Video is missing one huge fact: the Japanese name of Kadabra is literally "Yungerer". It was totally inspired from his image. Whether he should have tried to sue, I'm not so sure, but he didn't take it to court just over the spoon alone.
@@johnathantaylor5913 Thanks for telling that, if it was only about the spoons then it would be weird but that fact makes it a little more viable well not like super viable but a little more viable
@@johnathantaylor5913 How do you know for sure that Kadabra was based on Uri? Have you asked Game Freak directly or are you just pulling comments out of your ass?
@Greatest artist who ever lived I can see it now. Greatest opens the door. Man at door: "Hello sir, we're with FaceBook International. You've been selected as this year's grand prize winner!" Greatest: "FaceBook International? You mean the FBI?" Man at door: "No, it's . . . " Greatest *pulling out a machine gun and opening fire* : "You'll never take me alive!"
According to all known laws of human decency, there is no way a man should be able to draw loli hentai. Its disgusring and too appalling to make a profit. The japanese, of course, draw loli hentai anyway because japanese don't care what yankees think is for degenerates.
@@nemesisalex9424 ehh but Brock is still prob too old. 12 year olds flirting with their class mates is one thing, but if a high schooler dates a 12 year old eyebrows will get raised.
pokemon came out when i was in 6th grade (around 1998). no girl at 12 in any of my 6th grade classes had a chest that big. they did by 8th and 9th grade. japanese and making girls busty... i still don't get it.
Anime and the like aren't real! So long as people don't harm/use real children, then i don't care what they do. It's a waste of my time/energy to care for such "issues". If people focused on real issues, there'd be less children being trafficked and raped. Arguing over fictional characters is the laziest form of combating the issue (the useless U.N. could learn something here).
well because its only in sub version and it had to be fan sub version, 4kids weren't going show anything plus they were worse company ever when it came to censorship
Actually, when I was a kid watching pokémon at least, there was a 12 year old girl in my class with the figure of Misty in the Manga and another with D cups, so I'd say Misty's figure is fairly accurate.
Yeah, it's definitely possible. I know twins who were at least a C when they were 13. You never would have known they were 13 if you didn't actually know them though.
@@solitaregames ok, just looked that bulbapedia, apparently she is 21 by the time of the second movie (the lugia one) but the dialog waa changed in the dub. Looks like I was wrong 😅
If people really want to treat fictional character like real people, then let me remind you that Misty and Ash should be like 30 now, since you know they were created like 20 years ago. Let them take care of their own legal issues.
Not even the right mustache. The style that was given a bad name by Hitler was the formerly popular toothbrush mustache. This cut became popular during WWI due to it being one of the few ways you could have facial hair without compromising a gas mask.
Most of these controversies are just him assuming the worst. Gamefreak: "So.. let's not openly say that she keeps her pokeballs in her bikini top" Whatculture Gaming: "HERE IS ANOTHER PART WHERE THEY EXPLICITLY ENCOURAGES CHILD PORNOGRAPHY!"
@@maxteraform That episode had the flashing light in a strobe that covers the full screen with blue to red in rapid succession. I think that caused the seizures. Other anime have bright lights and flashes but I haven't seen them design it to strobe in the same way that episode did. (btw, if you haven't seen it wasn't shown in this video)
@@sociallyineptspider-man2366 Not wrong at all they express they're culture through they're are however they want. Blackface is only bad when used to mock or make fun of blacks.
Mentions creepy trainers. Ignores the all-lesbian gym if you play as a girl in FireRed/LeafGreen. EDIT - you missed the TCG card that had Sabrina giving players the finger. Yes, I know it was just the way she was lofting the Pokeball, but still . . . pretty funny to ten-year-old me.
@@personalspace6270 I don't find it an issue, but the fact that they used the original "flirty" dialogue even if you play the female character was hilarious to me, and a little bit weird when you realize that they're hitting on a 10-year-old. Just surprised it didn't get mentioned.
Ahoyhoy There, Fellow RUclipsrino! I have a Pokemon Conspiracy no one got to. Look up my video under "Groenfan Meowth" i recorded the footag from a home Videocassette , yes , one that is available to the public, if you can find it on tape.
I can somewhat understand why people would get upset about Nazis in anime or a deliberate salute/cosplay related to Nazis. However, that symbol of peace shouldn't be censored or hated because it looks similar to a swastika. People need to grow up and stop getting offended by silly things.
What would be great is if people in the West knew enough about Buddhism to know what that symbol is. Unfortunately, East-West cultural exchange does not seem to have extended to this.
Big issue I have with this list: "The Manga" that Cleary is referring to is the Electric Tale of Pikachu manga that was done by known doujinshi/adult content artist Toshihiro Ono. Generally, when people hear "the [Pokemon] Manga", they think of Pokemon Adventures/Pokemon Special....which has its own bundle of issues, doesn't it,
You forgot the Japanese version of the opening theme where it says to find them all even "under girl's skirts" as Pikachu runs under the girl and she grabs her skirt
@Rockin' Roll Given the scenes in question involved a kid even younger than her and her traveling companions that are about her age I don't see how pedophilia is relevant, also, SHE'S A FICTIONAL CHARACTER. Someone literally just decided what her age is, its an anime, they could make her 100 and still have her look the same.
Considering "weebs" are generally virgins who would always prefer fictional 2D character to real people, it's very unlikely that this would make them interested in real children whatsoever. Seriously, no real 12-years old dresses up and has the look and body like Misty, and if they do, then you should be concerned with her parents first before anything else.
That was not a Nazi salute in the anime. It is a similar-looking salute (similar-looking, but not exactly the same looking) that is/was often done in Japanese middle school and high school sports competition ceremonies. That scene in the anime had Team Rocket winning a Pokemon competition. They were doing the middle/high school sports competition salute because they were in a Pokemon competition. It was a sports competition joke/reference. It wasn't a Nazi joke/reference. If you happen to walk by a Japanese school during a sports competition ceremony, you might see that salute now in 2019. It's not a Nazi salute. It's not even the same arm/hand movements.
