Porygon did nothing wrong. The official Pokémon twitter account said that too.

  • @AShortDropSuddenStop
    @AShortDropSuddenStop 7 місяців тому +6

    I get the strobing lights thing, but compared to what they show on every news channel on a daily basis, I'd say these are pretty tame.😄

    • @mnm1273
      @mnm1273 7 місяців тому +1

      the news isn't a kid's show.

    • @AShortDropSuddenStop
      @AShortDropSuddenStop 7 місяців тому +5

      @@mnm1273 You're right.. Kids never watch the horrors shown in the news.. But let's protect them from two seconds of hand drawn inflatable breasts.

    • @mnm1273
      @mnm1273 7 місяців тому +4

      ​@@AShortDropSuddenStop It's up to parents if they want to show the horrors of the news to their (young) kids. My parents didn't because why would they? And I wouldn't show it to my kids for at least some of the 5 to 12 age range Pokemon is targeted at.
      The expectation is that kids shows will be appropriate for kids, and because parents don't want to screen every episode if a show doesn't do that if a show include inappropriate content it will lose viewership for every episode. It's called parenting, it's what ratings are made to help.

  • @jessicaclark6275
    @jessicaclark6275 7 місяців тому

    Steven is an awesome guy! I love the food hall in high point I definitely recommend visiting.

  • @LuigiTheMetal64
    @LuigiTheMetal64 7 місяців тому +10

    It would have worked if they can just replace Noriko Sakai with a different actor. You can still hear the instrumental song where she sang that credits song in the future episodes.

    • @moblinmajorgeneral
      @moblinmajorgeneral 7 місяців тому

      She got 3 years probation for drug charges and was divorced because of her arrest.

    • @Flash33c
      @Flash33c 7 місяців тому +3

      I believe part of the reason that episode got banned is due to the fact that VAs in Japan are considered celebrities akin to people like Dwayne Johnson or Jack Black, so if they can avoid replacing VAs they will. That's my understanding at least.

  • @posten1
    @posten1 7 місяців тому +1

    Great video!

    • @JPRPokeTrainer98
      @JPRPokeTrainer98  7 місяців тому +1

      why thank you mr posten

    • @wikiuser92
      @wikiuser92 7 місяців тому

      @@JPRPokeTrainer98 I thought this was great work too. Thanks for mentioning the script released earlier this year.

  • @crazymulatto8981
    @crazymulatto8981 7 місяців тому +3

    I could've sworn I saw an episode with Lorelei in it when I was a kid....

  • @captainsquarters1030
    @captainsquarters1030 7 місяців тому +3

    Michigan must not have got the memo about the Tauros episode. I saw it as a child. I didn't find out it was banned until I bought the Indigo League on DVD, and couldn't find the episode. I was confused, and very disappointed.

  • @angels.3686
    @angels.3686 7 місяців тому +2

    The fact I have the original VHS Jynx episode makes me feel like I have something cool even though video players don't really exist in the current world

  • @AceOfSerberit
    @AceOfSerberit 7 місяців тому +3

    I think Bulldoze is ok because the name doesn't reference the natural disaster like Earthquake, Magnitude or Fissure does

  • @-TheRealAnimeFan-
    @-TheRealAnimeFan- 7 місяців тому +12

    I was so mad when that Passimian episode got banned because I really wanted Ash to catch that Pokemon I love him.. can't believe they banned an episode in the year 2020....

    • @paperluigi6132
      @paperluigi6132 7 місяців тому +4

      They’re lucky Ash didn’t end up catching a Passimian, otherwise they would’ve been forced to air that episode to avoid another Tauros situation.

    • @binefix5647
      @binefix5647 7 місяців тому

      Americans are so blinded and sensitive, that they see racism in every little thing. I can understand the anger when someone uses a black face to specifically mock black people, but I would say this wasn't the case in that Pokemon episode. If we wanna take it really serious, Passimian shouldn't exist at all with its actual color scheme, because it is a monkey with a black face. Yes, even Oranguru has one. So why aren't people shouting about racism here?
      You understand what I mean?
      Of course, racism is something we have to fight, but it won't help anyone, if we see racism in everything. It just makes people unreliable at some point

  • @Salmonboyo
    @Salmonboyo 7 місяців тому +3

    I honestly thought that Ash retroactively caught all the Tauros, and it never needed an explanation. This new information is groundbreaking.

