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NEWS: 4Kids Chairman, CEO Alfred R. Kahn Retires


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Kaibaman21



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:19 pm Reply with quote
Holy sweet mother of crap this is awesome!!!!!! It looks like Starfleet finnaly got rid of this guy
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E-Master



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:03 pm Reply with quote
I would love to see 4Kids go into a direction they didn't go when Kahn was CEO. Now to wait and see what will happen to the Company.
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v1cious



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:15 am Reply with quote
Now he'll have plenty of time for reading Wink
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WeirDiE_InC



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:00 am Reply with quote
Holy shit; this was unexpected.


Yeah, I'm pretty speechless right now. I'll get back to this.
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Apollo-kun



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 3:44 am Reply with quote
Such a... beloved, much.... respected... and universally.... accepted member of the anime community... His... thoughtful and necessary choices in... licensing...anime... will be greatly missed. *cough*

No, actually. Actually, maybe somebody with half a brain will be put in charge of the whole outfit. In my dream world, Gen Fukunaga somehow takes over the company and makes it a part of FUNimation, releasing quality anime that doesn't NEED to be edited onto American airwaves. Then we
can have another boom like we did in the early 2000's, just like when I was a little kid, and... and... ah, screw it. It'll probably get taken over by another uninformed dolt who will make anime fans accept that their shows "will be available in two versions" (direct quote from Kahn himself.) And then people will resort to fansubs more, and then the anime industry will get thrown into a deeper hole, and... Well, you get the picture. Unless something utterly miraculous and amazing happens, this company is going to keep bowdlerizing the shows we loved so much before they go through the corporate meat grinder.

But hey, a little wishful thinking never hurt, right? That's what got us having the Evangelion Rebuild sequel put on movie screens across America, right? Right. So maybe a little wishful thinking will keep quality shonen titles from being thrown to the dogs like they were for the past, oh, decade or so. Razz
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Sunday Silence



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:46 am Reply with quote
v1cious wrote:
Now he'll have plenty of time for reading Wink


I say we get his mailing address and flood his mailbox with used copies of One Piece & Tokyo Mew Mew. Should be cheap enough to get off eBay, right?
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WeirDiE_InC



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:12 am Reply with quote
Saban Brands should buy them out Laughing
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inu-liger



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:06 am Reply with quote
This is the best news I've heard so far this year!! Very Happy

Screw you Kahn, may you forever be banned from touching another anime's dub production!
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Tuor_of_Gondolin



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:58 am Reply with quote
I've done far worse than kill you, Anime-lovers. I'm going to destroy your precious shows and leave you the way you left me.... Buried alive... (buried alive! buried alive!)
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:29 am Reply with quote
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS MY FRIENDS!!!!!

The war is (not) over! We have many battles ahead of us for the war against censorship, but a demon has been defeated! He has dropped 250,000 gil per month! (jesus!)
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person of awesomeness



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 11:50 am Reply with quote
I feel so happy now Very Happy
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PetrifiedJello



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:55 pm Reply with quote
The King of Harts wrote:
I hate 4kids, too. I hate how they're the reason why shows like Pokemon and Yugi-oh blew up in America and created a new generation of anime fans.

Young sir, you are the wind beneath my wings.
Provided these wings aren't attached to Kanna.

Unfortunately, having read the comments further, it seems the point was completely lost thanks to the over-abundance of "fact"-based opinion.
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Mohawk52



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:17 pm Reply with quote
The King of Harts wrote:
I hate 4kids, too. I hate how they're the reason why shows like Pokemon and Yugi-oh blew up in America and created a new generation of Pokemon and Yugi-oh fans.
Fixed. I'll wager that roughly 80 % of those never realised it was anime, and I'll include Kahn in that as well, and BTW that's not the reason he has been vilified anyway. It's what he did afterwards, and the way he treated anime and its fans when Tokyo Mew Mew, and One Piece blew up in his face.


luffypirate85 wrote:
Wish I could retire...
Wish I could retire with $1.5 million. Wink
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penguintruth



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:45 pm Reply with quote
Some of you seem to be under the impression that this will magically change the practices of 4Kids in their treatment of anime.

Protip: It probably won't.
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agila61



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:52 pm Reply with quote
Mohawk52 wrote:
luffypirate85 wrote:
Wish I could retire...
Wish I could retire with $1.5 million. Wink
That's "up to $1.5m" ... 4Kids has to survive another six months for him to get the full amount.
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