It’s like 4kids’ raping of One Piece, or even Yugioh.


by Kevin Church

Commentary would only diminish the brilliance here, so we’re just going to present this post from the snarkoleptics community on LiveJournal in its original form:

Why do American Distributors have to dick with everything they bring over from Japan? I can understand dubbing the series; I can also see, all be it begrudgingly, recasting and reshooting the series with an cast for the “area” if you see it needed, but what I can’t understand is. Why buy the rights to reproduce a series for American viewers only to totally manhandle the series and dumb it down for another cast?

Is it not enough this series has been running for thirty-six years in Japan without your tweaks? Why do you have to then dumb it down for a younger age-group, as well as rape and fill the series with PC bullshit so that when people, like myself, mention that they watch the original series everyone laughs and thinks of “That dumb kid’s show.”

Of course, I refer to Saban’s, and currently Buena Vista’s Mighty Morphing Power Rangers franchise. they’re taking a series aimed at a Teen-young adult age market and dumbing it down to drivel that most eight year olds wouldn’t buy on a good day, and now, now I find out, they’re considering doing the same thing to the Kamen Rider Franchise (Again.).

So, honestly, why in the hell do American Distributors have to dick with a series? It’s like 4kids’ raping of One Piece, or even Yugioh. I’ve never understood the need to turn a series into something it wasn’t.