Recently I rewatched some Pokemon season 1 and I always remembered the Sabrina arc to be odd but now I see there are lots of horror tropes that I know from movies that are as old as the pokemon anime are newer. Can horror otakus or japan knowers answer me some questions? Which works were the first to dopsychic girls with powers that are to strong for their own good. She reminded me of Sadako from Ringu but the anime is too old for thatTurning people into dolls/toysScary little girls/puppet girlsbeing transported into a world controled by a godlike characterparapschological research institutesI tried to research that but people online are just "remember how scary the episodes were?"
>>287362232Very tall women molesting innocent Japanese boys in rural towns
>>287362232>psychic girls with powers that are to strong for their own goodCarrie>Turning people into dolls/toysDevil Doll, Child's Play>Scary little girlsThe Exorcist, The Shining>being transported into a world controled by a godlike characterTwilight Zone>parapschological research institutesReal life psychical institutes from the 1800s
It was surprising to hear how flat and angry her adult self's acting was in the Japanese audio. On a somewhat similar note, the role was like the one time her English VA bothered to not use the same voice and tone that she does for every role.
>>287362232Dolls get a double whammy as vessels for the souls of the departed and coming to life on their own as yokai.There was also a custom of a house having several "guardian dolls" or sumshit.And children got guardian dolls so obviously dead child's soul could cling onto that....It's a hilarious culture of filling your household with eerie items and then getting scared of them.
you can ask ai these things now1. The Twilight Zone: Sabrina trapping the shrunken crew in a giant dollhouse is a direct homage to "Stopover in a Quiet Town" (where characters are trapped in an alien child's toy village) and "Five Characters in Search of an Exit."2. Alice in Wonderland: Ash and his friends shrinking to navigate a giant, illogical world mirrors Alice's "Drink Me" potion. Being forced into an unsettling tea party as living dolls heavily channels the Mad Hatter.3. Stephen King & Akira: Sabrina embodies the "dangerous psychic child" trope. Her world-breaking, emotionally repressed telekinesis mirrors Carrie and the anime Akira. Furthermore, her creepy younger doll constantly wanting to "play" evokes the terrifying Grady Twins from The Shining.4. Uri Geller & Real ESP: Gym trainers train using Zener cards, real tools invented in the 1930s for ESP testing. The spoon-bending directly references Uri Geller, the 1970s illusionist who famously sued Nintendo because Kadabra (Japanese name: Yungerer) was a blatant spoof of him.5. Ventriloquist Dummies & Split Psyche: Sabrina’s cold, emotionless body projects all her repressed childhood desires onto a sentient doll. This echoes psychological horror tropes seen in Magic (1978) and The Twilight Zone’s "The Dummy," visually representing Dissociative Identity Disorder.6. Japanese Folklore (Ikiryō): Sabrina’s doll functions as an ikiryō in Japanese myth—a living person's soul that separates from their physical body due to intense trauma. The doll is the literal, tangible ghost of her sacrificed childhood.uma. Sabrina’s doll acts exactly like this: it is a literal, psychic ghost of the childhood she discarded to focus purely on her telekinesis.It also mentioned the psychic facility being like Akirathat was all gemini gpt had much less but mostly the same, it mentioned Child's Play thoughI would have thought It's a Good Life from the Twilight Zone but I guess not
>Ono/Sanpei puts in Sabrina>she's a fucking cinnamon roll
The Kanto gym leaders were extremely villainous in the Adventures manga
>>287365746>Ask AI
>>287362232>psychic girls with powers that are to strong for their own good. >Turning people into dolls/toys>Scary little girls/puppet girls>being transported into a world controled by a godlike characterChange "Psychic girls" to "Boy" and every one of these is present in this Twilight Zone episode, including the obession with toys and putting people in dollhouses/transforming them into toys, though uh... little more final in the show's case when they get turned to toys. Implied to just be a head swinging on the end of a jack in the box's spring.
>>287366426Did she have the right part of her kimono folded over the left intentionally, or did VIZ mess that up and mirror the panels?
>>287362232Sabrina was an Esper archetype...in OPM/Tatsumaki or Mob and Saiki.That's why you've psychic mon too. There was somebody with a meme that you can bend forks with the mind but people use 10% of the brain and you need 100% to do it lol. That only the psychics do? As far as I know, this is where the idea is from. Some sort of /x/ meme.Weird, desu.
>>287366517yeah it's mirrored, this is from someone using the OG scans with Viz's translation
>>287366468Pokopia has a secret Rocket hideout buried under Sabrina's gym and I kinda wonder if it was an Adventures nod
