Pokemon Controversy Iceberg

Let me know if there's a pokemon controversy I didn't talk about!

I like to imagine the Giovanni theory as a looney tunes kind of joke where he leaves to moments later notice that it's a waterfall, and raise the classic Oh no! sign

I was raised in a religious family and the elementary school I went to was Christian. I remember the teacher at the time had a sit down with the whole class and ranted on why Pokemon was bad (mainly cuz two kids spent recess time trading Pokémon cards). She even went lengths to say that Pikachu is a Japanese god…. Yeah… safe to say now I gained my childhood back

I remember my mother wouldn't buy me pokemon cards as a kid because she said it was demonic. I responded with, "It's just a rat that shoots lightning. Take it easy, Mom.". Caught the ass whooping of a life time for that one.😂😂

The Brock thing seems really silly considering many other anime characters have eyes like his and the show is made by a Japanese animation studio. Also he looked like that in the game to being with so really gamefreak made the base for his design.

My mom thought the anime was “too violent” and would only let me watch one episode per week, but I ended up being so in love with the franchise that she eventually gave up, and probably realized she had overreacted. Thinking back to that time is kinda funny to me, because I almost can’t imagine my life if Pokémon hadn’t become my #1 childhood obsession

The Jynx controversy is so unfortunate because along with Magmar and Electubuzz they were a trio and I really belive that Jynx would also have gotten an evolution in gen 4 if Jynx had a cleaner history

58:06 The reason for Unown being related to WW2 victims is because in the 1997 Spaceworld demo, which was supposed to take place in the entirety of Japan, the city that would represent Hiroshima was surrounded by routes with dead vegetation and pokemon referencing maybe the effects of radiation on living beings (such as doduo or girafarig, for example). The city of Hiroshima had a building in the center, ruins of some kind, in which its walls were covered by pictures or paintings similar to the ones in the ruins of alph, but instead of depicting letters, these depicted people, possibly referencing the shadows that the victims of the Hiroshima bombing left behind after the explosion. This was probably scrapped and repurposed into the whole Unown mystery, but the initial plan may have been for Unown to represent actual WW2 victims.

Sword and shield had a ghost it was a little girl she gave you a ribbon or something she wanted you to give it to her old friend her friend said she died and he is old(I think that's right)

Hot take : Blue's Raticate wasn't actually killed. Blue has simply deposited it into a PC, and replace it with stronger Pokémon

My theory for why ash has always stayed young has been that he his actually the narrator and is retelling his adventures as a child

Hearing Pikachu speak was not something I was ready for...... I don't know what it did but it ruined something inside of the soul I don't have.....

The Poo fight one I feel bad for the one guy who just happened to be on the team that lost everything just because of some idiots on his team….

"pokemon is satanic" Wait until they learn about Shin Megami Tensei

I actually have three of the Poké Balls from the Burger King recall. I had no idea about that story, though. It’s pretty shocking to know that I have something like that which was supposed to be destroyed. I was born around the same time as the second kid who was killed by them, too.

I know they weren't in this video, but beta remoraid and octillery were so cool 😢. I hope they bring them back as a new form or something

"Large breasted tiger." Y'all have no idea how unprepared I was to hear that😂

Now that you mention it, Game Freak really own us the ORIGINAL VERSION of Genesect in S/V to show how strong and terrifying it was

40:05 That actually reminds me of an episode in DPP. Basically, team rocket created their very own gym called the “Power Zone Gym”. The gimmick was that they would take a loser’s Pokémon and train them up. In actuality, it was a ploy to steal them

On the topic of days of mourning, the decreased encounter rates are to keep music from jumping into its regular upbeat/energetic tone especially for moments of silence.