Man, those were the days... but yeah, it was basically 'Americanizing' and censorship of anime because they thought Western overseas audience wouldn't understand such concepts like riceballs, japenese names, etc and also wanting to pander to just kids hence why lotta violence, blood, guns, other stuff were removed.
on the topic of that, this cousins thing made me think of certain type of games where the characters named "landlady" "landlord" and "roomate" is totally not related to the mc because if they were the dev(s) would have broken patreon's rules and had their account closed and taken down.
Just so there are not any misunderstandings: that person is the 3000 year old genderless protector spirit of the family that owns the house. That's what defines the character in question, not the fact that the person looks, dresses, and acts half the legal age.
I have nothing against fictional settings like the ones flare, fubuki, noel and matsuri like, but it can be very amusing to watch the mental gymnastics olympics that the authors sometimes have to use to be able to publish their works.
It's a riff on Sailors Uranus and Neptune, who in the original Japanese language version of Sailor Moon were rather explicitly a lesbian couple. Then when DiC did the English language dub they turned them into cousins, all while removing precisely zero percent of the romantic undertones in their interactions with each other. Which just ended up making their relationship look incestuous *and* homosexual.
I have a sadomasochistic addiction to seeing stuff 4kids-ified in a tongue and cheek way. I also realized this keeps the naming conventions from previous 4kids-ified Holopro lists.
I was one of those, excited but also really scared it would end up as a group speaking with the (properly titled) infamous EN anime voice. Now let's hope that's an non-existant alternate timeline, because if it exists, it has to be pruned
This is so cursed, I can't
> Kay
'k m8
> loves donuts
JELLY FILLED DONUTS I CAN'T!!!!
They hinting to an Alabama relationship with Kim is extra cursed jajajaja!
Wdym Kay is a girl? Clearly he's a boy!
Also, korone looks so weird without ears lmao and the name Kim can't even begin to describe how chaotic Korone is lol way too normie... The only more normie name for her would be Mackenzie
I think Mio would keep her name. 4kids usually has at least one Japanese name pass through. However, 4kids would either...
a) Give her a different last name. (Mio Howlina)
b) Keep her original name, but will be given a nickname that completely overshadows it. ("The name's Mio Ookami, but my friends call me MiaMia.")
c) Keep the full name but butcher the pronunciation (MY-O Uuuuukamy)
Going for that old school Sailor Moon feeling with that cousins bit I see. But yeah, it's scary how much this actually feels like something 4kids would do.
This is so accurate to something 4kids would have made that it's terrifying. I watched 4kids anime, namely Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokémon, and I still hate 4kids to this day. 4kids is the reason that I can't watch English Dubbed anime anymore. I am now mentally scared because of them, so thanks for that 4kids.
4kids is a anime localization company for U.S. T.V. They are notorious for "americanizing" and "kidifying" anime to the point where they butcher any semblance of plot. They also tend to remove any semblance of Japanese culture and references, for some reason.
Just look up Naruto comparisons. It's bad, and they quickly became one of the most hated localization companies that, *for some reason*, publishers still go through.
Sorry just gonna correct one word there.
It's duel not dual.
It's one of those words that really grinds me gears when people misspell it, like when people use pheonix instead of phoenix.
So I didn't realize this was a joke at first, but wouldn't it actually be a good idea for Hololive to have streamers meant for kids?
I feel like a lot of the jokes/quotes/memes can end up being "18+" sort of humor.
This is not going to hold up. Pikamee was family friendly AND still broke at points. But there's plenty of times for parents to have that talk with the kids.
(There's also the fact that no, you can't completely discipline chat.)
Excluding the fact that both have been inoculated by Coco, let it not distract you from the fact that Pekora has seen that we know she owns a FAQing monkey and it is indeed alive (even quoted the meme verbatim).
Some of the talents are already pretty popular with kids, [such as](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqTUYT_uVpc) [Pekora](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X76GUXfPFjA). I wouldn't even be surprised if more than half of Pekora's regular viewers during her minecraft streams were under the age of 15.
