{"id":168,"date":"2000-10-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-10-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2000\/10\/30\/ask-john-public-service-announcements-in-anime\/"},"modified":"2000-10-30T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-10-30T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-public-service-announcements-in-anime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-public-service-announcements-in-anime\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Public Service Announcements in Anime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nI recently saw the first Cowboy Bebop, subtitled, and during the preview for the second or third episode, there was a joke that said that good kids stay a distance away from their television sets.  I wouldn&#8217;t have thought much of it, but I recently saw another anime that said the exact same thing.  (Though I can&#8217;t remember which one.  It may have been Trigun or Jubei-chan, or even Marmalade Boy though I doubt the last.)  Was there an incident in Japan that sprung these masked and barely hidden public service announcements?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe most obvious example of this is the disclaimer that appears at the beginning of each episode of Kareshi Kanojo no Jijoo.  White letters on a black background, very intentionally reminiscent of Evangelion, appear before the beginning of each episode to warn viewers to watch anime in a well-lit room at a reasonable distance from the television. In fact, though, all anime broadcast on Japanese television since 1999 include a warning for viewers to watch anime in a well lit room away from the screen. Some series, like Kare Kano, Risky Safety, Steel Angel Kurumi and Hanaukyo Maid Tai make the warning a part of the anime itself.  Most shows simply include a text warning at the bottom of the screen on every episode. Many times, this text warning is not included on home video versions.<\/p>\n<p>This public service announcement is a reference to Pokemon. Perhaps you remember, or perhaps you didn&#8217;t hear that about a year ago, episode 38 of Pocket Monsters in Japan had a full screen of bright, flashing alternating colors that caused epileptic-type seizures in over 700 viewers, mostly children.  Needless to say, that particular episode has never been broadcast in America.  If you&#8217;ve seen the Simpsons episode in which the Simpson family goes to Japan, you&#8217;ll notice in that episode a reference to a Super Seizure Inducing Robot cartoon on television, again, a reference to Japanese animation causing seizures in some viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I recently saw the first Cowboy Bebop, subtitled, and during the preview for the second or third episode, there was a joke that said that good kids stay a distance away from their television sets. I wouldn&#8217;t have thought much of it, but I recently saw another anime that said the exact same thing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}