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Japan was still trying to figure out what hit it today, after 685 people were in hospitals with seizures, convulsions or Loss of vision made after watching a popular television cartoon "on Tuesday. Some 200 victims, mainly children, remained hospitalized today.

Outraged mothers accused of ignoring children's health television stations competing for ratings in the multi-billion dollar entertainment company. Some for the introduction of a electronic screening device referred to as comparable to the American V-chip to help parents block out intense animation.

"We are serious about this Escalation of racial concerns that competition from the television show more stimulating images, targeting even children, the largest organization of mothers said in a statement.

The victims who suffered in age from 3 to 58 and live in the country, attacks during a fast-action comic book series called "Pokemon" or "Pocket Monsters". The scene that apparently triggered the neurological episodes involved a bright white explosion, followed by bright red, white and blue Lights that flashed like lightning for about five seconds.

In the hour after the show, emergency phone lines started lighting up around the country named as persons Ambulance. Some families reported that children stopped breathing for a short time, others reported seizures similar to those suffered by epileptics. Newspapers reported that more people were stricken later in the evening when television news repeat of the scenes that made people ill, probably in an editorial decision for a public Service awards are named. The newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported today that education officials had 12 950 children identified at least mild symptoms after watching the show suffered.

The popular program was immediately pulled from the air and taped a big-chain video stores away versions. Shares of Nintendo, based the character on the show invented, a nearly 5 percent took shellacking on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

And Japan, some of the most creative and distinctive animation in the world, including some produced the most violent, leaving one to wonder: Is there really such a thing as a killer cartoon?

"It is already known that television has a great impact has on people, and in the centuries, it gets bigger and bigger, "said Kikuo Asai, a researcher at the Media Education Development Center in Tokyo." But in many ways, this mechanism is not fully understood. Perhaps the "Pokemon" is intended to help clarify. "

A Grave Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto offered this Buck Rogers-ish comment. "Beams and lasers have been considered for use as weapons Their effects are still not completely determined. "

The incident almost everyone here has hit the most bizarre thing that happened in Tokyo since a bearded guru with a Christ complex commanded his disciples to gas the city subway March 1995, killing 12 people and sending 5,500 others to the hospital.

About the only people who are not too surprised were neurologists and the makers of video games. As it turns out, there is ample precedent for intense optical excitation causes epileptic seizures. Disease-related video games in the last 10 years increased sharply as video games have flourished and the visual effects have become more intense.

After a number of young people suffered seizures while playing Nintendo games a few years ago, the company now has a warning on most of its software, saying that the games could a "Shigeki", or a strong stimulation from bright light, resulting in unconsciousness or convulsions. The warning advises users prone to such episodes to a doctor before to ask you. Sega is also a similar warning to his video games and software.

In the United Kingdom in 1994, the Independent Television Commission, which regulates commercial TV, the rate of flash is limited to three per second.

The guidelines were for a 1993 incident in which broadcast an ad for noodles that "a large number of fast-moving computer graphics and other rapid fluctuations in brightness," said Suzanne started prancing, a spokesman for the Commission. "A number of people complained about them, and there were three cases of people actually suffering seizures."

But "it is very difficult completely eliminate the problem, "said Prance. The question is flashing images, but also rapid changes in patterns like a black-on-white star-exchange to a white-on-black star. All of our stations to ensure a preview programs, they are in compliance with our code. "Several Japanese TV today said they would screen their animated programming to ensure that they do not contain the kinds of visual effects that caused problems on Tuesday.

Animators said the "Pokemon" episode that people ill contained no special effects or techniques that had not have used hundreds of times. Animators said the Flash technique known as "Paka-Paka" or the use of different colored lights alternately to create tension, is quite common. "We can not Understand why it turned out this way, "said Takemoto Mori, the show producer.

Akinori Hoshika, a neurologist at Tokyo Medical College, said that it is well established that optical stimulation can produce dizziness, nausea, fainting, loss of vision, seizures and other symptoms. Hoshika said children are particularly vulnerable because their brains and central nervous system is not yet fully developed.

Hoshika said strong flashes of red and blue, at opposite ends of the spectrum are, are usually very hard on the eye and brain and more likely to produce a reaction.

Japanese houses, many of which are very small and have large-screen televisions, the problem may have been even worse. Watching TV in a Japanese apartment is a little like sitting in the front row in a cinema.

Today Yomiuri Shimbun reported that a 14-year-old boy who was sitting less than ten feet from his big-screen TV unconscious for more than 30 minutes. A fifth class girls sitting seven feet from a 35-inch set suffered a seizure and felt, said her family, "as if they were under the spell of a hypnotist."

A pediatrician in Osaka, he said two children who were at dinner in front of the TV when she collapsed and fell into convulsions treated. The attacks lasted about five minutes, but the children were from the time they consciously arrived at the hospital.

Still, just with bright strobe lights in your face 2 1 / 2 feet would be enough for anybody uncomfortable. After you attacked your senses with a kaleidoscope of bizarre explosion of light in the middle of the sushi rice and got worse.

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