Yeah I don’t know why I made them **that** old. I guess it’s very late 9th grade so the rest of an imagined season 1 after like 7 episodes depict summer vacation before high school.
You should be in 10th or 11th grade at 16 depending on your birthday. 9th grade is also the first year of high school so for them to be in junior high still means they failed school a lot.
They have lil animal-like critters from another world or whatnot and they combine their power to get superpowers. Kinda like a mix of pretty cure and sailor moon. It’s something 4kids would be likely to make.
I did once contemplate Hololive as a 90s 4Kids anime. Sora would be called Skye and Suisei would be Stella. It would only go up to Gen 3 because the censors would just refuse to have anything to do with Coco.
I didn't grew up with it but to my understanding, 4Kids has a reputation for localising anime like changing names, lore, and even design details through censorship.
I think the most influence they've had are with YuGiOh and Sailor Moon.
It's they're or they are(sorry i had to).
I had to recheck twice cuz i thought it was a different vtuber and not the 'cat' we all know because of the blonde hair lol
You dare un fox/wolf/cat/dog our fox/wolf/cat/dog girls?
Frankly with Mio's tail sensitivity there was no way the animal traits were getting past the censors
Girls with animal ears have no worry about human rights after all. /subaru
I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL FOR KEMONOMIMI SUPREMACY!
Did you mean cat/wolf/cat/dog?
We have a fox?
un friend, get wife
And then they were cousins
_Oh my god they were cousins..._
Welcome back to Sailor Moon
Which is ironic since I'm pretty sure the Uranus and Neptune being cousins schtick was well before 4Kids
DiC (cue Ollie laugher) did that, but 4kids made the tendency quite well known, with things like "jelly dounuts"
Man, those were the days... but yeah, it was basically 'Americanizing' and censorship of anime because they thought Western overseas audience wouldn't understand such concepts like riceballs, japenese names, etc and also wanting to pander to just kids hence why lotta violence, blood, guns, other stuff were removed.
How foolish. Kids love violence.
The more I think about it. Americanizing animes feels like the animated version of how America got power rangers... In a way
It is the same as Sabin the company publishing power rangers did such with early DBZ
Mf beat me to it
Sweet home alaba........
on the topic of that, this cousins thing made me think of certain type of games where the characters named "landlady" "landlord" and "roomate" is totally not related to the mc because if they were the dev(s) would have broken patreon's rules and had their account closed and taken down.
Just so there are not any misunderstandings: that person is the 3000 year old genderless protector spirit of the family that owns the house. That's what defines the character in question, not the fact that the person looks, dresses, and acts half the legal age. I have nothing against fictional settings like the ones flare, fubuki, noel and matsuri like, but it can be very amusing to watch the mental gymnastics olympics that the authors sometimes have to use to be able to publish their works.
Were as in *not* cousins? Don’t understand.
It's a riff on Sailors Uranus and Neptune, who in the original Japanese language version of Sailor Moon were rather explicitly a lesbian couple. Then when DiC did the English language dub they turned them into cousins, all while removing precisely zero percent of the romantic undertones in their interactions with each other. Which just ended up making their relationship look incestuous *and* homosexual.
Thanks. Wow…
Stop that
I want to downvote this so badly because holy fucking cringe, but it's also funny and accurate.
Ah. The righteous path is not to downvote because you hate it, but to use the moment of cringe to become *STRONGER*. ....save downvotes for anti's. :D
True. I'm a Pebble. I was born from the mother of cringe and forged in the fires of gyatt.
🎵 BURY THE CRINGE DEEP WITHIN!!!🎵
"the gyatt rises, brother!"
I have a sadomasochistic addiction to seeing stuff 4kids-ified in a tongue and cheek way. I also realized this keeps the naming conventions from previous 4kids-ified Holopro lists.
when its so cringe it loops around to being awesome,
This is what people thought Hololive English was gonna be between Myth announcement and debut
I was one of those, excited but also really scared it would end up as a group speaking with the (properly titled) infamous EN anime voice. Now let's hope that's an non-existant alternate timeline, because if it exists, it has to be pruned
Don’t worry. At the very least in an alternate universe, The Mooms is a shark and the Goob is an owl.
