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Dennō Senshi Porygon

“Dennō Senshi Porygon” (literally “Computer Soldier Porygon,” although most commonly translated as “Electric Soldier Porygon”) is the thirty-eighth episode of the Pokémon anime’s first season. It was first broadcast in Japan on December 16, 1997, and has since not aired anywhere else. “Dennō Senshi Porygon” aired in Japan on December 16, 1997 at 6:30 PM Japan Standard Time.

20 minutes into the episode, there is a scene in which Pikachu stops some vaccine missiles with its Thunderbolt attack, resulting in a huge explosion that flashes red and blue lights.

At this point, viewers started to complain of blurred vision, headaches, dizziness and nausea. A few people even had seizures, blindness, convulsions and lost consciousness. Japan’s Fire Defense Agency reported that a total of 685 viewers, 310 boys and 375 girls, were taken to hospitals by ambulances. 12,000 children who did not get sent to hospital by ambulance reported mild symptoms of illness, however their symptoms more closely resembled mass hysteria than a grand mal seizure.

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