How Much Censorship is in Pokémon? 

I'm gonna have to agree.

I agree. Some of it makes sense (the swimsuit episode, anything revolving around milk, etc), but some is just dumb (the handguns being shown sometimes (not like they were used to kill anyone), Tower of Terror, some of the cards, etc)

@@KodyCrimson and it's not like 4kids couldn't censor out the guns. They did it for Yu-Gi-Oh

@@KodyCrimson I mean most people were sensitive after 9/11 they were probably worried about the series being pulled if they aired the episode

Yeah there are the blackfacing ones and miltank milk drink but then theres the jelly filled donut

The thing is, they couldn't exactly ban Pikachu, since even if it WAS Pikachu's fault for causing the offending explosions, it was still an episode centered around Porygon. That doesn't make it "weird" like you claim, they just decided that banning Porygon was the next best compromise they could make. Sure, it's a bit heavy-handed, but they also banned the use of Earthquake and similar moves in the anime for several years at this point after an earthquake devastated part of Japan, and I'd argue that nearly equally as heavy-handed, even if they can't exactly just let am incident like that slide

They couldn't ban Pikachu, so they chose the next big thing. They acknowledge that Porygon didn't do anything wrong.

didn't the writers added the blue and red lights? so they should have banned the writer who added the blue and red light, its their fault not pikachu.

@@pedrosaabedra5653 animators. And, while flashes like that are dimmed nowadays (and prolly then too) they didn't know it could cause such an effect, cuz they were inexperienced with that.

@@outtaideas849 well they should have just drawn normal blown up missiles with smoke, not blue and red flashing lights.

Sus

I was thinking the same 😁😂

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3:21 Also Nidoqueen: Shakes chest.

nooooo

New grounds really said: FETCH ME THEIR SOULS! ERRRRRRRR (to censorship)

I don't know silver maybe you just wana see some skimpy girls you sussy baka

"Kids cant see guns, censor it!" Kids: ohh nerf gun, hey friend, lets pretend to shoot eachother for fun, ooo this toy comes with a little gun for the guy to hold

yes lol that pixels movie was godawful. Don't get exposed to it.

A few pixels? Many have been slaughtered, all because someone saw four fucking pixels! (This is an SCP joke, I just saw the comment and thought it was perfect)

Yeah

Thx

Actually the one I was most confused about was the sailor one/its reasoning

Thx I was actually stressing tryna find the difference

@@aniahliepard that and the bikini girl with both eyes open, tf

i was more confused about the registeel thing

I get why you were upset, but I'm really looking at it a marketing point of view. Pokemon is especially a show that has been marketed to children. When stuff is marketed to children, relatability is one of the biggest selling points. To keep children hooked on the show, things need to be added that the children are able to resonate with. That kind of change was made in America. An American child is more likely to relate to someone eating a sandwich than an onigiri. The belief is that a child would think something along these lines, "wow, they are eating sandwiches for lunch just like I do." It's cringe worthy as an adult, especially for those who experienced the world. But for children, it's just something that a typical American child would see as a normal part of their life. And before anyone tries to comment that "I believe that kids should not learn about different things in the world," that would be far from the truth. My point is when something is marketed to children, especially continuously, relatability is a huge selling point.

Hey people can we not localized Pokémon anymore and start watching the original Japanese version so that we can see everything unedited

@@brandan7761 i would be okay with that if at least they changed the onigiri with the food the characters mention. They did half of the job and left it there.

@@nelson5073 True, that was definitely sloppy.

@@PsychoChuckGreene sorry but 4 kids edits are sometimes to entertaining, also don't speak Japanese and I'm not coming to Pokemon to read subtitles

@waroga No u

@@Idkanymore9029 lqmo

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Omfg you’re right XD

No we can't let the rule 34 artists find this comment!

@@priestofronaldalt I think it's too late

@@Idkanymore9029 fine time too use bites the dust👍

There is one

"Fondling his huge tracts of land" LMAO.

Understandable actually

If I’m not mistaken, doesn’t Misty also win a swim suit competition? Yknow, a 10 year old? I was always under the impression that was why it got banned. That’s pretty yikes if ya ask me

I wish I had huge tracts of land

@@doozy5184 I hear they're overrated.

lmao true its just that the media was super sensitive about the topic at the time.

@@Yoobster Yeah, there were a lot of things that made even less sense that were banned around the time.

Best comment ever

Meanwhile, the news: Planes crashing People jumping Firefighters dying No censorship what so ever. And they showed that in the middle of the day, in my country they actually interrupted a DBZ episode, right in the middle of the kid's program.

One of the best in my day, next to hg/ss

YESS!!! so true

Raiden you're a savage

Look who's here heh...

