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NEWS: Latest Pokémon Movie Runs on U.S. Cartoon Network

wow they are still coming out with new pokemon I thought they stopped at 351? I only liked the first season and the old school Pokemon especially Ratatta and Mew. Pokemon sucks now with all the new voices I liked the old ones better........

I know what you mean but at least they haven't totaly altered this season's original script,which will slide.BUT that OP is something to be desired.Should've kept the original OP as well as the japaneese names for some of the D&P characters,especially hikari.

With the Pokémon USA voices? No thanks.

I miss Veronica Taylor.

That wouldn't happen be it with 4kids or PUSA. They never have and probably never will keep the origional Japanese OPs. Why give Hikari special treatment? Both PUSA and 4Kids are fairly similar in thier treatment of name changing. They will sometimes keep original names, and sometimes change the names into an English equivalent. For Hikari, I consider Dawn to be pretty close to her original name's meaning (light) without sounding ridiculus.

To be frank, the VAs were a small sacrifice. In return, we ve gotten much less edits, more new music plus a lot more music from the Japanese original (Some episodes even keep the whole Japanese music intact with no changes) and moments of silence (I.E No music), they correct mistakes they make (Like the Ekans/Arbok thing in the Mystery Dungeon special) and just as I mentioned, they re using 4Kids VAs for the minor characters (Like hell they re going to recast the main cast again). Heck, you could say PUSA actually listen to us. o.o

Believe me, you would have none of that if 4Kids were still dubbing it, I guarantee.

The Anagelic One wrote:

To be frank, the VAs were a small sacrifice. In return, we ve gotten much less edits, more new music plus a lot more music from the Japanese original (Some episodes even keep the whole Japanese music intact with no changes) and moments of silence (I.E No music), they correct mistakes they make (Like the Ekans/Arbok thing in the Mystery Dungeon special) and just as I mentioned, they re using 4Kids VAs for the minor characters (Like hell they re going to recast the main cast again). Heck, you could say PUSA actually listen to us. o.o Believe me, you would have none of that if 4Kids were still dubbing it, I guarantee.

You mention how you'd never get this in the 4Kids dub. Yet you mention Dinosaur King, a 4Kids dub that uses original BGM at times, and keeps sound cues in correct order. Whoops!

I know that,however it would please the hardcore fans,or at least use them for the movies.

Except that would confuse the non-hardcore fans and younger fans who are unaware of the Japanese names. Pokemon's main demographic is children, so they are going to keep things as simple for them as possible. Besides, most really hardcore Pokemon fans who like the Japanese dub over the English dub usually can find the episodes in Japanese on the interenet anyway, and there are sites that explain the differences between the two, so there really shouldn't be any concern with that.