Yes. They simply bought the rights to the series because it was a package deal from Toei Animation containing "Ojamaji Do Re Mi", "Ultimate Muscle" and "Shaman King"
If Saban hadn't sold his company to Disney when he did, maybe held out two more years, it woulda been his responsibility along with Ultimate Muscle, Bobobo and Zach Bell. And I guarantee that his team would have done a better job on all of them. To start with before being bought by Time Warner or something.
There’s actually some pretty damming evidence against 4Kids that has surfaced in the modern day. Specifically that FUNimation and 4Kids were actually in a bidding war over One Piece with FUNimation even going as far as to make early websites and pilot episodes in the hopes they would outbid 4Kids. But, 4Kids ended up offering Toei a better deal and that’s how 4Kids got the rights. The whole “We didn’t want to dub One Piece; it was a forced package deal,” was nothing more than a lie made up by Mark Kirk several years after their One Piece dub ended in order to save face for how terrible the dub was.
4Kids wasn't bad. They were actually very successful with their dubs of Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! , and they had a lot of good dubs. Their goal as a company to promote anime to children was a great idea that had very rich potential. But unfortunately, some of their potential was held back by typical American broadcasting standards that Funimation and Viz use to be victims of, that it has caused them to make a few bad dubs, and changes that hurt their reception among anime fans.
I don't know why people keep defending 4kids. What they did to yugioh gx is disgusting, and I find it funny how tmnt was treated with respect while the japanese shows meant for the same audience were butchered. Yugioh duel monsters was hurt badly in America due to their dubbing, but they messed up the spinoffs so bad that I found them unwatchable even when I was a little kid. I'm almost 100% certain that the Pegasus plot you mentioned was in the original manga and not a 4kids creation. To me, the fact that they treated tmnt so well, but slaughtered every eastern show tells all. They almost certainly didn't censor shows because they were to graphic, they did it because it was Japanese. They didn't just butcher gx, they ended it the second Judai fused with Yubel. I won't use the 4kids yugioh names, not for whatever pretentious reason but because it is an endorsement of 4kids. I have no problem using the english names Misty and Brock because the excellent localized games did, but I'm never using the 4kids yugioh names. I hate the argument that these were for small children when they took shows made for teenagers and irreparably damaged them. There is very little info on the political ideas of Alfred Khan, but I'd put all the money on him being a radical conservative. As someone who grew up in a conservative household, the reason they would want to destroy it is obvious to me. Saying this stuff is made for kids is an incredibly offensive argument. Star Wars was made as a pg movie for kids. All superheroes were made for kids. The issue is that in reality, the vast majority of pokemon and yugioh fans are the adults that grew up with the games. The most hardcore Star Wars fans are usually adults. Yes it is true that you can sit a kid down in front of absolute garbage like that one piece dub and they will like it, but there is something truly disgusting about dumbing kids down like that for no reason. The first 3 seasons of spongebob had immense effort put into them, and gained widespread appeal as a result. The newer seasons, much like the one piece dub is trash that lowers the bar and lowers and insults the intelligence of both the kids and the parents miserably being forced to listen to it. There is no defense for 4kids. They took the art of manga authors and animators only to trash it in the worst way possible.
Honestly the Winx Club 4kids dub is the best out of the dubs imo. It's pretty cheesy I will admit, but the voices match with the characters perfectly and honestly the acting is actually pretty great. The Nickelodeon version really downgraded it
I'm an exact opposite when it comes to the 4Kids dub of Winx. I absolutely loathe it, mostly because the voice acting was so cringeworthy and the source material deviated from the original Italian version. That's why I like the RAI English version the most, because it actually sticks to the original storyline and the voice acting is actually pretty good (seasons 2 and 3 especially!). The Nickelodeon version was teetering on passable for me.
The 4kids dub had an amazing cast, but it seriously watered down the shows more mature topics like what caused 2 characters to change identities(it's pretty dark for a show about fairies), reordering episodes, cutting scenes, altering plot points and characters relationships, making new scenes, changing words terminology, and all that cursed shit. Believe it or not this show was meant for all ages. The only dub that didn't alter anything besides a few lines was the Cinélume (Rai English) dub, it was only released in Singapore until 2012-4 when the show got popular again via Nick, and Rainbow SRL released it on DVD, Netflix, and the official Winx Club channel. due to the fact Nick never dubbed season 1 or 2, instead making 4, 1 hour specials that recap and water the story. The Cinélume dub covers seasons 1-4 BTW
I was going to say "You did it, you avatar is no longer scary" but that was just in the thumbnail, in the video it stills scary I think it is because lips, nose, eyelid and body look realistic, but the eyes are huge About 4Kids, we didn't had that at my place, sorry!
Sorry about that :( I had some plans on getting new sprites but those plans unfortunately fell through due to unrelated circumstances and hiring an artist to do a bunch of sprites that I need for my videos can get VVVEERRYYY expensive to a point where it's not really the kind of money I 100% have right now. I will be trying to save up for a drawing tablet (as it's literally cheaper than buying sprites lol) so I'll be trying to draw the sprites myself from now on and 'cause I wanna do my own art in general.
@@WeebaLu Someone said.......Sprites? or you meant drawings? I do pixel art animation About your avatar, it is just something of me, someone else may just find it cute
@@Gadreth I mean drawings lol Sorry, in the world of editing and stuff, the kind of pictures I use of my avatar is called sprites xD Not to worry, I think soon Ill be able to draw sprites everyone is happy with xD
In my opinion, the only good thing about "Kirby Right at Ya! is": - Ted Lewis, the voice actor of Dedede and Escargoon is great cause he made a lot of cheesy lines that cause some memes. Though I cannot voice Dedede well. I hope someone else can do it. - Kirby's voice actor is kept in the dub. - Poyo. The bad things in "Kirby Right Back at Ya!" is: - The dialogue is heavily changed in almost all episodes. - They change the names Fumu and Bun to Tiff and Tuff respectively. - The voice acting for the rest of the characters (that is not Dedede, Chef Kawasaki, or Meta Knight) does not match with the original. - The music is one of the worst in all of 4kids. These are just my opinion of "Kirby Right Back at Ya!". If you want to watch the original, it is titled "Hoshi no Kaabii" it's on UA-cam.
I think if the good music and emotion of the Japanese version was mixed with the humor and the theme song of the English version, we would have a better Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
I'd say the best thing aired on 4Kids was their TMNT show, because it was ACTUALLY allowed to get dark, unlike all their other shows which were ridiculously censored
And when I mean dark, I MEAN DARK (If you know you know), and even later on when it was forced to tone itself down it was still good, and had strong character writing.
Despite it's reputation for questionable voice acting and rather dumb edits on top of the poor censorship ideas, 4Kids had it's fair share of decent dubs Sonic X, Yu Gi Oh, and Winx Club to name a few. Now that I'm older and starting to get into drama theatre, voice acting, and acting in general,I realize that sometimes it's not the fault of the voice actors, it's the direction their given. Direction can always make or break a character and trust me 4Kids had the really bad ones ***cough***LUFFY***cough***. 4Kids holds a special place in my heart for being part of my childhood but I also hold that small amount of disdain for it as well.
No mention of Yugioh Capsule Monsters? The 12 episode spin off series based off one of the games from the manga before it switched to solely being about duel monsters. It was commissioned and written entirely by 4Kids and It's as bad as that sounds even with original animation team.
