Review for 4kids Complaints Day

4kids Complaints Day

(#) SirGawainOfCamelot 2008-01-19

…You’re not a YuGiOh fan, are you?

They change every single character’s name! Well, everyone but Yuugi, Mokuba, Bakura, and Kaiba. Tea is really Anzu, Joey Wheeler is really Jounouchi Katsuya, Tristan Taylor is really Hiroto Honda, and Merik is really Malik. While I know that last one’s just a matter of Japanese pronunciation, anyone while the slightest knowledge of Arabic could surmise that it’s supposed to be Malik.

Then there’re the invisible guns, the complete sugar coating of Jounouchi and Malik’s pasts, and the voices. Bakura’s sounds cute, sure, which is ok when it’s Ryou. But the other Bakura just doesn’t go with a cute British voice. The Yuugis have already complained about their dubs, and Jounouchi has a nasal Brooklyn accent. And Honda – to be blunt – sounds like Barney the Dinosaur. And Mokuba sounds like Barney the Dinosaur’s whiney kid brother.