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Always found it weird how Sanji no longer smoked in the 4Kids dub but ironically his dub voice sounded more like that of a smoker's. Before his voice was actually revealed it was heavily rumored that 4Kids was going to give him a French accent, which as stereotypical as it would have been would have made more sense as even Oda himself said he's be French if he were real, but instead we get a New Yorker. At least him being a chef was spared of being stereotyped unlike every character who wore a cowboy hat (not just Robin, but Alvida and Ace were also given southern accents)

Fun fact: Besides being Luffy in the One Piece dub, Erica also did many voices in the Pokémon dub, including the voice of Hoenn Nurse Joy, Fantina, Bianca, Goh's Rotom Phone, Ash's Leavanny, Ash's Unfezant, Amaura, Aurorus, Sylveon, Pancham, the three Lake Guardians, Garbodor, Tapu Koko, the singing voice of Meloetta, and even Jessie's Wobbuffet (between Sun/Moon and Ultimate Journeys)! The performer of the One Piece rap was Shawn "Freshco" Conrad. Shawn began his career by creating music as the rapper Freshco, which eventually saw him rapping alongside the likes of Jay Z and Notorious B.I.G. When 4Kids offered him the opportunity, Shawn originally didn't want to go to the interview, as he didn't recognize any of the shows that were being worked on. He was given a script that gave a breakdown of the characters, their abilities, and their roles within the Straw Hat Pirates, which he used in creating the well-known theme song. He was the one to incorporate the "YO" that started the rap song as that was a theme at the time and he was attempting to make the rap closer to what he had produced in his career.

The influence 4kids has left will never stop being funny to talk about.

Tokyo Mew Mew was actually one of the MOST butchered 4kids anime. They swiched episodes around, completely changed plot pionts, never even finished dubbing it. And by switched episodes around I mean they started with the 12th episode the climax because I guess they thought they had to start at a super intense scene if they were going to get anyone to watch girly show.

To be fair about Sanji's lollipop, smoking kinda kills taste buds quickly, so a chef really shouldn't be characterized as a smoker.

Actually, Yugi is 16 years old and his original VA is also a man (Shunsuke Kazama). I don’t think 4Kids made that choice for his voice.

Im so surprised and happy that you actually covered Tokyo Mew Mew briefly and actually watched more than 1 episode, but 4kidz absolutely butchered it 😭 so many things were censored (crosses), text completely edited out, bad voices, boob censorship, episode 12 being the new episode 1, etc 😔💔 lets just say 4kidz got their license for the show revoked for a reason lol which is a total shame bc most people who only saw Mew Mew Power didnt even know they missed half the show

Wasnt there a part where a major character died in an arc and the 4kids just said he was injured and never seen again?

I love Sanji’s voice in the 4kids dub “I love a girl that treats me like dirt! Hey! Gorgeous! You remember me right? Any chance you free Friday?” “Try backing it up, sword bwoy.”

Was obsessed with Kirby Right Back at Ya at the time. It stopped airing when I was 5/6 and I, for some reason, thought Sonic X was the cause of this (another show I actually liked at the time). My dumb kid self got so mad that I decided that I was done with the franchise (at least for the time being), and that it was time to check out the Mario franchise as revenge for this sin. And that, my friends, is how I discovered the Mario cartoons.

Zolo in the 4 Kids dub was one of the few highlights to the point where him screaming at Luffy is considered better than the Funimation dub. Yeah, that's what people actually say; I love it!

The funniest thing about Sanji is that in the 4Kids dub, he sounds even more like a smoker than he does normally despite losing his cigarette. Also, technically "Zolo" isn't a change, it's more of a different interpretation. In Japanese the name ゾロ can be translated as "Zoro" or "Zolo" because in Japanese our "L" and "R" sounds come from the same characters. The name Zolo was likely chosen, however, because of potential issues regarding Johnston McCulley's famous character Zorro.

I will die on this hill, Sanji's Lolipop cigarette change fits perfectly with One Piece's goofy tone and is far from the worst change they made

Every Single 4kids Show: JUST SIMPLE THEME SONG Sonic X: GOTTA GO FAST!

