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NEWS: 4Kids Fiscal 2005 Results

Bad Khan, bad! *smacks with a rolled up newspaper* This is what you get for stuffing everything in the ratings pit that is Fox.

Kids WB was nice to you before. One Piece is faring well on Toonami. Cartoon Network's Miguzi block is doing well with girl-oriented properties like Totally Spies. Do you see where I'm going here?

Doubt it.

4Kids is not an anime company, they have no interest in releasing stuff that hardcore fans will enjoy.

-t

I do, and it's an interesting idea you bring up. It certainly sounds reasonable: Kahn sees his properties doing well, assumes it's brand loyalty and decides to put the rest of his eggs in one basket. Ironically enough, it's FOX's basket. Oops.

Anyone see the irony?

So having the VAs directly connected to 4Kids may have been a sort of safety net if 4Kids ever lost the license to Pokemon.(which they did) If Pokemon USA wanted to keep the original VAs,it would mean that they would have to pay 4Kids to dub the show.If they'd want to dub the series themselves,it would most likely mean that they would hire new VAs.(which fans of the series are worried about)

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and was offset by increased revenue from Winx Club, One Piece and Cabbage Patch Kids.

Don't expect them to give up on One Piece anytime soon, looks like it's one of the few shows still making money for them. I'm guessing it's doing better on Toonami than anyone likes to admit.

Emerje

Well i hope they learn they're lesson on licensing.

Those companies would make a lot of profit if they just aired japanese anime with SUBTITLES and not dubs. Like seriously,anime isnt created to be in english, hence it being in japanese in the first place. PLUS, if a little kid can't read the subtitles, then what are they doing watching it? 99% of anime is NOT for children anyways and when a show is dubbed, its changed to their liking and not kept in its original state.

I say, let them air subs and not dubs

Waitaminute, doesn't 4Kids also control Bratz?

4Kids sold all its shares in the Pokemon Company equally to the remaining shareholders for $1 million.

What is your source for this?

Well i hope they learn they're lesson on licensing.

Those companies would make a lot of profit if they just aired japanese anime with SUBTITLES and not dubs. Like seriously,anime isnt created to be in english, hence it being in japanese in the first place. PLUS, if a little kid can't read the subtitles, then what are they doing watching it? 99% of anime is NOT for children anyways and when a show is dubbed, its changed to their liking and not kept in its original state.

I say, let them air subs and not dubs

toxictea23 wrote:

Well i hope they learn they're lesson on licensing. Those companies would make a lot of profit if they just aired japanese anime with SUBTITLES and not dubs. Like seriously,anime isnt created to be in english, hence it being in japanese in the first place. PLUS, if a little kid can't read the subtitles, then what are they doing watching it? 99% of anime is NOT for children anyways and when a show is dubbed, its changed to their liking and not kept in its original state. I say, let them air subs and not dubs

Silly sub-snob. Don't you know about 60% of otaku were gatewayed into with English dubs. In fact we wouldn't be having this conversation no anime's subbed or dub are on tv.

And how do you know that 99% of all anime is not for kids? In fact, there are more kids animes then you think Silly-Tea. Not every kid will respond to subtitles. Not every kid likes subtitles. Not everybody is you, not everybody is me. Let those who are comfortable with English have dubs. Let those who don't mind japanese have subs. Stop thinking like every broadcast network America should nothing but subs.

And what's this about anime not for english? Oh my! I guess Looney Tunes and Dexter's Lab is not for Japanese as well. Silly-Tea, we dub their shows, they dub OURS. You know how the early otakus got their anime without internet our anything? They traded tapes with people for our shows in exchange for theirs. 20 years, shows that amass fanbases get dubbed into any language possible. Japan dubs U.S. movies regularly into Japanese. Heck, they dubbed our a couple of seasons of Power Rangers (adapted from their Super Sentai) into japanese. Look at Cartoon Network Japan {http://cartoon.co.jp} and tell me those shows that you see there don't belong there because they were made for originally made for English auduence.

I would say that 75% of animes are targetted at kids. The ones that are for adults are usually shown pretty late at night. About 12:00 am, I believe.

Detective Conan