Now that was silly
Apr. 6th, 2006 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI decided to watch Simoun raw. So the first thing I did was try and translate the kanji during the opening scene. I struggled for twenty minutes to find the first two kanji in the sentence in my SKIP dictionary before I figured out that it read "While watching Simoun..." and didn't need to translate the rest.
(For those of you unfamiliar with anime, after the "Pokemon causes seziures in small children!" panic of the early 90's, all anime shows now come with an opening warning advising you to sit a healthy distance from the screen and to watch in a well-lit room.)
(For those of you unfamiliar with anime, after the "Pokemon causes seziures in small children!" panic of the early 90's, all anime shows now come with an opening warning advising you to sit a healthy distance from the screen and to watch in a well-lit room.)
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Date: 2006-04-07 03:45 pm (UTC)Take one part rapidly flashing light in the show, speed up the frame rate enough to squeeze in just one more 30 second commercial over the course of the show, and add in a nationoal penchant for hypochondria and you have the whole set-up for the Pokemon Seizure Clip.
About 900 people reported to Hospitals within the first hour after the clip aired. Then the News came on: "900 people sent to Hospital for watching this anime clip. Let's watch it now..." thereby sending _another_ 600 people to the hospital for "dizzyness".
Unfortunately it aired on TV Tokyo, which only broadcasts live to the Tokyo area, and then later on syndication to the rest of the country, otherwise I'd have a recording of it.