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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:10 pm

From ANN:
"4Kids Grows Up, Launches Tween to Adult Licensing Subsidiary (2006-04-19 11:31:36)
4Kids Entertainment has announced the launch of a new subsidiary, 4Sight Licensing Solutions, inc. 4Sight will specialise in the licensing and marketing of brands aimed at adults, teens and tweens. Current 4Kids brands being moved to 4Sight to not include any of 4Kids anime properties. Todd Fromer of KCSA publicity, representing 4Kids, said that anime isn't necessarily ruled out of the 4Sight line up, but that anime lends itself more to a children's market."

I think it might not be much of a bad thing... as long as when they DO dub anime, that they'll use orginal names and have nice and uncut^^ But wait, if they aren't going to be licensing anime, per say... then what would they? Adultish cartoons etc? :/

EDIT: missed the part where it said the aniem won't be moved to it, so uncut stuff/orginal language won't exactly be shown...

About the "children's market" thing, yeah, the anime directed TO children maybe :eyeroll: Would a child be allowed to watch something like *insert violentish etc. anime here*? Oy... -_-;
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Postby Tommy » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:15 pm

Worried.

I don`t think good voice acting is too innapropriate for kids so why would a show for older people be any different?
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Postby mitsuki lover » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:28 pm

Wait and see what happens.For now it is doubtful wheter they will actually include anime in their 4Sight line up.Also please note that they refer to anime as being
for children which makes it highly dubious that they will actually go into adult anime.
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Postby Joshua Christopher » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:29 pm

I could just repeat my post in that thread on ANN, but I won't. You can go find it if you want.
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Postby Myoti » Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:09 pm

I recall someone from another site talking about trying to get them to do this.

This could be very good or very bad. I'm not too sure yet. o.O

Todd Fromer of KCSA publicity, representing 4Kids, said that anime isn't necessarily ruled out of the 4Sight line up, but that anime lends itself more to a children's market."

Oh yes, FMA, NGE, Inuyasha, and GITS are all aimed directly at children. :p
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Postby skyblue » Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:38 pm

0_0

Wow. I wasn't expecting this.

This could be good or bad. I just hope 4kids puts someone responsible to head 4sight (someone who know's what they're doing). And I hope they hire new voice actors with better voice talent. :/ We'll just have to wait and see...
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Postby BigZam » Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:43 pm

next its gonna be 4Kids hentai...

i actually don't really care what 4Kids is up to cuz i'm not really even into anime. but i did find this kind of funny.
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Postby MasterDias » Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:48 pm

Frankly, I'm extremely skeptical that this is going to be anything worthwhile, all the more so after I read that they won't include anime.
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Postby Lynx » Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:56 pm

i have my doubts it will be good... but i'll reserve judgement until i see an anime they do.
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Postby skyblue » Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:03 pm

Wait...what could possibly be something 4Sight would want to pick up besides anime? A cartoon? An adult cartoon? Whah? I don't get it. -_-''
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Postby Mangafanatic » Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:58 am

BigZam wrote:next its gonna be 4Kids hentai...



No it won't be 4kids hentai.

. . . It would obviously be 4Perverts. :lol:
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Because of this genocide of innocence, hundred and hundreds of children live every night sleeping in public places miles from their homes, because they know that if the do not-- they will disappear. They will become just another number in this genocide to which the international community has chosen to turn a blind eye. They will become, in affect, invisible-- Invisible Children.

But there are those who are trying to fight against this slaughter of Uganda's children. They fight to protect these "invisible children." Please, help them help a country full of children who know nothing by fear. Help save the innocence. For more information concerning how you can help and how you can get an incredible video about this horrific reality, visit the Invisible Children home page.
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Postby freerock1 » Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:37 am

It could go either way, IMO. Granted, 4Kids doesn't have the best reputation for accuracy in their dubs. But it could be just a thing of marketing, such that if it's targeted toward an older audience they'd feel they could stay truer to the original. It could also mean some rereleases of titles that in the States, they originally targeted at kids (i.e., One Piece).

