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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 12:32:18 No.31484517 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>31484539 >>31484540 >>31485146

>Smoochum has Hydration (Moist Body in jap) as its HA
>its older form Jynx has Dry Skin as its HA
What did Gamefreak mean by this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 12:37:48 No.31484539 Report

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>>31484517
Bitch is thirsty, get her a glass of water Anon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 12:37:52 No.31484540 Report

Quoted By: >>31484563 >>31484625 >>31484932

>>31484517
What even is Jynx?

You never see this pokemon mentioned ever. Not even genwunners know it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 12:39:50 No.31484549 Report

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cold environments chap your skin, like, a lot

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 12:40:09 No.31484551 Report

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Since it's based on ganguro i'm guessing it's a reference to their caked-on make-up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 12:42:08 No.31484563 Report

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>>31484540
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yama-uba

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 12:56:13 No.31484625 Report

Quoted By: >>31484884

>>31484540
Its a black woman
Jynx "Human Shape Pokémon"

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 12:57:42 No.31484634 Report

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 13:02:37 No.31484659 Report

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>white baby with flushed face evolves into nigger
what did they mean by this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 13:45:54 No.31484884 Report

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>>31484625
If it's meant to be a blackster, explain the blonde hair

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 13:49:59 No.31484903 Report

Quoted By: >>31484947

>>31484884

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 13:56:28 No.31484932 Report

Quoted By: >>31484944 >>31484957

>>31484540
You never see it mentioned because it's controversial, like Porygon and Kadabra.
Jynx's design obviously uses blackface, which is considered racist in most western societies. Japs use the blackface design a lot non-maliciously because they think it looks funny.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 13:58:52 No.31484944 Report

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>>31484932
used*

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 13:59:33 No.31484947 Report

Quoted By: >>31485167

>>31484903
Either way, blond hair is not, and has not ever been associated with black people
You could argue that it's inspired by a specific person (like your pic), but i can't think of any famous black with blonde hair back in the early 90s

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:01:56 No.31484957 Report

Quoted By: >>31484983 >>31484986 >>31485133

>>31484932
Why are Porygon and Kadabra controversial ?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:06:22 No.31484983 Report

Quoted By: >>31485005 >>31485116

>>31484957
>Porygon
The anime episode that killed those kids

>Kadabra
Uri Geller has an ongoing lawsuit against Nintendo for the use of his likeness.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:06:46 No.31484986 Report

Quoted By: >>31485005 >>31485023

>>31484957
An early episode of the anime featured porygon, one scene was 30~ seconds of rapidly flashing lights and 800~ kids got seizures. Since then none of the porygon family has ever appeared in the anime (except for minor appearances).

Uri Geller sued gamefreak or something because kadabra bending spoons was making fun of him, also the star on its head is supposedly a satanic symbol so GF were allegedly calling Geller a satanist.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:10:12 No.31485005 Report

Quoted By: >>31485014

>>31484983
>>31484986
Oh yeah I remember the story about the seizure, sort of dumb that they banned Porygon from the anime forever when it's really the fault of the animators of this one episode for using those flashing colors.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:11:31 No.31485014 Report

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>>31485005
Even then, it was Pikachu's thunderbolt that caused the flashing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:12:49 No.31485023 Report

Quoted By: >>31485026

>>31484986
Kadabra's japanese name Yungerer is also based off Uri Geller (with リ ri replaced by the visually similar ン n)

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:13:38 No.31485026 Report

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>>31485023
Uriel was right, fuck gf

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:32:44 No.31485116 Report

Quoted By: >>31485130

>>31484983
Is the lawsuit really still going on?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:34:23 No.31485130 Report

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>>31485116
It was never settled I think. That's why Kadabra isn't allowed to appear in he anime, tgc or any merch.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:35:31 No.31485133 Report

Quoted By: >>31485151

>>31484957

Imagine being this underage

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:37:28 No.31485146 Report

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>>31484517
People with bad cases of dandruff tend to have it worse in the winter, and being an Ice type it must be hell for Jynx.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:38:20 No.31485151 Report

Quoted By: >>31485471

>>31485133
I've been watching the pokemon anime since it started, sorry if I didn't pay attention to controversial bullshit when I was a kid ?

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:41:06 No.31485167 Report

Quoted By: >>31485343

>>31484947
While Jynx's face is obviously based on blackface, the combination of blonde hair+blackface was probably a parody/reference to ganguro, an alternate fashion trend in Japan that peaked during the 90s-2000s. The word itself can also directly translate to "black face"

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:43:38 No.31485184 Report

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Smoochum is so adorable its a shame what she evolves into.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:46:07 No.31485212 Report

Quoted By: >>31485256

>>31485130
>abra evolves into alakazam in TCG

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:50:50 No.31485256 Report

Quoted By: >>31485266

>>31485212
Interestingly, Alakazam has gotten Basic iterations after Mysterious Treasures, which also happened to be the last appearance of Kadabra on a card.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 14:52:08 No.31485266 Report

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>>31485256
>It's been almost 10 years since we got an Abra card

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 15:03:11 No.31485343 Report

Quoted By: >>31485456

>>31485167
>Jynx's face is obviously based on blackface
>obviously
similarity does not mean that it's "obvious"
Could be that it's directly based on Ganguro, or maybe something else, like frostbite

To me, the only things implying racism is the black skin, and the puffed lips, which, to be honest, is not very much

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 15:15:23 No.31485428 Report

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Older women often overdose on skin creams and stuff leaving their skin dry and dependent.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 15:20:07 No.31485456 Report

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>>31485343
Please, don't act stupid and say that Jynx/Mr. Popo/etc are anything other than a Japanese interpretation of blackface, which also appeared in old western cartoons as well.
And as previously mentioned, it wasn't done to be racist, Japan just found it silly looking, and didn't have a history of black slavery and oppression, or much blacks to offend.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 15:22:17 No.31485471 Report

Quoted By: >>31485482 >>31485483

>>31485151
at least Porygon you should be aware

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 15:24:35 No.31485482 Report

Quoted By: >>31485507

>>31485471
>you should be aware of a anime tv episode that was never even released outside of japan land

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 15:24:37 No.31485483 Report

Quoted By: >>31485507

>>31485471
As I said I was aware of the seizure incident but I didn't that it caused Porygon to get banned from the anime

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 15:27:31 No.31485507 Report

Quoted By: >>31485531

>>31485482
Everybody talked about this. Maybe your parents, your friends' parents never talked about that seizure incident involving Pokemon in Japan?
>>31485483
This makes sense.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Jan 2017 15:32:03 No.31485531 Report

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>>31485507
>Maybe your parents, your friends' parents never talked about that seizure incident involving Pokemon in Japan?

I never heard about it as a kid, only found out about it when I got back into Pokémon in 2012.
I did know about the Simpsons reference to the seizures, but I didn't know it was a reference to Pokémon. I figured it was a joke about mecha series or something.

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