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NEWS: Disney XD to Run Doraemon Anime in U.S. This Summer

I watched a few episodes of TMNT in Japanese for kicks. Think I like those voices better since they sound more like teenagers The 4Kids series performed poorly when it aired in Japan back in the day, maybe this new cartoon will do better?

Woah, 6 pages of "discussion", and I doubt any of us would even bother to watch the 1st ep.

As I said Japan very rarely do it. The fact you are naming examples from 20 years ago shows how much you have to dig around to find examples of it. Japan does not do it anywhere near to the extent America does. Those are isolated cases where as in America it is the standard practice to shelter children from the evil influences of foreign cultures.

It's a children's show in Japan, so there's no reason for it to be on Adult Swim. Though I think it'd work better on Nick. Either way, it's probably an ego thing for the JP licensors to say that they "conquered" the Disney audience with Doraemon.

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kids in Japan are use to seeing nude kids in the bath in what not but in the usa yea no.

No one's complained about it in Totoro so far. But if the Japanese choose to edit it for our standards, then that's their problem. They clearly don't need the money, so, again, it probably comes down to being able to brag that Doraemon is also "popular in America with Disney fans".

A few questions: Is it going to be a best of sort of thing? Which series are they going with? Is the 26 episodes a test to see if it could be longer or is that it? Regardless, I'm curious to see how this pans out. It's nice to at least finally see some sort of release for this series over here.

A friend of mine gave me this link, and it's been confirmed that Viz Media is one of the licensors as well. They've owned the rights to the show for a long time.
http://licensing14.mapyourshow.com/5_0/exhibitor_details.cfm?exhid=12699&CFID=36365735&CFTOKEN=aec74be628e68047-E8748238-C778-32EC-687CB555182920BF

After nearly 41 years the blue robot cat finally leaves Japanese shores?

However I question putting it on as isn't that channel suppose to be for teens and young adults? this is more the preschool to tween crowds.

Well, there's no way this is going to end anyway but badly. May as well have Nickelodoen air Detective Conan while we're at it

And you may remember how this wasn't the first attempt to bring Doraemon to the States. Ted Turner bought the rights to air 50 episodes of the 1979 show, and planned to air them on what is now TBS (veryfunny) that same year. But, as you would have guessed, it got cancelled without explanation before it even aired.

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However I question putting it on as isn't that channel suppose to be for teens and young adults? this is more the preschool to tween crowds.

As someone mentioned earlier, this does need to be on Nickelodeon really, but I suppose they could get what they can take.

Mohawk52 wrote:

Yeah, that'll pass by the censors', no problem.

There's another, which the new one adapted as well, which is the "Dictator Switch/Button". Basically, it's a gadget Doraemon gives Nobita, in which he can completely erase someone from existence by simply pressing the switch. It was almost as if they never even existed in the first place!

The creepy thing about the episode is the usage of nazi imagery, so it's quite clear what it is a reference to. I suspect the episode might air, but it's going to be heavily altered to remove any references to that. I suspect the name of the gadget will also be renamed as well.

jr0904 wrote:

And after how diastrous naruto shippuden was, i am kinda surprised their even touching any anime that isnt extremely kid friendly like beyblade or digimon.

I take it you have not seen the second part of Digimon Xros Wars... I'll leave this lovely image, here. And yes, she's on screen a lot...

Yeah it's pretty unheard of in Japan for them to do that kind of stuff. They generally keep things the same culture-wise.

I watched a few episodes of TMNT in Japanese for kicks. Think I like those voices better since they sound more like teenagers

Mister Ryan Andrews wrote:

Well, there's no way this is going to end anyway but badly. May as well have Nickelodoen air Detective Conan while we're at it

Hell Nick had their chance back in the 80's I say. Cable TV was not as screamish over that stuff as they are now since more eyeballs are watching it.

I'm wondering how many of those saying "Disney/4Kids/NA licensing/localization is evil", and/or "They're selling it to kids, and not letting them view the mature artistic grittiness they need to see!" even WATCHED the first Japanese episode, 00's or 70's.
There's the dull, bland flavor of "Generic argument" leaving its aftertaste in the protest posts, and I need to wash out my palate with a flavorful dose of YouTube.

EricJ2 wrote:

I'm wondering how many of those saying "Disney/4Kids/NA licensing/localization is evil", and/or "They're selling it to kids, and not letting them view the mature artistic grittiness they need to see!" even WATCHED the first Japanese episode, 00's or 70's. There's the dull, bland flavor of "Generic argument" leaving its aftertaste in the protest posts, and I need to wash out my palate with a flavorful dose of YouTube.

Considering how you are defending 4kids' actions (which is nothing short of ridiculous), I wonder if YOU have actually WATCHED their "work".

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Quote: However I question putting it on as isn't that channel suppose to be for teens and young adults? this is more the preschool to tween crowds. As someone mentioned earlier, this does need to be on Nickelodeon really, but I suppose they could get what they can take.

Also, Mickey, Sofia, Jake, and Doc McStuffins are making more money for the channel in the mornings than Tron or the Hulk are in the afternoons--Guess you don't get up early.

(And does Nick even SHOW cartoons anymore? Thought they switched over to teen stars to imitate the Disney Channel, after the DC switched over to teen stars to imitate Nickelodeon.)

Jave wrote:

Yeah it's pretty unheard of in Japan for them to do that kind of stuff. They generally keep things the same culture-wise.

For Western stuff at least, since Western culture is the familiar lingua franca of the world.

StudioToledo wrote:

Mister Ryan Andrews wrote: Well, there's no way this is going to end anyway but badly. May as well have Nickelodoen air Detective Conan while we're at it Hell Nick had their chance back in the 80's I say. Cable TV was not as screamish over that stuff as they are now since more eyeballs are watching it.

Nick got away with so much back then, anime or otherwise. The Little Prince, Maya the Bee, The Littl' Bits, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Mysterious Cities of Gold, etc. Among others like Ren & Stimpy, David the Gnome, Doug, Rocko's Modern Life, Tintin, etc.

Anyways, it's not like many of us here would follow Doreamon even if it's adapted rather faithfully since many of us here don't already follow the original now. We're too busy with a ton of other shows for that.

Speaking of Disney, does anybody have the strange feeling that Doraemon has a lot of theme park potential for the company if the show becomes popular here in the States? I can see a time machine simulation ride at the Tomorrowland section of Tokyo Disneyland or Hong Kong Disneyland, or a Doraemon meet & greet at Epcot (as long as the Japanese rights holders give Disney permission to do this). I know I'm sounding hypothetical, but I can see Disney doing something like this if Doraemon gets popular in the US.