Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-4010415-20150520000302

Oh, hey, look, a forum game.

Basically, pick an anime, any anime, and pretend you're 4Kids trying to dub said anime. Figure out how you would change it to where it would be deemed suitable for 5-year-olds in the United States. (I say in the US because, of course, different cultures have different standards for what's appropriate for children.) Do whatever you can in true 4Kids fashion, whether it's changing the dialogue, actually editing something out or into something else, adjusting plot elements, etc.

If you have no idea what 4Kids is like, then first of all, lucky you, and second of all, you can probably look up comparisons between the original Japanese and the 4Kids English dub edit of various anime. But for a quick gloss-over...


 * 4Kids seemed to have something against Japanese food, such as rice balls. It was common in Pokemon, for them to edit rice balls into more American food like sandwiches and crackers. When they finally stopped editing rice balls, they had Brock call them jelly donuts several times in a single scene.


 * The original dub of One Piece was done by 4Kids. They edited out all the blood. They erased exposed cleavage, so every woman had one big mono-boob. One character fights using smoke and thus smokes a cigarette, so 4Kids edited out his cigarette but left the smoke, so... he randomly exhaled smoke for no reason. They changed alcohol to juice, and they recolored guns to become water guns. Apparently, fighting with swords is okay, though, I guess.


 * Early Yu-Gi-Oh was dubbed by 4Kids. You know how some people say "No one dies in Yu-Gi-Oh"? That only applies to the 4Kids version. If a character's Life Points reach 0 during a card game, they actually die. But 4Kids changed it to where they're "banished to the Shadow Realm," which in retrospect can be much more horrifying. They also edited out guns, so instead of threatening someone with guns, people aggressively pointed at them.

So, yeah. Go to ridiculously stupid extremes to make an anime suitable for little kids, in the eyes of someone who thinks kids are stupid and are delicate flowers that can't handle anything even remotely mature.

For my first anime, I choose... Gintama. Remove all the dick jokes... like... all the dick jokes. Instead of being concerned with getting every week's edition of Shounen Jump, Gintoki is concerned with getting every week's edition of his favorite superhero comic book. I guess edit things to where the ninja chick (Satori, I think her name was, maybe?) ties people up like presents instead of tying them up BDSM style. 