Simply put, 4Kids Entertainment is an excellent example of corporate lapdogs who care nothing about what they produce or how it affects their viewers. Instead, their only real concern is what animes to market next and earn them their undeserving paychecks.
Aiming more towards younger audiences, they take japanese animation and Butcher it, until they feel they won't lose any money by being sued for "inappropriate" content. They continually market the animes they aquire to their limits by creating every possible toy, card game, or anything they can sell to little kids. In an attempt to make each anime as profitable as possible, they skip many parts of good anime series and try to get to the most marketable characters, letting the plot only make up a small part of the anime's actual intrest percentage.
By moving forward in an anime very quickly, it allows them to cut whole episodes at a time to get to marketable points, such as cute characters or a new toy idea from an item that plays an important role. Unfortunetly, 4Kids does not seem to care much on the plot side of the story, since their cuts of whole episodes tend to make items "apear out of nowhere", which actually were explained during a cut. Important scenes on character development are also not necessary to 4Kids, unless that character is very sellable.
Notorious not only for its direct-plot cuts, 4Kids also plays a hand in making sure our youth are completely oblivious to real-life occurances, such as someong being cut can bleed or someone being shot can die. In some of the more fight-prone anime that 4Kids has adapted, all blood has been edited out. (Personally, I don't see why they're teaching our youth that when you are stabbed with a knife, you do not bleed.) Guns are usually either edited out entirely, or airbrushed to look more like Super Soakers and Cork Guns. Any references to religion are also taken out, but this is a bit more understandable. Now there are also problems with the idea of death. This happens in many Animes, including One Piece and Yu-Gi-Oh!(which have been licensed by 4Kids), to some pretty important characters, and every child SHOULD know that everyone dies eventually. 4Kids, in their attempt to keep our children pure and innocent, changes all death scenes and leads us onto the idea that the character was "taken away" or "mysteriously disappeared".
The most amazing edits I think I've seen from 4Kids would be from the anime One Piece. (I'm using this anime, because it's clearly not a little kids show when viewed in Japanese.) All references to cigarettes and cigars are taken out. One of the main characters, Sanji, is a chain smoker and never is seen without one, so they changed it to a lollipop. Captain Smoker, who is obvious by his name as to be a smoker, carries around 2 cigars in his mouth constantly. Those were edited out completely, and his name was changed to "Chaser", but the main thing that 4Kids missed, was he always has his mouth open from talking with the cigars. Obvious, no? Also, any alcohol is taken out and airbrushed to be a different color. 70, 80 year old men are having a party in a bar and all drinking "Juice", and our children are supposed to believe this? There's also that any references to the Marines, including the english word printed on the boats and hats of the Marines, were all taken out and replaced with "Navy".
The absolute, most astonishing edit ever from OP, had to be when they changed the little black boy to be white. In all ways, no matter how you look at it, it's just wrong. Is 4Kids suggesting that all anime characters have to be white? They've said in their defense, I believe, that it had to do with the idea of the little black boy being represented as a slave? Now to me, this really doesn't fit. They've ruined all of the dialogue and plot, so instead of making the boy have better lines and a better part in the scene, they make him white to stop all fingers from pointing at them?
All in all, 4Kids is simply a marketing machine who does not care about good anime, unless it sells to kids. They'll do whatever it takes to make money from what remains of good animes, and make sure that our youth are as innocent as possible, never knowing what death or pain is.
Aiming more towards younger audiences, they take japanese animation and Butcher it, until they feel they won't lose any money by being sued for "inappropriate" content. They continually market the animes they aquire to their limits by creating every possible toy, card game, or anything they can sell to little kids. In an attempt to make each anime as profitable as possible, they skip many parts of good anime series and try to get to the most marketable characters, letting the plot only make up a small part of the anime's actual intrest percentage.
