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UbersSuck20
08-09-2012, 09:08 PM
Well, Pokemon is serious business, but the anime is still not perfect.

In my opinion, the biggest failures they made were as follows:
1. When Arbok evolves into Seviper. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7XsMHH4_7Y
2. When Officer Jenny mistakes Growlithe for Arcanine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFgfPAcYWT8&feature=related
3. When Brock says that water-types are weak to fire-types. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f3F8sKP2Yg&feature=related
4. EP037, broadcasted in Japan only, where over 1000 kids had seizures.
5. Scizor, finish it off with False Swipe! http://www.youtube.com/embed/GA8BnqjDB4Y
6. That Orange Island episode where Drake's Dragonite knew 10 moves.
If you know some more, post them here.

Zachgoose
08-10-2012, 08:38 AM
I believe I would call the incident of Porygon giving thousands of kids seizures a "fail." xD

Dabottle
08-10-2012, 01:55 PM
Its existence.

Also, jelly-filled donuts, popcorn balls and "Finish it up with False Swipe!", but mainly its existence.

UbersSuck20
08-12-2012, 06:04 PM
I believe I would call the incident of Porygon giving thousands of kids seizures a "fail." xD

Haha, how could I forgot this...

Minntul
08-12-2012, 08:26 PM
The fact it's still running.

The Arrow
08-12-2012, 09:43 PM
The fact it's still running.

Exactly. Little kids tell me Iris and Cilan scare them.

ShadowMr.L
08-12-2012, 10:36 PM
Why is it still running?! That's one epic fail. Not to mention Ash just..never ages. It's not epic but it IS a fail!

CaptainRed1000
08-12-2012, 11:27 PM
Why is it still running?! That's one epic fail. Not to mention Ash just..never ages. It's not epic but it IS a fail!

Actually, Ash DOES age in the Anime, it just....isn't shown.

Judge Mandolore Shepard
08-12-2012, 11:58 PM
I believe I would call the incident of Porygon giving thousands of kids seizures a "fail." xD

I agree that is a epic fail right there, and the result made Porygon a scapegoat for it.

Patriot
08-13-2012, 12:52 AM
I know what's the biggest fail, the anime itself!

Okay on topic... Nobody recall the time Brock said Ash but it came out sounding like a**?

Shantae
08-13-2012, 01:37 AM
I believe I would call the incident of Porygon giving thousands of kids seizures a "fail." xD

That. I remember that I watched in youtube. It just wow, really fail.

Other than that, Ash age is just the same? WTF? Really an Pokemon Anime Epic Fail right there. Plus I do agree to some people said, I wonder why this anime is still running?

Umbrony
08-13-2012, 06:17 AM
Another fail is that Ash doesn't ever look like he might be getting older..? :|

UbersSuck20
08-13-2012, 01:54 PM
Maybe a year in the Pokemon World means 100 years on the Earth. This is possibly why Ash doesn't age.

Chihaya
08-16-2012, 03:38 AM
There was a scene in the very old episodes [either first or second season, I'm not entirely sure] where Ash, Misty and Brock were running in the ran. I believe this was the dialogue:

Ash: Oh no, it's raining!
Misty: We have to hurry!
Brock: I know! I'll use my frying pan... As a drying pan!

... Or something like that. LOL;;

UbersSuck20
08-29-2012, 06:39 PM
haha, and also, Dragonite knowing 10 moves in that orange island episode.

Cutiepuffle
09-24-2012, 11:44 PM
The same Pikachu which takes out a Latios (even though it got knocked out too) gets pwned by a Snivy with NO experience.

LovelyOshawott
09-29-2012, 08:27 AM
I know it's like pikachu is probably invincible already yet it's getting beaten WHY?!

UbersSuck20
09-29-2012, 02:43 PM
Don't forget there was an episode where Brock said "A**"

Glace
09-29-2012, 11:14 PM
I don't get why they continue with the same-a** show when practically nobody watches it. Come on, Pokemon, make a new Pokemon anime!!!

But I do remember the time Brock said A**.

Rocket
10-05-2012, 09:13 PM
Hahahahaha.

LovelyOshawott
10-07-2012, 07:24 AM
...I nothing to say except..pokemon anime has a lot of flaws...but giving kids seizures is the EPIC FAIL.

UbersSuck20
10-07-2012, 04:39 PM
The same Pikachu which takes out a Latios AND a Regice(even though it got knocked out too in the first case) gets pwned by a Snivy with NO experience.

