JAPANESE! - Master Quest #41
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I don't know why this episode didn't get dubbed, but I'm glad it didn't, as it was a lot of fun hearing the Japanese voice actors!
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This episode was skipped in the dub because of the prominence of Jynx, whose design at the time was considered by some-most significantly in the United States-to be an offensive racial stereotype. Jynx had appeared in previous episodes and another future episode in this design, but 4Kids were able to cut Jynx's appearance, as those deletions did not significantly affect the storyline of those particular episodes. That was not the case with this episode, as Jynx is one of the main characters in this episode, and 4Kids knew it would be impossible to remove Jynx entirely for this episode and still have the story make sense. As a result, 4Kids eventually decided to skip the episode in its entirety. Also, three previous episodes (Holiday Hi-Jynx, Stage Fight!, and The Mandarin Island Miss Match) that were originally dubbed and aired normally, were later removed from Pokémon TV and the re-release of the Orange Islands DVD box set because of this controversy. Jynx wouldn't appear again in a dub episode until Mean With Envy, where it finally appeared in the redesign it was given due to the complaints leveled against it.
Daniel Thunberg
2025-08-30 03:09:29 +0000 UTCSo I just finished the episode, it was fun lol, seeing the differences between sub and dub is interesting, I think the main cast in both honestly do a good job, they've both grown into the roles well at this point we're 250 episodes in, so that makes sense. One thing I'd like to bring up, you might recognise Jessie's Japanese voice, her VA is Megumi Hayashibara, the voice of Female Ranma, as well as Rebecca from One Piece, she honestly has an incredible resume as a VA, like, she's also Ai Haibara from Detective Conan, so between those three shows alone that's over 2,000+ episodes she's worked on.
Chrome
2025-08-29 17:45:33 +0000 UTC
