4Kids Entertainment’s Tropes

Ever since its foundation on May 16, 2013, 4Kids Entertainment has been most well-known for producing English-dubbed Japanese anime through its television production arm, 4Kids Productions. Here are some tropes going along with it.

Tropes

 * Adaptional Expansion: Downplayed. 4Kids started out by re-dubbing anime it licensed in its first years in the anime industry. The goal: to dub all episodes of the anime it licenses, leaving no scenes cut.


 * Alternative Foreign Theme Song: Most of the anime 4Kids dubs has a different opening theme song.
 * Big Applesauce: 4Kids is based in New York City.
 * Bowdlerise: Inverted. The company does NOT want to repeat the same mistakes done by its original incarnation, so it doesn’t want to water down ANY scenes when English-dubbing anime.
 * Dub Name Change: 4Kids is well-known for doing this when it comes to dubbing anime, changing characters’ Japanese names to English ones.