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4Kids Entertainment, Inc. (formerly known as Leisure Concepts, Inc. and later known as 4Licensing Corporation) was an American licensing company. The company was previously also a film and television production company that produced English-dubbed Japanese anime through its subsidiary 4Kids Productions between 1992 and 2012. They were infamous for their anime dubs that gained a lot of controversy amongst many fans of the original shows for their unnecessary censorship and insane amount of americanization that the original versions super to watch as a result which lead to them being considered one of the worst companies of all time.

Why They Don't Deserve to Have Any Jelly Doughnuts For Their Lunch.

 * 1) They not only censored anime, they fully Americanized it as they removed several signs of Japanese Culture from the original versions and replaced them with American Culture instead, with instances of food and language being removed entirely from the dubbed versions, such as Pokémon where Rice Balls are called Jelly Doughnuts by Brock and Misty, and in the Advance Series where a Giant Rice Ball is replaced with a Subway Sandwich for no legit reason
 * 2) *The main reason for this is due to their CEO Al Khan trying to market the shows to a more Western audience, but by doing so, he pander to them by only trying to make more money and not care about the fans of those shows who wanted to see the original dubs with everything kept the same and instead only market the shows to children instead which doesn't work out well since some of the content in those shows were clearly not for kids at all and felt out of place for the studio to dub in the first place.
 * 3) *In fact, they showed very little care for the fans of the original source material nor the historians that felt like they wanted to know more about Japanese Culture since they only preferred to pander towards children and make as much money as possible which seemed to be their primary as a whole.
 * 4) The company was extremely greedy, as they tried to cash in on the properties that the studio licenced with no effort at all and only cared about making money and that's it with them making the shows just to only advertise the properties and make more profit of them rather than put effort into their dubs at all, which lead to them being generally rushed and overall choppy at best.
 * 5) They cancelled an episode of the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series that was about the main characters meeting the Garbageman and encounter an old villain called Hun who had was going to be given a clear backstory aside from the fact that he killed Casey's family, as the reason why they did so was due to the episode being too dark and serious, which was a stupid reason to cancel an episode with lots of great potential like that but even shows how Hypocritical they are in general since they've shown other darker and mature episodes of the 2003 series so what they did was completely stupid at best.
 * 6) They have no standards when it comes to censoring certain inappropriate parts of anime, as they tend to censor Guns to more kid-friendly weapons yet they banned an episode of the Pokémon anime that featured a man pointing a gun at Ash that they've easily should've edited out but didn't and just banned it altogether for no reason at all.
 * 7) Many of their anime dubs are considered by many Anime fans to be some of the worst out there to date, with the their dub of One Piece being a major example of this along with their dub of Tokyo Mew Mew being also another example of a horrible English dub of an amazing anime.
 * 8) They backstabbed TV Tokyo by trying to collect royalties from the Yu-Gi-Oh series over to their studio without seeking actual permission from the Network channel itself and often violated against their original agreement that they had when 4Kids had gained the rights to dub the franchise over to the west in the first place, thus they ended up getting sued by TV Tokyo and in return, they suffered from financial issues as a result thus they rebranded themselves as 4LICENSING but it didn't work and they ended up shutting down in 2017, thus ending their run over 40 years as a company, which considering that they're primary goal is to get as money as possible, it's not very surprising that they would steal money from TV Tokyo and try to profit off a series that they didn't even own in the first place and it's easy to see why they would get sued by them in the first place.
 * 9) They milked the Yu-Gi-Oh license to death by making a lot of unnecessary spin-offs and side series that failed to do well and were panned by many fans of the series for their cheap writing and overall lack of effort in general, and let's not forget about the horrible dub of 5D where nearly everything from 5D was butchered badly by the typical they would usually do in most of their dubs ensue.
 * 10) They changed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) from a dark and mature series to a more light-hearted one just so that they could market the series to children and keep age-rating as low as it can be, which resulted in Seasons 6 and 7 being the worst seasons of the show to date and overall gained a lot of hate from fans as a result.
 * 11) When they gained the license to One Piece, they did a horrible job at handling the overall series since they didn't do any research on One Piece nor the manga series that it was based off, nor had they ever heard of the series in the slightest as they took one look at the show and thought it wasn't suitable for them but since they already had signed their contract with Toei Animation, it was too late and the company kept scrapping almost 200 episodes in the series that was a major cause for all of the endless amount of plot holes in the series, and they ended up rushing almost the entirety of the anime that had a lot of animation errors and was unfinished at best, which showed how badly 4Kids ruined One Piece since they knew that it was a bad idea dubbing the show for kids yet they signed a deal with Toei to dub the series not knowing that it was suitable for their audience since they didn't know what the series was in the first place, showing how idiotic they are in general and should've done a lot more research when it comes to anime in general.
 * 12) They ruined Pokémon: The First Movie by cutting out Mewtwo's Origins and inserting a message about Fighting being Wrong when the entire purpose of the series is Pokémon battling each other since it's an RPG, and as a result, their dub of the film ending up receiving negative reviews and was hated by many anime fans alike for being a butchered version of an amazing film.
