The episode is infamous for using visual effects that caused seizures in a number of Japanese viewers, an incident referred to as the "Pokémon Shock" (ポケモンショック ,Pokémon Shokku?) 由 the Japanese press. Six hundred eighty-five viewers were taken to hospitals, but only two people remained hospitalized for 更多 than two weeks. Due to this, the episode has been banned worldwide.
After the shock, the 神奇宝贝 日本动漫 went into a four 月 hiatus, and it returned on TV Tokyo in April 1998. Since then, the episode has been parodied and referenced in cultural media, including an episode of The Simpsons where the Simpsons go on vacation to 日本 and watch a cartoon called Battling Seizure Robots, resulting in the entire family going into convulsions. In a South Park episode, Kenny McCormick suffers from a seizure after playing a videogame called "Chinpokomon". Because of this Porygon2 and Porygon-Z have never appeared in the 日本动漫 由 a bad flash. This is in the Guiness World Records in the Most seizures caused 由 a TV program. This is a big history to Pokemon anime.
Dojoach Vs Namazun!!This episode revolves around a bunch of Whiscash causing an earthquake. It was removed and never aired anywhere, including Japan, due to similarities to the Chuetsu earthquakes of October 23, 2004.
The Legend of Dratini: This episode is banned due to Kaiser pointing a gun in Ash's face and threatening to shoot him. It also contains profanity and 枪 where Jessie, James, and Meowth uses to shoot at Kaiser because they wanted the Dratini.
Beauty and the Beach: This episode revolves around all the female characters entering a 泳装, 游泳衣 competition, James, in order to enter, buys a pair of inflatable breasts. The episode is famous for one scene where James is waving his fake breasts in others faces for comedic effect. The image has become a quite 流行的 GIF on the internet.
Holiday Hi-Jynx
This episode is from the Indigo League series of the original 神奇宝贝 series. This episode is the first to feature a new 神奇宝贝 called Jynx, which resembles, according to sources, an African-American female, with long blonde hair, and big lips (it had big lips due to one of its attacks being a "kiss" attack). The episode "Holiday Hi-Jynx" aired on Kids WB!, and not everyone was happy with the new Pokemon.
A woman named Carole B. Weatherford wrote an 文章 about Jynx, saying it was racist to African-American people, and soon after, the episode was removed from rotation. Also, this caused other episodes involved with Jynx to be banned. 任天堂 ended up changing Jynx to purple to keep the racism rumors down. Even though they changed Jynx, future episodes ended up 展示 Jynx as it is, and episodes which has Jynx as a main character are usually banned. One of those known episodes is "Kōri no Dōkutsu!", known 更多 commonly as "The Ice Cave". The episode was part of the Master Quest series, originally as episode 252, but was banned due to its heavy focus on Jynx. Brock gets sick while in an ice cave, and is taken to a 神奇宝贝 Center in the cave, and instead of Chansey as nurses, Nurse Joy has a Jynx, which plays a main role in the episode, and Jynx, instead of being purple, has the same black face as it did in "Holiday Hi-Jynx", thus causing its ban after its first, and only, air. The episode was never seen outside of Asia except Brazil. There was an English dub made 由 4-Kids Entertainment, but wasn't aired after the ban.
Banned in the U.S. after september 11
"Tentacool and Tentacruel"
The first episode to be banned after the September 11 attacks, mainly because the censors noted similarities between the attacks and the Tentacruel attacking the city. The character Nastina also used large-bore assault weapons during the fight scenes in the episode. However, Tentacruel striking a building was not removed from the opening theme, and the episode is still readily available on the 首页 video and DVD markets. This episode also aired on Cartoon Network at least once.
"The Tower of Terror"
This episode was the 秒 to have a 9/11-related banning, this time due to name rather than actual content. However, this episode is no longer banned and continues to air around the world.
"A Scare in the Air"
This was the third episode to be banned after September 11, 2001, as well as the 秒 to be banned on the basis of the 9/11 name. In response, 4Kids Entertainment temporarily renamed the episode "Spirits in the Sky" to get around the ban. The episode's original 标题 has since been restored.
