They’re also known for highly sanitizing translations. Captain Smoker got localized as “Chaser” because “we can’t have kids knowing about smoking”. They also replaced Sanji’s cigarettes with lollipops. A whole Pokemon episode was entirely cut because it has a gun in it, and the Pokemon he catches in that episode are simply just…handwaved away. Every time you see a “guard” or “heavy” character doing a finger gun at someone in Yu-Gi-Oh, they had an actual gun edited out.
Hey now it wasn’t on us (the people watching) this was at a time in the US where everything was about “protecting the kids”. 4kids whole marketing scheme was “it’s safe” so of course they edited it out. People weren’t complaining, they were proactively censoring to get corporations and networks online.
You can see from this post how many people didn’t know that the shadow realm was actually just death. We assumed it was close but we didn’t know that the losers of the games were getting dropped off a building or sent straight to the afterlife.
Adult Swim, which was cartoon networks “late night” channel had plenty of death and much better English dubs. But they wanted to market stuff to kids, only way to do that is to show it during the day. You can’t sell trading cards to children if their parents see someone’s legs getting chopped off (look at yugioh, one of the battles had actual buzz saws that would cut off the losers feet).
They’re also known for highly sanitizing translations. Captain Smoker got localized as “Chaser” because “we can’t have kids knowing about smoking”. They also replaced Sanji’s cigarettes with lollipops. A whole Pokemon episode was entirely cut because it has a gun in it, and the Pokemon he catches in that episode are simply just…handwaved away. Every time you see a “guard” or “heavy” character doing a finger gun at someone in Yu-Gi-Oh, they had an actual gun edited out.
Don’t forget the shadow realm, because americans are such snowflakes, they can’t handle people dying.
Hey now it wasn’t on us (the people watching) this was at a time in the US where everything was about “protecting the kids”. 4kids whole marketing scheme was “it’s safe” so of course they edited it out. People weren’t complaining, they were proactively censoring to get corporations and networks online.
You can see from this post how many people didn’t know that the shadow realm was actually just death. We assumed it was close but we didn’t know that the losers of the games were getting dropped off a building or sent straight to the afterlife.
Adult Swim, which was cartoon networks “late night” channel had plenty of death and much better English dubs. But they wanted to market stuff to kids, only way to do that is to show it during the day. You can’t sell trading cards to children if their parents see someone’s legs getting chopped off (look at yugioh, one of the battles had actual buzz saws that would cut off the losers feet).