@EmperorBubba Why can't people outside of Japan learn about the culture of Japan? Why is learning about someone else's culture such a weird concept? But okay, some people don't want to learn. Fine. But (but again) you have learned now. Just now. I've told you what it is, so now you have no excuse to think it's the Nazi salute. And again, it's not even the same arm/hand movements as the Nazi salute.
@EmperorBubba The Nazi salute wasn't a military salute. The Nazi salute was a political salute. It was a political salute used by German civilians. The German military (generally speaking*) did not use the Nazi salute. The German military (again, generally speaking*) used its traditional military salute instead. *There was some use of the salute by the German military, of course.
The hidden pokeball thing was in Gen 5, Misty has no set age in the games (though that doesn’t excuse the anime or having a hentai artist draw an official manga, even if it was only one official manga out of many), for the Grimer card the upskirt is a cultural joke (the original theme song even has a line “under that girl’s skirt” as Pikachu runs under her) though I agree it doesn’t translate worldwide.
mad lightning That wasn’t my point (though I do disagree with you to a point). My point was them hiring that guy to draw an official manga is the equivalent of Disney hiring Shadman to design their movie posters.
Mauricio Loya the point isn’t that drawing hentai doesn’t mean you don’t have any talent, the point is that their main claim to fame is that they draw hentai. I think the Shadman argument is still the best comparison. No matter how nasty or sickening the subject of some of his drawings are, the guy clearly has talent. That doesn’t mean Disney should go hiring him for official projects.
So the Goosestep from the Lion King is okay, but not the salute? Despite the director of the Lion King explicitly stating that the Hyenas' march was a direct reference?
My guess is that people are more ok with animals doing it as a reference than with humans doing it. Personally I'm not bothered by it unless the reference is trying to say that Nazis were/are good people.
@@chrissabal7937 Nazis fixed their country into a world power while the US still had segregation and recession. Imagine that, the Nazis were more progressive and inclusive. They also had J3ws in their military.
@@dansmith1661 Capitalism is a corrupt and vile force, making capitalists (i.e. the U.S.) corrupt and vile. Social programs helped bring Germany back from the destruction of WWI, then the Nazis wanted to commit genocide. Of course it isn't generally helpful to make sweeping statements about groups of people, because it can be reductive. Overall though, Nazis were not and are not good people. Anybody who is blatantly racist and plays this game of "Let's ethnically cleanse this bitch" cannot be called a good person. Yes, a full conversation about the Nazi regime is more nuanced than "Nazi bad" but we should never fool ourselves into defending them (nor any corrupt regime like it, including the entire history of the U.S. It's atrocious).
The sexualization of characters doesn't really surprise me. Remember this show is made in a country were the legal sexual age for males and females Is 13 years old.
@@456MrPeople the prefectures have laws that raise the age. 13 is the age I'd a prefecture has no law about it. But I'm pretty sure there are still stipulations either way, since pretty much every country has a law to protect children
as most countries around the world the legal age is different than the US... 13-15 sounds pretty much the average around the world, as in most states in the US it is 16... 13 is not much of a difference development wise
@Steve N Hitler's been dead for Generations it shouldn't matter anymore I know people worry about stuff like that happening again but come on it's just a hand salute give it a rest.
because it has a different cultural impact in the US and many other places around the world where black makeup isn't seen as a fashion trend but as racism.... while shitting on the table while eating might be acceptable at your home you'd probably get thrown out of my house for even taking off your pants at the table
It was claims of america after segregation. You could see how in america it would seem weird that your child is watching a cartoon where a character is black and has pink lips.
I get the comparison to black face with jynx... but ganguro is definitely not the same as black face. they’re just meant to be tanned, as a form of rebellion against the traditional Japanese beauty ideals of pale skin and dark hair (ganguro is the opposite - tanned/bronzed skin and bleached hair usually).
Wow, whoever wrote this doesn't like research beyond age. On top of that the person reading the script didn't try to think otherwise. Misty isn't as sexualized as other 10-12 year olds in the manga. Sure raunchy things in Pokemon, not included here is how you get TM Flash in Black and White. You go down an alleyway and a guy hidden behind a dumpster "has something special for you under his coat". At which point you get Flash. As someone who has never played that gen it isn't hard to find information for a subject. Also Meowth isn't in any way, shape or form dressed like Hitler. It's a basic old style detective look.
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8:13 Meowth's literal line from that scene is "What's your mother doing back in the country? Don't make her worry so much." Does that sound like or even look like Hitler? He's playing good cop to James' bad cop because he's dressed up as a detective, he's even got the lamp pointed at the guy.
on jinx, a little observation, you may have want to say USA audience instead of global audience, becase you know, blackface was NOT A THING in most of the world little edit because a couple typos
I genuinely laughed through most of this list. I think as a 22 year old pokemon and anime fan... Well what can I say, take it with a grain of salt. Its just a show. Its doesn't have to be all that serious and plus Japanese and western culture are so different can you really be all that surprised? Not that I'm defending the flaws/mistakes. All I'm saying is that there are much worst things to worry about. Great video.
I heard that Uri Geller decided to allow Kadabra to be printed a few months ago. The truth of the whole ordeal's still a complete mystery to me, though...
There's little visual difference between the "Nazi salute" and kids raising their hands in class to ask a question, so why was the pokemon episode a no-go while school manners aren't?
That's a horrible argument. That was a straight up salute that looked like the nazi salute. That wasn't a raise hand. That was a slight angle. Try going back to school and instead of raising your hand straight up point it down a little more and see what happens.
@kshamwhizzle In japan it is. Cultural difference between here and america are what they are, also worry about a fictional character pales in comparison to the stuff that goes on in parts of europe
Justice for porygon! Make pikachu accountable for his actions. 100% serious, I'm not a fan of pikachu and ash and it's not fair potygon takes the blame
Fun Fact: While Misty/Kasumi is 12 in The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga, she's actually 10 in the anime. Which is weird, because Electric Tale is an adaptation of the anime. Anyway, her age is never actually given in the games nor in the main Pokemon Adventures manga. If she were indeed 12 in the RBY games, then she would be 15 in the GSC games(since they take place 3 years after).