XD

It was early pokemon plus pokemon are for dah kids so we overllookd their damage

I still don't know what the fuck is someone doing with a random gun and why they point it at random strangers

Their was a episode (not banned) where James and Jesse threaten to shoot up a entire store with smgs

Ehhh, bullets are hard to stop, being small and fast. And a heal pulse probably would just heal the wound, not take it out

@@sapphiredawn5773 Somehow, its more okay in pokemon world for kids to carry Earth and reality Shattering Monsters, than a hand gun. I think pokemon world is fucked up

I'll check back in a month to see if you are still mad One month has passed are you still mad if so ill check back in 2 months Two months have passed are you still mad if so I'll check back in 3 months

Same

Same maybe they put instead a like hide and seek game maybe💢😠

It could've been yet another copy of Mario Bros. XD

HGSS

Yeah I wish that they would replace the gambling implications with another mini game like Voltorb Flip. They could’ve done more mini games like that but it’s a shame they didn’t

Or like in Yo Kai style with the lottery by winning objects if it matched

Indeed - just replace them with a proper strip poker table!

This was changed to that unnecessary clothing store in SPBD...

The HG and SS minigames where fun, nothing real casino like, just "calculate".

Maybe they shoulda just had them put masks resembling Passimian's face on instead of causing such a mishap. But then again, putting on black/dark coloured face paint is a Japanese beauty trend, and that's probably why they gave Jynx such skin (damn now I'm imagining Smoochum with gray skin)

@@Idiotic_B_Purcell Pretty sure jinx's face is meant to be like the dark theater mask representing the yokai she's based on, It's a yokai with a massive mouth and dancing abilities that entrance people

it also was banned because it had no plot relevance. in animes, it's cheaper to remove the episode than to just change it. Since there was nothing major that happened, they just pulled it out of circulation

Trust me, TPC understands it. They've tweeted about it before

Well that's true but people only remember that in an episode with a weird pokemon something bad happened and everyone was mad about that, like if they make an episode and a parent sees that maybe they would get angry or maybe they don't want the topic to constantly be talked about, like how they didn't realize that it wasn't a good idea to flash light quickly in a lot of homes in Japan.

I agree, but it’s better than removing Pikachu from the series.

@@outtaideas849 Oh really? I wish I could read this but twitter is now walled to non account users

@@flyingstonemon3564 I know about it because it caused ab argument that made it to YT. TPC Twitter, because of a Porygon based Go event happening soon, tweeted about Porygon doing nothing wrong. You should prolly be able to find a video on it, but I can't link one because of autofilter

Really? It's just a simple sensibility. Why don't you go show a family a movie about school shootings after their child was injured in one? Or is not every shooting not a reenactment of that?

Brandan fax

@@brandan7761 Yeah, that’s also the reason the move Earthquake is never used in the anime

@@TunaBear64 Honestly, my mind first went to, "how would they animate that."

There was a ton of stuff censored due to 9/11. While it seemed absurdly overly reactionary to scrub any image of the World Trade Center from tons of movies and TV shows, we saw situations like stations refusing to air TV episodes that *didn't* do exactly that. (The prime example being the episode of the Simpons where Homer went to the WTC, while it wasn't pulled from syndication, many stations simply refused to show it again.) Several episodes of Transformer Robots in Disguise weren't aired in the US because they showed buildings being destroyed. The completed Dreamcast game Propeller Arena was cancelled; it was an air combat game that had a level set around a generic skyscraper. Etc.

@@cheezymunkyz3211 I guess adults drinking wine is a nono

@@cheezymunkyz3211 let the man drink his wine. It’s what he resorted to after he lost to a child

Hey, I think you missed a goof on the 3rd paragraph.

What Mr. Mime sprite??? The RG one has him with both hands open so I don't see any cigarette

@@Rato_Arabe the censure of mr mime were the number of fingers since it was a symbol of the Yakuza to cut one finger from a hand and if i remember well mr. Mime originally had 4 figers per hand (if i remember it right)

Takeshi shudo one of the lead producers used drugs and alcohol a lot so yeah

To be fair...Japan really doesn't care about sexualizing underaged girls. Its mainly in the west that considers it tabuu. This is true and honest facts.

@@agentdon1760 They don't care about fictional characters I think is what you meant, saying it like you did just brings a whole lot of disrespectful implications, it's far from ''true and honest facts'' The west can't even be take the high horse on that convo, remember Cuties anyone? Something that featured actual minors. And to some degree, Toddlers and Tiaras or Taxi Driver too.

