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Answerman - Can You Feel The Music?

Funimation did produce one dubbed song quite recently, of Kanchigai Lonely Night in the DROPKIX episode of Space Dandy. It was really good, too, and this is in the opinion of someone who doesn't ordinarily care about dubs one way or another. This probably had something to do with the close involvement with the show's Japanese creators in the dub's production, the show being directed by a big music buff, and/or having an English VA who'd been a musician before, though.

But then I got to a scene where the company president is discussing how often they get asked for animated porn by their customers. The owner laments that he just can't make it work. As it turns out, the major obstacle to such a business is actually the credit card processing companies! Most of them have varying levels of comfort with different types of adult content, but all of them completely draw the line at tentacles ("it's bestiality") and rape. And that covers pretty much 95% of the adult anime ever made.

I have been a fan of Seiyuus for a very long time; not because I think that subs are better than dubs, but because I truly admire the performance that they deliver. Is there a way a fan from outside of Japan can relay their feelings to them by say sending them a nicely worded letter to them? Do some Seiyuus have a place like a PO box to send things to or would we have to send it to their agency and hope it gets to them? Is there some well known way to write to them and I have simply been under a rock? Please enlighten me.

Does anybody know if the songs in foreign-language dubs of Phineas and Ferb are normally dubbed too? I think that's the highest-profile western musical animated TV series right now. I know songs in foreign-language dubs of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Littlest Pet Shop (2012) are ALWAYS also dubbed.

Not just the Whiscash episode, but the Porygon episode too (for the infamous seizure incident that ensured the Poryon line would NEVER have any role in the anime again except for freeze-frame cameos).

A few episodes were banned in the west for various reasons, though I can't think of any Japanese cases but those two.

There may have been another episode that was pulled due to the Fukushima disaster, but I don't really know.

Not trying to start a heated argument here but seems a bit ridiculous that credit card companies have a morality issue with hentai and yet sketchy politicians can still receive donations for their election campaigns or hate groups (Chick-fil-A anyone?) probably receive a lot of money via credit card. For these examples credit card companies have no issues with?

Not trying to start a heated argument here but seems a bit ridiculous that credit card companies have a morality issue with hentai and yet sketchy politicians can still receive donations for their election campaigns or hate groups

IIRC, Pioneer used to dub songs in the 90s since they owned 'em. Also back then, music record companies didn't care or weren't in the loop whether their songs get dubbed.