{"id":260198,"date":"2023-11-12T08:52:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=314745"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:41:32","slug":"the-far-fetched-reason-why-pokemon-was-banned-in-saudi-arabia-and-other-countries-in-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-far-fetched-reason-why-pokemon-was-banned-in-saudi-arabia-and-other-countries-in-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"The absurd reason ‘Pok\u00e9mon’ was banned in Saudi Arabia and other countries in 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When ‘Pok\u00e9mon<\/a><\/strong>‘ set out to conquer the world in 1997 with the anime and the two Game Boy games in tow, it achieved it almost immediately: the end of the 90s was a pure global pokemania with video games<\/strong>, the collectible card game, trading cards, chewing gum, merchandise, anime, the Pok\u00e9dex, and even a Pikachu that counted your steps. The whole world fell in love with this saga. The whole world? That’s a lot to say<\/p>\n\n\n

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Not everyone ended up in love with the game: there were quite a few parents who expressed concern and even accused it of being satanic, something that ‘South Park’ parodied in the wonderful 1999 episode ‘Chinpokomon.’ In Saudi Arabia, however, they went further: in 2001, they announced that the game was another form of gambling, prohibited in Islam<\/strong>, and banned the games, anime, collectible cards, and even, more recently, ‘Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/a><\/strong>.’ Fixed ideas, indeed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not the only country that has banned everything about the franchise: Egypt and Qatar banned it because it ‘promoted Zionism’ (oh, no, Charmander, what have you done now), and Turkey stopped airing the anime after two seasons – in a twist of events – because a seven-year-old girl jumped from a fifth floor believing she was a Pok\u00e9mon<\/strong>. Don’t worry, though; she only broke a leg. However, she will have to live her whole life knowing they will never find out if Ash Ketchum<\/a><\/strong> wins the league because of her idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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