Pokemon the ice cave why is it banned

You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Episode Banning in 5th Series of Pokemon. There was the 5th season of Pokemon when an unexpected banning to took place. The Ice Cave - Reason for banning-Team Rocket purposefully giving Brock the flu or hypothermia which ringed some of the symptoms of the SARS virus going around at the time of this episode's airing so it would have been deemed unfit for viewing at the time.

Electric Soldier Porygon-Reason for banning - Porygon was being attacked with missiles. Then Pickachu ran up and Thunderbolted the missile causing several hundred red and blue flashes in 5 seconds resulting in cases of seizures,migraines and vomiting in Japanese hospitals.

Legend Of Dratini - Reason for banning - The use of projectile weapons guns ,although guns have been used in other episodes none of them was firing towards people as shown in this episode. Moving to the Anime forum Carrington New Member. Actually, the Ice Cave episode isn't banned. WB's just taking its sweet time in deciding when it's fit to air, that's all.

Perhaps we may have to wait until Cartoon Network shows season 5 since you referred to Master Quest as series 5, I assume you're probably British , but we'll eventually see that Ice Cave episode. Also, the first banned episode was later edited majorly and aired only twice. While quite a bit was cut out, the Japanese writing was not. Beauty and the Beach, the 18th episode of the Pokemon anime, is a bit of a unique case in that it has actually aired in the United States before.

The controversial episode, which features sexually suggestive themes involving the underage girl Misty and Team Rocket member James showing off his comically inflated breasts, was heavily edited for the couple of times it was shown outside of Japan. Due to its sexual content, the episode hasn't been released on DVD and is unavailable on streaming services like Netflix as well. The Legend of Dratini is another episode that has been banned in the United States, but is available in other languages.

The episode was banned for a couple of different reasons; for one, it features multiple scenes with firearms, and two, it shows Meowth with what appears to be an Adolf Hitler-style mustache.

Unfortunately for anyone who wants to watch the entire Pokemon anime series in English, this episode has never been dubbed, and its absence also causes some rather glaring continuity errors. It was in this episode that Ash caught his 30 Tauros at the Safari Zone , and so viewers may be confused when he suddenly has them as part of his team in later episodes. Out of all the banned Pokemon anime episodes, this may be the most notorious.

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You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. The Ice Cave! Thread starter Serebii Start date Oct 23, Serebii And, as if by magic, the webmaster appeared Staff member. Can they be stopped? These episodes were banned from airing in South Korea , causing South Korean continuity errors in the anime's run.

Furthermore, episodes EP to EP were simply never aired, for unknown reasons. Occasionally there are episodes that are not banned in Japanese or English, but are banned in another country.