I do wanna add that I have a problem with 4Kids’ unnecessary Paint Edits. Even as a kid, I knew something was off.
What I didn’t know is that they erased letters from billboards, posters, etc. I get that I cannot read the Japanese letters, but at least try to make the signs have some text. Another problem I have is how they edited the badge cases in the Ruby and Sapphire series. They changed the Poké Ball logo to a red shaped rectangle. How is that an American thing, and why was it edited in the first place? Every kid knows what a Poké Ball looks like.
And now the rice ball edits. They called them rice balls after donuts, so why change the rice balls into sandwiches? I wouldn’t mind really, but I did mind how poorly drawn and animated those foods were. The PBnJ sandwich from AG 92 looked ugly and out of place, didn’t fit Jimmy’s hand nor they increase the size of the wrapper. The way it was animated was horrible as well. It’s just a static image of it being shifted in size and rotated. The sandwich didn’t even break. Same problem I had with the sandwich from AG118. Like 4Kids, do you even know how physics work? Lol
That is something I’ll never miss from 4Kids. I blame Al Kahn for “Americanizing” the anime and other shows as well.