I didn't mention it as it was commissioned by 4Kids themselves so I titled it under "4Kids made cartoon", especially when the Japanese dub of the spinoff was cancelled when it was shown how poorly received Capsule Monsters was. I actually remember reading the Yugioh manga's chapter of the Capsule Monsters! :D Granted I didn't know how to properly read manga back then so I was very confused, but I do remember that part because it was definitely scary for 8 year old Lu to see Mokuba screaming for help as he got sealed in a giant capsule xD I also did watch Capsule Monsters myself years ago and uh...yeah...I definitely didn't care for it. The whole thing just felt like a weird clone of Digimon or something.
That's fair, it had no shame in trying to be a Pokemon rip off and I'm at least happy that Japanese Yugioh fans got spared this shit show XD I cant remember if I ever read that part of the manga as a kid, borrowing them from the library made it disjointed at best, but rereading it a few years back and being introduced to Mokuba by him threatening to cut of one off Yugi's fingers if he loses to him at capsule monsters was such a departure from Mr constantly kidnapped that I couldn't help but laugh XD
The last 20 odd Episodes of Ultimate Muscle/aka Kinikuman Nisei only exist thanks to 4KIDS due to it's popularity outside japan where this sequel show to Kinikuman the Manga that created the tournament arc did not do well.
One Piece: i agree it did look ugly to me so i avoided the hell out of it as a kid. Mew Mew: i think i saw ONE episode and didn't like it but the Japanese drew me in a few episodes when it was free on YT Sonic X: DONT GET ME STARTED. Sure it had plenty of flaws but it's what introduced me to Sonic and i grew OBSESSED with it. I always looked forward to an episode on saturday mornings. And i also think to anime and video games in general! Also the theme song is iconic 👌 Doremi: i honestly really enjoyed this anime too! I watched all episodes when the shows were free to watch on their website and ain't gonna lie but I was boohoo crying at the final episode 🤣 Also...we DONT talk about the 4kids anthem...we dont...
@@jtsmith1817 And worse, Canada was able to show episodes 24-26 while the US gets up to 23 before it got cancelled. And honestly, that show deserves to retain its Japanese influence like Shaman King did. 4Kids is xenophobic by removing Japanese influences in mostly-Japanese shows.
The one thing that Pokemon didn’t need to censor were the Sushi rolls (the infamous “Have a donut”) BUT I totally agree they did an awesome job with that dub. And changing Papillion to Moth was very clever! I don’t think American kids would take a villain named “Butterfly” very seriously
They removed a scene from yugioh where bakura was eating like a dog like wth and other stupid things but it is fun just to watch the stupidness of yugioh espacially season 1
Yyeeahhh but that's even before 4Kids though. Many not knowing anime was it's own thing starts as far back as the 60's with Anime like Tetsujin 28/Gigantor, Astro Boy and Speed Racer were being brought over to the US through English dubbing.
I'm for it. Sonic looked absolutely horrendous and almost uncanny, then again I notice that a lot of big budget movie studios seem to think "HYPERREALISMMMM" is the way to go for cartoon characters when that simply isn't true. It's actually kinda sad when Progressive commercials had a better looking Sonic interacting with real people than this movie did. Though honestly, my only major complain is Sonic's model and Eggman's lack of...looking like Eggman throughout the movie. I get they wanna make a new backstory for him that Sonic made him crazy but I still don't care for it. Other than that, I do think the movie holds a lot of potential if they just fix the model. Right now? The current Sonic model for the movie looks like someone's first time taxidermy gone wrong.
@@WeebaLu What are your thoughts on the new Sonic movie trailer? And considering this whole video, what are your thoughts on adults who play Sonic? Do you find them creepy too?
@@obd9660 I absolutely LOVE Sonic's new design and the new trailer in general! I don't mind adults who play Sonic, so long as they're not Chris-chan levels of obsessed and just simply enjoy the high speed gameplay and platforming lol I only find it creepy when you have like a 40+ year old watching or playing something intended for 4-6 year olds. I guess it's like a grown adult play with baby toys? If that makes any sense? Idk lol
@@WeebaLu What about adults who care about the story side of Sonic, whether it be the games, shows, OVA film, comics, etc, like with these discusion videos you see on UA-cam like "Why modern Sonic stories don't work" by J's Reviews, and "Sonic stories CAN'T be restrictive" by SuperMarioT?
The Kirby Right Back at Ya was pretty okay tbh, My only problems were that they changed Blade Knights gender to female to male but that might just be me also Meta Knights voice is just awkward to hear coming out of that character and also how they watered down story dialogue But tbh I'm a huge Kirby fan
Can I just say something about the name changes? I'm going to use Sailor Moon s an example since that's the show I know most. I know it's not 4Kids, but this is about name changes in dubs in general. As far as I've seen: most dubs of Sailor Moon either didn't change the names or changed them just a tiny bit. I live in Israel, and let me tell you about the Hebrew dub of Sailor Moon: it had all 200 episodes, and none of the character names were changed as far as I remember. All they did was change the way they were pronounced to better suit the language they speak (which honestly I don't mind because it makes sense to me). I mean, the voices were fucking terrible, especially Usagi, but I feel like I got the full experience when I rewatched it to see what I missed when I was 8. And Haruka and Michiru's relationship wasn't censored. I'm sorry, but if some low-budget dub in a tiny ass country managed to have accurate names, I'm sure 4Kids could've kept the Japanese names. Also, about the Pokemon episode with the gun: I wouldn't have a problem with it had it not been for the fact that this episode is relevant to the story. Ash (Or Satoshi, though I have less problem with the name changes in Pokemon since they changed them in the games too) caught 30 Taurus. It's not some random episode. They could've changed it to a toy gun or something, if they could do that with cigarettes to lollipops in One Piece. Speaking of which, I am way too afraid to look at the comments, the artstyle of One Piece really grew on me with all honesty, but art is subjective so I hope the comments at least consider that.
The english theme song for kriby ius way better than the Japanses version. Here you have Kirby being fired out of a cannon and an old woman is singing.
I still wished 4Kids have made the whole complete DVD collection of Winx Club, TMNT 2003, Sonic X, Ultimate Muscle and the rest of the series back then before it was shut down forever because release one or two DVD with a few episodes is not enough and I prefer the whole complete seasons collections.
This is why I perfer Funimation over 4Kids. 4Kids just censors and ruins everything. And lets not forget them censoring the Japanese text (they could've just kept the text and put english text under it). Funimation don't censor the good or the adult and violent stuff or censor the Japanese text (even though they don't put the english text under it) Edit: I subbed you
Thank you! I do prefer modern dubbing, obviously. Even then, sometimes certain dubs make the same mistakes 4Kids did. Funimation has definitely made a few lol
I think the reason they made Mew Mew Power's 12th episode the first in the dub was because they wanted to introduce all of the main characters, the action aspect, and the general premise of the show before actually getting started. Also, it's interesting to note that while Sailor Moon had gay characters that was changed to straight in the U.S., with MMP 4Kids went out of their way to imply that one was gay and had a crush on one of the other team members (which I actually like a lot).
I do agree with you in parts. Sometimes, I feel like adults become a bit too entitled, selfish and highly expectant for their own good that they come off as more immature than kids themselves. They're all like; "WAAAHHH, IT'S NOT FUCKING FAIR, I WANTED IT THIS WAY!! MAMA, 4KIDS RUINED MY LOVELY PWECIOUS ANINE AND IT'S NOT FFFAAAAIIIIRRER!!!!"
