Review JN097: Yadoking! Curry Encounter!!

[Audino1008]

This is the only Journeys episode I turned off before finishing. I even tolerated the Blue Pokemon episode. But the """"rap"""" battle was so bad. It was basically "Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo hey hey hey hey hey hey" with like 2 actual sentences thrown in between. And rap battles aren't supposed to be so slow. Also, if the original episode was such a traumatic experience for Goh, why did he even come back to the Island? Because that episode was pretty much his whole previous experience with the Island, so his view on it should have gotten tarnished. He's even acting friendly towards the same Slowking from the original episode. This was terrible.

 

[Max1996]

...You and me both, Goh. Even if I imagine Rica had some fun with this.

 

[marshiyanmisuta]

This episode was slow. Previous one was so much better.

Question: Considering the dub treat Gou as a black character, would this episode seem offensive to American audience?

 

[SlyGecko]

This episode was slow. Previous one was so much better.

Question: Considering the dub treat Gou as a black character, would this episode seem offensive to American audience?

Why would it seem offensive to the American audience?

 

[marshiyanmisuta]

Why would it seem offensive to the American audience?

Aren't these "Yo yo yo"s are making fun of how african american people speak?

 

[SlyGecko]

Aren't these "Yo yo yo"s are making fun of how african american people speak?

Idk? Seems more like they're just wrote a rap song without any of the writers knowing anything about rap besides yos are sometimes in it.

 

[PkmnTrainerV]

Idk? Seems more like they're just wrote a rap song without any of the writers knowing anything about rap besides yos are sometimes in it.

I’m not really sure if I like that bit. Heavily stereotypes the rap culture.

 

[LuxrayOfTheWild]

I’m not really sure if I like that bit. Heavily stereotypes the rap culture.

There's a lot more to rap music than a bunch of "Hey!" "Yo!". That was a good chunk of this cringeworthy "rap".

 

[P_S_B]

As much as this episode sounds like it was legitimately terrible and literally nobody would miss it if the dub skipped it, since the issue is primarily with script it is something the dub could easily fix by simply not having crappy, "yo hey yo hey yo," lyrics, thereby giving them no reason to skip the episode.

 

[PkmnTrainerV]

As much as this episode sounds like it was legitimately terrible and literally nobody would miss it if the dub skipped it, since the issue is primarily with script it is something the dub could easily fix by simply not having crappy, "yo hey yo hey yo," lyrics, thereby giving them no reason to skip the episode.

I guess it could turn into one of those cases where the dub is legitimately better than the original if they added in proper lyrics.

I think the least they could do was not stereotype rap culture if all other aspects of the episode are copy pasted anyways.