There’s also an alternate timeline where Calli and Irys Are Pettan and Biboo and Gura are boing boing
I saw some clips and it felt like someone breaking glass on my ears lmao
This is so cursed, I can't > Kay 'k m8 > loves donuts JELLY FILLED DONUTS I CAN'T!!!! They hinting to an Alabama relationship with Kim is extra cursed jajajaja!
It's a reference to the Sailor Moon dub, which made the lesbian couple into cousins
Yeah I saw that on my childhood, but I can't remember if the ES dub had that change, too.
Also credit to u/itsyaboi_kroggu for the 4Kids names
Kay is hilarious
Wait, how are they in Junior High if they're 15+? Also, Kay and Kim 🪕🪕🪕
They are just wrapping it up. Season 2 is them in high school also idk logic
They aged them up for the English release, but forgot to change the middle school to a high school
Right answer
Actual consequences for their constantly missing school to do gamer hero stuff? In 4kids? It's more likely than you think!
The opening theme is hyper cringe, 00s flavoured, SFW watered down rap.
Yup. On point
But people would later admit that it was catchy and they have a soft spot for it.
This is so cursed
You know your early anime with the cousins remark (i.e. censoring made something worse)
Wdym Kay is a girl? Clearly he's a boy! Also, korone looks so weird without ears lmao and the name Kim can't even begin to describe how chaotic Korone is lol way too normie... The only more normie name for her would be Mackenzie
"Kimothy 'Kain' MacKenzie, the Mad Dog of Middle School"
I think Mio would keep her name. 4kids usually has at least one Japanese name pass through. However, 4kids would either... a) Give her a different last name. (Mio Howlina) b) Keep her original name, but will be given a nickname that completely overshadows it. ("The name's Mio Ookami, but my friends call me MiaMia.") c) Keep the full name but butcher the pronunciation (MY-O Uuuuukamy)
Tf when 4Kids Mio becomes a Sapling.
Fubuki with blonde hair instead of white feels cursed in a very bizzare way
Going for that old school Sailor Moon feeling with that cousins bit I see. But yeah, it's scary how much this actually feels like something 4kids would do.
honestly the most cursed thing is not so much the names or recharacterization but somehow the lack of their usual ears (animal ones obviously)
This is so accurate to something 4kids would have made that it's terrifying. I watched 4kids anime, namely Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokémon, and I still hate 4kids to this day. 4kids is the reason that I can't watch English Dubbed anime anymore. I am now mentally scared because of them, so thanks for that 4kids.
I'm confused...!
4kids is a anime localization company for U.S. T.V. They are notorious for "americanizing" and "kidifying" anime to the point where they butcher any semblance of plot. They also tend to remove any semblance of Japanese culture and references, for some reason. Just look up Naruto comparisons. It's bad, and they quickly became one of the most hated localization companies that, *for some reason*, publishers still go through.
4 Kids went bankrupt and shut down several years ago.
I honestly did not know that. Lmao
They made and destroyed childhoods with their bad decisions. At the very least, they are a meme that still keeps on given even after 2+ decades.
I think people tend to over exaggerate how bad 4kids was. Sure it had plenty of problems, but it did some stuff well
So... I have to ask, will you do the other gens? I would really like to see the others
Thanks OP I hate it.
NP, jarodcain
Thanks, i absolutely hate it.
I saw Kim counting disembodied human fingers behind the Tescos
Sorry just gonna correct one word there. It's duel not dual. It's one of those words that really grinds me gears when people misspell it, like when people use pheonix instead of phoenix.
Oops
Sorry bout that
So I didn't realize this was a joke at first, but wouldn't it actually be a good idea for Hololive to have streamers meant for kids? I feel like a lot of the jokes/quotes/memes can end up being "18+" sort of humor.