By moving forward in an anime very quickly, it allows them to cut whole episodes at a time to get to marketable points, such as cute characters or a new toy idea from an item that plays an important role. Unfortunetly, 4Kids does not seem to care much on the plot side of the story, since their cuts of whole episodes tend to make items "apear out of nowhere", which actually were explained during a cut. Important scenes on character development are also not necessary to 4Kids, unless that character is very sellable.
Notorious not only for its direct-plot cuts, 4Kids also plays a hand in making sure our youth are completely oblivious to real-life occurances, such as someong being cut can bleed or someone being shot can die. In some of the more fight-prone anime that 4Kids has adapted, all blood has been edited out. (Personally, I don't see why they're teaching our youth that when you are stabbed with a knife, you do not bleed.) Guns are usually either edited out entirely, or airbrushed to look more like Super Soakers and Cork Guns. Any references to religion are also taken out, but this is a bit more understandable. Now there are also problems with the idea of death. This happens in many Animes, including One Piece and Yu-Gi-Oh!(which have been licensed by 4Kids), to some pretty important characters, and every child SHOULD know that everyone dies eventually. 4Kids, in their attempt to keep our children pure and innocent, changes all death scenes and leads us onto the idea that the character was "taken away" or "mysteriously disappeared".
The most amazing edits I think I've seen from 4Kids would be from the anime One Piece. (I'm using this anime, because it's clearly not a little kids show when viewed in Japanese.) All references to cigarettes and cigars are taken out. One of the main characters, Sanji, is a chain smoker and never is seen without one, so they changed it to a lollipop. Captain Smoker, who is obvious by his name as to be a smoker, carries around 2 cigars in his mouth constantly. Those were edited out completely, and his name was changed to "Chaser", but the main thing that 4Kids missed, was he always has his mouth open from talking with the cigars. Obvious, no? Also, any alcohol is taken out and airbrushed to be a different color. 70, 80 year old men are having a party in a bar and all drinking "Juice", and our children are supposed to believe this? There's also that any references to the Marines, including the english word printed on the boats and hats of the Marines, were all taken out and replaced with "Navy".
The absolute, most astonishing edit ever from OP, had to be when they changed the little black boy to be white. In all ways, no matter how you look at it, it's just wrong. Is 4Kids suggesting that all anime characters have to be white? They've said in their defense, I believe, that it had to do with the idea of the little black boy being represented as a slave? Now to me, this really doesn't fit. They've ruined all of the dialogue and plot, so instead of making the boy have better lines and a better part in the scene, they make him white to stop all fingers from pointing at them?
All in all, 4Kids is simply a marketing machine who does not care about good anime, unless it sells to kids. They'll do whatever it takes to make money from what remains of good animes, and make sure that our youth are as innocent as possible, never knowing what death or pain is.
One Piece excerpts:
Luffy's Most Used Attack
Japanese Version: "Gomu Gomu no Pistol!"
4Kids Dub Version:" Gum Gum Blast!"
Character/Place names/changes:
"Zoro" is changed to "Zolo"
"Vivi", pronouced Veevee, is now VihVie
"Captain Smoker" is now "Captain Chaser"
Whiskey Peak is now Misty Peak.
Laboon the Whale is now an iceberg.
Accents(Just a few major ones):
Sanji-
Jap: Sanji is a ladies man, so he understandably sounds lightly deep and seductive, while pertaining a bit of a smoker's voice.
Dub: Sanji sounds like he's never breathed out of his nose and has something furry in his throat.
Alvida(slim version)-
Jap: She sounds as beautiful and corrupt as she looks. Very devious.
Dub: She has a very very southern accent.
Robin-
Jap: Her voice is very light and noticibly sharp.
Dub: Another harsh southern accent..
Luffy's Most Used Attack
Japanese Version: "Gomu Gomu no Pistol!"
4Kids Dub Version:" Gum Gum Blast!"