Honestly, say what you want about 4Kids but they did hire great voice actors, particularly Lisa Ortiz (I especially loved her as Icy). I feel like their best dubs were Pokemon and Winx Club (The 4Kids dub is the ONLY good dub of that show because they didn't all sound the same and the actors clearly gave a damn). Not to mention that the changes that were made weren't their fault exactly but really that they were restricted by what was allowed on animated TV at the time. I do wish that 4Kids would've at least gotten to dub the first Winx Club movie (While I still HATE that Bloom's family and planet was brought back to life, that isn't 4Kids fault, it's the fault of the original creator).
I sorta had barely an idea Shamen King even existed xD Also that anime never aired on my station (nor was it mentioned) so I didn't know about it until I finished the video D:
@@WeebaLu from what I remember of the dub, which is not that much it is actually a faithful dub tbh and only somethings were changed like names mainly one character being named Morphine in the japanese version, and so on, and there were some flubs like a chinese character having a british accent, but rtn I could justify it as his family being from hong kong which was owned by britain during the late 80s and early 90s
A little thing about Tokyo Mew Mew. Mint, Lettuce and Pudding aren't the girls names. Those are their superhero names. Ichigo is Mew Ichigo/Strawberry. Minto is Mew Mint. Retasu is Mew Lettuce. Bu-Ling/Purin is Mew Pudding. Zakuro is Mew Zakuro. The Fan-subs and Manga just did Mint, Lettuce and Pudding. You did make an excellent point about how they could have chosen names similar to the original. The Italian dub did that. Your video was amazing overall. It's good to see a more positive approach to 4Kids. I've just heard hate and hate and more hate over the years.
As long as this comments section isn't invaded by a certain asshole from a different 4kids video's comments section, I'm good. Anywho, I don't actually have a lot of 4KiDS memories. I do remember going to the VFW with my dad when I was about 10 years old, and the lady working there turned on Sonic X (she also thought Sonic X was Nintendo, lol) While I do remember enjoying what I saw, I think 4KiDS is rather stupid, especially with their censorship. Seriously, Jelly Doughnut? I may give 4KiDS a deeper look, but for right now, no way, José.
I see where you’re coming from with the one piece stuff because I have a friend that likes is the same but you know what is a non-falcons version eight
I liked Winx Club as a kid but I didn't do a part about it in the video because it's not anime and that's pretty different then "taking a show from a completely different culture and censoring everything about said culture" Winx Club just had 1 or 2 censored violent moments from what I could tell
@@WeebaLu they also censored parts of the original and enchantix. Eg stella's original transformation they didnt show the bottom of stella breasts like in the rai version and during the enchantix transformation when bloom has a dragon winding round her she is covered by more sparkles. Same with flora. Watch the rai transformations then the 4kids versions.
@@frosticefairy ooohhhh okay well that's definitely weird lol 4Kids' dub of Winx was still better than Nickolodean's dub with Nick's whole "Will you be my...forever girlfriend?"
I think the nick version is better than rai when it comes to voice casting cus the rai voices hardly fit the characters with nick the voices suite some characters but 4kids voices actually work with the characters giving them more personality
As for mew mew power, its a shame 4kids was the only english version and they never actually finished the series. A lot of the time i didn't notice the miss mash of episodes except for a couple, but its sad 4kids didnt dub the full series cus i really wanted to see how it ended without having to use subtitles. I do agree that the original names where kinda cool and didn't really need to be changed cus they were already english but i also think the names 4kids gave them still suite the characters.
I hope this is not too far off subject on my part, but I'm thankful to see that I'm not the only person who dislikes One Piece. One of the many issues I had with this franchise was how almost skeletally thin the female characters, most notably Nami, were. They looked downright malnourished and it was very disconcerting. I likewise was also very galled by the horrible job done on Tokyo Mew Mew, though I may be biased as a fan of the original comics. It felt as though 4kids didn't care about the series at all and were trying to dash out everything as quickly as they could, which is a shame, because the show had much potential to become popular in America.(Hopefully another company will consider giving it a proper dub in the future.) A few other dubs from 4kids that were done well were Tama and Friends, Ultimate Muscle and Fighting Foodons; no very significant edits were made to these series either, but this may be because, like several others on this list, they were marketed towards kids in the first place.
Growing up, I actually had no idea Winx was even an Italian show xD I haven't seen Winx club in honestly decades at this point but I had assumed they kept everything in for the most part just like the Miraculous Ladybug dub xD
@@WeebaLu Wow, I wasn't expecting an answer, let alone this quickly but upon actually looking at the comment section, I see you're quite active in there. Now apologize for calling me creepy! 🤣
I thought 4kidz had the best voice actors and the soundtracks for these dubs were honestly iconic (til this day I still remember the MMP and WC intros) but for mew mew power and winx club they just messed with the storyline *waayyyyy* to much - that's the only downfall
I remember 4kids on tv when I was a kid. Now, I look at it. How did I stand watching shows like Sonic X, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Kirby? Yes, They did fuck up anime shows. 4kids used most of the same people on other shows. But looking at it...I say "Oh God No". -_-
Honestly when I was 10 guns didnt bother me or scare me. Honestly media is sooo over censored these days. Cigarettes? We learn about them being bad in school,but when its tv all of a sudden its bad. They censor syringes. Kids see thoose at doctors. They kill of any slighlty emotional,dark, moments. Oh and the glitter force dub was one of the worse
Now a days, TV shows intended for children are getting a lot bolder. In particular, She-Ra was a pretty bold show and Voltron as well. I mean, Voltron wasn't exactly a good show but it had writing that wouldn't bother a 9-13 year old kid lol I can't say I've seen a syringe censored though. Maybe the contents, like Injection Fairy in Yugioh being changed from blood to some kind of green liquid, but not the syringe itself.
I haven't watched too many of the 4Kids dubs except Pokémon, which I agree with you that it's still kinda good. But 4Kids definitely made an awesome Ninja Turtles show
4Kids technically still exists as their last remaining assets were purchased by Konami to exclusive dub Yugioh anime releases. Check out Yugioh Vrains dub for an idea of what a modern 4Kids dub would be today, or the Darkside of Dimensions Yugioh film.
At the time, maybe I would have vehemently said yes. But honestly after how low Funimation has sunk in recent years... it honestly could've been a lot worse. At least 4Kids didn't intend to purse any political agendas with their changes and their recent dubs for Yugioh Dark Side of Dimensions and Yugioh VRAINS for the most part are actually pretty good.
Ultimate Muscle was the 4KIDS oddity anime. It was not censored much the name changes fit the show and added lots of adult jokes not in the Japanese version and the last 20 something episodes was created thanks to them. 2003 Ninja turtles by them got away with alot that they would edit out of anime's by them too. The Japanese versions of shows was very hard to find at the time even harder Subbed these Dubs was only way for most to see them. If they made Uncut versions under a different name at the Time maybe they would not be hated as much.
Da eff you mean question mark? Yes da fuck it was This shall be edited once i finish the video Edit: my opinions havent changed sorry, it’s all of the animation problems today were first done by 4kids originally like the fact that everything is trying to be made for babies which is making animation traaaaaaaashh
Aisha: Scepter heal the queen. Teresa: thank you princess. Enchantix enchantix and echantix and echantix and echantix.me: seriously why do you still have those creepy eyes.me: what are you doing 4kids!
Sorry about that :/ I had some electrical interference with my mic at the time as I had to have my router and modem painfully close on my desk for convenient purposes (at the time my internet was prone to going out so we needed them there to see easily) however the problem's been fixed and my modem and router are nowhere near my desk anymore so no more electrical interference!!! :D
I just don't like 4Kids anymore, I just like the Japanese Anime Adaptation. Original: Kirby: Hey Sunny, what should we do? Sunny: Don't know. Let's play Pokemon Black 2! 4Kids edit: Messed Up Sunny: Kirby! Where are you! Kirby: Right here! It just irked my soul for a really long time. Rockman X4: I have played that a long time, I should play that game in Japanese again!
