Why Did 4kids Dub One Piece

Butthats how every 4Kids show deserved to be seen.

Why did 4kids dub one piece. The One Piece 4kids no Context account on Twitter a hilarious collection of clips run by rsdream12 on Twitter shared a brutal reminder of how the original and controversial dub came to. Its 4Kids stupid approach to anime. Their dub of One Piece has a long history.

Bad dubs havent exactly prevented an anime succeeding in the west. By putting it in a TV slot that tanked in the ratings yes both Fox Box and 4 Kids TV never did well in the ratings. While were sure you know a lot about the series what you may not know about One Piece is that its start over in the United States wasnt so amazing due to one very infamous company and their horrible dub of the series.

The things 4kids did to their dubbed anime were done to get it on television on mainly the Saturday Morning time-slot. 4Kids wanted to dub these shows because they were a anime dubbing company and they wanted to appeal to the younger market. The 4Kids dub of the show only started to.

When they acquired the rights to dub an anime and broadcast it on network television they were subjected to the network standards. Let me give you an example of. The end result is butchering shows to fit a demographic instead of catering to the original audience.

Thats pretty much what 4KIDS did to an anime that did nothing wrong. 4Kids realised what they had to contend with and basically ripped the thing to shreds deliberately leaving episodes. They see it as a commodity to market and merchandise not something to translate and modestly adapt.

According to an interview with Mark Kirk former vice president of 4Kids 4Kids never wanted One Piece to begin with and they only got it because it was in a package deal with the two other Toei shows they licensed Magical DoReMi and Ultimate Muscle respectively as Toei desperately wanted to bring their smash-hit show to North America as soon as possible. Knowing today when we got stuff that can do mature stuff even in kids shows I dont think 4KIDS would have done the exact same thing. In 2007 the One Piece license was transferred from 4Kids to Funimation.