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Answerman - Why Were Some Animation Techniques Banned?

Wasn't it only broadcast once in japan and never never shown again? I heard that 4Kids tried editing the episode to make it safe, but I assume that they scrapped it, I mean I've never heard anything about it being aired or released on home media anywhere else in the world, and they've dubbed that episode into any other languages.

]This is from memory, but I looked for that episode to air in the US because of the controversy and I'm pretty sure it did because I saw it and thought it didn't look so busy/startling. Afterwards I read that the episode had been re-animated to reduce the strobe effect and would be included in tape release versions which I just assumed happened. I'm not so much a fan that I got any of those. I saw on Wikipedia that the episode was never shown again in Japan but I wonder then how you saw it?

Porygon 2 and Porygon-Z were never shown in the anime because of that first Porygon episode, right???

That really sucks, kinda. I mean, why create the evolutions and not air them??? They may as well not even exist.

Gina Szanboti wrote:

What the hell are tripes?

Edible stomach linings! Popular in many cuisines, less so in others.

As for specific DBZ episodes that might have to be retooled, go watch the episode-long Kamehameha duel between Gohan and Cell. I rewatched it a few months back on FUNimation and there were segments where I was afraid to stare at the full screen for more than a few seconds straight. Long segments of the episode feature Gohan, Goku, and Cell talking around while the two colliding Kamehamehas strobe continuously. Even worse, in the storyboards featuring Gohan looking in the direction of the fourth wall, there are two strobing effects on screen at once: the outer strobing effect from the Kamehameha collision and an even more aggressive strobing effect right on Gohan's hand to represent the source of his Kamahameha.

Though I think that was a typo of "stripes."

I'm pretty sure this seizure thing has mostly been debunked. From what I recall maybe a dozen kids actually had a seizure and everyone else just faked it for attention or sympathy so that an actual victim wouldn't feel bad for having it happen and nothing was found to be wrong with 95% of the people who went to the hospital.

Not sure why this story keeps getting repeated.

I'm pretty sure this seizure thing has mostly been debunked...nothing was found to be wrong with 95% of the people who went to the hospital. Not sure why this story keeps getting repeated.

t I wouldn't say 95% "faked" a problem.

Later, researchers who studied the Pokemon phenomenon reported in the Southern Medical Journal that only a small fraction of the 618 children treated were actually diagnosed with photosensitive epilepsy.

Pokémon Panic Timeline

Tuesday December 16, 1997 6:30 p.m.
Pokémon Episode 38 (Computer Warrior Polygon) airs; the flashing lights segment begins at about 6:50; the Fire-Defense agency claims that between 6:50 and 7:30, 618 children were rushed to hospitals with convulsions, headaches, and vision problems.

Tuesday December 16, 1997 (later that night)
Evening news reports that hundreds of children were taken to hospitals from Pokémon fits; some news shows then rebroadcast the scene suspected of causing the seizures. A second wave of children (number unknown) is affected upon hearing the news.

Wednesday December 17, 1997
Pokémon attacks are “the talk of the schoolyards"; “Television and newspaper headlines Wednesday morning were dominated by the reports.” The number of victims reported in the media ranges from over 600 to over 700.

Thursday December 18, 1997
Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reports that nearly 13,000 children had “at least minor symptoms,” with 685 taken to hospitals.