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because apparently the West just wasn't
ready for these guys without some
adjustments I'm Ashley with WatchMojo
and these are the top 10 anime
characters radically changed for America
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becoming in just a second
for this list we're looking at the
characters in anime who were changed
either physically or Nurit idli in order
to better align themselves with American
sensibilities apparently as always you
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of these annoyed you the most my dueling
deck you amateur bring it on psycho boy
number 10 Jin Yu Yu Hakusho this is
probably one of the least harmful
examples of Western changes you'll see
in a classic anime dub aside from being
able to manipulate the wind what this
demon is best known for is his accent
which is rather difficult to the sin
even for Japanese audiences so how do
you translate that into English how
about you pick a tricky western accent
and slap it on my ears where any point
you write poke out the person's eye thus
all retro anime fans now and forever
associate Qin with having a thick Irish
accent and you know what it sort of
works for him guess I'll just rest up
here a bit take myself up another plan
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number nine Lenora Pokemon of course
yaw mass must have been hiding in the
artifacts that's how it ended up here oh
you don't see what they did to change up
this gym leader
well best check your copy of pokemon
black and white again because if you do
you'll see that the dubbed version of
the anime just happened to remove her
signature apron this is likely because
her original design was deemed too
similar to the black Konami stereotype
would you see in a lot of older American
media on this point she is also never
referred to as mama much he is in the
Japanese version again probably the
right move
well it certainly hasn't done anything
to dampen your spirit so you can expect
double from me number eight
Momoko ghost stories quite possibly the
most radical and nonsensical change made
to an anime character and for all the
right reasons given how the original
Japanese narrative was a giant crock of
shambles the top actors decided to have
a ball and turn this little lass into a
radical born-again Christian who would
sake any and all opportunities to spread
the wisdom of Jesus you're such brave
strong handsome men have you accepted
Jesus as your personal Savior then and
the condemnation of anyone with
contrasting beliefs it's hilarious and
crass in all the host ways to the point
where we considered this version of
Momoko you should too when I met her she
was a homosexual destined for eternal
damnation then she was blessed with holy
power who knew
number seven Yuki Totsuka Shiro God
captor Sakura eats image ni Jo talk of
it's the second opening and you thought
they did tell me oh dirty sorry we mean
Madison turns out the greatest sin this
dub of the classic series committed was
a fairly common one back in the day and
that's the ceremonious onion
if it's blatantly homosexual characters
gee I can't think of a reason why you
can ride to school with us anytime
that means you kiito's desire for
Sakura's brother a character trait and
subplot that's a huge part of the whole
series simply becomes another tragic
case of excessive bromance because you
know America just wasn't ready for the
yaoi back then right Julian and my
brother are friends they're nothing like
each other
number six rent our shaman King
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we can just about get over them tinning
Rio into a Spanish swordsman but making
Ren fall on British when he and his
family are so obviously Chinese and then
calling him Lenny instead that's a
bridge too far you don't even look like
a shaman huh and he doesn't look like
much of a fighter
in all fairness Andrew Rannells is
trying his hardest with his terrible
attempt at British accent but wouldn't
it have been a better idea to give ly
Sigler voice since he's the one who's
actually canonically English oh wait
this is for kids of course it doesn't
make any sense while I appreciate your
offer I'd prefer it if you would all
just toddle off number 5 son G one piece
those speaking of those guys let's be
honest here for kids is handling of one
piece produced a mountain of awfulness
hilarity with mass censorship across the
board and swapping a lagoon out from
iceberg for some bloody reason there's
seemingly no end to it however the
biggest offense without a doubt is what
they did to our boy son G so gay if you
want to starve go ahead but I recommend
you swallow your pride and live to see
another day the accent and the wid
laughable attack names would be bad
enough but not even that can compare to
the travesty of switching out some G's
signature cigarettes for a lollipop yes
you trying not to encourage kids to
smoke good for you but this is just
excessive you just taught me to listen
to you farm boy number form ever Mon
Digimon Cross Wars yeah does it a minute
that's more money to take I got granted
it does seem that this particular
Digimon is a tad more ravenous in her
design than she should be for a kids
anime I mean you don't see the likes of
Angie woman and lady devimon flying
around and fly
they're camel Toman in every fight
mervamon obviously didn't get the memo
which was great for the other fans
because come on lads but apparently the
team working on digimon fusion we're
going to risk any loss of innocence and
the search here wardrobe got an
immediate do-over Digital genocide a
okay digital cleavage get out of here
with that Phil it's just so wrong I must
delete my brother
number three Joey wheeler yu-gi-oh
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hey is it bizarre that a teenager from
Japan sounds like a guy in his thirties
born and raised in Brooklyn absolutely
does it mean that we change it
absolutely not
most of us have grown up with Casio
jumuchi being Joey the Brooklynites
we wouldn't have any other way you've
got to be kidding me
trust me wheeler I know what I'm talking
about in hindsight it does make him
sound like he's way too old to be
hanging around with the other kids and
playing card games all day long but the
accent is just so endearing and rooted
into Western anime fans subconscious but
this is one ludicrous change we can
firmly go behind yeah yeah you shoved me
after everything I just went through you
gonna shut me number two Sailor Uranus
and Sailor Neptune Sailor Moon
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lesbians sailor skirt wearing
superheroes
not in my anime at least this was the
opinion of the original dub who decided
that instead of exposing the fact that
these two Sailor Senshi were all about
the Yuri on American TV a rapid change
was required something a little more
accidentally incestuous
what what what yep their excuse for
having Neptune and Uranus clinging to
one another like a wholly devoted couple
is because cousins cousins that just so
happen to be very very very very very
very very close kind of ironic that in
their bid to try and dove away the gay
they ended up turning their relationship
into something legitimately ugly we
can't give him yet we've got to stay
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notifications number one mister Popo
Dragonball Z there seems to be a change
coming over him mr. Popo he's not acting
like the villain I would expect okay so
maybe those uninitiated in the way of
Dragon Ball might have found this
lovable caretaker deity to be well in
the same campus jinx from Pokemon ie
racially insensitive it is pretty hard
to get away from the whole black face
looking design so naturally for kids
decided to step in in order to make a
last-second change before parents could
lash out their solution in blue it is
hard to say it's jarring would be an
understatement and while this may have
stalled some of the initial outrage it
was eventually dropped in favor of the
original Popo later down the line is
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