  • @samynov
    @samynov 4 дні тому

    Love that in Canada I had the chance to watch all Ban episode(except the Porygon one) before the ban.

  • @aurahoneydew9607
    @aurahoneydew9607 7 місяців тому +3

    Pity these are really good episodes should really be available for digital release or on streaming when a person has the option to watch them or pass the episode.

  • @QuantumNova
    @QuantumNova 7 місяців тому +4

    I saw Lorelei in the WB kids US version. I'll never forget those 'F cups' in a children's cartoon. It aired, trust me.

  • @pkmntrainermark8881
    @pkmntrainermark8881 7 місяців тому +1

    Despite Tentacool and Tentacruel being banned, they kept that shot of Tentacruel knocking down a skyscraper in the theme song.

  • @echoingvoids
    @echoingvoids 7 місяців тому +2

    I always wondered where Ash got those Tauros! I really did think I had a messed-up memory when they were mentioned.

  • @Metaknighttheloneswordsman
    @Metaknighttheloneswordsman 7 місяців тому +4

    Nah, who let Ash cook with that Passimian face paint

  • @Ideabro
    @Ideabro 7 місяців тому

    Hooray, JPR is officially an anipoke tuber🎉

  • @Junebug6969
    @Junebug6969 7 місяців тому +4

    this is the first of these types of videos I've seen that adds a parental guidance warning at the beginning. thank you for that, since youtube kids is really bad about that.

  • @JB-ue6lf
    @JB-ue6lf 2 місяці тому +1

    That thumbnail. I know damn well you knew what you were doing 😂

  • @lornadune2506
    @lornadune2506 7 місяців тому +2

    I do think its funny legend of dratini was banned bc of guns being pointed at people, but multiple people point rifles in ash's face in the squirtle squad epsiode when he goes to the store to get pikachu a potion.
    I also think the sun and moon episode ban is silly because while ash has a black face, its not blackface the way that jynx is. He doesnt have big overdrawn lips or googly eyes or anything like that

  • @sxewhil
    @sxewhil 7 місяців тому +4

    perfect video to watch while eating Wendy’s spicy nuggets

  • @Torterra454
    @Torterra454 7 місяців тому +2

    Knowing that the earthquake mover was banned from the show makes me wonder ir Torterra could hace had a better time of it had that move

  • @AndersonWorld
    @AndersonWorld 3 місяці тому +3

    I can understand banning most of these but for the original team plasma arc we were supposed to get, there should have been no excuses for axing this
    These two episodes were meant to be a crucial component in Black and White and from what the scripts had to say, things looked promising. Shame they couldn't have just put a warning before the episodes aired or just dialed back on the violence
    This decision to rewrite everything overall just made black and white worse in the long run outside of the tournament arcs and even Operation Tempest
    TheyCOULD even give team plasma an actually amazing arc in the end which rubs more salt in the bag, not wound

