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NEWS: Tokyo Mew Mew Magical Girl Manga Gets All-New Anime

ZeetherKID77 wrote:

Good thing 4Kids doesn't exist to snatch this up and ruin it now, maybe we'll have a decent dub for once

Say what you will about 4kids dubs but they had a lot of good creativity when it came to the music. They didn't need to put so much effort in it too. Nevertheless, I do agree the dub isn't the best.

My only complaint is their incessant need to localise everything to the point of scrubbing the characters clean of their Japanese heritage. No Japanese names, no Japanese food. (Looking at you jelly-filled donuts.)

YuGiOh!, Pokemon, Shaman King, Sonic X, when it came to theme songs 4Kids threw out some absolute bangers that they never got credit for. Look at the shocking state of English Pokemon theme songs pre- and post 4Kids! A damn shame people love to bandwagon hate so much. Their dubs weren't the best but they were passable for kids, as was their intended audience. During the rising era of fansubs teens and above grew all too eager to prove how totally not for kids their shonen-targeted anime were for fear of being looked down upon for watching cartoons that 4Kids never stood a chance.

The other thing I liked about 4Kids besides their catchy dub theme songs was their use of New York voice acting talent as it seems like nowadays dubbing is mostly done either with Funimation's Texas VAs or LA casts and their dubs had pretty good VAs.

4Kids was the reason Ultimate Muscle got a second season (or second & third seasons if you look at Japan's airing of it) so they had their good uses.

Wasn't season three of Sonic X also commissioned by 4Kids?

The problem with 4Kids was their evangelical like dogma that all and any animation had to be "just for kids because animations has always been that way" insular ethnocentric policy so when they tried to take an anime clearly [NOT] for kids and bastardise it to fit their dogmatic doctrine it always ended up a dogs dinner.