Ok my take on this with no childhood bias what so ever since I am not american and have never even visited USA (except for pokemon but more on that later)..so here we go: One piece: I haven't watched it and I am not fan of the animation style, it looks unappealing to me. BUT YES the 4Kids dub is horrible. Plain and smple trash dub. Ojamajo Doremi: (you pronouned it pretty wrong) I have watched the whole series in japanese with sub and loved it. But the 4Kids dub?I hate what they did with the names and voices of the characters also the music is much better in japanese version. I don't like the 4kids version of opening nor the ending songs the original once are better imo. SonicX: Watched the whole thing japanese with eng sub. Kinda guilty pleasure of mine. The seasons 1 n 2 suck thou (exept for sonic adventure 1 & 2 episodes thou I have not played the games but the episodes were good) but season 3 is the best. BUT OMG THE DUB!! I hate hate hate how they chanced things in the series, removing some of the most emotional scenes and removing character death and adding plot holes. IT IS SO BAD!! Kirby: I hate the 4Kids opening song that is all I have to say. Pokemon: Yes the 4Kids openign songs are very iconic and part of my childhood too because the local dub of my country based on 4Kids version so even I have to admit that the pokemon dub is decent and the openings are good if not great. (other once I have nothing to say)
They weren’t the worst dubs BUT they did censor Ichigo’s cross on her wand, the Pokemon bento box (“have a jelly donut”) and the Tokyo Mew Mew bento box too, those weren’t brought up in the video
I mean...Yeah. If you're watching it to admire the work of Jim Hensen because his puppets are amazing then I have no issue with it, but if a grown man or woman is watching Sesame Street to find out the number and lesson of the day then...that's kinda creepy? Like, you can appreciate what a show for a younger demographic does (I for one praise Arthur from afar) but to actually watch that show seems...off...
@@WeebaLu I only watch Sesame Street for the puppet segments like Ernie and Bert and such. I vaguely remember Steve Whitmire (the one who eventually took over the voices of some of Henson's characters) saying in an interview somewhere on UA-cam that he only watched it for the puppet segments too. On another note, here's a quote from a UA-camr called TGX, from his CTTR review; "The fact is, there's media that hides behind the "targeted at a younger demographic" thing to excuse the fact that it's terrible, but then there's media that's aimed at a younger audience but is still mature enough for anyone to enjoy inspite of having the young-uns in mind."
@@obd9660 I agree and disagree with that statement. While I do think there's media for a younger demographic that works for everyone like Spongebob, Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Infinity Train, etc. Some shows are just...not for adults to enjoy. I mean, Peppa Pig memes are funny but it's definitely a bit creepy for an adult to sit there and genuinely enjoy a show that's clearly not made for them in mind and is only enjoyed by children under the age of 6. Same goes for those baby Elsa videos here on UA-cam or something.
Yeah. Especially after Brock said rice balls were donuts.
That part makes me physically cringe xD They could've said rice balls, kids would've gotten it I think LOL
BKgirl483 I know right. As it a kid it just made me so confused.
Pokemon was on 4Kids?! I thought it was KidsWB
@@WeebaLu Yeah you can say THAT again! LOL I think 4Kids is just racist to the Japanese. That's all.
@@WeebaLu dude 5 year old me was like "donuts? But those are rice and look nothing like a donut."
Oh god, just hearing the name 4Kids is bringing me memories of watching Sonic X every morning before school
Same!!! I used to love watching Sonic X with my brother when we started playing Sonic Rivals :)
Same!It was a good Time back then !
Kirby, Kirby, Kirby!
That's the name you should know!
Kirby, Kirby, Kirby!
He's the star of the show!
I use to watch Sonic X too in the morning.
Bad or good memories? The thought of people fabricating stuff and hiding the real thing from me makes my blood boil.
4Kids actually didn't want to dub One Piece. Basically, they were forced to dub it even though they didn't want to.
Yes.
They simply bought the rights to the series because it was a package deal from Toei Animation containing "Ojamaji Do Re Mi", "Ultimate Muscle" and "Shaman King"
If Saban hadn't sold his company to Disney when he did, maybe held out two more years, it woulda been his responsibility along with Ultimate Muscle, Bobobo and Zach Bell. And I guarantee that his team would have done a better job on all of them. To start with before being bought by Time Warner or something.
There’s actually some pretty damming evidence against 4Kids that has surfaced in the modern day. Specifically that FUNimation and 4Kids were actually in a bidding war over One Piece with FUNimation even going as far as to make early websites and pilot episodes in the hopes they would outbid 4Kids. But, 4Kids ended up offering Toei a better deal and that’s how 4Kids got the rights. The whole “We didn’t want to dub One Piece; it was a forced package deal,” was nothing more than a lie made up by Mark Kirk several years after their One Piece dub ended in order to save face for how terrible the dub was.
I'd say it was "so bad its good" due to how memetic it was.
You’re correct
I love Yu-Gi-Oh the Japanese version . But as I got older I just realized it's not about duel monsters it's about friendship
Probably because Tea/Anzu shoved it down our throats but yeah xD
They were good at just getting it to the West. It was bad for Censorship.
4Kids wasn't bad. They were actually very successful with their dubs of Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! , and they had a lot of good dubs. Their goal as a company to promote anime to children was a great idea that had very rich potential. But unfortunately, some of their potential was held back by typical American broadcasting standards that Funimation and Viz use to be victims of, that it has caused them to make a few bad dubs, and changes that hurt their reception among anime fans.
Kiaba in both versions talked so much shit.
It's glorious though. Someday I hope to have the shit talking abilities of Seto Kaiba LOL
I don't know why people keep defending 4kids. What they did to yugioh gx is disgusting, and I find it funny how tmnt was treated with respect while the japanese shows meant for the same audience were butchered. Yugioh duel monsters was hurt badly in America due to their dubbing, but they messed up the spinoffs so bad that I found them unwatchable even when I was a little kid. I'm almost 100% certain that the Pegasus plot you mentioned was in the original manga and not a 4kids creation. To me, the fact that they treated tmnt so well, but slaughtered every eastern show tells all. They almost certainly didn't censor shows because they were to graphic, they did it because it was Japanese. They didn't just butcher gx, they ended it the second Judai fused with Yubel. I won't use the 4kids yugioh names, not for whatever pretentious reason but because it is an endorsement of 4kids. I have no problem using the english names Misty and Brock because the excellent localized games did, but I'm never using the 4kids yugioh names.
I hate the argument that these were for small children when they took shows made for teenagers and irreparably damaged them. There is very little info on the political ideas of Alfred Khan, but I'd put all the money on him being a radical conservative. As someone who grew up in a conservative household, the reason they would want to destroy it is obvious to me. Saying this stuff is made for kids is an incredibly offensive argument. Star Wars was made as a pg movie for kids. All superheroes were made for kids. The issue is that in reality, the vast majority of pokemon and yugioh fans are the adults that grew up with the games. The most hardcore Star Wars fans are usually adults. Yes it is true that you can sit a kid down in front of absolute garbage like that one piece dub and they will like it, but there is something truly disgusting about dumbing kids down like that for no reason. The first 3 seasons of spongebob had immense effort put into them, and gained widespread appeal as a result. The newer seasons, much like the one piece dub is trash that lowers the bar and lowers and insults the intelligence of both the kids and the parents miserably being forced to listen to it.
