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This Week in Anime - The Rise and Evolution of Old Classic Dubs

It would be nice if dub haters finally got over this era of dubbing because only Saban/Power Rangers still does it.

What dub haters don't (or won't) understand is that these are shows for children, and that despite overlap, Japanese children and American children are different groups.

We Digimon fans are eating like kings and queens. I am buying those re-dubbed movies the literal nanosecond they come out..

Beyblade dubs (much like Yu-Gi-Oh!, to my knowledge) just outright keep more or less everyone's names unchanged, no matter how Japanese they might be, which I think is really cool.

While that is true that doesn’t mean that the English versions of these shows needed to be so damn cringey or blatant in how badly they wanted to whitewash the Japanese elements present in some of these series out because god forbid the characters eat rice balls or go by a Japanese sounding name that apparently can’t work even in a made up American setting.

A nostalgia cash-grab American dub is not what I would consider 'eating good', especially since most people in Japan and in other countries won't care about the American dub.

Even Digimon did this. "It's written in Digicode!" as a character looks at katakana.writing. They even changed Taichi's last name to ANOTHER Japanese name because "Yagami" is "Im a Gay" spelled backwards. They did the same for Takato and Ruki in Tamers, but for other reasons.

It would be nice if dub haters finally got over this era of dubbing because only Saban/Power Rangers still does it. It would be nice if they could handle Power Rangers/Kamen Rider more like how Tsuburaya handles Ultraman. But until then, man, Digimon really did punch above it's weight when it wanted to.

Speaking of the redub of the Powerpuff Girls anime, DIscotek Media should at least use the original voice cast of the 1998 show. That would fix what I call the mistake from years ago (using the Ocean Group voice actors for the dub of PPGZ). Almost all the Powerpuff Girls media feature e.g. Roger L. Jackson as Mojo Jojo, Jennifer Hale as Miss Keane/Princess Morbucks/Sedusa, Tom Kenny as the Narrator/Mayor of Townsville et cetera.

Shame the whole thing came out like it did (And weird to me that it was edited far more than Digimon, which was dubbed years before by the same company), because the cast genuinely felt like they were having a blast with it.
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What dub haters don't (or won't) understand is that these are shows for children, and that despite overlap, Japanese children and American children are different groups. I think the shows that stood the test of time (Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Digimon) were ones whose adaptors understood what would appeal to American kids and just flavored what was left to taste.

I've heard this a few times in the past but PPGZ is just so different and dethatched that I don't think the original American cartoon voices would fit at all for that. The Japanese version did not use the seiyuu from the Japanese dub of PPG either.