@mcnerds replied to your post “One-sentence horror story: The 4Kids dub of “Yuri!!! On Ice”. ...”
"If you lose this ice skating competition, you will be banished to the shadow realm! Also I love you like a brother no homo"
No, but can you actually imagine how horrible it would’ve been? Like, knowing 4Kids, this is probably what they would’ve done:
- photoshop hamburgers in place of katsudons (or name them something ridiculous like porkchops or grilled steaks) and piroshki as donuts or something bc “WE CAN’T HAVE AMERICAN KIDS LEARN ABOUT FOODS FROM OTHER CULTURES”
- give Viktor and Yurio a stereotypical Russian accent
- change Yurio’s name to something dumb, bc “OH NO WE CANNOT HAVE BOTH CHARACTERS NAMED YURI THAT WOULD CONFUSE THE KIDDIES”
- completely photoshop the engagement rings out as well as remove and edit any scenes with Yuri and Viktor showing affection towards one another bc NO HOMO
- re-edit the scene where Yuri gets drunk and does a pole-dancing scene, to him getting a sugar rush off of coca cola or something
- photoshop speedos onto Yurio and Viktor when they go bathing into hot-springs
- replace the original theme song with some dudo bro, macho rock song bc its ALL ABOUT SPORTS AND WE GOTTA SHOW HOW STRAIGHT AND MANLY THESE SKATERS ARE.
... aaand, I have to stop because I’m gonna give myself an anneurism if I think more about this.
Like I said, sometimes I’m really glad that 4Kids went bankrupt.