Naruto Licensed...

[The Badguy]

On NarutoFan.com there's an article almost spelling death for Naruto here in America.

Cartoon Network today announced several major acquisitions for their venerable Toonami action-animation block. Fan-favorite "Naruto" will join the block in the third quarter of 2005, while "One Piece" will move to Toonami in May. Toonami original IGPX will expand into a full series from Production IG. "The Batman" will see a Toonami airing beginning April 2, ShoPro acquisition "Zatch Bell" will start in March, and nosehair-fighting anime "Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo" is coming in the fourth quarter. The show will be aimed at young viwers and their parents. Which most likely means we will be seeing the same highly criticized translations that appear in the USA manga, I guess it will be just like American One Piece!

Now I was happy the game was coming over and semi happy that the show will be too, until I heard where the show is going to be aired: Toonami... If this word strikes terror into your heart good, because it should. If it doesn't, then you'd better take a look at the originals of everything that's ever been on Toonami. You'll see a gross difference. First of all Toonami has a thing with anime about completely destroying it. They tend to show it and then milk it for all it's worth until it's not even remotely interesting anymore. Naruto is no exception. My prediction is that it will be edited the crap out of and all the good parts are long gone. Sexy No Jitsu is still in there but here's what it looks like now: www.picaroni.com/bathingsuit_naruto.gif. and Kakashi's book is probably out the window. all the swearing is gone, blood is gone, they probably won't be using any Japanese terms (kun, chan, sensei) and the ninja ranks will probably be skewed. and then the merchandising will begin. The day it comes on Toonami it's going to be a sad day for that series. There's talk that it could go to adult swim, and I hope to God it does, because while there will STILL be parts edited, it won't be as horribly butchered as on Toonami. Here's hoping

[chaos unleashed]

lmao

Well, after watching original DBZ, I was utter shocked, the voice acting first of all, King kai had a very cool deep voice in the original, and then in the freakin english one, he sounds like some squirmy ass bug!!!

DBZ was also very bloody, but it's better than real blood, though I don't mind both, at the end of the day, it's a cartoon.

Well, on to Naruto, my friend who practiclly worships Naruto, breathes naruto, vomits naruto, a friend that'd go all the way to japan last summer just to watch the Naruto Movie and took japanese lessons before the trip, ok have I got you trusted to him?

anyways, he said that there's been word that Sakura is going to be played by.....0_0; get ready for this...... Misty from Pokemon!!!! WTF WTF!!!

I just know Gohan's gunna be there doing it for someone like..... chouji, and when there's a Gohan, you get a Goku- who might do it for that really realy smart person, damn it I forgot his name!! well, you know who Im talking about but this is just IMO dont take my word for it.

But then again, for the people who haven't seen the original naruto, or know much about it, will probably like it, and over here in UK there's a LOT of those people, Naruto will be a success here only becasue people don't take notice of the original, and cant be bothered to download it.

But im sure in the USA it's a totally different story lol

[RAIDE]

AGHHHHHHH

OF ALL PEOPLE!!!!

well, i'll still watch it, i'll just buy DVDs at chinatown or something XP

it think its a lol diff here Chaos lol

you either know and love Naruto here, or havent seen it/ dont like it and are being chased my mobs of sakura fanboys XP

i'm sure once i see it, i'll be in a ranting mood lol

side note : american VA's = teh evil

[The Badguy]

the guy who did Vash is VAing Naruto and I was told the guy that did Heero from Gundam Wing is VAing someone. Sasuke I believe

[booo]

"Toonami... If this word strikes terror into your heart good, because it should."

If worst comes to worst and unedited/undubbed DVDs aren't available you can always just look to fansubs. Just because the series will be shown on cable TV doesn't mean it will be ruined forever... It'll just introduce a lot of annoying twelve year olds to the scene, who will then flock to Naruto message boards and the like acting like twelve year olds. Annoying, yes... But destruction? Nah.

"They tend to show it and then milk it for all it's worth until it's not even remotely interesting anymore"

Well... You don't have to watch it every time they show it.

"they probably won't be using any Japanese terms (kun, chan, sensei)"

How many people (anime fans not counted) would be able to make heads or tails of those? Some localization is needed, though I'll admit what is shown on CN tends to be overkill.

"and then the merchandising will begin"

Merchandising = More in the realm of the US Distributor, ShoPro (http://www.shopro-entertainment.com). And after a quick glance at the company's site, I'd be more worried about them than cartoon network - I've heard some rather unflattering reviews of their handling of Inu Yasha and Megaman.

[Akatsuki Dizzy]

If worst comes to worst and unedited/undubbed DVDs aren't available you can always just look to fansubs.

Here's the problem. Most of the fansubbed distributers stopped due to the license. Because it's licensed in the US it means it's illegal now here to download it. So they cut it from bittorrents site mainly and you have to know good hosts who still do fansubing out of there own wants.

EDIT: and for the record here's that list of possable VAs--

Naruto - Vash from Trigun
Kakashi - Spike from Cowboy Bebop
Sakura - Misty from Pokemon
Gaara - Seto Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh
Sasuke - Hiro from Gundam Wing

[chaos unleashed]

Yuck!!

I don't think misty suits sakura!

[booo]

www.narutochaos.com

AonE is still subbing Naruto episodes as they come out, the above site has torrents and direct downloads.

[Akatsuki Dizzy]

I personally still go to Naruto Fan which still has the subs, and even the new ones! So if youwant, go to: www.narutofan.com to check it out!

[chaos unleashed]

well, I go on

www.naruto-kun.com

but yeah, as ZopharX said, Aone are still subbin' and so are DatteBayo which is good for us since it cuts us the wait for the crappy version which will be arriving in Summer

[cherryblossom]

When I heard it was liscensed, I thought- Big deal

When I found out toonami were liscensing it, I fainted in terror

[booo]

See above rant - It very likely still won't be a big deal.

[chaos unleashed]

but hey,

when DBZ came out here, I was amazed at the damn thing!! and back then I never knew they cut out bits, maybe we wont like it but the young ones will jump at this!

[booo]

Yeah, that is one positive aspect - Putting anime on TV increases the general population's awareness of it. Ten years ago if I went into one of my classrooms and asked people what they thought of anime I doubt I would've gotten anything but blank stares, whereas now I'd probably get a few reactions.

[chaos unleashed]

yeah, people probably downloaded DBZ off bittorrent before it got lisenced and watched all the real blood and gore, but we watched the censored version, and even then I thought DBZ was the best cartoon on earth and perhaps it may still be