There is no defense for 4kids. They took the art of manga authors and animators only to trash it in the worst way possible.
Exactly! 4kids dubbed one piece even though the show was meant for teens. They made a Teen show for kids
I agree with everything you said but how much free time do you have man..
@@Luneroz Don't remind me...
@@malic_zarith why is that a bad thing? I wish I had free time.
Their Yugioh dub is amazing
Welp, glad that I watched the French dub of Tokyo mew mew-
4Kids TV was literally one of my favorite channels as a kid. Winx Club, Bratz, Magical DoReMi, etc. were my favorites. Thank you for doing this!
If 4Kidz didn’t go out of business they, could’ve dubbed *Higurashi*
Honestly I would pay big money to see them dub Higurashi
BKgirl483 same tbh
@@WeebaLu Same
This bk vid feels earlier than usual... Yay
Well James from Team Rocket called them the devil.
Honestly the Winx Club 4kids dub is the best out of the dubs imo. It's pretty cheesy I will admit, but the voices match with the characters perfectly and honestly the acting is actually pretty great. The Nickelodeon version really downgraded it
Whis Schnee And the theme song was a bop😂
The Pokemon 4kids Dub and Winx Club 4kids Dub is the best.
I wish theu could have a Pokemon 4kids Dub and Winx Club 4kids Dub tv series crossover.
I'm an exact opposite when it comes to the 4Kids dub of Winx. I absolutely loathe it, mostly because the voice acting was so cringeworthy and the source material deviated from the original Italian version. That's why I like the RAI English version the most, because it actually sticks to the original storyline and the voice acting is actually pretty good (seasons 2 and 3 especially!). The Nickelodeon version was teetering on passable for me.
The 4kids dub had an amazing cast, but it seriously watered down the shows more mature topics like what caused 2 characters to change identities(it's pretty dark for a show about fairies), reordering episodes, cutting scenes, altering plot points and characters relationships, making new scenes, changing words terminology, and all that cursed shit. Believe it or not this show was meant for all ages.
The only dub that didn't alter anything besides a few lines was the Cinélume (Rai English) dub, it was only released in Singapore until 2012-4 when the show got popular again via Nick, and Rainbow SRL released it on DVD, Netflix, and the official Winx Club channel. due to the fact Nick never dubbed season 1 or 2, instead making 4, 1 hour specials that recap and water the story.
The Cinélume dub covers seasons 1-4 BTW
I was going to say "You did it, you avatar is no longer scary" but that was just in the thumbnail, in the video it stills scary
I think it is because lips, nose, eyelid and body look realistic, but the eyes are huge
About 4Kids, we didn't had that at my place, sorry!
Sorry about that :( I had some plans on getting new sprites but those plans unfortunately fell through due to unrelated circumstances and hiring an artist to do a bunch of sprites that I need for my videos can get VVVEERRYYY expensive to a point where it's not really the kind of money I 100% have right now.
I will be trying to save up for a drawing tablet (as it's literally cheaper than buying sprites lol) so I'll be trying to draw the sprites myself from now on and 'cause I wanna do my own art in general.
@@WeebaLu Someone said.......Sprites? or you meant drawings?
I do pixel art animation
About your avatar, it is just something of me, someone else may just find it cute
@@Gadreth I mean drawings lol Sorry, in the world of editing and stuff, the kind of pictures I use of my avatar is called sprites xD
Not to worry, I think soon Ill be able to draw sprites everyone is happy with xD
THERE WAS A FINAL SEASON OF YU GI OH GX?!?!
TIME TO FIND IT
Yes!!! Season 4 is a really nice final season! It's also a really interesting character arc for Jaden in the end.
In my opinion, the only good thing about "Kirby Right at Ya! is":
- Ted Lewis, the voice actor of Dedede and Escargoon is great cause he made a lot of cheesy lines that cause some memes. Though I cannot voice Dedede well. I hope someone else can do it.
- Kirby's voice actor is kept in the dub.
- Poyo.
The bad things in "Kirby Right Back at Ya!" is:
- The dialogue is heavily changed in almost all episodes.
- They change the names Fumu and Bun to Tiff and Tuff respectively.
- The voice acting for the rest of the characters (that is not Dedede, Chef Kawasaki, or Meta Knight) does not match with the original.
- The music is one of the worst in all of 4kids.
These are just my opinion of "Kirby Right Back at Ya!". If you want to watch the original, it is titled "Hoshi no Kaabii" it's on UA-cam.
I think if the good music and emotion of the Japanese version was mixed with the humor and the theme song of the English version, we would have a better Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
Oh I *bleep* ing watched the English dub on UA-cam... IT MADE ME CRINGE TO DEATH
Yami yugi first husband for life amen sister
FIRST HUSBANDO AND BEST HUSBANDO ;)
I'd say the best thing aired on 4Kids was their TMNT show, because it was ACTUALLY allowed to get dark, unlike all their other shows which were ridiculously censored
And when I mean dark, I MEAN DARK (If you know you know), and even later on when it was forced to tone itself down it was still good, and had strong character writing.
And Shaman King
And Yugioh and Winx season 3
Despite it's reputation for questionable voice acting and rather dumb edits on top of the poor censorship ideas, 4Kids had it's fair share of decent dubs Sonic X, Yu Gi Oh, and Winx Club to name a few. Now that I'm older and starting to get into drama theatre, voice acting, and acting in general,I realize that sometimes it's not the fault of the voice actors, it's the direction their given. Direction can always make or break a character and trust me 4Kids had the really bad ones ***cough***LUFFY***cough***. 4Kids holds a special place in my heart for being part of my childhood but I also hold that small amount of disdain for it as well.
No mention of Yugioh Capsule Monsters? The 12 episode spin off series based off one of the games from the manga before it switched to solely being about duel monsters. It was commissioned and written entirely by 4Kids and It's as bad as that sounds even with original animation team.
I didn't mention it as it was commissioned by 4Kids themselves so I titled it under "4Kids made cartoon", especially when the Japanese dub of the spinoff was cancelled when it was shown how poorly received Capsule Monsters was.
I actually remember reading the Yugioh manga's chapter of the Capsule Monsters! :D Granted I didn't know how to properly read manga back then so I was very confused, but I do remember that part because it was definitely scary for 8 year old Lu to see Mokuba screaming for help as he got sealed in a giant capsule xD
I also did watch Capsule Monsters myself years ago and uh...yeah...I definitely didn't care for it. The whole thing just felt like a weird clone of Digimon or something.
That's fair, it had no shame in trying to be a Pokemon rip off and I'm at least happy that Japanese Yugioh fans got spared this shit show XD
I cant remember if I ever read that part of the manga as a kid, borrowing them from the library made it disjointed at best, but rereading it a few years back and being introduced to Mokuba by him threatening to cut of one off Yugi's fingers if he loses to him at capsule monsters was such a departure from Mr constantly kidnapped that I couldn't help but laugh XD
The last 20 odd Episodes of Ultimate Muscle/aka Kinikuman Nisei only exist thanks to 4KIDS due to it's popularity outside japan where this sequel show to Kinikuman the Manga that created the tournament arc did not do well.
One Piece: i agree it did look ugly to me so i avoided the hell out of it as a kid.
