Mary Ellen and Luke were watching our Pokemon tapes today, and I thought "I've always wondered what they sound like in Japanese, I should look it up!"
So I went onto YouTube and found a Pokemon episode in Japanese (the only one in Japanese, actually -- episode 18, which I've seen before). While watching, I had three realizations:
1. Pokemon in Japan is waaaaay more, how would you put it... forward, in Japan, and 4Kids has watered it down more than I thought. They had girls wearing bikinis left, right and center, and perverted old men to drool over them (and I'm not just talking about Takeshi -- Brock -- here. They had an old geezer staring at KASUMI [Misty] in a bikini, of all people).
2. It's a lot FUNNIER in Japanese. While in the English version you get the occasional pun or funny joke (and these disappeared as the series progressed into, say, the Sinnoh reigon), the Japanese version is HI-LAR-I-OUS!!! I was almost pissing myself laughing at one point!
3. Pokemon sound SO much cuter with the Japanese voices 4laugh
4. James (of the infamous Team Rocket) has boobs. Woah, woah, woah, Emma. Slow down a second. First of all, you only said you had THREE realizations, and second, James has BOOBS??? Not even kidding. Deep-voiced James, manly James, shows up for a bikini contest (another thing 4Kids left out) with two HONKING GREAT BOUNCING JIGGLING BOOBS. And they can inflate too! How the hell does he hide those things???!!! Was he pre-op in all the earlier episodes? I mean, they were just-- *motions at my chest* If that wasn't scarring, nothing else was.
4Kids leaves out some of the most funniest stuff....
And down below is the picture, taken straight from the episode. Well, actually, I found it on Google, but if you really wanna look it up be my guest (although I dunno why you would want to...)
Ewwwww... and he's fondling himself too....
