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4kids creates "4teens Entertainment"?

Wes

Iblis Wings
Original Article - http://www.cynopsis.com/view_cynkids_text.cfm?ID=966

CYNTHIA TURNER'S
Cynopsis: Kids!
04/19/06

Good morning. It's Wednesday, April 19, 2006 and this is your first early morning kids briefing.

4Kids Entertainment, Inc. has formed 4sight licensing solutions, inc., the new division will focus on marketing and licensing brands specifically targeted to tweens, teens and adults. 4sight licensing solutions will be based at the 4Kids Entertainment HQ in NYC.
 
yes first post!!!

Hmmm it sounds interesting if this is true than 4kids might have changed its ways but I still think there gonna edit like hell and I think there gonna market animes for 5 year olds hinking there for babies unless they actually watch the JAP version and relize its for tweens and teens. Time will tell of course is this sight relible?
 

Cerberus

One Love
I would find it hard to divide Kids and Teens, I'm not sure where to draw the line there based on what they are showing on 4Kids now.
 
My hope;

4sight will get HunterxHunter, dub it good, air it on Toonami or simliar, gain back our trust, and have them get One Piece dubbed better...
 
If this is true, they've finally realized that teenagers watch this too(Khan isn't as idiotic as I thought!)!:) But the thing is, not that many teen animé are up for grabs: HunterXHunter, Beet the Vandal Buster, Bleach... They could redub One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh and Shaman King to make it click with the age group it's SUPPOSED to go with(and make it uncut of course!), but that'd be too good to be true(I'm not including GX cause they didn't mess that up too badly...but then again, that was the first season, and the next one requires a lot of understanding.)!:p

That reminds me, IF they plan on doing this...they might as well pick up the Toei Yu-Gi-Oh series(the one with the early manga storyline). Atemu rocked so hard back then~
 
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kaibachaoschampion

Feather Trainer
O_O..............o_O..........o_o!!!!

4Kids acknowledged that teens exist, thats a wonder. If they don't release uncuts now then Kahn would sure be an idiot. I won't believe anything they say unless they actually start to release uncuts. Its hard to believe they will release uncuts, but heres a start.....
 

Skiks

MUCH RESPECT
Well alls I'll say is he better not touch HxH till he has proven he changed his ways. D: I really so hope Khan has learned from his pasts. There is still the americanizing rampage though.
Pika Hikari KT said:
If this is true, they've finally realized that teenagers watch this too(Khan isn't as idiotic as I thought!)!:) But the thing is, not that many teen animé are up for grabs: HunterXHunter, Beet the Vandal Buster, Bleach...
Bleach was already taken though.
 
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kaibachaoschampion

Feather Trainer
Skiks said:
Well alls I'll say is he better not touch HxH till he has proven he changed his ways. D: I really so hope Khan has learned from his pasts. There is still the americanizing rampage though.

Yeah, personally i'd like to see One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh, Shaman King, Sonic X all uncut. Kahn had better do this right, I hope they don't touch a thing until it is proven which i'm still wondering if they can prove it.

If this does mean uncuts I wonder if they'll rerelease the Yu-Gi-Oh and Shaman King uncuts that they did back in 2004 or would they just pick up where they left off. Meh eithers fine with me, but proof needs to be seen indeed beforre anything new is licenced.
 
Skiks said:
Well alls I'll say is he better not touch HxH till he has proven he changed his ways. D: I really so hope Khan has learned from his pasts. There is still the americanizing rampage though.

Bleach was already taken though.

He can't take any of the SJ titles. They are Viz Media's now. If 4Kids/tween whatever really want them, they have to pay Viz Media as well as the liscensing which increase to payment. I doubt they want to do that. HxH, Beet etc aren't that popular compared to Naruto and One Piece.

In all honesty I find it hard to believe that there is now a tween/teen marketing for 4Kids.
 

Skiks

MUCH RESPECT
More news from ANN:
4Kids Grows Up, Lunches 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.
 

poke_girl

The Amazing
Think they'll redo some of the things they've already done?
 
poke_girl said:
Think they'll redo some of the things they've already done?
The original Yu-gi-oh series is more for teens in Japan, with punching and such, like Tea afraid of the guys looking up hre skirt and the guy in the wearhouse wanting to mug her is a pervert with a camera. So if they redid Yu-gi-oh I would imagine they would keep in all that, plus Joey's and Tristan's actually punching and such, also keep in the monster gore like Odion's mosnter eating its opponents. Ohhh and maybe Marik's Dad having a whip he hit Odion with :O And much more.

But if they redid old things they might fall back into old habits :/
 

milowner

Back in Black
If they do improve, it's still gonna take a while for them to gain my respect for what they've done to great animes like Sonic X and One Piece. I got my fansubs though, which is probably better than it could be as dubbed no matter how good it is.
 

Yamato-san

I own the 5th gen
Geez, several of you seem to be getting your hopes up. You are aware that, even if Al Kahn is aiming towards an older audience, he's still a cheap, generalizing bas****. I invision that any mature anime picked up will still have its music changed (because we know 4kids has no intention on paying for rights), there'll still be edits which go beyond the FCC standards because 4kids is paranoid that way (think like how blood is trimmed down on various Adult Swim anime when it's not necessary), they still don't want Japanese culture integrating itself into American television (nor English writing in the rest of the world), and any kids-tweens shows are still as good as screwed if picked up by them. Also, did y'all not notice this?

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.

BTW, for the people wishing for an uncut Yu-gi-oh! and Shaman King redub, it already happened. Problem is, they discontinued it after 2-3 DVDs were released.
 

milowner

Back in Black
Man, I agree with you Yamato-san. Seriously, what's so bad about a little Japanese culture? It's not like because of it Asians will rule the world. What I would give to break Al Kahn's neck right now...
 

Kez

Hoenn Champion
I was wondering if anyone noticed what Yamoto-san pointed out. I mean, if they keep thinking like that, and make the anime aimed at a childish audience, then that type of stereo typing will stay there wont it?

I am hoping for redubs and whole series released on uncut, but i am expecting nothing. As they saty, hope for the best, expect the worst.
 

Skiks

MUCH RESPECT
Kez said:
I was wondering if anyone noticed what Yamoto-san pointed out. I mean, if they keep thinking like that, and make the anime aimed at a childish audience, then that type of stereo typing will stay there wont it?

I am hoping for redubs and whole series released on uncut, but i am expecting nothing. As they saty, hope for the best, expect the worst.
I noticed that the minute I posted it. It seems they will leave the animes in 4kids levels as is. They said they had no plans of moving any anime from 4kids to 4teens.
 
milowner said:
Man, I agree with you Yamato-san. Seriously, what's so bad about a little Japanese culture? It's not like because of it Asians will rule the world. What I would give to break Al Kahn's neck right now...

The anwser to both is ...Chuck Norris.
 
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