Pokémon

This is intended to be a more faithful reconstruction of episode 18 when it aired on Kids WB as opposed to the old as fuck decensor edit that has hard subs over the removed scenes. Basically a replacement to insert into your existing collections for the dubbed Indigo League season. For some reason since this was dubbed after Indigo League they decided to use an Orange Islands eyecatch for after the intro and before Pikachu's Jukebox and those were kept for accuracy sake instead of swapping to Indigo League's eyecatches. The credits for Orange Island (from the episode My Best Friends is pulled from) are also kept in best assumption that's what the dub master would have had since they were weird enough to do the aforementioned eyecatch choices (the source used for the dub audio does not have the credits). The title card and 2 paint edits (Removing GAS and OIL from Meowth sabotaging the kitchen, plus the trophy at the end being for Ash) were remade [they probably weren't getting paid enough to change literally every other instance of japanese text in the episode]. Not sure the exact font used for the trophy but Apple Garamond seemed like the closest match. Bulbapedia said this episode used My Best Friends for Pikachu's Jukebox so that's what I used. Rendered out at a slightly higher bitrate than the source files used to keep as much original quality as possible, but the visual sources are DVD quality or below that so they're average at best anyways. Sources: Opening + Who's That Pokemon (from episode 69): Indigo League DVD remux [OTW/AMBiENT] Episode 18 dub audio: VHS capture [Weirdo2003] Episode 18 raw: https://nyaa.si/view/786200 Bits from Orange Islands: https://nyaa.si/view/1839694 Video ID : 1 Format : HEVC Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding Format profile : [email protected]@Main Codec ID : hvc1 Codec ID/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding Duration : 21 min 35 s Bit rate : 3 395 kb/s Width : 640 pixels Height : 480 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4:3 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.369 Stream size : 524 MiB (95%) Language : English Encoded date : 2025-10-24 17:55:47 UTC Tagged date : 2025-10-24 17:55:47 UTC Color range : Limited Codec configuration box : hvcC Audio ID : 2 Format : AAC LC Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity Codec ID : mp4a-40-2 Duration : 21 min 35 s Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 192 kb/s Maximum bit rate : 478 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 29.3 MiB (5%) Language : English Encoded date : 2025-10-24 17:55:47 UTC Tagged date : 2025-10-24 17:55:47 UTC