Awesome Trowbacks

To cite that Pokemon being popular in the US as proof that there was no anti-anime/Japanese sentiment in the late 90s and early 2000s is some crazy work when an infamous thing that was being passed around was how 4kids changed rice balls to jelly doughnuts and how there was a moral/satanic panic against the franchise which got so out of control that Pope John Paul II in 2000 literally had to step in to defend the franchise from the evangelicals’ wrath.

I remember three years ago that someone on Twitter posted a tweet that said that 4kids was somehow a “blessing” and that everyone was calling her out for being wrong and trashing 4kids dubs and anyone who said nice to them. Yet weeks later, when Discotek was announcing that they are going to release the three Digimon movies, people got nostalgic for the old Saban Digimon movie dub and wanted the American soundtrack on the new dub. That day will never not be hilarious to me.

The thing that I like about cartoons and anime dubs from the 90s is that they used theater actors to do the voices of the characters.

If the anti-woke grifter weebs are complaining that the Witch Hat Atelier dub having accents is making the series “woke”, then they would have a meltdown over King Dedede in the Kirby dub sounding like a Foghorn Leghorn version of George W Bush. It’s really funny how those anti-woke grifter weebs are crying that the dub of Witch Hat Atelier having accents is considered “woke” now, but those same people will glance over various accents and celebrity impressions that were in anime dubs in the 90s and early 2000s.

Having a kiddified version of Animal Farm is like Disney trying to make a lighthearted animated musical of the Diary of Anne Frank in which she’s a beautiful adult trying to fall in love with a Nazi German officer.

I think the reason why conservatives hated Ted Turner because he had the audacity to create a cartoon that called them out on the shitty behaviors! When they saw that a media billionaire actually advocating for climate change and protecting the environment, they immediately lashed out on him!

With the death of Ted Turner, I think people need to realize that without him, animation on television would’ve been in the dumps! He almost single-handedly, saved TV animation in the 90s! Cartoon Network was the key for the tv animation renaissance in the 90s!

One of the most hypocritical things that I have ever seen from the right is that they complaining about Ariel being Black in the 2023 Little Mermaid remake, but they are either silent or agreed when over thousands of non-white historical people were played by white actors in the most offensive manners!

I think that Kappa Mikey has to be one of the most overlooked cartoons of the 2000s because it is literally a love letter to anime and anime fans. In fact, there was an episode in which it mocks how dubbers used to localized and censor anime in the 90s and 2000s!