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 company's mission was to dub all episodes of the anime it licensed, not leaving a single scene cut, thereby giving fans the complete anime experience.


 * 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. Talk about a city that never sleeps — we're all sure the staff of 4Kids doesn't have much time to rest either!
 * 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. This is similar to a chef trying a new recipe; they want to stay true to the original ingredients while adding their own spin to it. The same goes for anime dubbing, they want to keep the original elements while still having a unique flavor to it.
 * Dub Name Change: 4Kids is well-known for doing this when it comes to dubbing anime, changing characters’ Japanese names to English ones. This is done to make the show more relatable to Western audiences, as many are unfamiliar with the original Japanese names.