datsweetberrypunch:

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featherfleece:

just-a-souvenir-shop:

This scene utterly baffles me.

I mean, sure the whole jelly-filled donut thing was cheesy and all, but this? This took actual effort.

Someone had to draw the sandwich. Someone had to painstakingly edit the sandwich into the scene. Someone had to make sure that the sandwich perfectly matched the rice ball’s movements in every single frame.

And for what? What could they possibly stand to gain? Did some executive really look at this and think, “Yep, this seems like a valuable use of time and money”?

Like??? Why would anyone go to so much needless work just to edit any trace of Japanese culture out of a Japanese show? 

It’s doubly hilarious because the kid running after his food is literally dressed in traditional Japanese clothing, like how unnecessary is this edit?

(Also funny because sure, a giant rice ball could conceivably roll down a hill, but how… does a giant sandwich… roll while staying intact? It also appears to be dropping a shadow? Is it floating? )

There’s a season one episode where Brock is making onigiri and they dubbed it more or less uncensored and kept hammering it in that he was making riceballs (even some hammy line about how “when you have lemons you make lemonade and when you have rice you make riceballs!”)

I really wonder what made them pick and choose like this. 

probably trying to make a Japanese cartoon fit better with western culture because it would make people, especially children, more in touch with it therefore making selling the shit out of it in the western side of the world more easy.
plus nintendo bought the rights to this show for all i know and they usually sell stuff too soooo… yeah.

This is from the Hoenn saga.

So either 10 years ago foreign food was still unknown to westerners and had to be localized, or a corporate person saw a boy in traditional japanese clothing depicted chasing an oversized traditional japanese food and decided, through the use of tumblr-esque logic, that such imagery would be deemed racist within a western context and had to be edited somehow.

(via kalianos)

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sn0wbro:

remember that time mr game and watch, mr game and watch, mr game and watch, mr game and watch, and mr game and watch hijacked a ship

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