>>84344328>>84344296for starters 4kids is notorius across the industry for butchering shows to an absurd degree. I mean when you consider Macross had a recurring character who was a transvestite it's unsurprising that you get nonsense like a recurring character whose a secret agent in drag.
but what does 4kids do? It will edit out any hint of blood, death, and violence to a degree that is unprecedented in the animation industry. It costs them MORE money to remove guns, swords, and so on than to just leave that crap in.
Oh and you know what we need to do? We need to confuse kids who've watched shows that don't fetishistically edit out any signs of japanese culture. "What are they eating anon?" "Rice balls kid." "Why are they eating riceballs?" "This show was made in japan and that's what they eat there." "Huh."
So you have low quality adaptations of shows. Like breath takingly low quality adaptations. Obviously once certain properties take off the japanese companies are gonna look at this and go "We could hire 12 NEETs to do a better job of this" and get their properties back.
So yeah it's gambling on too many IPs and making the worst possible adaptations of japanese licenses on top of the changing market and death of the saturday morning cartoon show.