Mew Mew: i think i saw ONE episode and didn't like it but the Japanese drew me in a few episodes when it was free on YT
Sonic X: DONT GET ME STARTED. Sure it had plenty of flaws but it's what introduced me to Sonic and i grew OBSESSED with it. I always looked forward to an episode on saturday mornings. And i also think to anime and video games in general! Also the theme song is iconic 👌
Doremi: i honestly really enjoyed this anime too! I watched all episodes when the shows were free to watch on their website and ain't gonna lie but I was boohoo crying at the final episode 🤣
Also...we DONT talk about the 4kids anthem...we dont...
Also, Tokyo Mew Mew dub got cancelled after 26 episodes.
@@mystery8820 "I'm afraid well have to cancel this"
GREAT IDEA 4KIDS >:(
Yeah. Their anthem is so CRINGY AS F**K
@@jtsmith1817
And worse, Canada was able to show episodes 24-26 while the US gets up to 23 before it got cancelled.
And honestly, that show deserves to retain its Japanese influence like Shaman King did.
4Kids is xenophobic by removing Japanese influences in mostly-Japanese shows.
Arceus should've been voiced by Dan Green. That would be a much better fit than the voice they gave him.
You didn't talk about the best 4kids dub
Shaman king
The one thing that Pokemon didn’t need to censor were the Sushi rolls (the infamous “Have a donut”) BUT I totally agree they did an awesome job with that dub. And changing Papillion to Moth was very clever! I don’t think American kids would take a villain named “Butterfly” very seriously
They removed a scene from yugioh where bakura was eating like a dog like wth and other stupid things but it is fun just to watch the stupidness of yugioh espacially season 1
Wait that was a scene? I thought they only removed scenes with Bakura punching someone, pulling a gun or mentioning death xD
@@WeebaLu in yugioh abriged at ep 39 skip at 6:32
THEY FUCKED UP DRAGON BALL Z!
Well in the early 2000 some of us thought anime was another cartoon so could you blame 4kids.
Yyeeahhh but that's even before 4Kids though. Many not knowing anime was it's own thing starts as far back as the 60's with Anime like Tetsujin 28/Gigantor, Astro Boy and Speed Racer were being brought over to the US through English dubbing.
@@WeebaLu with 4kids it was product of it's time
Best shows that came on Saturdays 😂
What are your thoughts on people complaining about the Sonic movie coming out next year? Do you support their complaints, or are you against them?
I'm for it. Sonic looked absolutely horrendous and almost uncanny, then again I notice that a lot of big budget movie studios seem to think "HYPERREALISMMMM" is the way to go for cartoon characters when that simply isn't true. It's actually kinda sad when Progressive commercials had a better looking Sonic interacting with real people than this movie did.
Though honestly, my only major complain is Sonic's model and Eggman's lack of...looking like Eggman throughout the movie. I get they wanna make a new backstory for him that Sonic made him crazy but I still don't care for it.
Other than that, I do think the movie holds a lot of potential if they just fix the model. Right now? The current Sonic model for the movie looks like someone's first time taxidermy gone wrong.
@@WeebaLu What are your thoughts on the new Sonic movie trailer? And considering this whole video, what are your thoughts on adults who play Sonic? Do you find them creepy too?
@@obd9660 I absolutely LOVE Sonic's new design and the new trailer in general! I don't mind adults who play Sonic, so long as they're not Chris-chan levels of obsessed and just simply enjoy the high speed gameplay and platforming lol
I only find it creepy when you have like a 40+ year old watching or playing something intended for 4-6 year olds. I guess it's like a grown adult play with baby toys? If that makes any sense? Idk lol
@@WeebaLu What about adults who care about the story side of Sonic, whether it be the games, shows, OVA film, comics, etc, like with these discusion videos you see on UA-cam like "Why modern Sonic stories don't work" by J's Reviews, and "Sonic stories CAN'T be restrictive" by SuperMarioT?
@@WeebaLu And yes, I think your analogue does make sense.
The Kirby Right Back at Ya was pretty okay tbh,
My only problems were that they changed Blade Knights gender to female to male but that might just be me also Meta Knights voice is just awkward to hear coming out of that character and also how they watered down story dialogue
But tbh I'm a huge Kirby fan
I think you made a good point at the end of the video. It annoys me when people talk about a show as if it isn’t supposed to be for kids.
Can I just say something about the name changes? I'm going to use Sailor Moon s an example since that's the show I know most. I know it's not 4Kids, but this is about name changes in dubs in general. As far as I've seen: most dubs of Sailor Moon either didn't change the names or changed them just a tiny bit. I live in Israel, and let me tell you about the Hebrew dub of Sailor Moon: it had all 200 episodes, and none of the character names were changed as far as I remember. All they did was change the way they were pronounced to better suit the language they speak (which honestly I don't mind because it makes sense to me). I mean, the voices were fucking terrible, especially Usagi, but I feel like I got the full experience when I rewatched it to see what I missed when I was 8. And Haruka and Michiru's relationship wasn't censored. I'm sorry, but if some low-budget dub in a tiny ass country managed to have accurate names, I'm sure 4Kids could've kept the Japanese names.
Also, about the Pokemon episode with the gun: I wouldn't have a problem with it had it not been for the fact that this episode is relevant to the story. Ash (Or Satoshi, though I have less problem with the name changes in Pokemon since they changed them in the games too) caught 30 Taurus. It's not some random episode. They could've changed it to a toy gun or something, if they could do that with cigarettes to lollipops in One Piece.
Speaking of which, I am way too afraid to look at the comments, the artstyle of One Piece really grew on me with all honesty, but art is subjective so I hope the comments at least consider that.
The english theme song for kriby ius way better than the Japanses version. Here you have Kirby being fired out of a cannon and an old woman is singing.
Fun fact: the Japanese singer for Kirby right back at ya is the same singer for Japanese version of Lifelight - the Smash Bros Ultimate theme!
I feel like the only legitimately good 4Kids show was their Ninja Turtles show, I know it’s not an Anime. But it’s awesome
As an avid One Piece fan I will say 4kids' dub was flippin hilarious in how bad it was.
When 4Kids tried to make an Abridged Series... ☠️
@@autobotstarscream765 Lol. Technically it is an abrisdged series since they carved out episodes. So you're not wrong.
I still wished 4Kids have made the whole complete DVD collection of Winx Club, TMNT 2003, Sonic X, Ultimate Muscle and the rest of the series back then before it was shut down forever because release one or two DVD with a few episodes is not enough and I prefer the whole complete seasons collections.
This is why I perfer Funimation over 4Kids. 4Kids just censors and ruins everything. And lets not forget them censoring the Japanese text (they could've just kept the text and put english text under it). Funimation don't censor the good or the adult and violent stuff or censor the Japanese text (even though they don't put the english text under it)
Edit: I subbed you
Thank you!
I do prefer modern dubbing, obviously. Even then, sometimes certain dubs make the same mistakes 4Kids did. Funimation has definitely made a few lol
@@WeebaLu Yeah. They have made a few lol but hey they can't all be winners!
Yeah about Funimation ua-cam.com/video/F4LWN1vijzQ/v-deo.html
And don’t forget viz media!
I think the reason they made Mew Mew Power's 12th episode the first in the dub was because they wanted to introduce all of the main characters, the action aspect, and the general premise of the show before actually getting started.
Also, it's interesting to note that while Sailor Moon had gay characters that was changed to straight in the U.S., with MMP 4Kids went out of their way to imply that one was gay and had a crush on one of the other team members (which I actually like a lot).
I wish they would still change names so they are easier to say.
I love the english intros of anime in the 2000’s. They were necessary to explain the plot of a show to new viewers joining halfway through the show.
