Pokémon episodes removed from rotation

Pokémon is an anime television series that originally debuted in Japan on April 1, 1997. Throughout its run of over 1,300 episodes, specific episodes have been pulled from airing, banned from airing in certain countries, or never aired at all.

Many episodes that have been banned were stated to have been the cause of "moral panic" as a result of the content included in them. The globally banned episode "Dennō Senshi Porygon", which aired only once on Japan's TV Tokyo on December 16, 1997, features a series of rapidly alternating red and blue frames that provoked epileptic seizures in hundreds of children. Episodes including the Pokémon species Jynx and Passimian were pulled from air or never aired in the United States due to concerns about racial stereotyping and blackface in their respective episodes. Other episodes were removed from airing due to various real-world events.