@@rasheedqe I think you need to reevaluate some things if you truly think theres anything remotely pedophilic about that misty stuff in this video... even the card one was a solid artistic piece.
Sure they are 10-12. But they are also operating established businesses, handles creatures that can literally burn a city, travels completely without adult supervision and partake in street cockfight and gambling. If people want to bring legality to fictional universes there are a whole lot more they should be concerned about other than sexualization.
Oof, swing and a miss there guys! Kadabra's Japanese name is Yunghelor. Uri Geller case was the fact that a pokemon had a very similar name, and also used psychic powers to bend spoons (which was his entire shtick) basically infringed on the only two things associated with his "fame".
It's funny you mention the Safari Zone episode with all the guns not airing in the west. I for some reason can remember Ash catching all of the Tauros and I've lived in Australia all my life, so that shouldn't be possible
The easternmost point of Australia is within half a degree of longitude of the easternmost point of Japan, so describing it as part of "the west" is a bit of a misnomer. More to the point, the episode in question did not air in the US, which is all the research that anyone writing this likely did. Whether it aired elsewhere was not taken into consideration.
Yea pretty much. Everybody has been using their own standards to judge other cultures for centuries, its slowly changing but yea, just yea..... The world needs to chill.....
good luck with that ever happening. people are getting more & more offended by ever smaller issues these days. i truly fear for my children when i ever have them. my 8 yr old son could give a girl classmate a birthday card then he'd get a sexual harassment charge for it.
You keep harping on Misty's age, but I've personally met girls just as young as her, and even some who were younger, who had more developed figures. Not that significant to me.
Too much criticism can kill a perfectly good thing. I'm not blaming you specifically - but this type of overbearing criticism hinders creativity. To the point of possibly ruining a perfectly good story. So there's a peeping tom? So what? A guy talks about real life problems? And children will read it?! God forbid! This is why Pokemon, which started out as a really funny show, has turned mellow & bland. You can't please everyone, right? But you try - you become grayish & dull. As a perfect example: Dragon Ball was a hilarious Manga. I read it when I was 16, and it had some funny sexually-oriented jokes. Master Roshi wanted Bulma to take off her clothes so he could see her panties. There were some very funny moments! All of this - and other - aspects of the humor were completely demolished, because of such overbearing criticism. A "pervert"? In a show for kids?! Let's pretend these things don't exist. Let's just all pretend we're completely a-sexual! Sexuality is a part of life. Laughing about it is the single best way to accept & embrace it. Teaching our children to laugh about it - is the single best approach in my opinion. Criticizing everything in an attempt to make it "PC" - is an effort which befits totalitarian regimes, and bears rotten fruits called "censorship". Eventually - children WILL find out about "perverts" & sexuality - they'll find out while nobody's looking. Last but not least: children will not understand a breastfeeding joke?... you've got to be kidding, right? Children are the FIRST to understand those jokes. How extremely uptight, overbearing. Just... pffft
I hear the artist of many of the manga was also an accomplished hentai artist... so yeah, what do you think is gonna happen when you ask him to draw female characters?
To be slightly fairer to Uri Geller, the Japanese name for Kadabra is Yungerer. The Japanese character for n is fairly visually similar to the character for ri. It was intentionally named as a slight corruption of Yuri Geller. Abra's name in Japanese is also a reference to a claimed psychic, and Alakazam is named after Houdini. Though, if anything, Geller should have been honored. After all, Kadabra actually is psychic, while Geller is just a fraud. When Kadabra bends a spoon, there's no cheating involved.
Wasn't "Houdini" itself derived from "Robert-Houdin"? And Spike Lee sued over "Spike TV", so Geller isn't the only one to have pulled that sort of stunt.
"In pokemon x and y..." *uses black and white* "Misty is 12 years old..." *shes a cartoon who doesn't exist* "Pokemon is racist" *the show never uses racist slurs and only people who wanted to see black face saw black face* Let me enjoy my fucking show.
At no point do you mention that Kadabra's Japanese name is a corruption of Uri Geller's name. The way you talked about it, you made it seem like Uri Geller is crazy to think Kadabra is based on him. He may or may not be crazy for other reasons, but not this particular reason, lol.
Jonathan BarSela Alakazam’s Japanese name is a reference to Harry Houdini. Kadabra’s Japanese name is a reference to Uri Geller. And Abra’s Japanese name is a reference to yet another person (Edgar Cayce).
I thought of a much better way to think of Pokemon battles, anyway, and that is more like boxing, UFC fighting, or pro wrestling, and the reason why they merely faint usually is because it has safety measures in place to make sure things don't go horribly, horribly wrong. Things unfortunately can still go wrong, and the reason why wild Pokemon still only faint when you face off against them is also because of trainers enacting these safety measures if their own Pokemon still want to go at the wild Pokemon even after they'd fainted.
not sure if it was mentioned, the particular manga you're referencing was a one-off series done by a mangaka who usually draws hentai doujin and tried to imply she was in her mid-late teens. it was heavily edited for the US market but regardless ran about 12 chapters and was cancelled.
*in a Bill Clinton voice* "You know the best part of these pokemon girls, I keep gettin' older but they stay the same age." Lol it is weird, I first encountered Misty at 4 years old.
I used to work for a company called "The Entertainer" which is a pretty big chain in UK. We sold Pokemon cards from when they came out, all the way up until the set "XY Evolutions" because the CEO, who is a absolute nutter and big into Jesus, actually found out that Pokemon involves evolution and banned it from sale in his stores.
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Kadabra: **Holds spoon**
Uri Geller: ...wait thats illegal
Video is missing one huge fact: the Japanese name of Kadabra is literally "Yungerer". It was totally inspired from his image. Whether he should have tried to sue, I'm not so sure, but he didn't take it to court just over the spoon alone.
@@johnathantaylor5913 Thanks for telling that, if it was only about the spoons then it would be weird but that fact makes it a little more viable well not like super viable but a little more viable
Mega alakazam: Omae wah mou shindeiru
@@johnathantaylor5913 How do you know for sure that Kadabra was based on Uri? Have you asked Game Freak directly or are you just pulling comments out of your ass?