I've remembered watching Viva Pinata as a teenager at that time. I had played one of the video games at the time so I knew what I was going into, but I liked the anthropomorphic animal pinatas and the food puns. The show even showed some aspects of the game, like Cocodile tears can grow plants faster, and pinatas eating certain food can change into different pinatas.

Fun fact: Fried Ricer was voiced by Andrew Rannells, who was later in Book of Mormon, and was nominated for a Tony award.

I actually wish I got into Yu-Gi-Oh! much earlier but I didn’t get into the series until I heard about the “tragic news” in mid 2022. Context: The franchise’s creator (Kazuki Takahashi) tragically died in a rip current and his body was found in the Okinawa sea last year. I wonder if Conner knows about this.

I actually felt bad for 4Kids when Toei forced them to dub One Piece.

3:51 I swear my old VHS of the first few pokemon episodes...Brock said "When life gives you lemons you make lemonade. When it gives you Rice you make Rice balls." And it was english dubbed.

I think we can all agree when I say that the 4kids national anthem was one of the moments of our lives…

One Piece is actually past episode 1000, even in the dub, despite there being a time where we were over 200-300 episodes behind the Japanese.

People hate 4kids because most of the censorship that they did was patronizing and childish.

There's a youtube channel where they managed to make an uncut Sonic X english dub, with all of the original background music, all deleted scenes put back, etc. But KZfaq later on copyright strike the videos. 😑

Look, despite everything you said... Without 4kids, we wouldn’t have had TMNT 2003.

If you're wondering about all the weird accents, in Japanese there's a lot of emphasis on dialect, how you say a word is very important. We don't really have that in English so instead they give characters accents. Joey speaks in a rough and rude way in Japanese, so his Brooklyn accent is supposed to reflect that.

Chaotic plot. The kids who play the card game online can transport to a place called Chaotic where they can play their game by actually turning into the Creatures in the cards. They can also go to the world where the Creatures, who are actually real, live, and scan them to get new cards.

4kids: Noooo Sanji can't smoke, think about the kids Meanwhile most of parents:

And of course the jelly doughnut line is what made it memorable 😂

I remember Viva Pinata. It was pretty alright. The original game was actually made by RARE of a people. And its a sort of life Sim where you tended to a garden and attracted said piñatas to live there line making your own little ecosystem. It seems harmless enough ir you're into the genre and it was popular enough to have a sort it series even having a party game. The show itself was your typical slice of life random adventures style S.M.C. series

Say what you want but english dubs of anime will always have a special place in my nostalgia filled heart. I still remember watching the 4Kids dub of Ojamajo Doremi, that they renamed Magical Doremi, with my brother when we were kids and I still wonder why they didn't dub the second season and left it at the sad ending of the girls losing their magic powers

I remember reading the entire Tokyo Mew Mew manga back in 7th grade. Man, what a nostalgia trip. Also, one Piece is well into the 1000s of episodes now. 😅

The One Piece dub is the peak of 4Kids censorship because at least back then, most of the 4Kids edits were annoying, but tolerable stuff, the context of the story is still the same, changing rice balls into donuts is dumb, but that alone won't ruin the story. Until they got into One Piece, where their changes managed to make the story much worse even if you ignore stuff like Sanji sucking on a lollipop and no more blood, many episodes and entire story arcs were cut, Laboon and Little Garden were removed completely, which would have caused major plot holes if the dub kept going.

I grew up with the 4kids one piece and I loved the voices for luffy and "Zolo" and couldn't stand the funimation ones when I started. It grew on me and now I'm like 650 episodes in

It's time to d-d-d-d-d-d... Go to a doctor damnit you're having a medical emergency.

