View Full Version : Wall Street Journal Reports on 4Kids Entertainment
JohnCrichton
12-13-2002, 02:51 PM
Found this news bite at Henshin Online (http://www.henshinonline.com).
But the news article itself is here (http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1034890241566667828,00.html)
Read and be merry, if this was already reported close.... I for one am going to read it........ now!
Killtacular
12-13-2002, 02:55 PM
Er, this article's from October..
JohnCrichton
12-13-2002, 03:03 PM
Hm.
Still interesting... I thought.
So they attempted to justify Americanizing toons. How stupid do you think they look?
Sandro
12-13-2002, 07:05 PM
Yeah, they TRIED defending Americanization of anime.
Instead of emulating Nickelodeon, 4Kids is importing and Americanizing decidedly more-violent, more-action-packed Japanese cartoons to appeal to the boys who make up roughly half of Nickelodeon's two million Saturday-morning viewers.
Such as?
JetMaster5
12-14-2002, 01:55 PM
I never knew 4Asses...uh...I mean 4Kids was located in New York.....
...and it was under my nose this whole time....
...Damn It!
In "Kirby" for instance, King Dedede, the villain, is mean and dumb in the Japanese version. For the U.S., Mr. Grossfeld gave the character a Louisiana drawl and got someone who sounds like the late comedian Paul Lynde to provide the voice of his sidekick, who loves bossing the peasants around.
Oh Dedede....how they messed you up....you're one of the many characters that 4Kids will destroy forever and ever....
I just wish 4Kids will stop this Americanization. There's just no point to this "Americanizing" when American is already mixed ethnicity.
But they won't stop because Alfred Kahn doesn't know when to stop and when he's pissing off others.
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