Forum - View topicNEWS: 4Kids Entertainment Financial Results
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sailorsean
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Um... does anybody remember how almost about last year how 4-kids licensed Pretty Cure and how it was supposed to be aired in the fall? And also, has Mew Mew Power been canceled or something? Because you can see Mew Mew Power/ Tokyo Mew Mew can still be seen on there website, and so is the same with Ojamajo Doremi/ Magical Doremi- you can still see it on there website and yet they still don't air any new episodes of both series? Can someone please tell me whats wrong here and or give me some information so I can know what is going on here? Because I am really confused right now...
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firecrouch
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I don't think anything came out of Al Kahn's "Pretty Cure" announcement. "Doremi" and "Mew Mew" are definitely cancelled, but 4Kids still has the rights to them, so there really isn't any need to take them off the website.
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SSJ Gohan 64
Posts: 223 Location: Silver Spring, Maryland |
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No, no watch the TMNT movie. |
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Beatdigga
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Thanks for helping me decide to not watch the TMNT film Khan. If you're profiting, I won't be watching.
All fads run out sooner or later, and when a business is based on a marketing fad, its lifespan is finite. |
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Malintex Terek
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>>uncutpokemon >>naruto fan 09812 This might sound insipid, but can anyone with names like these really be taken seriously?
Now, what the fudge is all this about? I've have thought 4Kids to move where their financial interests are best satisfied but this is a delusional shot in the foot. As if 4Kids hadn't been thoroughly castrated already! Young girls are the *strongest* demographic attracted to Saturday Morning blocs right now and 4Kids is basically saying, "screw that, all captains go down with their ships"? After this move, I think everyone can admit 4Kids isn't a corporation that "only cares about money"; it cares about "ideology". Any corporation that values what it stands for rather than what it can earn undermines its very nature and therefore is deserving of any misfortune that should come its way; corporations are artificial, godless, souless legal entities, and ideology should only serve as a tool to attract investors. It shouldn't be the cornerstone of its economic policy!
Aye, murky waters ahead. |
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Ataru
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fighterholic
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What 4kids needs to do is to get a series and cut back quite a bit on the editing, or if you know that a series has a lot of blood in it and suggestive things, DON'T GET IT.
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marie-antoinette
 Posts: 4136 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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I think that's kind of the point: 4Kids isn't doing all the wonderfully. |
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infoman99
Posts: 39 Location: canada |
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it's because their not sellin merchandise tthat's part of the reason
their losing sales/stock |
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Ichigo77
 Posts: 389 Location: California |
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4kids is too stupid to do that lol. If a dub like Naruto is ok for kids then 4kids should get the hint. Maybe then they will get more money and get some more respect, but thats a BIG maybe considering what they did to One Piece. |
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Abarenbo Shogun
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Well, seeing that 4Kids has "lost' the One Piece license, my usual spiel of them trying to diversify into the adult market has pretty much eroded into a token support for those other worthless anime properties. I mean, who would by uncut Tokyo Mew Mew?
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ShootYouStars
 Posts: 37 Location: Kansas |
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I'm assuming that means that no, we will never see any DVDs for Doremi or Mew Mew, much less uncut ones. It would also explain why both were dropped from TV, and what the hell ever did happen to Pretty Cure? Did they ever even cut it up and air it? I don't watch 4kidsTV, so I wouldn't know... I guess that's the life of a magical girl fan, though. Chances of domestic, uncut releases are slim because most of the market (10-14 girl anime fans) is just fine watching it on youtube or with fansubs and really don't give a shit about supporting the anime companies. And if you really want to support a series, then you buy the R2. *sigh*
I would! ... but I'd probably even buy the cut ones, if they actually released any. Which seeing that it's dub fandom has pretty much died since they took it off the air, is unlikely. |
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Ninja337
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Titles like One Peice and Yu-Gi-Oh! were very popular in Japan among kids 10+, I'm pretty sure that Eichiro Oda or Takahashi would not want to sacrifice this demographic around the world just because of a few cultural gaps like blood, sex, race, and religion. |
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Emma Iveli
Posts: 679 Location: Hobo with internet |
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I believe that slowly 4kids will fall... That a in a few years they will either A. Realize Uncuts are the way to go or B. Fall into complete obscurity IE: Go out out business...
Note: I said Slowly and years... 2011 at least... to be reasonable... I sure hope something like that does happen... |
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Crawly
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Not that I like things edited, but I disagree with this. An uncut series will sell to anime fans, but the mass kiddie market doesn't care. Parents in the masses, on the other hand, do care. Uncut scares a lot of them. An anime doesn't need to be put out uncut to get mass market sales of merchandise. What it needs is a creatively done and well written edited script that will make it entertaining to a ten year old while not scaring off networks and parents. 4Kids seems to currently lack the staff to do this, or needs to find better marketing and airing blocks/channels for the series it releases. Anime fans by themselves are a very minor part of the overall market, and they don't produce the kind of revenue a company like 4Kids is looking for. Anyway, awhile back they said they were getting out of anime to focus more on in-house stuff. Licensing costs are becoming too high to turn a profit. |
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