I always thought the spoons were cool. Is that weird?
I thought the implication was that she was keeping them in her bikini, not stuffing them up herself.
Even though it's a race of people who lewds little children, they don't suggest balls for available orifices, of course it was the bikini.
Is that a poke-ball in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
@@10tailedbijuu Neither would they fit... regardless of age.
@@MrHenrikAndersson In the anime at least, Pokeballs can shrink and enlarge.
@Ryan Gordon Same here. Don't know how they drew that conclusion. Their mind must live in the gutter. That or it's wishful thinking on their part.
I came for the lolibait
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That came out wro- FBI OPEN UP!!!
Yare yare daze.
SMH LOL
@Greatest artist who ever lived I can see it now. Greatest opens the door.
Man at door: "Hello sir, we're with FaceBook International. You've been selected as this year's grand prize winner!"
Greatest: "FaceBook International? You mean the FBI?"
Man at door: "No, it's . . . "
Greatest *pulling out a machine gun and opening fire* : "You'll never take me alive!"
I'm gonna go bust one to Misty hentai I'll be right back.
@Greatest artist who ever lived great imagination you got there chief
Sure she's 12, but that's, like, 84 in growlithe years. Japan knew what they were doing.
The host constantly clarifying Misty is 12 tells me he is trying to deny his past of "enjoying himself" to certain corners of the internet XD
Dan Johnson ikr
I never knew Misty was 12 to begin with, I thought she was 15-16
@@Ballowax that's a lie and you know it
The sad part is that we've all been there and we didn't she's really 12 untill it's too late
Hey, i was 12 once too.
I love the way Japan doesn't care what the world thinks
Sounds good to me.
I'd imagine they've got their share of stuffy conservative prudes too, but censoring media grinds my gears.
@@runningoncylinders3829 i dont think sjws are concervatives
@@dantevic That's what I keep telling myself but someone else keeps telling me the vast majority of them are.
@@M4A1BestGirl most of them wamt free speach an if you watch anit censoreship vids many are concer anti sjw
According to all known laws of human decency, there is no way a man should be able to draw loli hentai. Its disgusring and too appalling to make a profit. The japanese, of course, draw loli hentai anyway because japanese don't care what yankees think is for degenerates.
Yeah we know misty is 12
So why are u guys using that pic as thumbnail ?!!
They're working with the FBI! Clear your search history quick! This video's a trap!
So.
Seem about right
Those Brit PokeTubers like their trainer young.
Moostached Saiyan Prince I don't know what you're talking about, but I hear someone knocking at my door, I'll be right back to talk about it.
Misty being 12 years old never stopped internet and pretty sure its not gonna stop it now xD
I mean they can just say "they are older in my interpretation" and nobody can really argue against it
It wasn't a Staryu card, it was "Misty's Tears"
Not an excuse, just a correction
Thank you!
Adam: *calls PETA notoriously laid back*
Me : *dies of RAGE induced laughing*
Me too man. Me too.
Same here
It was sarcasm
@@drunozeko4332 it really wasn't.
Same
*See japanese manga version of Jessie*
God dayum! As for Ash oggling Misty in a bikini, he is around her age so that's not as bad.
And brock is also just a bit older too
@@nemesisalex9424 ehh but Brock is still prob too old. 12 year olds flirting with their class mates is one thing, but if a high schooler dates a 12 year old eyebrows will get raised.
In the anime misty is 10 misty is 12 in the manga
@@nemesisalex9424 Brock is about 15 or 16, I think.
Wait Misty is 12!?!
Is this canon?, because I really need to delete some stuff in this case
She not 12 anymore. Everyone aged in the games. Look at Red,Green and Blue. They are adults now.
pokemon came out when i was in 6th grade (around 1998). no girl at 12 in any of my 6th grade classes had a chest that big. they did by 8th and 9th grade. japanese and making girls busty... i still don't get it.
GladDestronger but 12/13 year olds were around 7th grade,
Anime and the like aren't real! So long as people don't harm/use real children, then i don't care what they do.
It's a waste of my time/energy to care for such "issues".
If people focused on real issues, there'd be less children being trafficked and raped.
Arguing over fictional characters is the laziest form of combating the issue (the useless U.N. could learn something here).
@@Jesse12489 only took 20 years for them not to be 12 anymore
I've never seen the "suck breast" scene, at least the kid was polite enough to ask...
well because its only in sub version and it had to be fan sub version, 4kids weren't going show anything plus they were worse company ever when it came to censorship
kyotheman69
Yeah
Not Pokémon but in dbz they changed the well known “spirit bomb” to spirit blast.
*VISIBLE FRUSTRATION*
Actually, when I was a kid watching pokémon at least, there was a 12 year old girl in my class with the figure of Misty in the Manga and another with D cups, so I'd say Misty's figure is fairly accurate.
Yeah, it's definitely possible. I know twins who were at least a C when they were 13. You never would have known they were 13 if you didn't actually know them though.
Not to mention that Latina 12 year old looks like 18 year olds.
Fun fact: Jessie is also a minor. She's 15. XD
@@nemesisalex9424 I thought it was stated that she was 17.
@@solitaregames ok, just looked that bulbapedia, apparently she is 21 by the time of the second movie (the lugia one) but the dialog waa changed in the dub. Looks like I was wrong 😅
If people really want to treat fictional character like real people, then let me remind you that Misty and Ash should be like 30 now, since you know they were created like 20 years ago.
Let them take care of their own legal issues.
Ikr 🤣
ash is lame dub name, real character is Red or anime has name of creator of pokemon
@@kyotheman69 don't forget that somehow we get "ash" from the name Satoshi
@@kyotheman69 ash and red are completely different people
Took a shot everytime he says 12. Still in the hospital with liver failure
Freaking lightweight.
@@jekblom123 Homemade Cachaça packs a huge punch kkkk
08:13 dosent appear to look like hitler. Is anyone with a moustache hitler!? Am I hitler? 😨
Looks more like J. Jonah Jameson to me
@@darthgorbag Yea it was never anything to do with him... It's just a cliche '30s\'40s noir detective outfit
Not even the right mustache. The style that was given a bad name by Hitler was the formerly popular toothbrush mustache. This cut became popular during WWI due to it being one of the few ways you could have facial hair without compromising a gas mask.
