Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31524712-20181013103752/@comment-5469588-20181018223623

GlitterInformer wrote: LaytonPuzzle27 wrote: I have never seen anyone defend or supported the 4Kids dub of One Piece then why would anyone is defending or supporting Glitter Force? The reason I'm against this is because if I support Glitter Force then I would be considered a traitor or a 4Kids Lover in front of the whole anime community. Here's my opinion: 4Kids dubs are worse than Glitter Force. I can't say much about Glitter Force Doki Doki because I've only watched the first episode, but I can say that most of the episodes are dubbed well. As I said above 75% of the episodes are the same as their Japanese coutnerparts, just with the names changed. I don't mind this, as a character named Emily is just as sympathetic as a character named Miyuki. Plus, the voice acting is quite good once you get past episode 1. However, 25% of it is on the level of 4Kids. 8 episodes are removed, and 4 more are heavily edited/censored for no good reason. The reason I don't dislike Glitter Force as much as a 4Kids dub is that if 4Kids had made Glitter Force, it would be heavily edited all the way through. Voice acting aside, some of the 4Kids editing tropes can actually be found in the Doki Doki dub.

I can't recall the Smile dub that much in terms of plot points, but the Doki Doki dub had quite a lot of plot stuff removed, though mainly the smaller stuff. One thing both GF dubs have in common is that anything Japanese is considered as 'foreign', so I can't say neither 4Kids or Saban localized more than the other. The only unique thing I can recall about GF'd edits are the screen tinges: not even 4Kids went as far as darkening transformation and attack scenes (As well as other random scenes where the shadowing is unnecessary).