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Answerman - Why Are Adapted Dubs Still Being Made?

Stuart Smith wrote:

Glitter Force will be important if only to see if shoujo anime can work in the American market. Cartoons for girls have been, well, non-existant in America, let alone action cartoons.

Star vs the Forces of Evil has already been a huge success and proved girl's action shows work. It's been rated #1 on Disney , a network aimed primarily at boys. It's even got higher ratings than even the Star Wars Rebels cartoon... and that's Star Wars![url=/2015/04/06/premiere-of-disney-xds-star-vs-the-forces-of-evil-is-the-networks-1-animated-series-ever-with-1-2-million-total-viewers/]Source[/url] Also as leafy mentioned there's Steven Universe. Not to mention Frozen shattered records like crazy. People really need to stop thinking that girls stuff doesn't make money because proof is everywhere that girls shows and movies DO make tons of money.

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with calling those shows action cartoons. It's also hard to classify them as 'girl shows'. They seem gender neutral if anything else, because of how much of SU focuses on Stephen as the main character, and Marco being Star's partner.

But that takes effort, and why commit oneself to doing so when one doesn't have to do it to watch shows like CSI or even The Big Bang Theory?

It could be worse: we could still be having dubs that edit multiple separate shows together like "Robotech" and "Voltron."

Not one of those titles ever cracked a million units sold on DVD, and most of them probably petered out somewhere around the 100,000 unit mark, or a little less. That is absolute peanuts in the world of Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh!.

This isn't cultural studies, it's entertainment.

I guess I've never been one that has seen entertainment as some sort of learning tools

If people want to broaden their horizons, good on them. But, I don't think that people should be belittled if they do not want to.

The problem with your logic though is that nowadays and as it's been for a long time a lot of Kids TV in America is dominated by locally produced TV shows not anime. So you don't really have a need to make content for the kids especially since as the anime bubble showed not every kids anime had the pull of DragonBall Z,Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, or Sailor Moon.

There's a reason for why whenever the Yu-Gi-Oh dub comes up people derisively mention the whole thing about saving the world with cards and people being banished to alternate dimensions.

So I believe the answer would be yes.

Bad jokes and bad puns aren't necessary, nor is giving someone a fake sounding or unnecessary accent or dialect where it 's not called for or when it didn't exist in the original dub.

Shonen stories may pull a cop-out where a character that should be dead doesn't stay dead, but you know what they don't do? have characters facing death (or those who do die) being sent to an alternate dimension or being hauled away to a dungeon to never be seen or heard again.

What are you implying? Focus groups and soccer moms will still have there trigger phone ready to complain and request changes even if locally produced.

Its rarer on cable networks due to the implication that you get what you paid for in the provided channels.

A bad neck japanese character with a badly voiced accent gets a bad neck brooklyn accent. Out of all the Yu-Gi-Oh cast, Joey is still the most recognizable even compared to Yugi and Kaiba because even in the 4kids dub they kept his character. A person going through rough times with his family finding solace in enjoying a hobby with his new best friend until reality comes to wreck his life again. And when he finds out about a tournament reward that can fix a part of it by winning with the hobby that he finds peace in.

Whatever decision they made, it leads to horrendous feedback.

Hence kind of why I pointed out that making made for TV edits for Kid's anime.....or Anime in general is pointless. Most of it's on cable and to twist the knife if further they'll likely not finish out their runs on TV.

None of that explains or justifies giving him a brooklyn accent which looks even more weirder when his sister doesn't have one and no one else in the regular cast has an accent either.

Funny plenty of kids movies especially those made by Disney have featured death or implications thereof for decades and they still do even some kids shows across the decades have done the same thing. Thing is if you're going to be airing a show that you know upfront is going to feature a number of instances or mentions of death......maybe you shouldn't air it if you fear riling up a very small minority of people who have no concept of irony or history.

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with calling those shows action cartoons. The increasing genre of comedy shows with slapstick action elements like Adventure Time and Stephen Universe have been replacing true action shows. The last notable one was Legend of Korra, but that was aimed at boys and it ended up being pulled from networks due to poor ratings.

It's also hard to classify them as 'girl shows'. They seem gender neutral if anything else, because of how much of SU focuses on Stephen as the main character, and Marco being Star's partner. Shows will generally have a male and female main characters to catch both audiences.