@@nobodyimportant2470 I did not know about the gas mask thing, thank you.
Wow I'm hitler at 16 years old
Most of these controversies are just him assuming the worst.
Gamefreak: "So.. let's not openly say that she keeps her pokeballs in her bikini top"
Whatculture Gaming: "HERE IS ANOTHER PART WHERE THEY EXPLICITLY ENCOURAGES CHILD PORNOGRAPHY!"
I am surprised that he didn't mention the trainer couple that battle with a Cloyster and an Onix.
I dont think you know what that word means.
Yes womens secret is bra
Even in the manga they have pokeballs in their bras
Yeah it thought this was a bit exaggerated
You say controversies, I see Jp anime troupes
I agree, especially the part about Porygon. I mean DBZ and other anime has a lot of blinding light.
@@maxteraform That episode had the flashing light in a strobe that covers the full screen with blue to red in rapid succession. I think that caused the seizures. Other anime have bright lights and flashes but I haven't seen them design it to strobe in the same way that episode did. (btw, if you haven't seen it wasn't shown in this video)
@@maxteraform that episode caused a lot of kids in Japan to have seizures and there was no epilepsy warning
@@mellamojeff458 Everywhere it was aired people with no history of epileps were having massive seizures thats why the episode was banned
@@hollowanubis4295 ah
"Meowth, that's Reich!" Goddammit, I'm glad I don't watch the anime anymore cuz I'll never unhear that 🤣
By far the best part of the video.
@@JMONTY7654 Yep, I lost it at that part. XD
8:14 appearently some people don't know what a hitler mustache looks like... this is clearly not a hitler mustache
That's probably a tojo mustache. Japanese don't need our war criminals; they have their own and they're just as bad.
@@FeyFong Isn't this a generic allways angry shouting police chef mustache? Something totally american?
You're right, looking at it more carefully it is a cartoon like toy mustache put the wrong way. What kind of mustache grows upward?
Yeah it annoys the heck out of me that people are still barfing that crap to this day without any thought whatsoever.
7:35 to be more exact, they all are called Swastikas, not just the symbol the Nazis used/apropriated
Manji
3 of these are just west did something so Japanese have to change it not to offend them.
The Japanese never changed anything, the west is the one censoring stuff
Exactly
Snowflakes be snowflakes.
One was unintentional black face, that shits still wrong
@@sociallyineptspider-man2366 Not wrong at all they express they're culture through they're are however they want. Blackface is only bad when used to mock or make fun of blacks.
8:16 You sure he's dress up like Hitler? To me he looks like a detective interrogating Clint Fareastwood.
To me, he looks like he wants pictures of Spider-man for the papers
Nice!
Mentions creepy trainers.
Ignores the all-lesbian gym if you play as a girl in FireRed/LeafGreen.
EDIT - you missed the TCG card that had Sabrina giving players the finger. Yes, I know it was just the way she was lofting the Pokeball, but still . . . pretty funny to ten-year-old me.
Sorry i never understood why lesbians are such abig issue to the American people. 😆
@@personalspace6270 I don't find it an issue, but the fact that they used the original "flirty" dialogue even if you play the female character was hilarious to me, and a little bit weird when you realize that they're hitting on a 10-year-old. Just surprised it didn't get mentioned.
It could be filled with lesbians. They do give you the Rainbow Badge, after all.
Since they'd hit on you regardless it means they're bi.
Ahoyhoy There, Fellow RUclipsrino! I have a Pokemon Conspiracy no one got to. Look up my video under "Groenfan Meowth" i recorded the footag from a home Videocassette , yes , one that is available to the public, if you can find it on tape.
I can somewhat understand why people would get upset about Nazis in anime or a deliberate salute/cosplay related to Nazis. However, that symbol of peace shouldn't be censored or hated because it looks similar to a swastika. People need to grow up and stop getting offended by silly things.
What would be great is if people in the West knew enough about Buddhism to know what that symbol is. Unfortunately, East-West cultural exchange does not seem to have extended to this.
"Number 2... Oh God." - I burst out laughing at this 😂
I have the naked Misty card. I remember being in the 6th grade and finding it at a card shop and totally bought it.
Only one of this is a controversy the rest are just the west being snowflakes and the writer over compensating to cover up his loli thoughts.
Loli lovers deserve a long drop and a quick stop.
Big issue I have with this list: "The Manga" that Cleary is referring to is the Electric Tale of Pikachu manga that was done by known doujinshi/adult content artist Toshihiro Ono. Generally, when people hear "the [Pokemon] Manga", they think of Pokemon Adventures/Pokemon Special....which has its own bundle of issues, doesn't it,
I know how old Misty is. And I'll have you know I was 12 in 1998 so it's fine lol
I was 4, so if anything she's the creep
Hahaha
@@maxhydekyle2425 always swing up man, keeps you nice and legitimate.
I wasn't even born?
@@raymisuto9872 are you saying women cant be creeps? Or cant sexual assault a man?
So was that a joke that Peta was a "laid back group"? Because it is anything but true
You forgot the Japanese version of the opening theme where it says to find them all even "under girl's skirts" as Pikachu runs under the girl and she grabs her skirt
I'm black and I saw no rascism in jinx during that time I actually liked her like that, now Mr. Popo on the other hand
Lol hahaha Mr.Popo
Mr. Popo is a god! Pecking order!
We don't speak about what happened to blue popo
Mr Popo ate a kameha wave and blocked punches from trunks and goten dude can keep his look.
Pretty adamant on that "12 years old" schtick, like people actually care about the age of an anime character....
@Rockin' Roll Given the scenes in question involved a kid even younger than her and her traveling companions that are about her age I don't see how pedophilia is relevant, also, SHE'S A FICTIONAL CHARACTER. Someone literally just decided what her age is, its an anime, they could make her 100 and still have her look the same.
@Rockin' Roll dude, you need to chill the hell out, it's not that serious, it's not real my guy.