Ah yes, 4Kids...like it or not, I'm glad we're in the timeline where they gave us the Pokérap and the One Piece rap. Both are masterpieces that belong in the Louvre. And I give kudos to Cartoon Network when they continued the anime on Saturday mornings tradition, as I first watched the Pokémon anime because of early weekday morning reruns of Black/White Best Wishes and Saturday morning new episodes of the XY episodes. Pre-rebrand Boomerang on the other hand got me exposed to the much older episodes. Cartoon Network also showed Tenkai Knights which I liked too...even though it was meant to promote toys and I never got the toys. The origin of the present form of onigiri dates back to the Heian Period as “Ton-jiki.’ Ton-jiki was brown rice packed firmly into an egg shape and distributed to domestic servants as a token of appreciation during events at imperial or noble households. After the Heian Period, onigiri became convenient food, eaten as rations at the time of the Sengoku Period, and also as a bento during farm work. Onigiri were originally made out of sticky, glutinous rice, but at the end of the Kamakura Period, ordinary rice started to be used. The present form of onigiri, with nori wrapped around it, developed along with processed, rectangular seaweed laver, whose use spread widely during the Genroku Era in the middle of the Edo Period

Y'know 4Kids was indeed great and all, Well from what I've heard of since i wasn't born until 2009 but i can tell it made a lasting impact but I'm deeply sorry but i just have one problem with it and i can put it with my own thought on it "4Kids: Our censorship was sometimes stupid and pointless" Not to say the block was bad in any way, shape or form since i know I'd like it if i was in that time period but i just thought of it sometimes as a bit stupid and dang all me and my friends think about when 4Kids enters the conversation is: "The censorship was smart in general, But not in context of the episode" But still tho even with these minor inconveniences with it, I say they did good at making a part of anyone's childhood while it lasted Also who could forget the most iconic thing that came from 4Kids: "These donuts are great, Jelly-filled are my favorite. Nothing beats a Jelly-filled Donut!"

Oh one piece... That show got massacred back in the day. I get it, can't show blood, can't show tabaco, can't show guns... But then they take out the giant whale with an small island built inside of him, they take out the two giants Luffy and the others meet. They remove Mr. 3 who attempts to kill Nami, Vivi and Zoro by turning them into a giant wax pieces on a giant wax cake. Kids would have LOVED seeing all that! But I guess they had more things to worry about, like how to add Chopper into the opening rap.

Mew Mew Power. Changed a number of things in editing, never had Season 2 dubbed and if they did, they would have had to work around those episodes where Zoey/Ichigo transformed into a Cat and was about to be bathed by Mark.

I know what they've done to sonic x but I still enjoyed it as a kid. As a matter in fact I'm rewatching it

To be honest the most mature Ninja turtles out there was actually the first Ninja turtles that came out in 197* before the original cartoon.

_Us Yu-Gi-Oh ZeXal fans will never forgive what 4kids did to us..._

A lot of Saturday morning cartoons were just straight up repurposed/dubbed anime. Dating all the way back to the 80's. Animated cartoons and anime are literally transferrable. The only difference is the style in which they are presented. Many "traditional" viewed American cartoons were actually produced in overseas studios that were also responsible for "traditional" anime style cartoons.

i didn't grown up with 4kids when i was young and from the couple time i had went to it i really only checked it out to watch sonic x, , which while not perfect is still one of my favorite cartoons to this day despite the flaws i do like 4 kids anime dubs, i honestly get an enjoyment out of cheesy anime dubs in general there's this charm to it i can't really explain

7:05 Yugi is actually around 14 or 15 in the OG series, not 12. So him having a voice like that makes more sense than you think.

I'm honestly surprised you haven't mentioned about Winx Club, but instead brought up Cubix which I have no idea about. This is a magical fairy cartoon made in Italy, where 5-6 girls go to Enchantix. The antagonists are evil witches, and I honestly think it was a pretty good show. However, I don't have much more investigation to this, but I've defilently watched like half of season 1 during the summer at that point. Maybe you can cover Fox Kids, since it is similar to 4Kids, except it has less ridiculous censorship.

In the early 2000s, imagine a fusion of Nickelodeon, 4Kids Entertainment, and Cartoon Network to create a creative powerhouse inspired by beloved characters like SpongeBob SquarePants, delicious Krabby Patties, and jelly-filled donuts. This collaboration would bring together their unique strengths under the leadership of CEO Alfred Kahn, creating an empire reminiscent of the synergistic Austro-Hungarian style.