Character/Place names/changes:
"Zoro" is changed to "Zolo"
"Vivi", pronouced Veevee, is now VihVie
"Captain Smoker" is now "Captain Chaser"
Whiskey Peak is now Misty Peak.
Laboon the Whale is now an iceberg.
Accents(Just a few major ones):
Sanji-
Jap: Sanji is a ladies man, so he understandably sounds lightly deep and seductive, while pertaining a bit of a smoker's voice.
Dub: Sanji sounds like he's never breathed out of his nose and has something furry in his throat.
Alvida(slim version)-
Jap: She sounds as beautiful and corrupt as she looks. Very devious.
Dub: She has a very very southern accent.
Robin-
Jap: Her voice is very light and noticibly sharp.
Dub: Another harsh southern accent..
by akumu July 8, 2006
A Stupid Fucked Up Anime Company Ten Times Worst than Funimation and Dic Entertainment Combined, D@MN IT, I so fucken hate them for Ruining Onepiece, Shaman King and Sonic X
4Kids are currentley Fucking up Sonic X's 3rd season the Meterex Saga, Good Lord, Dark Oak's Dubbed voice is just god awful, he sounds like a Retarded 60's Anime Robot from Voltron or something. and they gave Cosmo a freaken British Accent,She's Jun Tao all over again folks
And Recently 4Kids made a Shitty @SS Anime style G.I joe Series called G.I Joe Sigma Six which is even Worst than G.I joe venom vs Valom and the New TMNT, they screwed up my fav G.I joe member of all TImes, Snake Eyes, this show was no way near the level of the awsome 80's G.I joe cartoon.
And Good Greif 4Kids are killing Tokyo Mew Mew, they turned it into a Shit Fest, it's So bad that it Makes the Dic dubbed version of Sailor Moon look good, they changed nearley Everyone's Names, Added in these Retarded Mew Puns and Worst of All, they changed Mew Ichigo's Catchphrase from," Tokyo Mew Mew, At your Servive", to a retarded Funky Rap intro" Mew Mew Style, Mew Mew Grace, Mew Mew Power in Your face", Oh dear god, it's worst than Naruto's" Beleive it", and it makes Wedding Peach's Catchphrase look Good.
This is Proof that Some Things are Best Left Unchanged, Thank God 4Kids have'nt Touched Bomberman Jetters Yet, another one of my fav animes.
4Kids are currentley Fucking up Sonic X's 3rd season the Meterex Saga, Good Lord, Dark Oak's Dubbed voice is just god awful, he sounds like a Retarded 60's Anime Robot from Voltron or something. and they gave Cosmo a freaken British Accent,She's Jun Tao all over again folks
And Recently 4Kids made a Shitty @SS Anime style G.I joe Series called G.I Joe Sigma Six which is even Worst than G.I joe venom vs Valom and the New TMNT, they screwed up my fav G.I joe member of all TImes, Snake Eyes, this show was no way near the level of the awsome 80's G.I joe cartoon.
And Good Greif 4Kids are killing Tokyo Mew Mew, they turned it into a Shit Fest, it's So bad that it Makes the Dic dubbed version of Sailor Moon look good, they changed nearley Everyone's Names, Added in these Retarded Mew Puns and Worst of All, they changed Mew Ichigo's Catchphrase from," Tokyo Mew Mew, At your Servive", to a retarded Funky Rap intro" Mew Mew Style, Mew Mew Grace, Mew Mew Power in Your face", Oh dear god, it's worst than Naruto's" Beleive it", and it makes Wedding Peach's Catchphrase look Good.
This is Proof that Some Things are Best Left Unchanged, Thank God 4Kids have'nt Touched Bomberman Jetters Yet, another one of my fav animes.
(4kids Executive): Hey Guys, Lets Pull a Len Tao and Bakura on Kissu...uhhh.... I mean Dren ^^
(Dren): Nooooooooo!!! How dare you B@stards mess with us Cynaclons!