The Sonic part (talking about the 2020 movie) well that age well
I do agree with you in parts. Sometimes, I feel like adults become a bit too entitled, selfish and highly expectant for their own good that they come off as more immature than kids themselves. They're all like;
"WAAAHHH, IT'S NOT FUCKING FAIR, I WANTED IT THIS WAY!! MAMA, 4KIDS RUINED MY LOVELY PWECIOUS ANINE AND IT'S NOT FFFAAAAIIIIRRER!!!!"
Respect for Letta the trooper. ✊
She had a rocky helmet and tried her hardest!!! A very good lettuce girl
@@WeebaLu Adorable
@@WeebaLu Did you try Swords Dance?
Leavanny with Swords Dance is pretty decent against the Unova Elite 4 iirc. :3
I heard Dreaming ChuChu and I-
Honestly, say what you want about 4Kids but they did hire great voice actors, particularly Lisa Ortiz (I especially loved her as Icy). I feel like their best dubs were Pokemon and Winx Club (The 4Kids dub is the ONLY good dub of that show because they didn't all sound the same and the actors clearly gave a damn). Not to mention that the changes that were made weren't their fault exactly but really that they were restricted by what was allowed on animated TV at the time. I do wish that 4Kids would've at least gotten to dub the first Winx Club movie (While I still HATE that Bloom's family and planet was brought back to life, that isn't 4Kids fault, it's the fault of the original creator).
I really wanna see 4kids try to censor Attack on Titan
Or Valkyrie Drive mermaid
@@amandacorpuz6936 Still woulda been funny
In terms of Sonic X, which do you think were the best edits/decisions 4Kids made, and why?
I'm So Glad I'm Not The Only One Who Hates One Piece
Well You Can Have Your Own Opinion On That
no mention of shaman king?
I sorta had barely an idea Shamen King even existed xD Also that anime never aired on my station (nor was it mentioned) so I didn't know about it until I finished the video D:
@@WeebaLu from what I remember of the dub, which is not that much it is actually a faithful dub tbh and only somethings were changed like names mainly one character being named Morphine in the japanese version, and so on, and there were some flubs like a chinese character having a british accent, but rtn I could justify it as his family being from hong kong which was owned by britain during the late 80s and early 90s
hearing ai catch in ur intro caught me so off guard
It's a good song and from my favorite visual novel xD
BKgirl483 me too! i miss when it was popular
:(( it was a great game
Girllll you didn’t mean ruin Winx Club! So many differences in the og and the 4kids version
Like the fact they completely changed the first episode 🙃🙃🙃 or the fact that the character Daphne is her “protector” and not her sister...like why
I mean, the first episode of Winx Club is literally the stereotypical trope used in every anime.
When Kaiba felt threatened about to two men pointing their fingers at him. I will always find that funny.
I watched the pokemon dub on Boomerang and cartoon network
A little thing about Tokyo Mew Mew. Mint, Lettuce and Pudding aren't the girls names. Those are their superhero names.
Ichigo is Mew Ichigo/Strawberry.
Minto is Mew Mint.
Retasu is Mew Lettuce.
Bu-Ling/Purin is Mew Pudding.
Zakuro is Mew Zakuro.
The Fan-subs and Manga just did Mint, Lettuce and Pudding.
You did make an excellent point about how they could have chosen names similar to the original. The Italian dub did that.
Your video was amazing overall. It's good to see a more positive approach to 4Kids. I've just heard hate and hate and more hate over the years.
T for Teen DMC would actually hurt me on a physical level.
I haven't even touched DMC but same omg
As long as this comments section isn't invaded by a certain asshole from a different 4kids video's comments section, I'm good.
Anywho, I don't actually have a lot of 4KiDS memories. I do remember going to the VFW with my dad when I was about 10 years old, and the lady working there turned on Sonic X (she also thought Sonic X was Nintendo, lol)
While I do remember enjoying what I saw, I think 4KiDS is rather stupid, especially with their censorship. Seriously, Jelly Doughnut?
I may give 4KiDS a deeper look, but for right now, no way, José.
I see where you’re coming from with the one piece stuff because I have a friend that likes is the same but you know what is a non-falcons version eight
How would you compare that with Netflix?
4kids did mew mew power and winx club and i loved then their winx dub more than others
I liked Winx Club as a kid but I didn't do a part about it in the video because it's not anime and that's pretty different then "taking a show from a completely different culture and censoring everything about said culture"
Winx Club just had 1 or 2 censored violent moments from what I could tell
@@WeebaLu they also censored parts of the original and enchantix. Eg stella's original transformation they didnt show the bottom of stella breasts like in the rai version and during the enchantix transformation when bloom has a dragon winding round her she is covered by more sparkles. Same with flora. Watch the rai transformations then the 4kids versions.
@@frosticefairy ooohhhh okay well that's definitely weird lol
4Kids' dub of Winx was still better than Nickolodean's dub with Nick's whole "Will you be my...forever girlfriend?"
I think the nick version is better than rai when it comes to voice casting cus the rai voices hardly fit the characters with nick the voices suite some characters but 4kids voices actually work with the characters giving them more personality
As for mew mew power, its a shame 4kids was the only english version and they never actually finished the series. A lot of the time i didn't notice the miss mash of episodes except for a couple, but its sad 4kids didnt dub the full series cus i really wanted to see how it ended without having to use subtitles.
I do agree that the original names where kinda cool and didn't really need to be changed cus they were already english but i also think the names 4kids gave them still suite the characters.
Tokyo mew mew was one of my first animes lol
Anyone remembers watching Yu-Gi-Oh GX back in the day? It kind of sucks that 4Kids decided not to dub season 4.
what? i loved jadens voice!! Also 5ds is objectively the best yugioh show especially episodes 26-55 (subbed). Are u for real??
5ds is better in dub
I hope this is not too far off subject on my part, but I'm thankful to see that I'm not the only person who dislikes One Piece. One of the many issues I had with this franchise was how almost skeletally thin the female characters, most notably Nami, were. They looked downright malnourished and it was very disconcerting.
I likewise was also very galled by the horrible job done on Tokyo Mew Mew, though I may be biased as a fan of the original comics. It felt as though 4kids didn't care about the series at all and were trying to dash out everything as quickly as they could, which is a shame, because the show had much potential to become popular in America.(Hopefully another company will consider giving it a proper dub in the future.)
A few other dubs from 4kids that were done well were Tama and Friends, Ultimate Muscle and Fighting Foodons; no very significant edits were made to these series either, but this may be because, like several others on this list, they were marketed towards kids in the first place.
Actually i thougjt winx was the one with the most changed dub . I dont know if you have ever seen the other english dub , but its a looot different :)
Growing up, I actually had no idea Winx was even an Italian show xD
I haven't seen Winx club in honestly decades at this point but I had assumed they kept everything in for the most part just like the Miraculous Ladybug dub xD
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It's Ojamajo Doremi, not Ojamaji.
19:38
Oh, you said it correctly there.
Thank you! Sorry about messing up there. :)
@@WeebaLu Wow, I wasn't expecting an answer, let alone this quickly but upon actually looking at the comment section, I see you're quite active in there.
Now apologize for calling me creepy! 🤣
I thought 4kidz had the best voice actors and the soundtracks for these dubs were honestly iconic (til this day I still remember the MMP and WC intros) but for mew mew power and winx club they just messed with the storyline *waayyyyy* to much - that's the only downfall
I remember 4kids on tv when I was a kid. Now, I look at it. How did I stand watching shows like Sonic X, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Kirby? Yes, They did fuck up anime shows. 4kids used most of the same people on other shows. But looking at it...I say "Oh God No". -_-
Yh i like your content
Thank you! :D
My First Anime is Yugioh I love it too
"-and japanese is kinda hard to pronounce"
*heh not for me*
You didn't mention Shaman King or GI Joe Sigma 6.
