Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3124041-20130607221115/@comment-4010415-20141119031131

Ocomfv wrote:

ChishioKunrin wrote: Also: NEVER BUY AN ANIME DUBBED BY 4KIDS. Bad as old Kung Fu movies? Nah, it's not bad in that way. It's bad in the "4Kids is For Kids" way, as in they edited the absolute shit out of the anime they dubbed, even if the anime was perfectly fine for American children.


 * One Piece - An example of them taking an anime more suited for teens and adults and turning it into something for children. Took out the blood, turned beer into juice, turned guns into water guns. There's a dude who manipulates smoke, and they edited out his cigarette, so he's just randomly exhaling smoke for no good reason.


 * Yu-Gi-Oh - At least, I think they're the ones who dubbed YGO? They edited out guns, so if someone was supposed to be pointing a gun at someone else, they were just "threateningly" pointing their finger at them. Also, in the original, you die if you lose a card game. In the dub, you are "banished to the Shadow Realm" if you lose.


 * There's a Sonic anime where 4Kids apparently edited out all written words for some idiotic reason. Like, there's a book store where they edited the words "BOOK STORE" off the sign, so the sign is just a picture of a book. Sonic will sometimes hold up a sign that'll say something like "Don't try this at home, kids!" but in the dub, the sign is blank.

Stuff like that.