Just trying to be optimistic. ;)

And Mangafanatic... :thumbsup: on the 4Perverts comment.
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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:16 am

[quote="freerock1"] It could also mean some rereleases of titles that in the States, they originally targeted at kids (i.e., One Piece).

Just trying to be optimistic. ]

...but it says that their already licensed anime will NOT be going to 4Sight because they think it's still more "4Kids" :/
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Postby Tommy » Thu Apr 20, 2006 12:18 pm

Imagine if 4kids did GantZ.

I would break into my usualy parody of the One Piece DUB theme song, but Ark advises against it so instead I`m just going to have you guys imagine I said something really stupid that would get you to dislike me.
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Postby skyblue » Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:14 pm

Tenshi no Ai wrote:...but it says that their already licensed anime will NOT be going to 4Sight because they think it's still more "4Kids" :/


Yeah...this doesn't make sense. They launch 4Sight and then what? Just let it sit there? I can't think of one thing that 4Sight could pick up to dub. Not one.
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Postby Mangafanatic » Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:24 pm

I'm guessing they'll pick of titles that are all around more adult rather than start re-releasing the uncut version of current material. When they say they're catering to an "older audience", I get the feeling that they mean the programming itself will be of a more "Excuse me, can I see some I.D., please?" nature. It just seems to me that this kind of wording isn't what you use when you just want to inform the world that you're going to respect your older audience by not censoring your anime.

That's just my two yen, though.
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But there are those who are trying to fight against this slaughter of Uganda's children. They fight to protect these "invisible children." Please, help them help a country full of children who know nothing by fear. Help save the innocence. For more information concerning how you can help and how you can get an incredible video about this horrific reality, visit the Invisible Children home page.
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Postby freerock1 » Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:32 pm

Tenshi no Ai wrote:...but it says that their already licensed anime will NOT be going to 4Sight because they think it's still more "4Kids" :/

I missed that part of it at first... My bad.

Although when I reread the piece, it sounded to me like they're trying keep the door open to possibly do rereleases later; they just thought anime seemed too kiddie to do them right now. ( :eyebrow: )
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Postby Myoti » Fri Apr 21, 2006 1:50 pm

Ya know what it sounds like?

"Oooh! Well, it seems like more fans today are actually older, so that's grab some 'older' anime, make it our way, then sell it back and make more money! GENIOUS!"

Well, you could say they're a little late on that, but that's basically what it seems like. Quite odd that they say "tweens", yet consider anime "for kids", especially when One Piece itself was already made for the "tween" and up age.
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Postby Reba » Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:17 pm

Ah thats realy bad i saw what happend to one peice and stuff... so i think they should fire 4Kids but thats my opinoin
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Postby Myoti » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:37 pm

How, pray tell, do you fire a company? o.o
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Postby Tarnish » Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:12 pm

Myoti wrote:How, pray tell, do you fire a company? o.o

By making it look like an accident.
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Postby Mangafanatic » Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:55 am

Black Rose Misao wrote:Ah thats realy bad i saw what happend to one peice and stuff... so i think they should fire 4Kids but thats my opinoin

I was slightly tempted to edit this comment, because we've put the One Piece dub on the DNDL list. However, I'll just let it stand and just make a general comment to the thread: Let's not talk about One Piece, okay? :P
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Postby rocklobster » Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:03 pm

We need to suggest a title to 4Kids so they'll go down in flames. Got any titles that might do that?
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Postby Tarnish » Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:28 pm

Cutie Honey?
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Postby skyblue » Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:50 pm

Orenji wrote:Cutie Honey?
Monster?


4Kids thinks that all anime is for kids, huh? I'm sure that they haven't heard of Monster, for one thing. It wouldn't be a good thing if 4Sight licensed Monster.
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