In 1998, a company called 4Kids Entertainment bought Pokemon and made several edits to almost every episode such as:
- The opening themes in the original Japanese versions were changed to new themes in the English version.
- Referring to rice balls as "donuts".
- Extra music was added to fill silence in the series.
- Some of the dialogue was edited to change the meaning.
- Japanese text is mostly painted out.
- Some scenes were cut out of the English version (such as James's breasts scene in "Beauty and the Beach").
- Some scenes are switched around.