Blood?

[ashfangirl]

Has anyone realized that the usage of blood has gone WAY down since the first season? There were only a few episodes that involved blood, but still...blood in Pokemon?

There was the episode Wake Up, Snorlax! for example. It was only brief, but Misty cut her arm on a thorn and started bleeding.

Then there was an episode whose name I can't remember that involved the most blood I've ever seen in Pokemon. It was the episode in the first season where a Pokemon whose name I can't spell stole Misty's backpack for her pokeballs. There was a battle between Meowth and that Pokemon and they were both bleeding alot...(picture coming soon)

There were only a few more occasional blood scenes, like in Get The Show On The Road! from Hoenn, Pikachu gets sick and runs away, and Ash has to get it before it explodes. There is a scene where Ash is dangling over a cliff holding Pikachu in one arm. Pikachu's fever confuses it and it bites Ash. You can clearly see blood at that point.

I THINK in the Sinnoh episode Tears For Fears in the scene where Ash protects Chimchar from the Zangoose in the scene where Ash gets attacked and he gets an injury(rather large cut) that there may have been some blood.

Overall, blood was very popular in the first season.

 

[Yoshi-san]

Blood was only seen once in the first season then twice in DP. I don't know where you're seeing all this blood from...

 

[PDL]

Gosh, you guys are making it sound like that the characters have high pressure blood and it bursts out of every wound that's made.

Yeah, they rarely ever show the characters receiving wounds, and are only used for "dramatic" purposes or in the case of Misty and the thorns, to show that the thorns are indeed very sharp and nasty.

It's generally not a good idea to crawl through brambles.

 

[Yoshi-san]

Gosh, you guys are making it sound like that the characters have high pressure blood and it bursts out of every wound that's made.

Yeah, they rarely ever show the characters receiving wounds, and are only used for "dramatic" purposes or in the case of Misty and the thorns, to show that the thorns are indeed very sharp and nasty.

It's generally not a good idea to crawl through brambles.

I'm not. I'm just saying blood was only seen 3 times in the Anime. She's saying that everyone bled more in the first season which isn't true.

 

[J J M]

To tell the truth, I don't remember blood ever being in the show. That shows how rarely it's seen.

 

[Chatsy]

Blood?

The only time I recall ever seeing actual blood was in the SS Anne episode where Jessie beat up James and we got this (comedic) shot of blood and a tooth.
I find it funny how some cuts are shown glowing, though. Like the few times Meowth scratched Ash across the face, or as the latest when Zangoose cut Ash's shoulder. I just can't take it seriously when they glow XD

 

[Cybersai]

Misty scraped her arm crawling through the vines in "Wake up, Snorlax!" from Kanto.

Given how many of you worship Kanto, I thought everyone would know this by heart.

 

[Halberd Bravo]

Don't forget all those times Meowth scratched Jessie and James in the face. Might wanna count that...even if there was no actual bloodflow.

 

[Pidgeot]

I'm not. I'm just saying blood was only seen 3 times in the Anime. She's saying that everyone bled more in the first season which isn't true.

She has got a name, you know. It's not kind saying 'She' instead their name.

 

[Hassel]

Blood?

The only time I recall ever seeing actual blood was in the SS Anne episode where Jessie beat up James and we got this (comedic) shot of blood and a tooth.
I find it funny how some cuts are shown glowing, though. Like the few times Meowth scratched Ash across the face, or as the latest when Zangoose cut Ash's shoulder. I just can't take it seriously when they glow XD

The glow effect might be there because it shows how painful/stingy the wound is. xD If the wound is infected etc, the glow is sometimes pulsing.

 

[QuietDragon]

Yeah, I know bumps usually glow in silly scenes in anime, even if the anime's usually got... fairly large amounts of blood, like in Rurouni Kenshin.

I think there's been more blood in DP than in Kanto, really. Though realistic blood's only been in like, two scenes. That's really noticeable, like AFTER Satoshi's shoulder got sliced (it glowed only when it was sliced) and Riolu's arm in the Hunter J two-parter.

Recently, though, I've noticed little spots flying back after a Pokemon gets hit with an attack. But they're so barely noticable and tiny, it could just be dust from the ground, and not necessarily blood.

And then you get those red smudges when a character's all beat up that sometimes looks kinda bloody (though I think it's usually mostly bruises.)

 

[Chatsy]

The glow effect might be there because it shows how painful/stingy the wound is. xD If the wound is infected etc, the glow is sometimes pulsing.

I know that's the intended effect but it still doesn't change my amusement of it XD
Same goes for overgrown, glowing lumps from a huge hit. It's just too silly for me.

 

[Iris White]

I might sound like a wuss, but I'm glad there's no blood in the show.

 

[Yoshi-san]

She has got a name, you know. It's not kind saying 'She' instead their name.

Well you know who I'm referring too and I was responding to PDL. PDL should know who I'm referring to also so....

 

[ii kanji]

Obviously people have been scratched .etc. but the only actual blood I remember is the Saint Anne comic blood and tooth.

Can someone provide a cap of Kasumi's Kanto thorn scratch?

 

[ashfangirl]

(look VERY closely at right arm)

 

[ii kanji]

The thing is though - these are just scratches. I'm not sure why such a big deal is made of them. I can show you a million caps of Musashi and Kojiro with fat scratches across their faces! But Pokemon (being a kodomo anime) is obviously and understandably too chicken to show actual blood.

 

[Deadman]

There was rarely blood in Pokemon and honestly, who needs blood in Pokemon? If the scene like with the thorn requires it to make it more believable than it is enough for me.

 

[ashfangirl]

The glow effect might be there because it shows how painful/stingy the wound is. xD If the wound is infected etc, the glow is sometimes pulsing.

Yeah, they pulse when the wound is infected sometimes. I've seen it a lot in Kanto and sometimes Sinnoh.

 

[dman_dustin]

The thing is though - these are just scratches. I'm not sure why such a big deal is made of them. I can show you a million caps of Musashi and Kojiro with fat scratches across their faces! But Pokemon (being a kodomo anime) is obviously and understandably too chicken to show actual blood.

Look at the Ash photo again those small black/red spots away from Ash is blood. Because watching the actual scene of that moment it's the only thing that moves, so it has to be blood.