Dogasu's Backpack Discussion

[Yash]

Wonder if the current dub still does, most likely.

What confuses me about this is wouldn’t TPCI still benefit from royalties of the Japanese soundtrack if they’re all part of the same company? Like, I understand TPCI is still technically a separate entity from The Pokemon Company in Japan, but like… how different can that possibly be?

Probably some legal jumble none of us will ever be privy to or understand, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they just keep doing the music replacements out of tradition, or some Japanese executives really have it in their heads that localized anime dubs need replacement scores to work outside of Japan. For everything people like Dogasu in the fandom complain about, like the shoddy DVD releases, delayed dub release schedule (seriously, what’s with the radio silence on Horizons?), lack of an official release of the Japanese version or at least a more faithful dub, etc. you can’t deny the show is still a success in its own right. I’m sure every time Netflix drops months-old batches of episodes they do insane numbers, and that’s probably all the suits really care about. Why rock the boat?

(This is, of course, not at all to say Dogasu or anyone is wrong on those points - in fact, I agree with all of them)

 

[Nicolas721]

What confuses me about this is wouldn’t TPCI still benefit from royalties of the Japanese soundtrack if they’re all part of the same company? Like, I understand TPCI is still technically a separate entity from The Pokemon Company in Japan, but like… how different can that possibly be?
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I don't know the specifics but I know the Japanese version is also produced by Shopro and TvTokyo, so by changing the music TPCI wouldn't owe anything to them.

 

[darksteel6]

Here's an article about 4Kids that's pretty relevant(BTW if the name of the guy who wrote the article sounds familiar, it's the same dude who ran the Yugioh Uncensored fansite, that blew my mind, glad to see he's mellowed out on his attitude towards 4Kids since then):

https://gamerant.com/4kids-anime-impact/

 

[PaperSplash]

Here's an article about 4Kids that's pretty relevant(BTW if the name of the guy who wrote the article sounds familiar, it's the same dude who ran the Yugioh Uncensored fansite, that blew my mind, glad to see he's mellowed out on his attitude towards 4Kids since then):

https://gamerant.com/4kids-anime-impact/

I was hoping this article would be more in-depth. Frankly it seems like a pretty surface-level summary and doesn't bring much (if any) new insight to the table.

 

[darksteel6]

I was hoping this article would be more in-depth. Frankly it seems like a pretty surface-level summary and doesn't bring much new insight to the table.

Yeah I was hoping it would be more in-depth as well, that guy Kevin also wrote a book and it got some pretty negative reviews that echoed similar criticisms, I get the feeling Kevin isn't as good of a writer as he thinks he is(the last thing he wrote before he abandoned YGO Uncensored was that he was quitting the site because "God" was telling me to write a book and I was like "yeah Okaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy then")

 

[snowmint]

I wish people more interesting deep dives on 4kids besides the same regurgitated surface level SUMMARIES.