You might be out to catch ’em all, but you’re not out to collect ’em all if you don’t at least have the Japanese release of the Mewtwo Strikes Back VHS tape. I mean, how big of a Pokemon fan are you really if you’ve got the second-rate English version and not the main star attraction that initiated the English release?
Pfft, take your Ash Ketchum cap off, poser.
Is the Mewtwo Strikes Back VHS worthy of me?
Pros
- Perfect VHS collector’s item for Pokemon fans (even if you’re not fluent in Japanese)
- Trip down memory lane, when the magic of the first movie happened
Cons
- This is the Japanese VHS–the English VHS is mentioned in the FAQ
Man, I’d forgotten just how old Pokémon really is. Hell it’s reminded me how old I am.
I can definitely remember back when I had a tape player, but I don’t think I can recall too many of the actual VHS tapes I owned. A lot of them were Disney movies for sure, such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Bambi, and The Lion King, of course.
Some other movies I think I owned were Tremors, Gremlins, and Ghostbusters.
Mewtwo Strikes Back was, I want to say, one of the VHS tapes I owned, but I’m not quite positive. Sure, as a kid I loved the Pokemon games and my parents knew it, because they’d let me buy and play them on my Gameboy and Gameboy Color, but I have no idea when I actually watched the movie. It might’ve just aired on TV and I watched it then, because I never even knew what anime was for a while, thus never bought too many of the tapes for them.
The moment I really got into anime was when I started watching Inuyasha, but I didn’t buy the first season of that until there were DVDs of it.
That’s another story for another time.
Since Pokemon The First Movie was initially released in Japan, I felt it was only necessary to showcase that version for this post. I mean, without them this movie wouldn’t have even been a thing or created for the US to enjoy.
Not that you can’t enjoy things in Japanese, mind you.
There’s just something of a language gap between them and us.
FAQ
Where’s the English dubbed VHS?
You can find a ton of listings for the English version of Mewtwo Strikes Back on Ebay for pretty cheap prices, considering they’re VHS relics and how popular the movies became.
How did we find this product?
I was taking a stroll through memory lane with watching Mewtwo Strikes Back and saw a VHS of it that struck a chord with my younger self.