@Rockin' Roll age of concent in Japan is 13. So it's not "pedo" at all🤷♂️ I don't think you even know the proper meaning of that word
Considering "weebs" are generally virgins who would always prefer fictional 2D character to real people, it's very unlikely that this would make them interested in real children whatsoever. Seriously, no real 12-years old dresses up and has the look and body like Misty, and if they do, then you should be concerned with her parents first before anything else.
@@rayk5598 tell that to the kid claiming anyone interested in a 12 year old character is a pedo...
I replayed you saying “controversies” a few times.
Mispronounced
That was not a Nazi salute in the anime. It is a similar-looking salute (similar-looking, but not exactly the same looking) that is/was often done in Japanese middle school and high school sports competition ceremonies. That scene in the anime had Team Rocket winning a Pokemon competition. They were doing the middle/high school sports competition salute because they were in a Pokemon competition. It was a sports competition joke/reference. It wasn't a Nazi joke/reference.
If you happen to walk by a Japanese school during a sports competition ceremony, you might see that salute now in 2019. It's not a Nazi salute. It's not even the same arm/hand movements.
@EmperorBubba Why can't people outside of Japan learn about the culture of Japan? Why is learning about someone else's culture such a weird concept? But okay, some people don't want to learn. Fine. But (but again) you have learned now. Just now. I've told you what it is, so now you have no excuse to think it's the Nazi salute.
And again, it's not even the same arm/hand movements as the Nazi salute.
@EmperorBubba The Nazi salute wasn't a military salute. The Nazi salute was a political salute. It was a political salute used by German civilians. The German military (generally speaking*) did not use the Nazi salute. The German military (again, generally speaking*) used its traditional military salute instead.
*There was some use of the salute by the German military, of course.
@@suntanironman Romans did it over a thousand years ago.
@@dansmith1661 US school children did too, till around 1940 or so.
'ADOPNFGU' really rolls of the tongue...
“If there’s fluff on the muff, she’s old enough!” - Japan
If there isn't then all you have to say is "she was OK with it and she recently shaved"
The hidden pokeball thing was in Gen 5, Misty has no set age in the games (though that doesn’t excuse the anime or having a hentai artist draw an official manga, even if it was only one official manga out of many), for the Grimer card the upskirt is a cultural joke (the original theme song even has a line “under that girl’s skirt” as Pikachu runs under her) though I agree it doesn’t translate worldwide.
It's animated it's not harming anyone it's not real life people want to draw lewd's of an animated character let em.
Technically, that would make her... at least 16 in gen 2?
mad lightning That wasn’t my point (though I do disagree with you to a point). My point was them hiring that guy to draw an official manga is the equivalent of Disney hiring Shadman to design their movie posters.
George Glover you do know several hentai artists have gone on to make very successful mangas right
Mauricio Loya the point isn’t that drawing hentai doesn’t mean you don’t have any talent, the point is that their main claim to fame is that they draw hentai. I think the Shadman argument is still the best comparison. No matter how nasty or sickening the subject of some of his drawings are, the guy clearly has talent. That doesn’t mean Disney should go hiring him for official projects.
So the Goosestep from the Lion King is okay, but not the salute? Despite the director of the Lion King explicitly stating that the Hyenas' march was a direct reference?
Yes, because Disney good Japan scary.
Nah but it's really probably because most people recognize one but not so much the other :b
My guess is that people are more ok with animals doing it as a reference than with humans doing it. Personally I'm not bothered by it unless the reference is trying to say that Nazis were/are good people.
@@chrissabal7937 Nazis fixed their country into a world power while the US still had segregation and recession. Imagine that, the Nazis were more progressive and inclusive. They also had J3ws in their military.
@@dansmith1661 Capitalism is a corrupt and vile force, making capitalists (i.e. the U.S.) corrupt and vile. Social programs helped bring Germany back from the destruction of WWI, then the Nazis wanted to commit genocide. Of course it isn't generally helpful to make sweeping statements about groups of people, because it can be reductive. Overall though, Nazis were not and are not good people. Anybody who is blatantly racist and plays this game of "Let's ethnically cleanse this bitch" cannot be called a good person. Yes, a full conversation about the Nazi regime is more nuanced than "Nazi bad" but we should never fool ourselves into defending them (nor any corrupt regime like it, including the entire history of the U.S. It's atrocious).
@@chrissabal7937 Where is the proof of this genocide? What harm did they do?
The sexualization of characters doesn't really surprise me. Remember this show is made in a country were the legal sexual age for males and females Is 13 years old.
Wait what? Is that still the case today?
@@456MrPeople the prefectures have laws that raise the age. 13 is the age I'd a prefecture has no law about it. But I'm pretty sure there are still stipulations either way, since pretty much every country has a law to protect children
Fr? I'm 14, finna move to Japan xD
@@peanits333
Don't get to happy about it there are stipulations by prefecture and you could get screwed by them.
as most countries around the world the legal age is different than the US... 13-15 sounds pretty much the average around the world, as in most states in the US it is 16... 13 is not much of a difference development wise
These are all just rehashes of lists that the poke youtubers have done. Nothing new.
Fun Fact: The Nazi Salute isn't the Nazi Salute. That used to just be the standard salute in a variety of western civilization militaries.
The Romans used the salute.....
@Steve N Hitler's been dead for Generations it shouldn't matter anymore I know people worry about stuff like that happening again but come on it's just a hand salute give it a rest.
@Steve N Ah. I wasn't trying to say anything by it. I just wanted to share some historical knowledge. That's all.
Why does everyone still think that the Jynx thing was racist when all it was doing was making fun of a fad of the time in Japan.
Thank you... I think anyone who thinks Jinx is black face/racist is the real racist for trying to pin thier racist claim and thoughts on jinx...
because it has a different cultural impact in the US and many other places around the world where black makeup isn't seen as a fashion trend but as racism.... while shitting on the table while eating might be acceptable at your home you'd probably get thrown out of my house for even taking off your pants at the table
It was claims of america after segregation. You could see how in america it would seem weird that your child is watching a cartoon where a character is black and has pink lips.
