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which in my case is the biggest case of overreaction in history. i watched the fansubs of that ep during that time and again when pieces of it showed on youtube and nothing happened. the same thing happened when others watched that ep on youtube before the big n went all copyright violation on the people that uploaded it.

i got no seizure nor did any of the kids my sister was babysitting. its pretty obvious that western audience have a bigger tolerance to those lights that the japaneese kids saw so while i can understand why it would be banned in japan, there is no reason at all that ep should also be banned in the US shores. the same goes with the team rocket vs team plasma ep .

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I hadn't even noticed that the little "please watch this anime in a well-lit room and sit far away from the TV" warning isn't coming up anymore, but now that I think about it, I can't remember the last show I saw that had it.

I seem to recall Natsu from Fairy Tail giving this warning at the beginning of episodes not too long ago. I don't know if this was kept for home video releases though.

Isn't another reason western fans aren't seeing the "please watch in a well-lit room, 3 metres from the TV" warning anymore being that western fans are more and more opting to watch legal streams instead of taped-off-Japanese-television fansubs?

(I'm not saying that the warnings aren't in decline on Japanese TV, but, if I can watch legal streams for free, I'm not going to see the anti-seizure warnings from the Japanese TV broadcast scrolling at the bottom of the screen.)

There's quite a number of Pokemon that are essentially banned from ever appearing in the anime ever again. Along with Porygon and it's evolutions, there's Rougela (Jynx) and Yungerer (Kadabra) being the two most noticable ones. Both stem from international complaints about Rougela being a racist characature and Uri Geller trying to sue Nintendo for saying Yungerer was based on him.

which in my case is the biggest case of overreaction in history. i watched the fansubs of that ep during that time and again when pieces of it showed on youtube and nothing happened. the same thing happened when others watched that ep on youtube before the big n went all copyright violation on the people that uploaded it.

i got no seizure nor did any of the kids my sister was babysitting. its pretty obvious that western audience have a bigger tolerance to those lights that the japaneese kids saw so while i can understand why it would be banned in japan, there is no reason at all that ep should also be banned in the US shores. the same goes with the team rocket vs team plasma ep .

I hadn't even noticed that the little "please watch this anime in a well-lit room and sit far away from the TV" warning isn't coming up anymore, but now that I think about it, I can't remember the last show I saw that had it.

jr0904 wrote:

which in my case is the biggest case of overreaction in history. i watched the fansubs of that ep during that time and again when pieces of it showed on youtube and nothing happened. the same thing happened when others watched that ep on youtube before the big n went all copyright violation on the people that uploaded it. i got no seizure nor did any of the kids my sister was babysitting. its pretty obvious that western audience have a bigger tolerance to those lights that the japaneese kids saw so while i can understand why it would be banned in japan, there is no reason at all that ep should also be banned in the US shores. the same goes with the team rocket vs team plasma ep .

Do you have epilepsy? Not just anyone can get triggered by watching something, it's only people with epilepsy. Also an internet stream of the episode isn't at a very high resolution or bitrate compared to watching it on TV to begin with.

I didn't know Pokemon stuff were removed from video stores in Japan after the incident. Also as Justin said, there hasn't been a incident for 15 years so that's why the warning is no longer there (unless another incident happen again).

In case you're interested, 4Kids did dub that episode (and slowed down the flashing to make sure it wouldn't cause a problem) but Nintendo insisted that it not be released again. It hasn't seen the light of day since.

Though I'm still surprised there isn't a Harry Potter anime by now.

Do you have epilepsy? Not just anyone can get triggered by watching something, it's only people with epilepsy.

There's no proof that happened beyond some contradictory statements from some people involved with the dub and it seems unlikely they ever received the episode at all.

I don't think they will ever show it ---but we did dub it. And it didn't give any of US seizures

1) We did --I saw it --didn't have a siezure

The only Pokemon stuff that even existed in video stores were two rental VHSes containing respectively episode 1-3 and 4-6 of the show. They weren't temporarily pulled to not offend victims, though - rather, they were pulled and replaced with new VHSes containing redone versions of these episodes, edited according to the new standards. And of course, all future releases of episode 1-6 and all releases of episode 7-37 period would contain such edited episodes rather than the version that had aired on TV.

In a Q&A that the late Maddie Blaustein did once on Serebi Forums, she said she did specifically remember recording the episode as Meowth (it was one of the very first she did), but it still wasn't allowed to be shown anyway.

Maddie Blaustein wrote:

I don't think they will ever show it ---but we did dub it. And it didn't give any of US seizures

Someone even pointed out that them dubbing it was an urban myth, to which she responded:

Maddie Blaustein wrote:

1) We did --I saw it --didn't have a siezure

OK so either the seizure thing only effect Japanese kids. Has there been any report of "Pokemon Shock" seizure outside of Japan like in another Asian countries (ie: South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore) that's been caused by that episode prior to the ban? If there's no incident of it, then there must be a genetic predisposition to seizure and bright light color on TV.