Wait a minute...

>>29441950
They're not real ghosts. They're Pokemon.

>China has ban on ghosts in media
What's the reason behind this? I'm genuinely curious now

>>29441950
Exception to the rule.

>>29442094
they also have bans on the undead and depictions of reincarnation. weird religious shit

>>29441950
China doesn't deserve pokemon.

>>29442094
From the Hollywood reporter on ghostbusters being banned

>China's official censorship guidelines technically prohibit movies that "promote cults or superstition" — a holdover from the Communist Party's secular ideology — and the country's regulators occasionally have been known to use this obscure provision as rationale for banning films that feature ghosts or supernatural beings in a semi-realistic way.

>>29442094
They think ghosts are real.

>>29441950

Most Ghost Pokemon aren't actual ghosts. The only explicitly stated to be spirits of the dead Drifloon, Yamask, Phantump, and Sandygast (and by extension, Drifblim, Cofagrigus, Trevenant, and Pallosand).

>>29442149
Isn't reincarnation without permission prohibited in china?

>>29441950
Except Disney did get past that. The Disney resort in Shanghai has a haunted mansion ride. Been there twice.

>>29442094
The chinese orthodoxy greatly dislikes the supernatural in mainstream fiction, especially depictions of the afterlife.
This is in line with the Party's suppression of religion and superstition, which are held to be anti-thetical to communist secularism.
It has been read a few ways, one line of argument goes that chinese citizens must focus on the temporal, because focus on the spiritual detracts from nation building, another goes that the central government wants a generation of intelligent, productive, urbanised citizens, and that means embracing empiricism entirely.

Well sandcastles are illegal in hawaii and they're still making a sandcastle pokemon