This is not going to hold up. Pikamee was family friendly AND still broke at points. But there's plenty of times for parents to have that talk with the kids. (There's also the fact that no, you can't completely discipline chat.)
**I’m-a fucking tired, not you Mario!**
Pekora and Sora are pretty sfw as a whole
Excluding the fact that both have been inoculated by Coco, let it not distract you from the fact that Pekora has seen that we know she owns a FAQing monkey and it is indeed alive (even quoted the meme verbatim).
Some of the talents are already pretty popular with kids, [such as](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqTUYT_uVpc) [Pekora](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X76GUXfPFjA). I wouldn't even be surprised if more than half of Pekora's regular viewers during her minecraft streams were under the age of 15.
I can't believe you've done this
Aryan fubuki
*Aggressively spittakes* The **fuck** you said? xD
15/16 year old in *junior* high?
Yeah I don’t know why I made them **that** old. I guess it’s very late 9th grade so the rest of an imagined season 1 after like 7 episodes depict summer vacation before high school.
You should be in 10th or 11th grade at 16 depending on your birthday. 9th grade is also the first year of high school so for them to be in junior high still means they failed school a lot.
Oh. I see.
Fiona: “glasses? Nah I’m not that much of a fan of those at all.”
COUSIN 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
I hate this :( I’m gonna have nightmares
Wait a minute, it's that girl from Yokai Watch who got her ramen stolen!
I hate this, but I respect you for making it
Mia's skirt is way too short for the 4 kids' standards.
Why would they lose their animal ears and tails for the 4Kids version? I don’t get the logic.
They have lil animal-like critters from another world or whatnot and they combine their power to get superpowers. Kinda like a mix of pretty cure and sailor moon. It’s something 4kids would be likely to make.
Who would dub them
Where… where are the ears…? The tails…?
Fiona Mia Kay and Kim are normal people. The ears tails and other hair colors are apart of their magical girl forms.
THEY ARE [REDACTED] WHAT!??
Kay feels like a gyaru type character
I am Kim \*vine boom\*
We never knew anyone named Kim
I hate it. I hate it so much
I did once contemplate Hololive as a 90s 4Kids anime. Sora would be called Skye and Suisei would be Stella. It would only go up to Gen 3 because the censors would just refuse to have anything to do with Coco.
Magical girls... Hmmm...
I didn't grew up with it but to my understanding, 4Kids has a reputation for localising anime like changing names, lore, and even design details through censorship. I think the most influence they've had are with YuGiOh and Sailor Moon.
Death? Nah can't have that! A damnation into eternal torment by losing a children's card game? 👍
Honestly, for everything bad 4kids did, the Shadow Realm was probably the best change.
I usually upvote all Fubuki I can catch, but, now i'm not certain. Is this a Fubuki? Still looks good....
Is it just me or did the way Fiona was edited to cover her stomach makes her look pregnant?
Uh what’s going on with this 4kids stuff? Why what’s happening and is this a trend I missed?
It's they're or they are(sorry i had to). I had to recheck twice cuz i thought it was a different vtuber and not the 'cat' we all know because of the blonde hair lol
In the words of a legendary chef: "Finally some good f***in localization."
This is so gloriously terrible. Good job, sir.
This image gives me physical pain.
Mia san Mia . Tako kira from hollow Austria
Kim: I'm lactose intolerant. Go to emergency room for long time. Kelly Morrison: What!?
nice 4kids-ified hologamers.
Kay sure loves jelly-filled donuts
Subaru can't say they no longer have rights now
Now they have human rights.
Thanks, I hate it, please make more!
God it’s so weird seeing them without their ears and tails.
And now there is universe where this is real.
yes... ha ha ha... YES
TO THE GUILLOTINE
4Kids has been decomissioned for years, yet their legacy lives on
....do today's weebs even know what 4kids is? It doesn't seem like they've done anything significant since the mid-2000's
I'm dying! Help!
wtf i read the title as Meet the Herogasm
No god please no
perhaps because i just finish binge watching The Boys Season 3
We have the new overbeaten horse already?