@@Ale_LSH Yeah thats pretty much what I ment You see it in anime a lot

I thought Misty was two years older than Ash? Doesn't really makes things any better if she's 12 instead of 10, but I could've sworn one of the early episodes mentions it, and I know for a fact the Manga does.

yea convictionally with the wrong arm..

Damn who wouldnt want to have a steel golem to salute you

it was the spoons more, and I’m 99% sure the japanese name is Guri Yeller, swapping letters of Yuri Geller.

You don't know he may look like a fox and have a star tattoo on his head

It's yunguer but close enough

True in both ways.

I don't think the concept of Creepypastas existed back then. Creepy internet stories have always been around but it's doubtful they had enougb power to cause such a change at that time.

I will never play that Music again. I have seen a very skinny snorlax because of a pokemon sucking its blood.

Why i see u every day

Pokemon what the fuck

@@neksnek2032 the directors are so drunk sometimes that they forget Mistys 10 tf

She's ten of course they are😀

@@alpha_jasperflair1097 James is 14 I think but I'm too lazy to type how old is James from pokemon

@@alpha_jasperflair1097 she has 2 feet

I thought I remembered them retconing it so that Ash got them after winning the race where he rode on Ponyta, but I could be misremembering it

Two things about EP018: 1) it’s the only episode of the 4Kids era that left all Japanese text intact 2) According to FANDOM, the episode was only ever aired twice. Both times before I was even born.

What about the sailor? And the witch was given eyes due to looking creepy in the japanese version

@@elluciano5808 okay but why though, it's a witch, it's supposed to look creepy. This is a series where the player gets dragged into hell to fight Satan, and where world ending monsters are everywhere. Why is cataracts where the line is drawn?

@@elluciano5808 The sailor was seemingly doing a mean and innapropriate gesture (it's like the middle finger but with your arms) which isn't good to show kids around lol

A majority of the not needed ones are most likely not even censorship. A few are though

the censored episode in which ash disguised himself as pokemon, left me stunned

They are more blinder than rocks

What did they think it was?

@@TheChamp820 The original design for Aunt Jemima You know how wokies are: looking for "offensive" bullshit where there isn't any, and in turn they ruin fucking everything.

I just noticed that Lenora has some really long legs

Concealment of Japanese culture, IS censorship

It's to make the content more relatable to the adapted audience. Might as well argue that translating it at all is erasure/censorship.

@@TheAluren What are you even saying?? Translation , adaption/localization and censorship are three different things, can you distinguish them?

Can you? You just said localization is concealment, therefore censorship, then turned around and said they're two different things. My original comment was 4 months ago, you're obviously fishing for drama. Goodbye.

@@TheAluren "You just said localization is concealment" *WHAT??* Dude what are you on?? I said that concealment of the Japanese culture is *a form of censorship* Oh *I'M* the one fishing for drama, suuuuuure buddy, suuuure.... It's not my fault if you can't even read a damn comment on the internet

that one LA game boy quest...

@@Toadallythebest also in ocarina of time there is a dungeon theme wich used to contain sacred texts, which where censored in some versions of the game, also in first ver. of OoT there was blood, which was censored by making it green in the next versions of the game and in the 3DS remake

@@Toadallythebest wdym?

*G a n o n d o r f D a n g a n r o n p a B l o o d*

A sussy baka

To be fair, from what I've heard, being naked isn't as sexualized in Japan as it is in America, which seems to cause them to be a bit more lax on showing such things

@@matthewkuscienko4616 in fact from what i heard its seen as a form of purity? But hey what do I know

@@priestofronaldalt That might not be too far off, knowing how different Japanese culture can be from America

@@priestofronaldalt I think it depends, nudity doesn’t have to be inherently sexual, but I think everyone is lying to themselves if they think the big market to horny men doesn’t effect what the artists make.

That's really interesting, when I see it, it looks like he's showing off his bicep

Misty is... ten, correct?

@@neksnek2032 HOLD THE FRICK UP!

@@ThePancakeProductions I think the internet has start way earlier than we thought

FBI OPEN UP _BOOOOOM_ But fr tho in Japan nudity is usually symbolic of purity. So for a card named Misty's Tears I suppose it could imply that she is having a pure emotional moment?

@@Levi_The_One_The_Only lmao

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@@Idkanymore9029 cring

@@priestofronaldalt ?

@@Idkanymore9029 emoji cring wholesome 100 reddit moment big chungus

@@priestofronaldalt ?

C A F F E I N E ! ! !

Y e s

Caffeine is not that strong of a drug

Old man in jp: I got drunk Old man in us: I can’t live without caffeine FBI: open the door

you should check out Game Corner Remix v.II by GlitchxCity

How is that the case? Winking seems more nice or mischievous than that!

