User:Mr. Dready/PituckosTheCockatiel/sandbox/4Kids Entertainment

4Kids Entertainment was a New York-based television production company known for its dubbing and airing of anime. They were also known for their blocks of Saturday morning programming from the FoxBox from 2002 to 2005 when it was changed to 4Kids TV from 2005 to 2008 and finally Toonzai, which ended after TV Tokyo and Nihon Ad Systems slapped 4Kids with a lawsuit involving the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise led to 4Kids filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, leading to Saban buying most of the 4Kids' assets and creating Vortexx in 2012, which ended two years later, ending the era of Saturday Morning cartoons until 2017 with KidsClick and 2021 with Saturday Morning Cartoons on MeTV. 4Kids would later become a licensing company under the name 4Licensing Corporation, which folded in 2017. Another subsidiary, 4K Media License, would be bought by Konami, which would later be renamed Konami Cross Media NY.

Why They Sucked

 * 1) The way how they treated their dubs is similar to Funimation in its later years, they riddled their dubs with censorship and Americanization, which went so far to the point, the examples include:
 * 2) * They've removed Japanese references and culture in their dubs, to the point it makes it look like the show is set somewhere else, the most notable is their dub of Tokyo Mew Mew (Or as the dub is called Mew Mew Power). One of the most infamous examples is in the Pokémon anime involving rice balls, where one episode has a rice ball changed to a sandwich, and another episode has Brock referring to rice balls as "jelly-filled donuts", which became an Internet meme.
 * 3) * In anime like Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece and Sonic X they've censored guns in different ways, in Yu-Gi-Oh! the guns were completely removed, and instead just point their fingers, on One Piece they were changed into water guns and Sonic X, the guns are kept but the normal gunshot sound is replaced with a laser sound.
 * 4) * On the topic of censorship, another example is in One Piece, where they replaced a cigar with a lollipop.
 * 5) * As for americanization, they’ve changed some of the character's names to be more western, just to appeal to conservative parents in the U.S.
 * 6) While most of their voice actors, like Veronica Taylor, Mike Pollock, Jason Griffith, etc, are pretty talented, some of them can be miscast or give poor performances, like David Moo as Sanji in One Piece, or Dan Green as 1987 Leonardo in mh:greatestmovies:Turtles Forever.
 * 7) Not even their original shows were safe from censorship. For example, they canceled the 2003 TMNT episode "Nightmares Recycled", which was set to be a part of season 5 (the Ninja Tribunal story arc) and was going to explore Hun and Garbage Man's origins, due to gruesome imagery. This comes off as very hypocritical since they approved the season 4 episode "Insane in the Membrane", which also had gruesome imagery in the form of Baxter Stockman's clone body deteriorating, though it was banned from airing on TV and was only available online and on DVD until Nicktoons aired the episode in 2015.
 * 8) Their infamous National Anthem sounds terrible due to poor singing voices, the voice actors can't sing. They just simply used clips from the shows without any edits, making it look cheaply edited. The only voice that was tolerable was Dan Green and Jason Griffith as Sonic.
 * 9) * It is also disrespectful as only The Ninja Turtles are American characters, Winx Club on the other hand is Italian, while the rest are Japanese.
 * 10) Like Saban, they added out-of-place stock sound effects that weren't in the original Japanese versions of their shows.
 * 11) Some of their dubs were left unfinished like their dubs of Ojamajo Doremi (or as the dub was called Magical Doremi), Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Winx Club, and Tokyo Mew Mew. Ending those dubs in a cliffhanger would mean most of the plot lines are unsolved. Because of this, it would lead to the viewer switching to the sub, just to finish the show.
 * 12) * Them not finishing GX is also hypocritical because the reason why dub was not finished is that Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s got announced and decided to focus on that instead, despite the fact they continued to dub Duel Monsters, even after GX was out.
 * 13) * Even 5D’s in that extended weren’t finished, Due to Low ratings and a lawsuit that followed.
 * 14) Sometimes, the dialogue is poorly translated, changed, or altered, one example is in an episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters were in the third episode when Tea complains that she needs to go to the bathroom, while in the dub, it was changed to her complaining about being cold.
 * 15) * Even some of their titles are mistranslations, one example is Ojamajo Doremi where the dub is called Magical Doremi, even now Ojamajo actually means Bothersome Witch
 * 16) The soundtrack in most of their dubs was replaced due to licensing reasons, while some of the soundtracks in their dubs are tolerable, most of them are poor compared to the soundtrack in the original Japanese, like the infamous Pirate Rap from their dub of One Piece.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Censorship aside, some of their dubs, like Pokémon and mh:besttvshows:Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, are pretty good.
 * 2) * Their original shows, like Chaotic and the first 5 seasons of the 2003 TMNT series, are also good.
 * 3) * Some of their dubs are tolerable despite censorship like Yu Gi Oh, Sonic X, and mh:besttvshows:Shaman King (by far their darkest dub as they kept part of the show's original tone).
 * 4) They are responsible for introducing franchises like Yu-Gi-Oh! to the west.
 * 5) As previously mentioned, the voice acting is pretty good for the most part, particularly from Veronica Taylor, Dan Green, Jason Griffith, and Mike Pollock, to name a few.
 * 6) * Mike Pollock as Dr. Eggman for Sonic X, in particular, was considered the best voice even for 4Kids standards. You can tell that Mike is having fun voicing Dr. Eggman. He would later reprise his role as Dr. Eggman in other Sonic media, including Sonic Boom.
 * 7) * Veronica Taylor as Ash Ketchum in Pokemon was also considered the best since she invested in what it sounds like for a 10-year-old and also having fun. It got to the point where even the fans of Pokémon wished that she would reprise her role in the other seasons of the Pokémon anime and other movies.
 * 8) Some of their censorship is understandable due to American TV's standards, given the fact Japan has looser standards for what is appropriate for children (for example they allow blood in kids' shows unlike in other countries).
 * 9) * Their changes in soundtracks can be justified due to legal reasons.

Trivia
4kids was once on Best Shows & Episodes Wiki but was removed in 2022 due to negative company reception.

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