Okay, you were way off base about Chaotic. The characters weren't tied to their creatures, they just temporarily transformed into them in some sort of more advanced of the game that takes place in virtual reality. They could also access the world of Perim, where the creatures from their cards exist and live their own lives, and they use their scanner devices to scan creatures, weapons, locations, spells, etc. in order to add whatever they scanned to their deck. What happens in the game is inconsequential to the creatures of Perim, all they know is that Chaotic players come into their world, scan their data and play these silly games where the humans become them and see the humans more as a minor distraction or nuisance and have their own affairs to look after.

Well most 4kids shows aired in the UK on different channels if i recall: TMNT 2003, pokemon and YUGIOH was on CITV, mew mew power was on POP GIRL, sonic X aired on JETIX, maybe MAX actually come to think of it most animes aired on MAX or POP yes anime is popular in Europe

Ha! That intro! I grew up a Christian and we had Sunday school too! But when I look backed I was in the pews thinking about anime and games.

I played very little of Yugioh outside one of the Gameboy games and never had any of the cards but as a magic the gathering player that show was amazing I watched most of the original series religiously

MAD respect for getting sponsored by resident evil

The 4kids tmnt cartoon was not the first serious take on the turtles, because they originated from the comics and it was also serious

Fighting Foodons. Chaotically 90’s character designs. Yep. 90’s….the most chaotic character designs you should love.

For as much as we cringe at their questionable localization choices 4kids was still just as integral as Toonami was for birthing an entire generation of weebs!

Trust me, dinosaur king his different when you actually watch more of the show. In one season some people just fucking straight up die.

Mew mew power dub is so nostalgic to me it's not perfect but it makes me happy to watch an episode every once in awhile

the guy who did the one piece rap shawn c. has a youtube channel and he made a new version of the song that includes robin, franky, brook and jinbe

Viva Piñata was actually my favorite of them all. It really had some great jokes, lovable characters and wacky storylines. I especially loved the theme song and the online safety videos.

Thia is the coolest video to watch on a Saturday morning. Thanks, connor.

I'd like to see a part 2 on this because I know there were a lot more 4Kids shows that I grew up with that I had watched via WB kids, like Ultimate Muscle and FZero.

I loved dinosaur king growing up 😭

Pokémon, Sonic X, Kirby Right Back At Ya, Yugioh, 2003 TMNT, Dinosaur King, and Winx Club were all major parts of my childhood and teenagehood!!😄🤩😎👌

"You ever see that one cringe commercial for an anime convention" I go to that con every year since 2011 and oh boy do do we not ever let that commercial's legacy die

Oh man, the nostalgia! I remember those Saturday mornings glued to the TV, watching 4Kids anime with their "unique" voice acting and CGI. Good times!

As cringey as some of 4kids edits were and the voices/accents/lines they used, I still have fond nostalgia for them. After all, they brought us both Pokemon and Yugioh which were both massive successes here in the U.S. Without their contributions, anime wouldn’t be as popular over here as it is now.

I really enjoyed Viva Piñata as a kid, and the intro theme was lowkey a bop to me. It really was a show about nothing but as a kid all I saw was bright colors and loud sounds and that's what hooked me... also was VERY surprised how they outright showed cannibalism when I got older 😂

May Maddie Blaustein rest in peace; she rocked as Meowth. She like with Jason got to do voice work for the Sonic series. She did a serviceable job as The President (with both her and the original English actor now being gone). However, sadly, she was never given the opportunity to provide a better sounding voice for E-123 Omega after Sonic 06.

I remember Saturday September 14th 2002, Nick Jr. on CBS became Nick on CBS, Disney’s One Saturday Morning on ABC became ABC Kids, and FOX Kids became The FoxBox! That was definitely The Biggest Saturday Morning in Childhood Television History, and I was totally There!😂🤣❤️📺🎶👍🏻

I watch Viva piñata on Saturday morning on 4kids. My favorite show.

