>>51198089Good points about 4Kids:
- Had some top tier voice acting talent, paid their VAs top dollar despite the dubious quality of their work. IDC what people say: Dan Green, Eric Stuart, Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Wayne Grayson, Greg Abbey, etc. etc. are honestly a shit ton more talented than the current NY pool dubs they use for Anime over there and the NY vets seemed to have genuine voice acting talent, something that seems to be lost in modern day dubs from the area.
- Occasionally you had some witty dialogue, such as the 4Kids Team Rocket stuff, I'd take that anyday over what TPCi did to them. Even Dogasu, weeb extraordinaire, admitted they were handled better in the old days of the dub despite their issues.
- They seemed to have genuine good taste in music, it's almost unanimous in the PokeAni fandom their openings were bangers and literally everyone misses their composer John Loeffler compared to Ed Goldfarb (also they were oddly VERY respectful of the Japanese OST in this Series, kept a good chunk of it throughout their run, whether that was due to agreements or not they did leave more of the Japanese music intact than TPCi's own dub overall).
- The TMNT 2003 cartoon was very well done, actually.