  • @Flash33c
    @Flash33c 7 місяців тому +13

    Beauty and the Beach: Dumb but I guess understandable.
    Tentacool & Tentacruel and The Tower of Terror: Again dumb but understandable. I say dumb because Pokemon is not the first kids show to feature buildings being destroyed or peoples souls leaving their bodies. At least these were temporary removals but still.
    Electric Soldier Porygon: If they'd just slowed down the flashing lights (which I've read is what the planned ENG dub was going to do) then I don't see a reason it can't be rebroadcasted. Either way though banning the Porygon line from having prominent roles is dumb.
    Jinx EPs: Using the updated design solves the problem easily.
    Legend of Dratini: Again not the first kids show to feature live guns so I don't see a major issue.
    EQ EPs: Dumb reasons to permaban them and the moves. They could easily just temp pull them & rebroadcast them later. Even though my understanding is that Japan doesn't really do reruns they could still put them back in rotation if they ever broadcasted Advanced again.
    Pikachu & Pichu short: I know in Japan VAs are treated like celebrities & they don't like replacing VAs if they can help it but in this case a simple narrator change would easily solve it.
    BW: Delaying them? Understandable. Cancelling & banning them outright? Dumb.
    Undersea Place: Dumb but I guess understandable, and at least this was put back in rotation.
    Passimian EP: Dumb overreaction reason to ban it. While I understand the blackface issue in this case it's entirely a non-issue & only people who want to be offended would make it one. I actually watched this episode myself despite normally being a dub watcher & at no point did I see something that warranted a ban.
    Overall: While some I could understand a majority were just overreactions/overcorrections to stuff that for the most part were just unfortunate timings & could easily be fixed by delaying a bit (natural disasters, VA) or by using updated designs (Jinx)/broadcasting sensibilities (slower flashing lights, beauty pageant) with a disclaimer/warning of some kind.

  • @foxyman9449
    @foxyman9449 7 місяців тому +2

    I love looking back at banned episodes. The two Team Rocket episodes from Black & White were the ones I wanted to see the most. When they cut to Team Rocket having their old clothes and back to their old antics without explaining, I stopped watching the show altogether. I understand sensitivity for the Tsunami victims but I believe in a fluid storyline. Easily could've just delayed it but it killed the entire season for me instead.

  • @wyattcensored9361
    @wyattcensored9361 6 місяців тому +2

    1:18 Thank you Arcanine.

  • @dychrisshandonsmith1242
    @dychrisshandonsmith1242 7 місяців тому +1

    Keep it up on your work and this video and channel
    I ❤️ this video and channel
    Thanks you for your video and channel
    I ❤️ Pokemon all franchise

  • @viperx27
    @viperx27 7 місяців тому +2

    5:16 - Pikachu was the mascot of the franchise. He could’ve gotten away with murder if he wanted to.

  • @DaWoWzer
    @DaWoWzer 4 місяці тому +1

    i love how Jynx some how gets banned but mr popo is still going strong today.

  • @Dusxio
    @Dusxio 7 місяців тому +7

    As a passimian fan, I am disappointed it was skipped.

  • @ginantsfan5
    @ginantsfan5 7 місяців тому

    Most awesome vid!!!!

  • @KingConnor523
    @KingConnor523 7 місяців тому +1

    I would think there’s been enough time to allow Porygon and it’s evolutions back into animation for either major or minor roles to try to separate them from that incident. Not the banned episode, just showing the Pokémon more in the anime to slightly remove the connection.

  • @epa1590
    @epa1590 7 місяців тому +2

    2:11
    And little did we know they just teased tentacool’s paldain form💀💀

  • @roseopal4787
    @roseopal4787 7 місяців тому +2

    My favorite thing about the thumbnail is that you can kind of guess all the reasons each of the episodes were banned, except for the Ghetsis one, which implies that it was banned simply because Ghetsis is in it. Which honestly is a perfectly fine reason to ban it. Screw Ghetsis.

  • @pkmntrainermark8881
    @pkmntrainermark8881 7 місяців тому +1

    Porygon actually cameoed in the intro of a different movie before Kyurem.

  •  7 місяців тому +1

    10:52 What I would think is that viewers would understand context. But the outrage at that episode says otherwise.

  • @MazterP28
    @MazterP28 7 місяців тому +2

    James with gun in the robo kangaskhan

  • @kevandre
    @kevandre 7 місяців тому

    I definitely had the lavender town and Santa episodes on VHS when I was a kid, that's kind of funny

  • @LostInTimeAndDarkness
    @LostInTimeAndDarkness 7 місяців тому +3

    I remember a bit about Tentacool and Tentacruel episode, i was a kid and it happened to be released on TV. I remember that episode having terrified me and causing me to hate Tentacruel, even to this day i still have images of destruction printed into my mind... the imagery was deeply unsettling for kids so i understand why it was banned in some countries.
    Do I still hate Tentacruel today? Hell yeah, I do...