 * 13) They tend to replace the original theme songs of the original anime shows with more hip and dated theme songs that are just downright awful and unbearable to listen to since they feel more like generic kids show music rather than the type of music that the original versions would have, namely with One Piece where the theme song was replaced with a Rap Theme Song that was poorly-received by many fans for being cringeworthy and not being well-suited for the type of show that One Piece is, and not to mention that it was only made just to cash-in on 00s R&B at that time which made it sound extremely outdated already when it came out.
 * 14) They pander to children by inserting several stale and unfunny jokes into the animes that they dubbed that mostly consist of annoying pop-culture references, awful toilet humor, terrible slapstick and overall very bad puns that tend to sound the same after a while and gets repeated throughout the dubs and their entire runtimes, which gets frustrating to listen to after listening to it for over 15 minutes during their runtime and tends to lose a lot of weight after being repeated in the episode and already not being funny to begin with at all.
 * 15) Their CEO, Alfred Khan, is a horribly greedy businessman who shows very little care towards the audience and instead tries to profit off of the success of nearly all of the animes that 4Kids dubbed without putting in any effort into the dubs at all and release them to cash-in on the success of the franchises that they licensed and try to milk them as quickly as possible with zero care towards the fans and only caring about profit, which gave him a very bad reputation amongst anime fans because of this and his poor treatment of the employees and the fact that he nearly caused the company to go bankrupt almost ruined his career and own image as a result.
 * 16) *He also believes that Kids wouldn't know about Japanese Culture and thinks that they have limited brain spans which isn't true since Kids can research about other countries and would want to know about their culture and how different it is when compared to their own culture which they would find boring, and a lot of them are more smarter than he thinks, which makes him a complete idiot and overall prejudice against other cultures from different countries in general.
 * 17) Some of their edits are horrendous, as some of them made no sense at all and were completely laughable such as the Finger Guns in Yu-Gi-Oh, The Water Guns in One Piece and the Gun Shooting sound effect being replaced with a Laser Gun sound effect in Sonic X, which those edits being so horribly done that they come off as lazy but they are also nonsensical since with One Piece, Water Guns wouldn't exist during the time period it takes place in, as for Yu-Gi-Oh, using your own fingers as guns is just stupid, and in Sonic X, a regular gun when it's shoot would make a bang, not a zap which is what Laser Guns usually do when they're shoot as a whole.
 * 18) Their voice casts did a poor job at voicing the characters in the dubs they made, such as Amy Palant being the voice of Miss Valentine that doesn't really suit the character and is just an awful performance overall, and there are also many other examples of bad voice acting in their dubs that there is too much to count in one take.
 * 19) Many of their employees are greedy and selfish liars who tend to give excuses for why they had to remove all of the Japanese references and dumb down the material in the animes they heavily dub, such as Eric Stuart saying that the companies wanted them to remove the Japanese references despite clearly being a lie and shows that Eric is dissing on Anime fans just to defend this horrible practice, and another example is Mark Kirk as he said that if One Piece was removed from their catalogue, then they wouldn't be hated which is complete BS since the amount of horrendous edits and constant Americanzation in the animes they dubbed outside of One Piece still made the company infamous for it, as it was said in an interview with Anime News Network and even one of the staff members of the online network criticised him for this.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) While their censorship was pretty laughable, it's understandable why they did it since the FCC had restrictions on what they could air on Children's Television and since they were against shows with violence and inappropriate content that wouldn't be suitable for young kids and adding to the fact that the animes they acquired had to be airing Saturday and Sunday mornings which were usually used as timeslots for little kids, and they had to listen to the rules of children's broadcasting and standards so it had to technically happen and it wasn't really on them, it was on the FCC and Broadcast Standards & Practices, that's all.
 * 2) They introduced Pokémon in the United States of America and the rest of the world, and is one of the major contributors to why the series is so successful in the first place and got the series thanks to the anime and their involvement with the games and other pieces of media related to the franchise itself, which got many kids into the series during the 90s and has been going strong for over 20 years now, especially with the Journeys anime where the series is gaining more love and appreciation then before due to how it keeps up with the games, and has an original concept of travelling through regions and has the charm of the original series, and since it has proven to be so popular that it could compare with the original series in terms of popularity and the series has gained a bigger fanbase since then with lots of fanart and it's usage of fanservice with returning characters and older references to past series, though it is hated in China sadly.
 * 3) Some of the dubs they aired were amazing such as Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokémon, Shaman King and Kirby: Right Back at Ya, as they kept them faithful towards their source material and they didn't overdo the censorship as much as their other bad dubs like Sonic X or One Piece.
 * 4) A few of their voice actors did good jobs at voicing the characters such as Veronica Taylor as Ash Ketchum who was praised for her performance as the character, as she embodied who the character was, and gave him the voice that many fans associate him with to this day, and even if she was replaced by Sarah Natochenny in the Diamond and Pearl series, she will still be remembered as the iconic voice actor for Ash Ketchum in the English Dub even many years later after her death, people still consider her to be the definitive voice actor for Ash Ketchum even more so than Rika Matsumoto, the VA for Ash in the original Japanese version of the anime.
 * 5) They helped anime to become popular in the US, and is one of the main reasons why it has become extremely well-known amongst animation fans and is now being used as a popular art-form, and without them, it wouldn't be as popular as it would be nowadays, and while they butchered them majorly, they were still a major contributor to it's success and why it's beloved by many people today.

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