Americanizing

AKA Westernized. What certian animation companies do by getting the broadcasting rights for Japanese Anime or any other non English speaking animated series by (a) Changing certain characters so in wouldn't offend veiwers ,
(b)changing the entire storyline by Americanizing or Westernizing it including references to local food,culture, or language (c) Elimiating all or most of the original signs or other aspects of the animation's "home language" or replacing it with garbled translations,(e) changing the original score with a very shoddy music score that is not worth listening to, (g) changing character name from there oringinal language to more americanized or westernized versions (i.e. Hiroshi= Henry) & (g) taking out or severing certain scenes that might frighten or "traumatize" younger viewers or no showing or banning the episode all together due to the contents that the episode has.
4kids Entertainment, & the now defuncted DiC productions & Saban Entertainment were well known of Americanizing such shows as One Piece, Sailor Moon, Maple Town, Samurai Pizza Cats, Hallo Spencer, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, & many others.
by BruinKiller3469 June 03, 2009
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roma

(1)True name of the Gypsy people that hail from Romania.

(2) The official language of the Roma people (Gypsies) of Romania & Eastern Europe. A.K.A. Romany.
Did you check out that Roma brass band at the Cultural festival last weekend?
by BruinKiller3469 March 21, 2009
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Thugarazzi

a abusive paprazzi who uses "strong-arm tatics" to get a scoop for a tabloid.
Police reports that a famous tv star was being pursued by "A gang of thugarazzi(s)"
while trying to do some errands.
by BruinKiller3469 March 17, 2009
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J-horror

Horror stories that originated from Japan from the time of the Edo period to the Menji period AKA as Kwaidan folktales in which ghostly spirits AKA the Yueri seek vengeance on thier tormenters.
There was a classic J-horror film in the 1960's about a peasant woman who murdered Samurai warriors in vengeance for her son's death by trapping them & killing them & stealing a demon's mask from a dying Samurai & putting on the mask to terrorize her wayward daughter from seeing antother farmer (whom she hated) but didn't realized that the mask was cursed was stuck on her fack as vengence for her crimes & as she tried to chase after her terrified daughter, the peasant woman fell into her own booby trap & paid for her crimes..
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Western Lit Anime

Anime which is based on classic American or Western Literature.
The Anime versions of Little House on the Prarie,The Works Of William Shakespeare, The Jungle Book,Little Women,Anne of Green Gables,Treasure Island,Tom Sawyer,Belle & Sebastian,The Three Musketeers,Heidi,Nobody's Boy & Peter Pan are fine examples of Western Lit Anime.
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bug music

A comic term that was used in 1964 on "The Flintstones" to describe the Beatles craze that was taking America by storm.
Teen # 1: Look there's the latest tune by the Four Insects!

Teen#2 Cool! I really dig thier style of Bug Music!
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Cavity fairy

The "evil twin" of the tooth fairy who leaves instead of cash for kids teeth these wee little meanies let painful cavities inside the kids teeth in thier wake.
If you don't brush your teeth, you may get a visit from the cavity fairy!
by BruinKiller3469 April 02, 2009
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