Thanks for grouping the whole Christian Church under one bubble. Super knowledgeable
The problem with that is?
@@silliercrayon9588 You're essentially saying all Christians acted the same way as described in the video
"the normally incredibly easygoing christian church"
you said that without the slightest note of sarcasm and it worries me
Westboro baptist: You're all going to hell for not agreeing with us
I get the comparison to black face with jynx... but ganguro is definitely not the same as black face. they’re just meant to be tanned, as a form of rebellion against the traditional Japanese beauty ideals of pale skin and dark hair (ganguro is the opposite - tanned/bronzed skin and bleached hair usually).
While there were some good points...overall most of these were bad points
Well lets be honest, while it was/is geared towards kids, its original players were kids and are now adults.
Animes in a nutshell: trying to appeal towards younger people while appealing towards older people threw umm more uhhh ya let's stop right their
Wow, whoever wrote this doesn't like research beyond age. On top of that the person reading the script didn't try to think otherwise.
Misty isn't as sexualized as other 10-12 year olds in the manga.
Sure raunchy things in Pokemon, not included here is how you get TM Flash in Black and White. You go down an alleyway and a guy hidden behind a dumpster "has something special for you under his coat". At which point you get Flash. As someone who has never played that gen it isn't hard to find information for a subject.
Also Meowth isn't in any way, shape or form dressed like Hitler. It's a basic old style detective look.
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8:13 Meowth's literal line from that scene is "What's your mother doing back in the country? Don't make her worry so much." Does that sound like or even look like Hitler? He's playing good cop to James' bad cop because he's dressed up as a detective, he's even got the lamp pointed at the guy.
"In pokemon X and Y..."
*Proceeds to use a moment from Pokemon Black.
Just another youtuber not knowing anything and trying to appeal to pokemon. Nothing to see here.
on jinx, a little observation, you may have want to say USA audience instead of global audience, becase you know, blackface was NOT A THING in most of the world
little edit because a couple typos
I genuinely laughed through most of this list. I think as a 22 year old pokemon and anime fan... Well what can I say, take it with a grain of salt. Its just a show. Its doesn't have to be all that serious and plus Japanese and western culture are so different can you really be all that surprised? Not that I'm defending the flaws/mistakes. All I'm saying is that there are much worst things to worry about. Great video.
I'm gay
Top 10 Pokemon controversies: Ash Gets Threatened at Gunpoint
Down with all forms of censorship
I heard that Uri Geller decided to allow Kadabra to be printed a few months ago. The truth of the whole ordeal's still a complete mystery to me, though...
There's little visual difference between the "Nazi salute" and kids raising their hands in class to ask a question, so why was the pokemon episode a no-go while school manners aren't?
That's a horrible argument. That was a straight up salute that looked like the nazi salute. That wasn't a raise hand. That was a slight angle. Try going back to school and instead of raising your hand straight up point it down a little more and see what happens.
If your gonna constantly talk about misty being 12 why use the time when she was 15- 16 as a thumbnail?
Because clickbate
@kshamwhizzle In japan it is. Cultural difference between here and america are what they are, also worry about a fictional character pales in comparison to the stuff that goes on in parts of europe
So what you're saying is that indigo league should be watched in japanese
You never talked about Registeel or the Pokemon platinum library lore. Worth a read by the way, it’s quite interesting
As always, entertaining video.~ *continues R34 Porkymon searches* Boy, do I love fiction.
Meowth, thats reich! Best second and a half of visual and audio content in history. World class pun you absolute legend Adam
All of these were covered by literally every pokemon youtuber out there about 5 years ago lol
That doesn't make it black face!
He didnt say it was blackface...sigh
@@matthewfairchild8078 1:22
@@rakebluewallgaming6185 "When you take it to a global audience"... guess you didn't hear the context of the statement.
Justice for porygon! Make pikachu accountable for his actions. 100% serious, I'm not a fan of pikachu and ash and it's not fair potygon takes the blame
Fun Fact: While Misty/Kasumi is 12 in The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga, she's actually 10 in the anime. Which is weird, because Electric Tale is an adaptation of the anime. Anyway, her age is never actually given in the games nor in the main Pokemon Adventures manga. If she were indeed 12 in the RBY games, then she would be 15 in the GSC games(since they take place 3 years after).
She can be 12 . But you know what she`s not ? REAL !
This video is being spammed everywhere left and right because of the damn click bait thumbnail.
RUclips is garbage sometimes.
@@rasheedqe I think you need to reevaluate some things if you truly think theres anything remotely pedophilic about that misty stuff in this video... even the card one was a solid artistic piece.
@@psd.3144 the comment is meant to be sarcastic.
I don't believe she's 12. If she is a gym leader, she must be an adult. Same for the other characters.
Sure they are 10-12. But they are also operating established businesses, handles creatures that can literally burn a city, travels completely without adult supervision and partake in street cockfight and gambling.
If people want to bring legality to fictional universes there are a whole lot more they should be concerned about other than sexualization.
Like most of these lists, uninformed and cobbled together for views without any real research.
X and y or black and white? 🤔
Oof, swing and a miss there guys! Kadabra's Japanese name is Yunghelor. Uri Geller case was the fact that a pokemon had a very similar name, and also used psychic powers to bend spoons (which was his entire shtick) basically infringed on the only two things associated with his "fame".
Our boy clery repeatedly saying misty is 12 is the BEST thing about this video
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It's funny you mention the Safari Zone episode with all the guns not airing in the west. I for some reason can remember Ash catching all of the Tauros and I've lived in Australia all my life, so that shouldn't be possible
The easternmost point of Australia is within half a degree of longitude of the easternmost point of Japan, so describing it as part of "the west" is a bit of a misnomer.
More to the point, the episode in question did not air in the US, which is all the research that anyone writing this likely did. Whether it aired elsewhere was not taken into consideration.
