4Kids in Financial issues.

[Flame]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-08-04/4kids-entertainment-reportedly-put-itself-up-for-sale
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-08-05/4kids-retains-financial-advisor-to-consider-strategies

*crosses fingers and hopes for bankruptcy*

Imagine if Funi got a hold of all those 4kids licenses...
Yugioh...
Pokemon...
Sonic X...
One Piece...

[Jericho]

As much as 4Kids localizations can be terrible, isn't it a bit much to wish bankruptcy upon them? =/

[Blackhook]

They had it comming....they ruined One Piece and Yu-Gi-Oh

[TeaOfJay]

Imagine if Funi got a hold of all those 4kids licenses...
Yugioh...
Pokemon...
Sonic X...
One Piece...

The Pokemon license was already taken by Pokemon USA.
Funi already has the One Piece License.

So really, it's just Yugioh and Sonic X. Oddly enough, Funi is responsible for the Yugioh uncut episodes on the DVDs (Not sure which DVDs has 'em, but if you look on the box you'll find Funi's logo on it).

[Sparky]

You all seem to be forgetting about the Kirby anime.

[Night]

Oh how I wish we could...

[Rock Bomb]

I knew this would happen eventually. Ever since Ebaum's original owner was thrown out of his own business, I just knew 4kids would be next.

[Sky Child]

You all seem to be forgetting about the Kirby anime.

but klobba dat dere kirbeh was awesome

[Sparky]

but klobba dat dere kirbeh was awesome

That I must admit.

[Wanda Bear]

You all seem to be forgetting about the Kirby anime.

I'm with Sparky on that one. Cpapcom should learn from this.........MWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[The Drunken Dishwasher]

As much 4Kids did ruin Yugioh in terms of plot and situations.  They still provided us awesome actors~

[Strider Xhaiden]

This raises some interesting possibilities.....

[Saber]

This raises some interesting possibilities.....

FUNimation's got enough on their hands I'm afraid.

[Strider Xhaiden]

FUNimation's got enough on their hands I'm afraid.

Hm....valid point. I never specifically mentioned Funimation, but....

[Saber]

Hm....valid point. I never specifically mentioned Funimation, but....

But you thought it. Everybody nowadays thinks that FUNimation is North America's Anime Messiah since they started picking up so many series from Geneon, ADV and so on.

[Strider Xhaiden]

Wait, what?

I live in the UK. I've never particularly cared who owns the license to publish what. Most of the stuff I want to watch never gets released over here anyway.

[Saber]

If that's the case, nevermind.

Yet, you as someone from the UK gets A LOT MORE ANIME than people on the European shore. I already imported several anime series from the UK because no one bothered to release them anywhere else in Europe.

[Protoman Blues]

They had it comming....they ruined One Piece and Yu-Gi-Oh

Excuse me, ruined YuGiOh?  They improved upon it, without question!

[Strider Xhaiden]

If that's the case, nevermind.

Yet, you as someone from the UK gets A LOT MORE ANIME than people on the European shore. I already imported several anime series from the UK because no one bothered to release them anywhere else in Europe.

I can understand that for some of them, but I'm not interested in stuff like Haruhi. And they've only just released the first volume of Gurren Lagann over here, and there's still no indication that the Dragonball Z boxsets will ever make it over here either.

[Saber]

Excuse me, ruined YuGiOh?  They improved upon it, without question!

I'm going to [tornado fang]ing KILL you...

[Strider Xhaiden]

I'm going to [tornado fang]ing KILL you...

Get in line, pal.

[Saber]

Get in line, pal.

Not when it's about the Japanese dub of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. The Seiyuu are just too awesome for that.

[Strider Xhaiden]

Oh, then by all means go ahead of me.

[Protoman Blues]

Are you kidding?  The Eng Dub is PAH-RICELESS.  It's so awful, it's awesome.  I mean, it's insane over the top voice acting for insane over the top PLOTS.  It worked SO well together.  Plus, I mean, Brooklyn Joey.  Again, IM-PROVED ON IT!

[Jericho]

Are you kidding?  The Eng Dub is PAH-RICELESS.  It's so awful, it's awesome.  I mean, it's insane over the top voice acting for insane over the top PLOTS.  It worked SO well together.  Plus, I mean, Brooklyn Joey.  Again, IM-PROVED ON IT!

Discussion over.