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Aridos and Ledian and Scizor exist and the kid uses Metapod and Kakuna? I dont find Bugsy's case justifiable at all.Well, Chuck also had that issue in the games... Same with Morty and Falkner (I find Bugsy's case justifiable). I wonder why they didn't try to fix both Morty and Chuck's issues in the anime...
Is it really that inaccurate?
kantoskies said:I've also always been amazed how this show got picked up for broadcast in the United States considering the timing. I've heard 4Kids started working on the dub around April 1998- which is right around the time all of this was cooling down in Japan. Surely Nintendo was in the process of planning out a dub for the show in early '98- I find it so fascinating that they were probably researching dubbing companies for this show while CNN and BBC were reporting on this kiddie cartoon Pocket Monsters and its star Pakucho giving kids seizures.
kantoskies said:Also I'm super curious about this (sorry if you've already addressed it!)- I notice on your Cyber Soldier Porygon page that the section "Does an English dub exist?" has a date of October 27, 2023 listed on it. What led you to choosing such a specific date for that part of the project, especially since it's decently far off?
I feel like the main problem with this logic is that we don't really know if those festivals/holidays are observed at the same time in the Pokeverse that they are in Japan. It's logical, but it's also clear that the Pokemon timeline is stuck in place, regardless of how tortured the rationale is for Ash still being 10 - if each episode was a day in the life, we'd be at least three years in by now.Is it really that inaccurate? We had the characters celebrating the Bon Festival in episode 20 and then Children's Day some 30 episodes later. That's at least a 10 month timespan right there...no? I get that Satoshi didn't specify any passage of time and it's the principle of the matter but it doesn't seem wrong to say a year has passed between the first 2 episodes and the episode where Ash gets his final badge.
The March 3rd date is referenced repeatedly in the Japanese version of Princess vs Princess. They make it clear the Bon Festival is during the summer like its suppose to be. There's no reason to think these holidays don't take place in their real world equivalent.I feel like the main problem with this logic is that we don't really know if those festivals/holidays are observed at the same time in the Pokeverse that they are in Japan. It's logical, but it's also clear that the Pokemon timeline is stuck in place, regardless of how tortured the rationale is for Ash still being 10 - if each episode was a day in the life, we'd be at least three years in by now.
If anything I think the "it's been a whole year since our journey started" line is a reference by 4Kids to the fact that their dub had been on the air for about a year by that point.
This is the only list I remember:I'd like to ask Dogasu about his list of episode airdates without the porygon insident happening. In the mysterious episode about Misty discussion, Doagsu referenced an episode airdate list. It has a guessed list of episodes after those that are known for sure. I'd like to know, how much time there is or was for producing an episode.
I think it was like four months in the first series. So if we know or guess Pikachu's goodbye only went in to production after the Porygon incident, do we really know what episodes they had thought about before the porygon insident? I think the Princess vs. princess and Purrfect hero are educated quesses, but how long does or did it to write and produce an episode?
And the rest we can guess by looking at a calendar from 1998
02/17 - Purin
02/ 24 - Ptera
03/03 - Princess vs. Princess (the episode is based on the Japanese holiday hinamatsuri, which just happened to fall on a Tuesday back in 1998)
03/10 - Lucky
03/17 - Guardie and Kojirou
03/24 - Kamonegi (Musashi already has Beroringa in this episode)
03/31 - Togepi
04/07 - Fushigidane
04/14 - Guardie
04/21 - Pokemon Snap (came out in Japan March 21st, according to Bulba, so maybe this episode and the two that follow it would have aired back in March instead?)
04/28 - Exam
05/05 - The Purr-fect Hero (same as the hinamatsuri episode - "Kodomo no Hi" just happened to fall on a Tuesday in 1998
05/12 - Breeding Center
05/19 - Guren Gym pt 1
05/26 - Guren Gym pt 2
06/02 - Kamex
06/09 - Hanada
06/16 - Pippi vs. Purin
06/23 - Tokiwa
06/30 - Barriered
07/07 - Orchid Laboratory
07/14 - Yadon / Yadoran or some kind of movie special
This is all, of course, assuming there were no breaks and that they didn't air any hour long specials.
According to Takeshi Shudo's Light Novelization for the anime they wore wigs. I know its not necessarily canon (His novel also apparently had Brock's siblings all had different dads which is kind of ludicrous when so many of them look like Flint) but that's something I guess.Unless Misty's sisters for example dyed their hair (Most likely if nothing else), or each daughter has a different mother