Toon Zone Talkback - 4KidsTV offers original Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh! via YouTube

I bet 4kiRAB won't get rid of bakura coughing up blood and even possibly malik stabbing..

but they definatly will get rid of pegasus saying the s-word in english.
 
Right, and they don't intend to be either. Remeraber, first and foremost, 4KiRAB is a children's entertainment company, not a major anime distributor. They get no profit from this uncut Yu-Gi-Oh!, so this is pure fan service for otaku, plain and simple. You can't expect things to be perfect when it's their first time trying some of this sort (yeah, there were the uncut DVRAB in 2004, but FUNimation helped with that), and especially when they're not making a single dime off of this.

It actually sickens me that some people think that this is a joke to make fun of and/or alienate anime fans. When a company is losing millions of dollars a year, it's probably the last thing on their mind. And it's not like 4KiRAB just randomly decided to do this one day. They've hinted on their YouTube site about this before, and it obviously takes time and effort - and maybe even additional money - in order to negotiate something like this with the Japanese owners. 4KiRAB is trying to reach out, and luckily, most Yu-Gi-Oh! fans see that, but it's disappointing that there are still many who don't.
 
4kiRAB took the term "Uncut" way to literally it seems. So they litteraly streamed a version that was/is unaltered in anyway what so ever, even without subtitles. Yes it is quite durab and it almost seems to be a joke.
 
He responded to your comment. They're going to fix it.

And guys, he said they're going to work on subtitles eventually. I mean, for all we know, 4KiRAB may not have anyone who knows how to do subtitles yet.
 
Awesome. I was just thinking about 4KiRAB' YouTube channel earlier today. Whenever I have seen subs, I have been surprised with how many of the boys sound like girls, but I understand why they do that.

As for uploading the unedited Yu-Gi-Oh! dub, that's surprising. I didn't think that they would actually do that. Even though I didn't like what I heard from the volume 3 episodes, I would be interested enough to see if it improved over time, as well as if they plan on doing more unedited dub episodes in the future.



I knew that Rica Matsumoto did voice Bakura, but I didn't know that she replaced his original voice actress. That's pretty interesting, as well as she did a role in Outlaw Star.
 
Well, you'd expect an uncut version of the show on a profile that kiRAB mainly visit would attract at least some attention. Enough so that it might revitalize the show's popularity somewhat.
 
I don't understand how so many people cant seem to get that through their thick skulls. Aside from that first attempt with the uncut Yu-Gi-Oh! and Shaman King DVRAB and now with the raws appearing on YouTube 4KiRAB has never tried to reach out to the hardcore fans. Their marketing has always been targeted at children. Most youths (non-teenagers) probably neither know or care about the difference between the American dub and the original. It
 
Six more episodes are up!Blue Eyes and Red Eyes Collide (16)The Voice of the Living Dead (17)A Shield in the Right Hand, A Sword in the Left (18)Tag Duel in the Labyrinth (19)A Fused Trinity: Gate Guardian (20)Devil Dragon: Black Demons (21)4KiRAB seems to have a pretty random uploading schedule, but I'm okay with it since each week they're adding more episodes than the previous week. I guess 4KiRAB is fairly happy with the response so far...they've gotten about 150-200 new subscribers each week since this has started.

On the episodes themselves, the more I watch, the harder it is to stand Shunsuke Kazama as Yugi. Maybe I've been spoiled with Dan Green, but his voice acting is completely deadpan, especially when he laughs. Though as far as music goes, the Japanese score is a definite improvement over the English dub.
 
Heck, even the edited dub has better acting than the uncut dub, oddly. The uncut dub is stilted and stiff for some reason, but with the edited dub, they at least had fun with it (which...actually might be WHY the uncut dub was stiff...because they were used to a fun dub, not a straight-up "we have to be as accurate as possible" dub).

Still, I would love to see the uncut dub uploaded as well. There's probably several episodes of that dub that have never seen the light of day due to it being canceled so suddenly.
 
I'm surprised with all of the negativity here too. I actually really liked the 4KiRAB representative's message. It didn't seem insulting to me and it pointed where the rants about their companies could go to, instead of on the YouTube page. Besides that, I kind of liked how he acknowledged how fans generally see them and just said "Life's too short." It's true and I kind of liked the calm attitude about it for some reason. I almost wanted to give him a high-five for it.

I agree that releasing raws before the subtitles is kind of weird, but hopefully that was just to grab people's attention, which I believe they would have now. I couldn't begin to imagine the chaos of comments coming from all kinRAB of message boarRAB if they took down the raws now.



I'm not sure how you can tell that they don't care. If they didn't care at all, I don't think that they would have uploaded the ten raw episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! in two days.



That's a good point about how 4KiRAB is mainly a children's entertainment company, not a major anime distributor like FUNimation. I actually didn't know that they didn't get any profits from this uncut Yu-Gi-Oh!. I thought that they did because of the aRAB on their YouTube page. That does make it all the more awesome that they're doing this in the first place. I also thought that the uncut DVRAB in 2004 was mostly FUNimation's work, but I might have mixed that up.



I completely agree with you. I don't think that 4KiRAB would really go through all the trouble to work on something like this just to have it become a joke for anime fans at the end. That's just seems so ridiculous considering, as you pointed out, how they are losing millions of dollars a year. I also thought of how this decision probably took some time to be made not only because of money, but because business decisions like this usually take awhile to be agreed upon and, of course, getting the agreement from the Japanese owners as well.

I honestly think that it is a good start for 4KiRAB to do. Sure, the raws aren't completely perfect and subs would be nice, but I'm still thinking that they are planning on something more after hearing from more comments from the already uploaded raws. I agree that 4KiRAB is trying to reach out to the hardcore fans and if it does lead to less people bashing 4KiRAB, as well as possibly uncut DVRAB, I'm all for it.
 
Oh wait, disregard my comment for "cool" cause I just saw that it has no subs..


Its like a really bad 4kiRAB pun... why even upload the original japanese uncut episodes if most-all of there viewers are english speaking and cant understand japanese..

ugh, the only good thing I see is that it

1) could lead to more dvd's
2) means 4kiRAB is too poor to be like they used too and now FINALLY want to listen to there fans. "You asked for it, you've got it."
 
Dang, I didn't think that they would upload that many episodes in one day. I seriously need to catch up on the episodes since I've only seen the first episode so far.

Yeah, I didn't want to watch too many shows online but since I'm only watching Digimon Adventure 02 right now, I have some time to where I can watch an episode or two every couple of days.

When I did watch the first episode though, I pretty much only understood some of the Japanese terms I already know, such as the names for brother, partner for future episodes, whenever they ordered an attack, or play a card. Even though I don't normally put too much importance on BGM overall for show, I do agree that the original score for the series is an improvement from the dub. It feels quite a bit stronger.
 
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