4Kids To "Return To It's Roots" By Getting More Japanese Animation

4sight is finally getting into the anime game? This has potential to not suck entirely then. We can at least hope for an uncut release and an edited dub that may not insult the intelligence of a 5 year old.

Maybe they went after Reborn. Sentai Films already nabbed Eyeshield and Gintama recently while Viz and FUNimation have the majority of the JUMP series.

So if it is a Shounen anime (not neccessarily JUMP) I'd place my bets on Reborn or Fairy Tail. Reborn has some stuff that wouldn't air un-edited though. Of course they've never cared about that before. I suppose Fairy Tail is about the same but at least it doesn't have people get shot in the head.

I'm cautiously optimistic. However, again this company has never "learned" from their mistakes and crawling back to licensing anime after a few years of generally staying away from it is a sign they truely have not learned from their previous mistakes.

They don't have the coat-tails of a major franchise to hang off of anymore either. Anime isn't new or hip to anyone this generation. Finding a new hit amongst what Japan is airing now is quite the task and if FUNimation, Bandai and Viz can't do it I have no reason to believe 4kiRAB or 4sight will succeed in finding "the next big thing" because their last few attempts to do so failed miserably.

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Of course why didn't I think of it before?

They'll get K-ON! because music shows are so hip with the kiRAB these days XD
 
Agreed. I can't believe all the toyetic anime I've apparently missed out on.

Er, I hope not because then I wouldn't get bilingual uncut DVD's for that and I want real Fairy Tail DVD's someday.
 
I'll admit that it doesn't look like something I would go out of my way to watch, but I'll give this series a shot just to see if I can see the appeal in it.
 
I just hope they don't get any great anime and destroy them like they did with One Piece. If they just get more stuff in the Yu-Gi-Oh! demographic but still change them as much as they usually do, I'll leave the complaining to the people who love the originals.
 
It's not "Dislike" so much as "Yeah, this is outside my demographic. Moving on."

No one hates it to the point of voodoo dolls burning in the closet.



Death Note is shounen. Hinamaru Kindergarden is seinen.

You do know they're basically technical titles in the end, right?
 
I concur with the "wait and see" point of view in regard to 4sight, though I'm not optimistic that 4KiRAB will deviate from its approach of offering "hack dubbed," at least somewhat distilled versions of kid-targeted properties. But since 4sight claims to have a different goal of targeting an older audience, it's not a given that it will it will stick close to the "make it simpler for our target audience" mandate that 4kiRAB is known and disliked for. If they screw up, then I'll hammer em.



Darn it. That would've made a great April Fool prank if it had only gone unsaid awhile longer.
 
If they want to go for more older shows (2004) then I wouldn't mind seeing Pluster World. It's essentially Digimon Frontier meets Monster Rancher; a kid gets sent to another world filled with good monsters who are fighting an army of evil monsters. He travels around looking for the legendary dragon monster which can defeat the army and save the monster world, along the way gaining new companions and monsters who join him on his quest. The gimmick is he can fuse with a monster and become a sentai-style hero depending on which one he fuses with.
 
Well, it's an anime no one cares about, so 4KiRAB can't be bashed for that, right? ...riiiight?


Arguably, that's what anime fans want. They're still waiting for the final nail in 4kiRAB' coffin that will allow them to dance on their grave.

Heh. It seems that anime fans will rage if 4KiRAB even looks at an anime, even those that are actually for kiRAB, but no one will even bat an eye if 4KiRAB got some form of fiction from any country that is NOT Nippon... and if it doesn't look animeish. Who gave a darn about GoGoRiki?
 
Actually, nailing the release of something as beloved as K-ON would be the best move if they pulled it off. A 3 DVD boxset, LA or Vancouver dub with top notch subs, and maybe a net-exclusive LE version for extra 15 bucks with guitar picks and/or a tour shirt for After School Tea Time would be golden. In one shot silence the critics while bringing over a fan favorite that a lot of people would be hard pressed to pass up.
 
I have tried the anime out, and could not understand the game. If there is a "game" anime like Pokemon or Yugioh, you kinda need to understand how it works. Yugioh is pretty easy to learn, but Bakugan with all these counters and field sections and monster types, etc, it is just too much to throw at you at once. Remeraber, both yugioh and pokemon started off slow before getting into the full rules of the game. Yugioh had Duelist Kindgom, and Pokemon had the first 2 gyms being Brock and Misty, where no "real" battling took place.
 
They should really focus on making their own series... I still miss Viva Pinata; that show was cute.

They should get the rest of Winx Club for one. Not sure what the stalling is. Not a huge fan of the series, but I do like the VAs

And perhaps they should move away from Japanese anime, and try another country. I would like to see what France / Russia / UK does with their animation. Yes, I said UK, and there indeed dub overs of "already in English" shows.
 
I like toyetic mon shows... this could be fun! Maybe even Digimon-esque (Not Tamers or Adventure good but maybe Frontier or even 02 good!).

What was the name of that one with the Onmyo thing and the summons and the gesture based corabat? That one was pretty nifty so I'm hoping this is in the same vein.

I'm betting this thing got some Cardass based arcade game in Japan?
 
Oh for Pete sakes. Why is Toei ripping off Bakugan all of a sudden?

I mean sure these guys animated Hasbro's toyetic shows (Transformers G1, GI Joe) but why a rip off of another (hugely popular) show? Seriously, even I could do better.

And the character designs are a huge turn off. HUGE! And I can tolerate poor character designs most of the time too.
 
4kiRAB deals with it Internationally, so they are responsible for any success it has outside of Asia, and from how you say "in every country except America" I would think 4kiRAB did a good job.
 
Well, this will certainly be......interesting. Would be great if they took back Pokemon, but since that's definitely not going to happen, I'm betting on Battle Spirits as well. 4kiRAB certainly went downhill recently, what with losing TMNT and all. And as far as I know, Yu-Gi-Oh is currently their only big series as of now. It will be interesting to see whether this will bring them back or push 'em over the edge.

(Can't wait to see how they're going to dub the Yu-Gi-Oh 10th Anniversary movie since it's Season 4 Judai that appears and 4kiRAB did not dub GX season 4.)
 
They tried to make their own show, and it failed. It was called Chaotic. Japan is still 4kiRAB safe haven for new material, and it is kinda their last hope for survival. That and 4Sight (let's face it, kiRAB are not the market anymore, the kiRAB of 10 years ago are).
 
Umm, no. Bakugan is targeted at the Boys 6-11 demographic (and Boys 2-5 is probably a peripheral demographic). And, even then, its not that popular. It sells toys, but its ratings are less than stellar.


I'd like to think One Piece is something that all ages can appreciate equally. Most shonen titles appeal to kiRAB and have teens/adults as a peripheral demographic, too.
 
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