29:10 I watched it as a kid and loved it, and rewatching it as an adult and it's still good lol

Fighting foodons! When I mention this no one ever remembers it. The theme song I remember well. When I was a kid the boys in my class and I would make up our own characters and fight them out. Ah the memories

My first anime was Tokyo mew mew and it recently got a reboot

I remember watching chaotic; that was my favorite show on the network. I wish they could make a comeback of that show.

Not anime, but TMNT 2k3 still rules!

Dinosaur king gets dark by season 2 when the full story is revealed.

"I can do whatever I want because I'm voiced by DAN GREEN!"

When it comes to the shows in this video, I'm mainly into Mew Mew. I have nothing against the other shows, I'm just mostly into Mew Mew. It's a personal preference

I mean 4kids was alright, but the censorship issue was a problem. Rumors also circularited, saying the CEO of 4kids resigned from getting A LOT of hate mail.

30:38 THANK YOU! I was honestly starting to wonder if this had been a fever dream I had as NO ONE AROUND ME EVER HEARD OF THIS SHOW.

Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. :) Jsi borec. Mám moc rád tvoji tvorbu. Zdraví Nogy.

Mew Mew Power annoyed tiny child me so much with its BIZARRE airing order that I looked it up on KZfaq, only to discover a _foreign_ version with over 50 episodes. That's how I discovered what anime was. Thanks for putting me on a permanently brain destroying path to disappoining my parents, 4kids 💀 (seriously tho I had a terrible OC for that series and everything lmao, it was such a fun gateway drug)

We need part 2 He forgot the legend that was winx

Here's the thing. I know I watched it as a kid. I only remember the horse was played by Dan Green. That's it

Really good retrospective kind of a shame that Saturday morning cartoons are dead but on the other hand it's a lot easier to find online

I remember watching some of those 4kids series on Australian Television in the mid 2000s. They aired on a morning weekday block alongside a few non 4kids shows that is known as Toasted TV although many Australians know their predecessor Cheez TV a bit better.

How dare you not mention Winx Club

the One Piece Rap is that good that legendary Anime Abridger Scott "KaiserNeko" Frerichs did a remake with Gilbert Gottfried narrating it, to which fans made multiple versions with Gottfried's voice timed to the actual rap.

i felt so nostalgic for these shows. I would watch them every morning. My favorite was yu gi oh, one piece and sonic X. Funnily enough my brother tried to get me to stop watching them and watch the japanese subbed versions instead.but i always go back. Though sadly around the end of 4kids' lifespan i was arrested so I couldnt watch much more.

Can you just do the Weird World of Disney TV Animation at some point?

Cubix: Robots for Everyone, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Sonic X alongside Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, Dragon Ball Z Kai, Bolts and Blip, The Spectacular Spider-Man and Digimon Fusion were the last shows to feature on Saterday morning cartoon block they all appears in the last Saterday morning cartoon block called Vortexx which is own by Saban Brand (The company that made Power Rangers). The very last show that appeard was Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal (Episode 89 - Darkness Dawns) on September 27, 2014 at 11:30 a.m. EDT

Dedede’s 4kids voice is literally perfection and I won’t hear otherwise

I wonder if Ash would have had a different name if not for 4Kids

FINALLY YOU TALK ABOUT YU-GI-OH

I learned that nightmare is voiced by Andrew Rannells the actor from Book of Mormon, Matthew in Big Mouth, and in that musical falsettos

I mainly only watched TMNT on FoxBox/ 4 kids growing up. Didn't get into YGO till 5ds. Anyways, it does feel crazy with what TMNT was able to get away with compared to other shows. The only things 4 kids did to TMNT was pull an episode from being fully animated and shelving s5 (later got a dvd release) for fast forward back to the sewers.

I love dinosaur king it’s so nostalgic for me

my man finally got sponsored by capcom

We got reboots of what 4kids dubbed in the past Tokyo mew mew new Shaman king (2021) Dinosaur King(the reboot produced by the same people who did the kimba the white lion reboot, and Max taylor's english dub voice actor is Yuri Lowenthal) and Kirby return to the stars produced by aardman and BBC studios

Good video! I watched the whole thing and I enojoyed it. I started to watch you a few years ago :)