I'll check back in a month to see if you are still mad

@@Phile_ I’m here now 39 minutes after this guy

"The writing is so good." Remember that Brock once said, "I'll use my trusty frying pan as a drying pan."

@Ice Blue Cat Malhar The Kirby Anime Dub Is Really Good Too,Especially With Those Weird Ass Accents They Gave Some Characters Lol

@@brandan7761 thats a classic. You can’t forget the classic savage Ash

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@@drkpmnair *Pain*

I think it's more so that they have things that aren't offensive there but are here, and when the things we make get shipped over there they censor the bite that aren't offensive here but are there. Just cultural differences really

smg4? or is that a bit far-fetched

@@MemeMaster-gz7nk correct

yeah *XD* I remember in one video he even had a sick/injured Pikachu and Dr. Mario, being Mario and all, failed to treat him and he got revenge in the video's sequel

​@@MemeMaster-gz7nk I think you mean a little too Farfetch'd! Ba dum tss

I had a fire Celebi card once so :T

The Pokemon trading card game doesn't have as many types that are individually usable as they do in the video games, which causes certain types to get lumped together under one single type, for example: fighting, ground and rock type Pokemon are all printed as the fighting type in the tcg. But poison has had the most confusing history of what type it was made a part of: when the cards were first being printed, they were lumped in with the grass type, such as the one shown in this video. Eventually, the poison type got moved to becoming part of the psychic type (which was the way it was when I started learning how to play the tcg). And most recently, when the new Sword and Sheild sets were printed, they changed it so that poison is now part of the dark type, giving poison the record for the most number of types that have represented it in the tcg with a grand total so far of three!

It would’ve made more sense to either have Brock call them rice balls or turn them into jelly donuts, not call the rice balls jelly donuts.

@@JZJ7777 For real. It's not like kids in the West don't know what rice is.

And for a long time I thought that's how that would taste. I thought it was rice with jelly on the inside and thought man that's probably not that good.

Also the songs for Pokémon, Yugioh, Mew Mew Power, One Piece, Magical DoReMi, TMNT, Shaman King and Winx Club are also top bangers.

Except when following anything to do with game ratings of the modern era

Let's be totally honest here though, even though some of these things are understandable, so many of them are completely dumb and unnecessary lmao

@@HackRazor1012 meowth and miltank.....

@@scprez8865 better idea we ban miltank entirely for the damage it did to our souls And the sentret card is not censorship the original card is hard to understand at a glance

Who's this guy

I hope in the next Poké-gen that Nidoqueen finally gets put in an actual Egg Group and is able to breed!

I thought you were banned

@@Idkanymore9029 lol 😂

James got some bahonkadonks tho

You should bring it up with the U.S. Army, they'll ban the practice straight away.

@@Zorro9129should an peppa pig episode banned because pedro pony makes whiteface to become a crown? same does to mario’s clown costume?

@@technofox2260 Not when I was referring to

@@technofox2260 2:18 is when Pokemon Colesseum music starts

Yes

It was a swaz

Yes, because that symbol resembles something so bad and controversial that just saying something directly related can get you banned on RU-vid and as well the country I’m currently (Israel)

DarkFish YT well I am not afraid, swa- **gets assasinated**

RU-vid moderators aswell as you or me are watching the video and as soon as that shows up uncensored the video is down

I was trying to depict what change there was in that too, thanks for saying, I would've never figured that out

Bro thank you I was trying to scroll through the comments for the longest time to figure out what was the change

Oh thats what it was!!!

I'm curious as to why that got removed.

@@aura7342 because, for some reason, G-rated-level animated violence isn't allowed in the US, despite stuff like Tom & Jerry and Looney Tunes airing around the same time long after being made. RU-vidr "ABrandonToThePast" uploaded a video with more examples of anime censorship (alongside the same game censorship reports). It's an interesting video to say the least

For real, asumming that dressing as a monkey is racist makes it even more racist

@@ivan422 EXACTLY

Agreed that one was dumb (even if there's a history behind why it's banned

@@ivan422 I guess someone who was anti-furry thought that episode promoted the furry community. And that's also a dumb reason for banning a Pokemon episode.

Even if they put the warning on I doubt the result would've changed that much or even at all.

@@smallvixenamberkitty1967 Yeah but you know! Its the plot armored rat that they have as a mascot, so nothing can happen to it

@@smallvixenamberkitty1967 to be fair think of it this way, if I say "the pikachu episode" what episode do you think of? Maybe pikachus goodbye, if I say "the porygon episode" you think of the episode with the seizires; its not that he caused the seizures more that he reminds people of the seizures.

Me too