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Hitokiri Kenshin
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 Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 10:52 am
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I've been hearing on how Powerpuff Girls Z, the Stitch anime, and a few others were dubbed in North America, but they were never released here, and only shown in foreign countries. Does anyone know why this happened? Were there no actors to dub in the countries they aired in English, or not a market in North America or what?
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yotsubafanfan
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Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:40 am
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Apparently both animes ended up being major bombs here in America, there fore they pulled them off television.
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MadMan400096
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Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 2:09 pm
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I've heard online about an LA-produced Shin-chan dub made for English-speaking areas (with notable LA voice actors like Kath Soucie and Grey DeLisle), but oddly enough, as far as I know, the closest it got to airing in North America was a run on KIKU in Hawaii. From what I hear, it was far closer to the original than the over-the-top South Park-esque dub FUNimation would give it.
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EricJ
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Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 2:27 pm
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Not sure about Animax's English dubs (Nodame Cantabile for one, still in too much rights limbo at Sony to make it off Crackle.com and onto disk), but they don't sound UK or Australian produced.
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Hitokiri Kenshin
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Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 8:27 pm
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| yotsubafanfan wrote: | | Apparently both animes ended up being major bombs here in America, there fore they pulled them off television. |
They never even aired here, so their bombing isn't quite a thing.
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MadMan400096
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Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 9:03 pm
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| Hitokiri Kenshin wrote: |
| yotsubafanfan wrote: | | Apparently both animes ended up being major bombs here in America, there fore they pulled them off television. |
They never even aired here, so their bombing isn't quite a thing. |
Well, Stitch did, and yes, it apparently did bomb. You're right about PPGZ, though.
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zawa113
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Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 10:08 pm
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Monster did air entirely on TV and you can find it dubbed online, but they only ever actually released 15 episodes on DVD. Perhaps the HBO thing might make Viz reconsider? I don't think the final few episodes of Cyborg 009 aired on TV either, and I think only 8 eps came out on DVD.
For the 2003 Astro Boy series, the last 20 or so episode never aired on TV, though they were on the DVD set. I can't imagine changing from Kids WB to Toonami helped, or having a terrible PS2 game (but an awesome GBA game).
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