Yeah, thats all true, multiple episodes were cut, sheerly for the purpose of ultimately kiddyfy-ing the show...one i heard about was it got cut because someone held a gun to ash's headmegaman917 wrote:I remember reading somewhere there actually is blood in the Japanese version, and that one episode got banned from television in Japan because a whole bunch of kids got seizures after watching the flashing bright colors. Also, I think a few episodes were cut from the English version for being a little too mature for U.S. standards.
Also, the episode that featured porygon was cut because it gave thousands of Japanese kids seizures is also true, thats part of where the Simpsons skit "Battling Siezure Robots" came from.