>>39298395The dubs are great in there own right and it has absolutely nothing to do with nostalgia considering plenty of dubs I watched as a child are completely unwatchable now, case in point: Cardcaptor Sakura. 4Kids has plenty of problems with their translation work, but Pokemon is not one of them. Most of the 4kids cast are pretty decent, they are very charismatic and emotive, where 4kids has problems is with censorship and unnecessary localization changes. While they did edit out all text, for the most part the scripts for the actual episodes feature no major changes besides changing jokes to be understandable to a western audience. Did this in some instances lead to dated references? Yes, but for the most part it is unoffensive.
Also every line team rocket says was changed to a joke, but in all honesty it is 100% better in every regard to the original lines they had and team rocket is infinitly more memorableThere are numerous bad dubs out there, so much so that there is no reason to check out most of them ever unless you've seen the show in question multiple times and want a new experience. However the 4kids Pokemon dub is not one of them, cry Jelly-filled donuts all you want. If you think it's horrible you haven't seen a truly awful dub.