So i really should have held on to those kadabra cards huh. Sounds like they might be worth something now
Misty’s body is definitely accurate for a twelve year old even in the manga there is a clear difference from her body there and an adult woman’s body
Yep
So basically the big problems are western sensibilities and cultural differences
Yea pretty much. Everybody has been using their own standards to judge other cultures for centuries, its slowly changing but yea, just yea..... The world needs to chill.....
good luck with that ever happening. people are getting more & more offended by ever smaller issues these days. i truly fear for my children when i ever have them. my 8 yr old son could give a girl classmate a birthday card then he'd get a sexual harassment charge for it.
You keep harping on Misty's age, but I've personally met girls just as young as her, and even some who were younger, who had more developed figures. Not that significant to me.
Too much criticism can kill a perfectly good thing.
I'm not blaming you specifically - but this type of overbearing criticism hinders creativity. To the point of possibly ruining a perfectly good story.
So there's a peeping tom? So what? A guy talks about real life problems? And children will read it?! God forbid!
This is why Pokemon, which started out as a really funny show, has turned mellow & bland.
You can't please everyone, right? But you try - you become grayish & dull.
As a perfect example: Dragon Ball was a hilarious Manga. I read it when I was 16, and it had some funny sexually-oriented jokes. Master Roshi wanted Bulma to take off her clothes so he could see her panties. There were some very funny moments!
All of this - and other - aspects of the humor were completely demolished, because of such overbearing criticism. A "pervert"? In a show for kids?! Let's pretend these things don't exist.
Let's just all pretend we're completely a-sexual!
Sexuality is a part of life.
Laughing about it is the single best way to accept & embrace it.
Teaching our children to laugh about it - is the single best approach in my opinion.
Criticizing everything in an attempt to make it "PC" - is an effort which befits totalitarian regimes, and bears rotten fruits called "censorship".
Eventually - children WILL find out about "perverts" & sexuality - they'll find out while nobody's looking.
Last but not least: children will not understand a breastfeeding joke?... you've got to be kidding, right?
Children are the FIRST to understand those jokes.
How extremely uptight, overbearing.
Just... pffft
The Tauros Episode did air in Sweden, i think its just certain areas that got shafted, not everyone outside Asia.
I hear the artist of many of the manga was also an accomplished hentai artist... so yeah, what do you think is gonna happen when you ask him to draw female characters?
Another reason Uri Gellar sued Nintendo over Kadabra is because its name in Japan was "Un Gellar"
Pokemon offices in the west: "We want our target audience to be young children".
Pokemon offices in the east: "Hmm... hold that thought...
Hold my beer
@Tarhunt II Ha! Good one
To be slightly fairer to Uri Geller, the Japanese name for Kadabra is Yungerer. The Japanese character for n is fairly visually similar to the character for ri. It was intentionally named as a slight corruption of Yuri Geller. Abra's name in Japanese is also a reference to a claimed psychic, and Alakazam is named after Houdini.
Though, if anything, Geller should have been honored. After all, Kadabra actually is psychic, while Geller is just a fraud. When Kadabra bends a spoon, there's no cheating involved.
Wasn't "Houdini" itself derived from "Robert-Houdin"? And Spike Lee sued over "Spike TV", so Geller isn't the only one to have pulled that sort of stunt.
Well swastika was actually a Hindu symbol.
So apparently everyone is going to jail now.
The clickbait thumbnail worked perfectly on me. I’m not even mad though great video!
how is the tn clickbait if it's used in the video and talked about?
ranwolf76 clickbait isn’t always bad. It did it’s job and got me to click on the video but I stayed because of the good content.
@@ranwolf7650 The word click-bait doesn't mean what you think it means anymore, now it means whatever ponyboy thinks it means.
@@ponyboygolden963 I didn't ask how it was bad I asked how it was clickbait. big difference
I feel it is necessary to note that meowth is more so dressed in a detective outfit, perhaps a reference to Dirty Harry.
What about Pokemon has not evolved since the first game and if it came out today it would not be legal?
"In pokemon x and y..." *uses black and white*
"Misty is 12 years old..." *shes a cartoon who doesn't exist*
"Pokemon is racist" *the show never uses racist slurs and only people who wanted to see black face saw black face*
Let me enjoy my fucking show.
The title of this video should be "everyone is so sensitive, that even pokemon is too much for them to handle"
At no point do you mention that Kadabra's Japanese name is a corruption of Uri Geller's name. The way you talked about it, you made it seem like Uri Geller is crazy to think Kadabra is based on him. He may or may not be crazy for other reasons, but not this particular reason, lol.
Wasn't it just Alakazam?
Jonathan BarSela Alakazam’s Japanese name is a reference to Harry Houdini. Kadabra’s Japanese name is a reference to Uri Geller. And Abra’s Japanese name is a reference to yet another person (Edgar Cayce).
On no, you criticized Jynx. Popo will not be pleased
I thought of a much better way to think of Pokemon battles, anyway, and that is more like boxing, UFC fighting, or pro wrestling, and the reason why they merely faint usually is because it has safety measures in place to make sure things don't go horribly, horribly wrong. Things unfortunately can still go wrong, and the reason why wild Pokemon still only faint when you face off against them is also because of trainers enacting these safety measures if their own Pokemon still want to go at the wild Pokemon even after they'd fainted.
public announcement people remember she's 12 years old.
She's also anime. 🐴
Sooooo.
@@lichking5389 she's legal cartoons don't have real ages
It's a cartoon nerd.
not everyone is over 18
not sure if it was mentioned, the particular manga you're referencing was a one-off series done by a mangaka who usually draws hentai doujin and tried to imply she was in her mid-late teens. it was heavily edited for the US market but regardless ran about 12 chapters and was cancelled.
*in a Bill Clinton voice*
"You know the best part of these pokemon girls, I keep gettin' older but they stay the same age."
Lol it is weird, I first encountered Misty at 4 years old.
Alright, alright, alright, alright.
I used to work for a company called "The Entertainer" which is a pretty big chain in UK.
We sold Pokemon cards from when they came out, all the way up until the set "XY Evolutions" because the CEO, who is a absolute nutter and big into Jesus, actually found out that Pokemon involves evolution and banned it from sale in his stores.
None of these are even remotely controversial 🤨
FBI, OPEN UP!!!
Japan: Let’s call this too much gun violence for a Saturday morning cartoon.
Batman: Exists