“Exploring the Controversial Censorship of Pokémon Episodes and Uncovering Lost Scripts”

Pokémon has had many censored episodes for various reasons.

Those who have followed the Pokemon anime for a long season will know that this has not been without controversyleading this to the fact that on many occasions we have been able to see that certain episodes have been censored worldwide or in some regions, one of the best known cases being that of Porygon and that of the Safari Zone in the first seasons. In fact, the Earthquake attack does not appear in the anime due to the earthquakes that Japan suffers from time to time.

However, the case that occurred in the spring of 2011 could be one of the most notorious, since Japanese networks did not broadcast the Team Rocket special in the season corresponding to the fifth generation due to a catastrophic earthquake that the Japanese country suffered, while these two were never broadcast.

Two episodes of Pokémon Black and White were never broadcast despite their plot importance

And it must be said that this fact was quite shocking due to the fact that they were not two filler chapters, but a real story arc that had been preparing for a long time and that was intended to show the great meeting between Team Rocket and Team Plasma in the Teseia / Unova region.

Given this, it seems that a fan has finally found a copy of the scriptsbeing so that the Twitter user known as Akilvers has reported on this social network that the scripts for this special have been found, thus giving rise to understanding the reason why they were not broadcast, since, to summarize, it would have shown buildings being destroyed by a natural disasterwhich would have been excessively reminiscent of what happened in Japan at that time.

The history has been made today. 🙌
Finally, after 12 years, the script for two LOST episodes of the Pokémon anime, “Team Rocket VS Team Plasma (Part 1 & 2)”, is finally available for EVERYONE! 🎊https://t.co/9I5UxIchIO

Thanks to the great work of @Bulbagarden‘s user… pic.twitter.com/puTM9DiFxd

— 🌈🧢 Other 🧢🌈 (@Akilvers) May 1, 2023

In this way, this will remain as a fault within the trajectory of Ash and Pikachu in the Pokémon anime that has made them make history. Having said all this, it must be said that, beyond the censored chapters, the Pokémon anime is full of all kinds of anecdotes such as the detail of the first season that showed that the Pokémon games exist in the anime universe.