>>23396993Other attempts in dubbing (Digimon, One Piece and Yugioh come to mind) really sucked since they usually traded in a lot of more mature themes and emotional lines for dumbed-down kiddie themes and jokes.
Frankly, Pokemon rarely ever explicitly concentrates on mature or emotional. There wasn't really much to change when it came to how they wanted to dub the show and the nature of the show when it wasn't translated, so you can see better effort in how it was localized.
To me, Pokemon was one of, if not the best shows for 4Kids to dub, and I do miss how they did it, jelly donuts aside.