Honestly when I was 10 guns didnt bother me or scare me. Honestly media is sooo over censored these days. Cigarettes? We learn about them being bad in school,but when its tv all of a sudden its bad. They censor syringes. Kids see thoose at doctors. They kill of any slighlty emotional,dark, moments. Oh and the glitter force dub was one of the worse
Now a days, TV shows intended for children are getting a lot bolder. In particular, She-Ra was a pretty bold show and Voltron as well. I mean, Voltron wasn't exactly a good show but it had writing that wouldn't bother a 9-13 year old kid lol
I can't say I've seen a syringe censored though. Maybe the contents, like Injection Fairy in Yugioh being changed from blood to some kind of green liquid, but not the syringe itself.
@@WeebaLu lol
22:16 No no, that was Funimation that put chemicals in the water, burned down our villages, and invaded Japan. 😂
I haven't watched too many of the 4Kids dubs except Pokémon, which I agree with you that it's still kinda good. But 4Kids definitely made an awesome Ninja Turtles show
I wonder what 4kidz would dub if it still exists today
4Kids technically still exists as their last remaining assets were purchased by Konami to exclusive dub Yugioh anime releases. Check out Yugioh Vrains dub for an idea of what a modern 4Kids dub would be today, or the Darkside of Dimensions Yugioh film.
At the time, maybe I would have vehemently said yes.
But honestly after how low Funimation has sunk in recent years... it honestly could've been a lot worse. At least 4Kids didn't intend to purse any political agendas with their changes and their recent dubs for Yugioh Dark Side of Dimensions and Yugioh VRAINS for the most part are actually pretty good.
I wouldn't be surprised if those Tokyo Mew Mew girls went and committed suicide after seeing the 4Kids dub.
Ultimate Muscle was the 4KIDS oddity anime. It was not censored much the name changes fit the show and added lots of adult jokes not in the Japanese version and the last 20 something episodes was created thanks to them. 2003 Ninja turtles by them got away with alot that they would edit out of anime's by them too.
The Japanese versions of shows was very hard to find at the time even harder Subbed these Dubs was only way for most to see them. If they made Uncut versions under a different name at the Time maybe they would not be hated as much.
Da eff you mean question mark?
Yes da fuck it was
This shall be edited once i finish the video
Edit: my opinions havent changed sorry, it’s all of the animation problems today were first done by 4kids originally like the fact that everything is trying to be made for babies which is making animation traaaaaaaashh
You truly are a legend for making this video. Hopefully you put these complaining adults in their places.
Omg I remember watching ojamajo on tv aaa memories
The songs in the show are awesome and some songs are sung by the actors.
21:51 Excuse me!
What's wrong?
Imagine Shugo chara have a 4 kids dub.
I never saw it but...geez lol
Aisha: Scepter heal the queen. Teresa: thank you princess. Enchantix enchantix and echantix and echantix and echantix.me: seriously why do you still have those creepy eyes.me: what are you doing 4kids!
my my you got one lovely voice there
3:49 to 4:27
.....AUDIO FEEDBACK!!! Aaaaahggh it’s killing my ears!!!!! 😵
Sorry about that :/ I had some electrical interference with my mic at the time as I had to have my router and modem painfully close on my desk for convenient purposes (at the time my internet was prone to going out so we needed them there to see easily)
however the problem's been fixed and my modem and router are nowhere near my desk anymore so no more electrical interference!!! :D
I just don't like 4Kids anymore, I just like the Japanese Anime Adaptation.
Original: Kirby: Hey Sunny, what should we do?
Sunny: Don't know. Let's play Pokemon Black 2!
4Kids edit: Messed Up
Sunny: Kirby! Where are you!
Kirby: Right here!
It just irked my soul for a really long time.
Rockman X4: I have played that a long time, I should play that game in Japanese again!
Ok my take on this with no childhood bias what so ever since I am not american and have never even visited USA (except for pokemon but more on that later)..so here we go:
One piece: I haven't watched it and I am not fan of the animation style, it looks unappealing to me. BUT YES the 4Kids dub is horrible. Plain and smple trash dub.
Ojamajo Doremi: (you pronouned it pretty wrong) I have watched the whole series in japanese with sub and loved it. But the 4Kids dub?I hate what they did with the names and voices of the characters also the music is much better in japanese version. I don't like the 4kids version of opening nor the ending songs the original once are better imo.
SonicX: Watched the whole thing japanese with eng sub. Kinda guilty pleasure of mine. The seasons 1 n 2 suck thou (exept for sonic adventure 1 & 2 episodes thou I have not played the games but the episodes were good) but season 3 is the best. BUT OMG THE DUB!! I hate hate hate how they chanced things in the series, removing some of the most emotional scenes and removing character death and adding plot holes. IT IS SO BAD!!
Kirby: I hate the 4Kids opening song that is all I have to say.
Pokemon: Yes the 4Kids openign songs are very iconic and part of my childhood too because the local dub of my country based on 4Kids version so even I have to admit that the pokemon dub is decent and the openings are good if not great.
(other once I have nothing to say)
4Kids was not THAT bad, Odex Singapore, Ltd. is the epitome of bad English dubbing companies.
They weren’t the worst dubs BUT they did censor Ichigo’s cross on her wand, the Pokemon bento box (“have a jelly donut”) and the Tokyo Mew Mew bento box too, those weren’t brought up in the video
Look up cartooncrazy you could see anmie movies or epsodes online
I can't stand 4kids entertainment. They ruined Shaman King And Kinnikuman Nisei for me.
I miss winx 😌
And..
Still watch it 😃
Glad I watched all these shows in italian dub
Billions of grown adults watch Sesame Street, and that's meant for kindergarteners. Do you find that creepy too?
I mean...Yeah. If you're watching it to admire the work of Jim Hensen because his puppets are amazing then I have no issue with it, but if a grown man or woman is watching Sesame Street to find out the number and lesson of the day then...that's kinda creepy? Like, you can appreciate what a show for a younger demographic does (I for one praise Arthur from afar) but to actually watch that show seems...off...
@@WeebaLu
I only watch Sesame Street for the puppet segments like Ernie and Bert and such. I vaguely remember Steve Whitmire (the one who eventually took over the voices of some of Henson's characters) saying in an interview somewhere on UA-cam that he only watched it for the puppet segments too.
On another note, here's a quote from a UA-camr called TGX, from his CTTR review;
"The fact is, there's media that hides behind the "targeted at a younger demographic" thing to excuse the fact that it's terrible, but then there's media that's aimed at a younger audience but is still mature enough for anyone to enjoy inspite of having the young-uns in mind."
@@obd9660 I agree and disagree with that statement. While I do think there's media for a younger demographic that works for everyone like Spongebob, Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Infinity Train, etc. Some shows are just...not for adults to enjoy. I mean, Peppa Pig memes are funny but it's definitely a bit creepy for an adult to sit there and genuinely enjoy a show that's clearly not made for them in mind and is only enjoyed by children under the age of 6. Same goes for those baby Elsa videos here on UA-cam or something.
I'm another girl (who is right next to the other girl who is watching this) I love Winx Club 4kids
I am 10 and I dont care about guns blood or anything
Winx Club got buchered