To all the people saying to lay off 4Kids, I will gladly tell you to screw off. 4Kids ruined Pokemon for the longest time, they ruined One Piece until another company decided enough was enough, they created a mediocre show cash-in on Sonic the Hedgehog, they
RAPED Yu-Gi-Oh and all it's spin-offs, and they thoroughly raped a whole other bunch of Anime that I can't even think about.
I know people that have completely given up on Anime thanks to 4Kids, so don't tell me that they haven't done some damage. Don't try using the excuse 'Well, they brought Anime to the west' or anything like that, because I could care less. I would have
preferred that 4Kids
not bring Anime to the west, because now we're stuck with
terrible voice actors, the 'Americanization' of Anime, ect, ect.
All in all, 4Kids sucks, and I hope their stock crashes and burns, so that
real Anime companies, ones that
won't completely destroy their shows to feed their greed, can take over.
It's not even like I hate
all English Dubs of Anime. Some of them are practically perfect, like the (in my opinion) dubs of Code Geass, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Fullmetal Alchemist (2003 and Brotherhood), Elfen Lied, Death Note, BLEACH, and a few others that I may have forgotten to mention.
P.S: 4Kids should have aired the Porygon Seizure episode. It would have been hilarious.
4Kids voice actors are the best there are.
You sir, are on some serious drugs. Mind telling me the name of your dealer?
Some voice actors are great, even though they work for 4Kids. Dan Green is one of them. Most of them though... not so much.
So? The intro, although not ideal, wasn't awful. And the dub ost wasn't awful either. Next reason please.
Once again, drugs. Lay off of 'em.
LOL
and you say 4kids butchered One Piece? If you can't pick up on One Piece's blatant messages about friendship, following your dreams, living without regrets and respecting others then you really have to right to slant 4Kids over their dub of it.
Well, seeing as 4Kids
rapes every Anime they dub with some friendship speeches, I think, after the fiftieth one (in Yu-Gi-Oh alone), I got pretty damn sick of it. Follow your dreams is okay, and so is living with regrets, and respecting others. But you know what? 4Kids could have gotten those messages across
without destroying Anime series after series. I couldn't even watch the English Yu-Gi-Oh franchise, in fear that I would actually feel the urge to end my own life.
No one had a problem when MJ done it.
That was completely uncalled for. That other guy was mentioning decent points in the argument, and then you insult the King of Pop. Real mature. Wanna have a laugh at Elvis' death too? How about about Billy Mays?
Like others have said, if it wasn't for 4Kids most people in the West wouldn't even know these animes exist.
You say that as if it was a bad thing. I prefer the days where Anime had a cult-like following, where only people that cared enough to look for it, could find it. Now, we've got screaming ninjas wearing orange (of all colors), people quoting (and usually doing a terrible job of it) Anime in real life, or in their signature on forums, and people horribly bastardizing Anime in the U.S.A.