    • @skorupigo5544
      @skorupigo5544 6 місяців тому

      Ooooooh 🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑 spoooky 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙

  • @zollof6699
    @zollof6699 20 днів тому +1

    "Pikachu was the one that sent those kids to the hospital", is a sentence I never knew I needed to hear. Thanks!
    Also, I love how Jynx is considered racist and had it's color changed forever. But Mr. Popo is still rocking his look, and may even look more racist than Jynx. Toriyama didn't give a damn.

  • @disneyboy3030
    @disneyboy3030 4 місяці тому

    I do admit I was thinking about asking them to make an event that would finally see the episodes banned by the Earthquakes air.

  • @abhipika4801
    @abhipika4801 14 днів тому +1

    Bro I remember when I was watching Pokémon and in one episode professor oak was talking about the Taurus ash caught and I was like when the flip did that happen

  • @anothergamer112
    @anothergamer112 7 місяців тому +3

    Before mentioning Jynx, I legitimately thought the episode with Lorelei was banned because she was "too sexy" for american kids tv at the time.

  • @----x-----
    @----x----- 7 місяців тому +3

    shame Lorelei's episode can't be watched legally anymore, a lot of unfortunate people will miss her out
    really one of the peak pokemon moments

  • @Emily-cw7tj
    @Emily-cw7tj 2 місяці тому

    Electric Solder Porygon did air in China and Taiwan apparently also in Vietnamese right after the episode had aired in Japan according to Bulbapedia

  • @lionelrivera5397
    @lionelrivera5397 7 місяців тому

    Porygon also has a slight cameo in the opening of the fourth Pokémon movie!

  • @TheDeathmail
    @TheDeathmail 7 місяців тому +5

    One thing you got wrong is that Pikachu wasn't the one that caused the incident framing Porygon... Team Rocket did...
    It was THEIR rocket that caused the light show...
    Pikachu's thunder never once before or after ever had that kinda effect...
    And doesn't it make sense for criminals to try and frame innocents for their crimes..
    The real reason Pikachu gets blame is cause people think it's more interesting...
    Please stop spreading misinformation...
    Justice for Pikachu and Porygon!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Darkqualza
    @Darkqualza 7 місяців тому

    I have the original DVD for the Orange Island, including the one episode! I think that episode awakened my manhood as a kid. 😂
    Also used to own the VHS tape that included that banned tentacruel episode.

  • @aidanlyons25
    @aidanlyons25 7 місяців тому

    Wait wtf!!!! You have 221k subs now!!!! I remember when you had 108k subs.

  • @bigledian4008
    @bigledian4008 7 місяців тому +1

    Actually, porygon did have a brief cameo in Pokèmon spell of the Unknown.

  • @BigLeek1998
    @BigLeek1998 7 місяців тому +2

    I’m glad I’m not crazy because i really didn’t remember ash catching all those tauros

  • @JoseAlba87
    @JoseAlba87 7 місяців тому

    All of them are best, I remember some episodes were showing on kids WB as lost episodes😅

  • @IcefireToken
    @IcefireToken 7 місяців тому +3

    I’m upset about the Porygon one because I love it and it’s evolution line

  • @FJX716
    @FJX716 7 місяців тому +2

    Banned but still possible to find if you look hard

  • @Cappuccino7005
    @Cappuccino7005 27 днів тому

    An Undersea Place to Call Home is my favourite episode

  • @hunterpikachu1763
    @hunterpikachu1763 7 місяців тому +1

    So because of pokemons flashing lights being very intense it made all other animes have a warning for the lights

  • @RealLifeIronMan
    @RealLifeIronMan 28 днів тому

    My parents would buy me a lot of Pokemon VHS during Kanto. Oddly most of the banned episodes during that time where still released on VHS. So I saw the original Jinx episodes and and the Tower of Terror. The only ones I never saw where the Porygon episode and the Tauros episode.