4kids Executive: Ha ha ha haa haaaaa! Hey guys, Lets Take a Voice Clip of some 80's Robots from Macron 1 and dubbed them on the Meterex, Ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaa
(4kids Boss): yeah, and Lets Pull a By-pass Sailor Moon operation on Tokyo Mew Mew and cut out 2 episodes and merge 2 into 1 ^^
(Dren): Nooooooooo!!! How dare you B@stards mess with us Cynaclons!
4kids Executive: Ha ha ha haa haaaaa! Hey guys, Lets Take a Voice Clip of some 80's Robots from Macron 1 and dubbed them on the Meterex, Ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaa
(4kids Boss): yeah, and Lets Pull a By-pass Sailor Moon operation on Tokyo Mew Mew and cut out 2 episodes and merge 2 into 1 ^^
by ChronoBall X January 2, 2006
A group of "people" hell-bent on destroying the wonderful art that is anime. They have maimed, gutted, killed, and poured hot tar over the respected animes and have disrespected the creators of the said anime(s).
Main purpose in life is to make little kids fill their brain with very very bad plot holes and annoying voices that will ever scar their innocent minds.
Main purpose in life is to make little kids fill their brain with very very bad plot holes and annoying voices that will ever scar their innocent minds.
4kids is a very unholy organization
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by Hoping 4kids will go DOWN! June 21, 2006
4kids was an anime dubbing company that made anime more child friendly.
It made shows like Pokemon, Yugioh popular to the western world.
In the anime community, 4kids has been looked down upon because of the heavy a amount of editing and americanisation. For example, when they dubbed one piece. But people seemed to forget they made anime known in the western world.
The company no longer exists as it became bankrupt.
It made shows like Pokemon, Yugioh popular to the western world.
In the anime community, 4kids has been looked down upon because of the heavy a amount of editing and americanisation. For example, when they dubbed one piece. But people seemed to forget they made anime known in the western world.
The company no longer exists as it became bankrupt.
by BBCNiGGA27 September 14, 2021
a very crappy american anime dubbing company that destroyed just about every anime that i loved. thank god Viz got to Naruto first.
4kids must be stopped before they ruin every profane, crude, violent, and sex fill anime by making them appropriote for ages 10 and below!
viz might have taken out some nose bleeds and blood sores on naruto, but at least they can actaully mention death on the show.
viz might have taken out some nose bleeds and blood sores on naruto, but at least they can actaully mention death on the show.
by gunslingergirlvy_c_e January 1, 2006
Rulers of the world.
4Kids gets their fanfics animated! I wish I ruled the world like they do, because I certainly deserve it more than they do!
by Umeko September 18, 2004
A dubbing company that makes anime and other cartoons more appropriate for children. Many people dislike 4kids and say they "ruin" cartoons, forgetting that it's often children who watch cartoons, not adults.
4kids has altered many cartoons, such as Pokemon, Winx Club and Yu-Gi-Oh, making them more suitable for cartoon-loving children. Unknown to most people, many cartoons made in America are aimed at 7+ children anyway, which explains the editing of 4kids.
4kids removed or edited scenes that involved things like religion (a very serious topic), violence, guns or other weapons and anything inappropriate for kids. They also gave the characters voices that were better suited for their personalities and made the plots of the shows more interesting to keep viewers awake.
4kids has altered many cartoons, such as Pokemon, Winx Club and Yu-Gi-Oh, making them more suitable for cartoon-loving children. Unknown to most people, many cartoons made in America are aimed at 7+ children anyway, which explains the editing of 4kids.
4kids removed or edited scenes that involved things like religion (a very serious topic), violence, guns or other weapons and anything inappropriate for kids. They also gave the characters voices that were better suited for their personalities and made the plots of the shows more interesting to keep viewers awake.
4kids is one of the most unappreciated companies in the USA because people would prefer everything on TV to have violence and murder in it and want nothing to be made for children.
by Appreciation August 11, 2009