Lost episodes of Pokémon anime translated by fans for first time
A pair of Pokémon anime episodes which never made it on-air have had their scripts translated and shared with fans, 12 years later.
Team Rocket vs Team Plasma (Part 1 & 2) were set to mark a significant moment in the long-running series' Black and White saga, where the two mobs faced off in a final showdown for control of the Unova region.
But despite being ready for broadcast, the episodes were never made public.
Why were they skipped? The episodes feature a city-destroying incident, and were due to air right after the real-life devastating Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan which resulted in the deaths of nearly 20,000 people.
Despite assurances by The Pokémon Company that the episodes would be shown at a later date, they were never returned to — and were never shown anywhere outside of Japan, either.
Now, the episodes' scripts are available to read for yourself — translated from the original Japanese by Bulbagarden user ObjectionMan — and publicly accessible via the tweet below.
The history has been made today.
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