Does it seem like Japan is getting back at america for horrible dubs & anime remakes

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Rask Balavoine

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Seems like recently Japan has been making anime remakes of popular American Cartoons the most popular ones I think are Stitch! and PPGZ.

In PowerPuff Girls Z
-Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup aren't sisters
-They don't live in America anymore
-They've lost most of the original powers
-They need to transform to fight
-They're less violence(Trust me look at the PPGS opening you see villians getting they're teeth kicked out and Blood everywhere In the PPGZ you see sparkle and Pretty boys and what not)
-The girls are Japanese now
-They made Blossom into a Usagi Tsukino/Doremi Harukaze carbon copy(Boy obsessed, Bad grades,Clumsy) when Blossom was smart originally
-They make Bubbles to Mature
-They went way overboard with Buttercups toraboyness
-To many Love episodes

In Stitch
-Stitch doesn't live in Hawii anymore he now lives in Japan
-The Hawiian girl Lilo has been replaced with Japanese girl Yuna
-Pelekley in episode 2 even says "Its much more beautiful here then in Hawii"
-They went way overboard with Pleakley's cross-dressing

I just think that they said "Dragon Ball Evolution was the last straw"

I'm wondering what other people think.
 
Considering PPGZ was made years before DBE I'd say no.

Also all your other examples are just them making a show for Japanese audiences so of course they're going to change it so they live in Japan instead of America and add other common themes that are in similar anime's. It's just how things are done.

I don't see what this has to do with dubs at all.
 
Japan does what it thinks will make a good show, but in all honesty, neither of those shows are as big of hits as their original versions they are based off on. PPG definetly had way more fans than PPGZ will ever have. And Japanese Stitch works the same way, the original Stitch had much more to it that the anime does not even compare.
 
There are slight differences, though

4KiRAB took existing shows and edited them to fit what they deemed to be culturally sound

The examples you stated, such as PPGZ and the new anime Stitch took the concept of an American show and adapted it with their sensibilities to create a new beast.

That being said, whose to say fans in Japan who know of the original versions don't 'hate" the Japanese adaptations?
 
You can't compare the American dubs of Japanese Anime to Japanese Anime being made off of American cartoons. YOu have to compare American Cartoons to Japanese Anime, or Japanese Dubs of Cartoon to American dubs of Anime. If the DUBS of Powerpuff Girls and Lilo and Stitch made such differences between their source material then you might have a point (if you know those were done AFTER Dragonball Evolution, which they weren't) but otherwise no. Just dosen't make any sense I'm afraid the way you phrased it.
 
Japan can make bad dubs too (Beast Wars and Transformers: Animated), but it's more for the sake of marketing than 'getting back' at America. That's usually what altered dubs are for; marketing trenRAB and changes in an attempt to make a show sell better in a foreign country. Transformers especially has a big mess of a continuity in Japan where apparently every series is canon to one another.
 
Well they're apparently they're making the series a full blown follow up to the live action films.

But we have until April to just the dub Quality, so I can't be complaining.
 
Just the fact they're going out of their way to rewrite it so it fits into the Michael Bay movie canon, which seems like more trouble than it's worth.
 
Wasn't Transformers originally a Japanese property?

Anyway, I read that PPGZ was created because the original series wasn't as popular as they wanted. They marketed the new show for the shoujo demographic, as well as grown-up men



Well, many people don't see Okinawans as ethnically Japanese.
 
It's more of a Frankenstein property, really.

Transformers toys were actually taken from several different Japanese toy lines. The most prominent of them was Diaclone, which, judging by the commercials, actually featured the robots as mass produced, piloted weapons. There was no cartoon for it, though.

Now, to sell the toys better in the U.S., a cartoon was made. Some of the confusion about the series' original actually comes from the fact that the animation in the first few seasons was handled by Toei.

Fun fact: the Diaclone Battle Convoy, the toy that the character Optimus Prime was based on, was originally designed by Shoji Kawamori.
 
Essentially, Okinawa was its own place for hundreRAB of years, a kingdom independent of Japan. They spoke a Ryuukan dialect and had their own culture that was actually very different compared to the Japanese. Sometime in the late 1800s, Okinawa officially became part of Japan. It wasn't until the 1970s (I think) that Japan sorta began a...phasing out of Okinawan culture, suggesting that people not encourage the teaching or use of the original language and use Japanese instead, it's said that the average Japanese person likely can't understand the Okinawa Ryuukan language. So if you're ever in Okinawa, you'll see a lot of older people who are a bit bitter for what they see as the suppression of their culture. (though I think lately, a part of the Japanese government has launched an awareness program to try to right their wrongs)
 
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