This isn’t really relevant or anything, and it should be quite obvious for those who have ever seen their “work”, but it caught my attention how clear their stance is:
Wow. I used to believe 4Kids simply sucked in the usual “we don’t know what the hell we’re doing” kind of way, but now this guy comes out and basically says “you’re not smart enough to deserve quality, so we’re not even trying”.
My summary would be:
“Young people can’t read. Therefore, we will give them the anime they want for free so they’ll go and buy our stuff. anime = $$$”
Aaaaaaaah.
I guess it’s not a bad business model if you’re targeting the youngest demographics, the kids that are too young to work and can’t blow hundreds of dollars a month on anime and manga; the kids that bug their parents endlessly to get them their favorite characters in plushie form.
I don’t get why this is a big deal. They did the same thing with saturday morning cartoons when we were kids.
Except 4Kids’ policy to “adapt” series to the American taste has never, ever done anything but damage them. It takes only a quick look at statistics to show that none of the series they have laid their claws on has never been as popular or lucrative as they were on other countries where they were aired properly, with the exception of Pokémon. Digimon and Shaman King are about five times as popular in my country than in those that got the 4Kids version, despite how well it sold, Yu-Gi-Oh! was a failure in occident compared to the mammoth that it was in Japan (It sold better than Pokémon for christ’s sake).
I’d like to go to 4Kids and say, “WHY do you insist on releasing this crap, see, people aren’t stupid. We don’t like the line, ‘What kind of chick trick was that?’! Why don’t you stop wasting time editing things and replacing important lines with retarded dialogue, and just dub what you translate!”.
Yeah, they got ahold of Tokyo Mew Mew, one of my favorite animes, and ruined it. The renamed Kish DREN. That is nerd backwards. Ugh, this does explain a lot.
Jesus Christ. 4Kids sucks, always has sucked, and always will suck. I thought we had this down by now.
I knew they sucked. I just didn’t know that they intentionally sucked.
If you watch the One-Piece dub without thinking too much about the original, it’s pretty entertaining. That might just be me though, since I’m a sucker for bad jokes and obvious puns.
That flash rocks, thank god they didn’t get Naruto, they’d edit it so much, the episodes would be like, 4 minutes long.