Anime in American has it's up and downs. If the anime comes out on DVD before, if ever, going on TV then life is good. However, when TV stations like Fox decide to air the anime on TV first it sucks.. They are now taking aim at Tokyo Mew Mew or should I say the more cured "Americanized" name Mew Mew Power.. They think that some anime that looks like it could be for younger kids needs to be "dumbed down" so they can understand it and give our beloved Characters new AMERICAN names..

*shutters* It's nice that anime is growing popularity but I think see things like this make all Otakus burn.. I'm just glad I bought the manga which is all nice and uncut.. they start butchering the manga and all Hell will break loose, I tell you what.. >_>;

*shakes a stick* Americanized Anime is the evil.. EVIL!! And not the good kind of evil..

I'm done ranting now.. <3

As you said at the beginning that have pros and cons to americanize anime.

Dubbing anime and give them american name is sometimes understandable, because if you have a very young audience, that would be difficult for them to keep in mind japanese names (if every names of the pokemon would have been in japanese, pokemon would haven't know the succes that you know.)

So i just understand that for some anime and specially anime for young children are "americanize". But not for everything if Naruto is called Kevin and Satsuke is John, i think i will have to sign another petition

thanks for putting some life in the forum lithium

i have to say that changing characters names is bad if the audience are not all dumb little brats... but what can be good in translating is changing traditional jokes (like many jokes in azumanga) into jokes that an american guy can laugh at

yep, it's just a question about business.

If the audience is really young, the companies must adapte the anime for young kids.

But, when I look at the french case, japanese anime came here on kids shows.
Captain Subaru was called Olive et Tom and many animes were censured.

But the kids grow and became teenages they start to look at some more physcological stuff (who say evangelion), and then, they became young adults and start to read some Tanigushi manga.

It's funny because the evolution of manga in france are really similar to the evolution of video game.

The compagnies follow their targets, so they start to make some deluxe edition, they stop to Dubbing and prefere now subtitle.
A big part of the job was made by the fansubbing team, who communicate with the edition compagnies for encourage that,

I think that is just a question of time.
Some people like Quentin Tanrantino or Cameron shows that more that stuff for kids, the japanese animation is a true style of art and can be use in really differents situations.

Oh, one last thing, it's a little bit like hiphop also.
hiphop was at the beginning a blackmusic by and for black people and now it's just a music genre like rock or techno.
jap anim was a video by and for japanese people at the beginning but know it become a medium just like the other.

We are in the history's loop

I do understand what every one of you is saying, but I still can't help but feel deeply annoyed with the way America likes to censure just about everything. I won't go into detail, but sensuring anime was the last straw for me and some of my friends... This is why I buy all the anime I watch so I see the scenes that were left out as well as the nudity in some cases.

Go me.

That is one thing I have never understood even by growing up and living in the US. It's ok for little Jimmy to pull out a semi-automatic gun and blow multiple holes in Billy for saying something, but it isn't ok for Katie to show her breasts on TV because that would WARP THE MINDS OF THE FUTURE GENERATION!!

What.. The.. Hell..? o_____o;;

Another thing that always cracks me up is that the US has "freedon of speech" yet some words cannot be said on cable TV and sometimes people get offended just because you said one of those words even if it wasn't directed at any one! I'm glad I grew up in a home were it didn't matter what was said..

Don't get me wrong, I love my country. I just don't like the way some things are handled. ^_^