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NEWS: 4Kids Plans Sale of Major Yu-Gi-Oh! Assets to Firm Tied to Saban

What? Yugioh will be sold to Saban who will probably continue to release it as an edited, westernized show targeted at little kids? Inconceivable.

Why, you would almost think that Yugioh was a kids show and this is the only sensible way to market it in the US. Of course, that's just crazy.

One Piece was fine to me and I've always thought people complaining about Yu-Gi-Oh were clowns.

Here's a question i have. if making Yu-Gi-Oh! a kids show is the only way to market it, then how come it doesn't need edits elsewhere to market successfully?

also, remember, who has more money to actually buy the cards, little kids or older teens? in fact, many of the Yu-Gi-Oh! card collectors and players i know are in their 20's.

TitanXL wrote:

See, everyone's just fine with saying One Piece or Yu-Gi-Oh are awful dubs, but as soon as it's SPC, it's "Oh no man, my childhood, that's horse crap" Despite there being zero difference.

One Piece was fine to me and I've always thought people complaining about Yu-Gi-Oh were clowns.

I think of SPC like Shin Chan. Honestly though, SPC isn't as radically different as people make it out to be. It's not like there was hardcore bloody gory violence and full out cat sex that got removed. Even in Japan was a kid show aimed at like 6 year olds, just like the US version.

Back to Yu-Gi-Oh. One of the biggest travesties to the YGO franchise has been the utter lack of subtitled, unedited releases. Instead, we end up with 4Kids' chopped up, mishandled dub, and *years* of people clamoring for a subtitled release that the company has basically ignored. Maybe with this change, fans will finally get what they want. Or maybe not. It's way too soon to tell, but I'll be interested in further developments.

Correction - You wouldn't know about Super Sentai.

I think of SPC like Shin Chan.

One Piece was fine to me and I've always thought people complaining about Yu-Gi-Oh were clowns.

I think of SPC like Shin Chan. Honestly though, SPC isn't as radically different as people make it out to be. It's not like there was hardcore bloody gory violence and full out cat sex that got removed. Even in Japan was a kid show aimed at like 6 year olds, just like the US version.

I remember reading that the Japanese director of the original version of SPC himself said that SPC was the better version and he should've just done that from the beginning.

So yeah.

As shown with Digimon, Saban at least acknowledged death, most Japan names, and the actual plot. I could actually watch and tolerate the Digimon dub, while 4kids' dubbing and editing makes me sick to my stomach.

Here's a question i have. if making Yu-Gi-Oh! a kids show is the only way to market it, then how come it doesn't need edits elsewhere to market successfully? also, remember, who has more money to actually buy the cards, little kids or older teens? in fact, many of the Yu-Gi-Oh! card collectors and players i know are in their 20's.

For every one nerdy teen who plays Yugioh there are about forty little kids. If you think older fans are actually the driving force behind the Yugioh fandom then you are living in gross denial.

ikillchicken wrote:

For every one nerdy teen who plays Yugioh there are about forty little kids. If you think older fans are actually the driving force behind the Yugioh fandom then you are living in gross denial.

Just curious, but do you have some kind of statistic or source for this? Because the opposite side can point to all the tournaments world-wide being dominated by adults (I think 17 was the youngest anyone made it to the competing rounds) Simply assuming kids buy more isn't solid evidence.