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Pokémon anime TV episode will not air in U.S., blackface concerns assumed to be reason why
投稿日 2018年7月11日 13:00:01 (ニュース)
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Episode featuring Ash disguising himself as a Passimian is missing from Disney broadcast lineup.
These days, thanks to online streaming services and improved translation coordination, it’s not unusual for new anime episodes to stream internationally on the same day they air in Japan. An exception to this trend, however, is the Pokémon franchise, for which U.S. TV broadcasts of the show’s current arc, Sun and Moon, lag about four months behind their Japanese dates.
That gap is about to get just a little shorter, though. Polygon reports that the episode Satoshi and Nagetsukesaru! Touchdown of Friendship!! (or Ash and Passimian! Touchdown of Friendship!!, if you’re going by the characters’ English-version names) will be skipped over in the U.S. TV broadcast. The episode, the 1005th for the Japanese series, was shown in Japan back in March, and would have appeared in the U.S. in early August.
The reason for its U.S. omission appears to be linked to the Pokémon Nagetsukesaru/Passimian, a Pocket Monster with a monkey-like design (aside from the obvious “simian” portion of Passimian, saru is the Japanese word for “monkey”).
The episode centers on Ash befriending a Passimian and assisting it in a contest to determine the leader of a Passimian pack. As part of the process, Ash dresses up like one of the creatures, including painting his face to match their black/dark gray facial coloring.
So it looks like TPCi is skipping the Passimian episode…and I can uh….understand why https://t.co/RnwPai1FaN
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JPRPokeTrainer98 (@JPRPT98) July 04, 2018
While no official statement has been put out from the U.S. broadcaster, the assumption is that concerns that Ash’s face-painting could be construed as a form of blackface, and thus offensive to viewers of African heritage, is the reason why the episode is being withheld from American television.
Banning the Passimian episode of SunMoon for "blackface" seems pretty ridiculous to me. Ash dresses up as what is b… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Riolu (@TheRiolu_) July 10, 2018
Pokémon Sun and Moon is broadcast on Disney XD, and it’s not surprising that the decidedly family-oriented organization would by extremely averse to anything that could be construed as remotely offensive or controversial.
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SM064 um episódio em que Ash pinta a sua cara de negro para imitar Passimian, foi banido no ocidente devido ao este… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Portuga (@PkPortuga) July 07, 2018
Imagine if Ash caught all of those Passimian, We would have another Tauros situation, There would be a joke going a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Arkeus (@Arkeus88) July 10, 2018
At the same time, a number of vocal fans were quick to criticize the decision, calling it ridiculous to equate someone painting their face to resemble a Pokémon and someone painting their face to caricaturize a human ethnic group.
The episode has nothing racist going on. Ash dresses up to be apart of the Passimian and help them. People are way… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Robin 🌴 (@xCookieDough_) July 10, 2018
So I just found out the Sun and Moon episode about the Passimian was banned in the english dub because Ash has his… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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(@Mucrush) July 07, 2018
It’s currently unknown whether the episode will be scrubbed from Pokémon’s English continuity entirely, or whether it will be included at a later date in a visually edited form.
Sources: Polygon, Bulbapedia via Yuruku Yaru via Jin
Featured image: Twitter/@TheRiolu
Source: SORA NEWS24
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