Your suggestion is incomplete, I took care of that.

Totodile
10-28-2012, 03:24 PM
The entire fourth generation anime was an Epic Fail.

Blue
11-19-2012, 06:12 AM
A lot of what 4Kids Entertainment did were all 'epic fails'

♏Ա§♪ℂ~
11-22-2012, 01:32 PM
Lol, I agree. It is a pretty big fail, Ash never age. People knows like 423 moves. Goodness game disigners

TheTrainerExpert
12-27-2012, 05:59 PM
Ash is always 10, what the freak! what a fail with that Porygon episode, poor Japanese kids getting those seizures. What about that one banned episode because there was a gun in it, lol.

newsupermariobros
12-28-2012, 02:02 AM
Ash is always 10,pikachu isn't lv 100,Brock says A** and the whole Anime.

UbersSuck20
12-28-2012, 08:47 AM
Pikachu is level 100 against Tobias and level 2 against Trip.

phantomscar
01-01-2013, 07:13 AM
Existance, how attacks with 100% accuracy can easily be dodged, the large lack of usage of non-damaging moves, and really everything an actual person playing pokemon wouldn't do.

Dragonite
01-01-2013, 07:22 AM
I doubt anime mechanics were even supposed to mirror game mechanics. If Pokemon were real I'd imagine it to look more like the anime than the games (minus the "I've been 10 years old for 16 years now," a lot of entertainment media like cartoons and comics do that). Pokemons' ability to battle is a use-it-or-lose-it kind of skill, which at least partially explains how Pikachu can rule all in the end of one generation and be ruled by all in the beginning of the next. That's exactly how athletics work in real life; I can run a mile in 6 minutes during the cross country season, but after the season ends and I stop running 7 miles a day, I struggle to run a mile in 7 minutes a mere 2 or 3 weeks later.

The 4Kids stuff with dub edits and banning the Safari Zone episode, that's just dumb. Other TV shows get away with that stuff all the time. The thing with the seizures, I find that story very strange because out of a whole team of animators, none of them said the flashing colors was (at the very least) annoying to stare directly at.

/rant

UbersSuck20
01-02-2013, 08:39 PM
^ No mention of all the anime move errors? Lol DP076, Munchlax with Giga Impact and Girafarig with Bite. One of the most retarded episodes ever.

Dragonite
01-02-2013, 08:57 PM
^ No mention of all the anime move errors? Lol DP076, Munchlax with Giga Impact and Girafarig with Bite. One of the most retarded episodes ever.

Like I said, anime continuum != game continuum. I can generate a mental image of a Munchlax using Giga Impact and anyone with a mouth could logically use Bite, even Ash or Iris. To be honest, I wonder sometimes why the distribution of Bite in the games is relatively limited.

Not to say there haven't been careless errors, I'm pretty sure there have been scenes when someone goes and says fire is super effective against water or when Ash's hat is the wrong color or something like that.

pikachumaster
01-02-2013, 09:58 PM
The fact that Porygon hasn't shown in any other episodes even though Pikachu was the one to cause the explosion that triggered seizures (Ep 37 or 38). Banning the Legend of Dratini just because of a gun (Ep 35) and James' fake breasts in another.

Zekrom man
03-08-2013, 12:05 PM
The 4th generation was awesome. Both the anime and the games were great in my opinion.
@Totodile

BreeZaps
04-01-2013, 03:27 PM
> When Brock says that water-types are weak to fire-types.
Must be my fav one xD

Cptfalconman
04-01-2013, 05:34 PM
When it went past the first season.

Glace
04-01-2013, 05:38 PM
James' inflatable breasts(banned), and the fact it got past Hoenn.

Patriot
04-02-2013, 01:00 AM
Also, 4kids.

Pokemon Trainer N
04-02-2013, 03:56 AM
The fact that it got past kanto

Ame
04-02-2013, 12:27 PM
Biggest fails? I would say:

- the fact that Ash never seems to get older;
- all the censored scenes;
- the episode which caused seizures to kids;
- Ash's dicision not to make Pikachu evolve into Raichu;
- Ash and his friends never recognizing Team Rocket in their ridiculous disguises.

Anyway, I think the anime itself is a fail.

Kitty
04-08-2013, 06:13 AM
Fails were made too many times in the Black and White anime. Countless.