Remember when 4Kids tried Uncut dubs?
I wish 4Kids had continued them: if they had put out dubs like that instead, maybe they would've held onto the Pokemon license due to adapting to the times in popularity thus Veronica Taylor would've retained her role as Ash, etc. (Al Kahn claimed they didn't sell well, I don't buy it though, he seemed to be the BIGGEST problem with the company) & 4Kids could've become a serious New York competitor to Crunchyroll LLC (what FUNimation goes by now) or Ocean Group etc in the dubbing market. NYAV Post fills that role instead of either them or TPCi, but the problem is, they dub almost nothing save obscure Anime so? It's not a true contest.It's a shame, it shows what potential the company DID have (I think they could've been far better than TPCi has proven to be at dubs the last 17 years, as have they thus far been under Konami since 2011, seeing this and the Shaman King Uncut short-lived releases), but simply refused to reach at the end of the day. It's a nice "what if 4Kids/4KMedia adapted to the times, what if they grew with us, and what if these very talented VAs got a chance to shine like their TX and LA counterparts?" thing for me.
I will say though, Dan Green's Yami sucked in the Uncut dub compared to the censored/edited one, it was by this point he kept getting overly gruff and deep in general in the role and lost me sounding almost 40 years old in the role when voicing a teenager (Eric Stuart's Kaiba too, but he actually grated on me less than the former as the voice seemed to at least fit the age here: the problem there was more the shouting all the time for some reason in delivery).
They both sounded better in Dark Side of Dimensions dubbed (Eric Stuart especially redeemed himself as Kaiba in the English run, best the character ever sounded to me: even better than Seasons 1-2, I normally HATE deeper voices but he kept it smooth/non-gruff, no shouting, and it worked well as an equivalent to Kenjiro Tsuda's pitch wise), but 4Kids/4KMedia still treats Yu-Gi-Oh much worse to this day when compared to how they handled Pokémon...and couldn't even keep the OST for that Movie in the year 2017-- when they DID keep it for Pokemon 4Ever, Pokemon Heroes, Jirachi Wish Maker, Destiny Deoxys, PLUS Lucario and the Mystery of Mew from 2002 to 2006 before they let the license lapse and/or TPCi decided to mass purge everything when they over in September of that year to cut costs & save money on producing things back then at the time.
The only complaint I have is the stiffer dialogue, but compared to what they came up with most of the time? It was very faithful and true to the text, it just needed some tweaking to work.
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