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After seeing some [Youtube
videos](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pokemon%20censorship)
about censorship in Pokemon, it seems to me that the motives for it are based
mainly on1:

  * Sexual content/innuendoes
  * Violence _(gore, mutilations, etc.)_
  * Religion references
  * And others _(offensive language, stereotypes, political matters, etc.)_

I'm interested in knowing if there are censored or discarded Pokemon
creatures, and if so, what are the motives behind it. Has [Satoshi
Tajiri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Tajiri) published information
about it?2

* * *

1 My knowledge about this topic mainly comes from creepypasta and other not
too serious references (and also, those are in Spanish, so, I'm not sure if
they would be accepted).

2 With the last statement I mean if Satoshi Tajiri approved or rejected the
idea/fact of censoring his creations, or if he worked in the censored version,
etc.


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pokemon censorship
Are there censored or discarded Pokemon creatures and what are the motives behind it?


**Censored creatures:**

Likely little. As @Torisuda has mentioned, there's no incentive for them to
create pokemon that toe the line - it's a show for kids, they will want
innocent monsters.

  * Sexual content/innuendoes

A definite no go area for a kids show

  * Violence (gore, mutilations, etc.)

Considering pokemon only 'faint' and there is purposefully no death in the
series, this isn't an issue in character design.

The only complaints have been at the presence of fighting creatures from
animal and religious groups. But even this is unwarranted - i[n 2000, Pope
John Paul II gave his blessing to
Pokémon](http://web.archive.org/web/20000818054740/http://www.nypostonline.com/news/2630.htm)
and said it did not have "any harmful moral side effects"

  * Religion references

You could draw parallels with pokemon and Shinto, but the show is pretty much
ignoring religious references, and quite rightly.

  * And others (offensive language, stereotypes, political matters, etc.)

There is one instance I can think of this, In Western editions, Jynx is
purple-skinned rather than black, as it is similar to
[blackface](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface):

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jCWV5.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jCWV5.png)

Most censoring is done before a show hits the market, so if there are more
instances, they're probably known only by the production crew - and kept
secret.

**Discarded Creatures:**

There are definitely discarded creatures, but mostly because they were removed
for quality reasons. Some of these made their way into later versions of the
series (like Ho-oH) and some were simply redesigned.

> At a fan convention in 2010, Shigeki Morimoto (the lead programmer of the
> first Pokemon games) confirmed that there were originally 190 Pokemon
> intended to be included in the release of the First Generation of Pokemon
> games. This is backed up by the fact that for the first 190 of the 255 slots
> in the hex grid of Pokemon, all slots possess either a valid Pokemon, or the
> same form of Missingno. All 191 slots and later contain garbage data that
> produce different glitch Pokemon in each slot.

[Reference.](http://lostmedia.wikia.com/wiki/Prototype_and_Removed_Pokemon_\(Early_90's_-_2003\))

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yU5FI.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yU5FI.jpg)
[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Srd5A.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Srd5A.jpg)


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