Wow, they're showing Doraemon on Toon Disney!

Based Wikipedia wrote:Confirmed cast members of the new American adaptation include veteran anime voice actress Mona Marshall in the title role of Doraemon and Johnny Yong Bosch as Noby. The English dub will be distributed by Viz Media.

There are notable visual and script changes between the Japanese version and the English version. Some changes include Americanized name changes that are equivalent to the manga, fictional town in America instead of Japan, new English Openings and Endings, no violence depictions of discrimination, and depictions of sexual content, American culture and customs are present, and translated gadget names.

Onscreen edits and additions also include Om-rice (Omelet with rice) is now replaced with pancakes, and chopsticks have been changed to forks, Japanese yen notes have been converted to U.S. dollar bills, Japanese check marks have been replaced with American crosses to indicate mistakes on a test, and an "F" letter grade has been added to better explain the "0" mark, Bandages in one episode ("Henshin! Dracula Set" or Transform! Dracula Set) have been removed, and a first-aid kit has been replaced by pizza, in the episode "Hashire Umatake" (Run, Bamboo Horse), Nobita's streams of tears have been removed, Japanese signs have been replaced such as "Gōda Shōten" (Gōda's Shop) to "Goda's Goods," in the episode "Doraemon no 100-nen Time Capsule" (Doraemon's 100-Year Time Capsule), and the contents of the time capsule have been replaced.

Elsewhere, an ishiyaki imo (sweet potatoes baked on stones) stand is now a popcorn truck. Other food changes, such as less sweets (including Doraemon's iconic dorayaki) and more fruits onscreen, have been made due to broadcasting standards to promote healthy eating on children's programming. Since Doraemon lost his ears, he gets angry when people often mistake him for a tanuki (Japanese raccoon-dog) in the original story. However, since raccoon-dogs outside Japan do not look round and fat as they do in Japanese folklore, Doraemon gets mistaken for a seal in the English localized version.

A unique U.S. opening sequence has been compiled from footage from the Japanese version. To explain the premise of the story, a narration about "why Doraemon came from the future?" has been added. The theme song, other songs, and sound effects have been adapted to be easier for American children to empathize. Dialogue is also not just literally translated, but adapted for entertainment's sake and to fit a natural speaking rhythm. However, Gian's infamous "Ore no mono wa ore no mono, omae no mono mo ore no mono" catchphrase is rendered more or less without changes as "What's mine is mine. What's yours is mine!"

link63 wrote:I heard TONS of bitching about this, but honestly did you expect anything less ? You can't sell jap concepts to kids, and doraemon is a kids show. Obviously they had to change shit because its more 
relatable because typical foods are easier to pronounce and more
easy for kids to pick up on than "Doryaki". Also the changing of the band-aid thing makes sense in context (The bandages were cross shaped and killed a vampire in japan, was changed to extra garlic pizza in usa version).


I will give OP this though, spanish dubs never changed anything and were incredibly successful, the spanish Mazinger Z dub, for example, kept the jap names and i don't thing ever edited things out or changed shit. Meanwhile, on US shores Mazinger Z got a semi infamous shitty dub, the dub changed the names of all the characters and changed Mazinger Z's name to "Tranzor Z" as well as changing names they also spliced in Great Mazinger footage for some reason. Here's the thing, The spanish dub was really successful but the US dub bombed. Really though, I think it had more to do with the marketing strategy at the time.


The solution here is to get demographics right, when adapting something geared towards older kids keep the names and shit the same because they are more likely to understand jap shit (like what Gundam Wing and DBZ did). When adapting something geared towards littler kids like doraemon, I think it is perfectly acceptable to change shit to make them understand it more.


TL;DR : When adapting pedotunes geared toward older kids/adults, keep shit the same. When adapting pedotunes for kidz, americanize shit.

ROOM wrote:who the literal fuck finds lara croft sexy

what kind of monster are you

Red Epoch wrote:

ROOM wrote:who the literal fuck finds lara croft sexy

what kind of monster are you

you criticize him about liking a human but not a "hot blue cat" or toothless?

Red Epoch wrote:

ROOM wrote:who the literal fuck finds lara croft sexy

what kind of monster are you

you criticize him about liking a human but not a "hot blue cat" or toothless?

ROOM wrote:

Red Epoch wrote:

ROOM wrote:who the literal fuck finds lara croft sexy

what kind of monster are you

you criticize him about liking a human but not a "hot blue cat" or toothless?

you need a lesson in half-assed dry humor

SmokeTheHardest 420 2k14 wrote:

ROOM wrote:

Red Epoch wrote:
you criticize him about liking a human but not a "hot blue cat" or toothless?

you need a lesson in half-assed dry humor

i was being ironicly stupid XDDDDD

ROOM wrote:

SmokeTheHardest 420 2k14 wrote:

ROOM wrote:

you need a lesson in half-assed dry humor

i was being ironicly stupid XDDDDD

no really

lara is so horribly generic, it's almost scary

ROOM wrote:1. adj. Merchandise marketed without a brand name.

2. adj. Not specific; nondescript.

3. adj. Very plain; undecorated.

4. adj. Mediocre or substandard.

or, in my terms, she has absolutely no characteristics that make her likable or unlikable

and i've played most of the games yo (except the shitty new ones)