Antiyonder
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So I'm the least picky when it comes to the Dub and still enjoy it a lot (I'd still be happy to regularly consume the original if it ever got the Subbed Toku treatment), but yeah the downplaying of Japanese culture really doesn't make sense.
The show isn't some super realistic slice of life story that perfectly captures real life even with the later episodes.
If one can accept:
- The presence of a device that can shrink, convert and store a creature.
- Kids being able to travel the country side and being able to handle creatures (with fantasy/fictional capabilities) that are just as deadly as say a gun.
- Or just any technology that didn't exist in the 90s.
Why is something like say a ball made of rice so much of a deal breaker? If I was ignorant to Japanese culture, I would just assume it's a weird food quirk of the Pokémon world akin to say meat products in The Flintstones are made from dinosaurs instead of mammals or say how gems/diamonds are snacks for dragons (MLP).
But no. It's easy to accept that a device can covert creatures into energy to store them, but riceballs are the most puzzling thing cause, as Linkara puts it, the Kool-Aid Man is red.
The show isn't some super realistic slice of life story that perfectly captures real life even with the later episodes.
If one can accept:
- The presence of a device that can shrink, convert and store a creature.
- Kids being able to travel the country side and being able to handle creatures (with fantasy/fictional capabilities) that are just as deadly as say a gun.
- Or just any technology that didn't exist in the 90s.
Why is something like say a ball made of rice so much of a deal breaker? If I was ignorant to Japanese culture, I would just assume it's a weird food quirk of the Pokémon world akin to say meat products in The Flintstones are made from dinosaurs instead of mammals or say how gems/diamonds are snacks for dragons (MLP).
But no. It's easy to accept that a device can covert creatures into energy to store them, but riceballs are the most puzzling thing cause, as Linkara puts it, the Kool-Aid Man is red.
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