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ChronoBall X
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that would be awsome,however,problem is,4kids's licensed to tokyo mew mew expired long ago while they still hold rights to ojama doremi the 4kids tv game station site no longer display Tokyo mew mew (Or mew mew power) on they're site anymore,however they're site still plays new dub episodes of Ojama doremi despite the fact that they newer aired the new episodes on 4kids tv ( i think) I would love to see an uncut dub of Kinnikuman Nisei (Ultimate muscle) although i did like the 4kids though,which was one of they're better dubbed animes. |
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KanjiiZ
 Posts: 661 Location: Central Coast |
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Hopefully no one picks up Kirby. It wouldn't be a wise investment, since people wouldn't really be interested in it. Also Chaotic...please don't make me laugh. You can dress 'em up in shades and tones, but it's not good enough to fool anime fans.
Any SMART company would pick up Tokyo Mew Mew, Shaman King, and if they have any money left over, Ultimate Muscle. I've been on several forums and blog columns with people asking for these titles. |
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RadicaLElly
 Posts: 194 Location: Coral Springs, FL |
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Call me ignorant, but what exactly does this mean?
I don't know a whole lot about business, but I'm under the impression that ownership doesn't necessarily mean you have 100% creative control over the company. I'm skeptical that a new owner would pull a 180 and make 4Kids a viable competitor in the anime market, even more so that Funimation would acquire all their properties. Part of me even suspects that they're just trying to trick some patsy into taking over the company's debt, but that sounds a bit conspiracy-ish. I don't mean to be a huge pessimist, but in the end will this mean anything more then that the company will eventually have a new figurehead? Also, various comments seem to suggest that individual properties would be up for sale, but my understanding from the article was that it'd be the company as a whole. |
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Ink Nijihara
 Posts: 19 Location: Los Angeles California |
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4Kids was still around?
I haven't heard from 4Kids since Fox canceled all cartoons about 2 years now. And i don't have cable/satellite to know that 4Kids is running in those programs. |
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zanarkand princess
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You know I looked on the back of my little sister's Sonic X DVD and what does it say? Funimation. I think Funimation is as involved in 4Kids as they want to be.
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vilapupu
Posts: 22 Location: Maryland - USA |
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finally!!! 4kids is putting its self for sale. I can't believe what im reading. they have ruin many anime series to put heavily edit plus bad voice acting. This is a big change for 4kids. I know that someone will buy it and make the company better. lets keep our hopes up for someone that will make 4kids not the same as the past. 
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conankudo4
Posts: 10 Location: lock haven, pa |
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Well... no, not exactly. The thing is, they were only the distributors for the DVDs, most of which were relatively old (all I can remember seeing were the uncut DVDs, sonic X and some old Battle City DVDs from back when I was about ten.) Nothing of their's (that I'm aware of, at least) has been put on DVD ( or in other words, no connections between the two companies) since those uncut DVDs came out ( and that was, like Zac said, 4 years ago.) Good try on the conspiracy theory though. |
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CCSYueh
 Posts: 2707 Location: San Diego, CA |
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As someone who preordered the uncut YuGiOh & Shaman King, I'd like to point out they released 2 per month. How, praytell, did they figure out after all of 2 Shaman King DVDs & 3 YuGiOh (2 months? 3?) they weren't selling? In fact, they apparently never really cancelled them. They were put on "hold" at the time. I had to finally cancel the order 2 yrs later when I finally read the story. What DID come out at that time was something about the sales of the cut YuGiOh dvds dipped, strongly suggesting 4Kids actually thought people who were grudgingly buying the cut YuGiOh would continue to buy it as well as the uncut. If they wanted that, they should have released the uncut subbed only (as Geneon was doing with CCS) But kid stuff burns thru pretty quick. Each generation seems to go for something else so there really isn't that many parents who'd be buying these titles for their kids. |
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GaryPotter
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Perhaps you'd be quite surprised to learn that those sets sold very well and they were canned due to monetary disputes with 4Kids. It sure would be nice if people would get their facts straight. And 4Kids lost Mew Mew Power and Shaman King long ago. Last edited by GaryPotter on Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:47 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Egan Loo
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Again, as of the first quarter of 2009, 4Kids still receives domestic licensing revenues from Shaman King. http://seekingalpha.com/article/136973-4-kids-entertainment-inc-q1-2009-earnings-call-transcript |
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The Anagelic One
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Do us a favor Funi, rescue Yu-Gi-Oh! and all the other anime they hacked, like you do with One Pice, pleaaaaaaaase? =D
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D Dubbs
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Well, I guess I stand corrected then. That's the only time I've seen Shaman King associated with 4Kids in several years, though. But as for FUNimation picking up 4Kids...it's very unlikely. Someone posted this at another forum and I agree with it 100%.
4Kids holds less than 10 anime. Navarre isn't going to buy 4Kids, a company that own a trading card division of all things (among other non-anime related subsidiaries), just to get a few titles that have mostly run their course in North America. |
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CCSYueh
Posts: 2707 Location: San Diego, CA |
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Which also suggests it might be airing in a syndication market or airing somewhere |
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panzer.time
 Posts: 65 Location: Hippie camp |
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Or there's some kind of merch being sold.
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Dargonxtc
 Posts: 4463 Location: Nc5xd7+ スターダストの海洋 |
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Well it's good that you are caring for the industry and all but it seems that you are maybe being affected by the fear mongering that is going on in the forums lately. Again, if this was last year then they really would have been on a razors edge. But by all accounts they have been doing the right thing and their numbers show that. I was agreeing with you that they don't need to be considering buying 4kids, as frankly it's just too big of a headache. But I think all this other fear that gets thrown into the mix does nobody any good. Not the fans, not the companies. On the other hand it is good that fans are concerned and at least attempting to understand what is going on. So maybe it's a question of magnitude. Also I think it is a little incorrect to compare ADV with FUNi (as opposed to CPM or Geneon). Mainly because of what brought ADV down was categorically different than the other two. They had a business partner that jumped ship on them reducing their capital to some unknown infinitesimal number. It was a game changer for ADV, a shock to the system. Whereas the other two slowly died of their own practices, ADV had to reinvent themselves with a shoestring budget. I think the only comparable situation that would be applicable would be if Navarre dropped FUNimation. But let's face it there is no way that is going to happen. Navarre needs FUNimation, since FUNi accounts for 94% of the Navarre's operating income. |
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