Dennô Senshi Porygon

It wasn't porygon's fault, it was pikachu! Pikachu should be the one getting banned in the anime due to giving 600 kids seizures, not porygon!

Screw you whoever made this episode!

I know it sounds counterintuitive, but let me explain why it's a good thing the episode was made. Being born with a form of epilepsy (petite mal seizures) isn't easy to live with. Strobing lights don't effect me, but having random seizures triggering is completely dangerous.

Does it suck that 685 children were affected? Absolutely, but that's 685 people who were diagnosed in a safer environment. Think of the positive aspects of all the people who are now safely and properly medicated. Also, think of all of the lives that were saved. Imagine not knowing you have a seizure disorder and have one will driving. This episode potentially saved lives, not just for the people with the disorder, but others who may have been on the road.

Like I said, seizures aren't a laughing matter. It's a very serious medical condition. And since I was born with them, I definitely understand how much worse this could have been.

Yes it sucks 685 people got sent to the hospital due to the epilepsy-inducing scenes of the episode. But this benefitted pokemon,porygon. And even the world as a whole. First Pokemon, Even if it was negative reputation. It did give pokemon recognition before the games came out in the west. Helping it be more famous longterm. Next porygon, if it wasn't for this episode. The porygon fandom would be small. As the only cool thing about this pokemon is that its the digital one. Now porygon fans have something to grasp too to defend their favourite pokemon and have perputrual relevance.

#porygondidnothingwrong. And The world. Without this episode we would know a lot less on epilepsy then we would today due to the research taken after the episode on epilepsy. And also other anime would have still used paka-paka causing potentially even more seizures then pokemon could have ever caused.

This episode is a w when you think about it.

This is it, people. This is the pokemon episode that appeared on Wikipedia's list of unusual articles because it caused seizures in Japanese children. Porygon's evolutions are the only pokemon to never appear in the anime because of this. Actually, it was Pikachu that was in the scene that caused the seizures who then went on to appear in literally every episode afterwards. Wow! I guess Porygon is the pokemon equivalent of Muhammad. If they did an episode with Porygon's evolutions, would the creators get death threats? So many people have referenced this episode, more so than any other anime episode ever made.

As for the actual episode itself, I actually really enjoyed it. It features the Pokeballs being blocked in the teleporter so the characters have to literally go inside the teleporter to fix it. Porygon is actually a really cool pokemon! I loved how it could shapeshift and turn into various weapons. Honestly, it was such a waste with its evolutions never appearing in the anime. There were a few cameos by it later but of course never an episode focusing on it. I love how Team Rocket just thank them and run away at the end. ****

This is it, fans the reason why Pokemon caused such a controversy iin the USA and around the world is due to this right here, the episode that gave over 700 people in Japan epileptic seizures cause they were sitting to gosh darn close to the boob tube. In response, Japan toned down the lighting effects of the episodes after this one.

9/10 stars.