- Oh my god!
- He just sort of ... - Wait, no,
- Brings out a gun!
- No, this is not what I thought was going to happen.
- He just brought out a gun.
(upbeat techno music)
- It'll be really interesting to see how they
change the show for a Western audience.
- We're going to get to the bottom of this.
Dubbed or subbed.
(Pokemon theme song)
- Hype train, let's do this.
- I like, really want to dance, but I...
- I love that song.
- Nolstalgia for sure.
- It makes me think of my favorite episodes
and how much I just want a Pokemon.
- I'm so hyped for this, I'm ready.
(Japanese theme song)
- Oh, this is really different.
- This is not the same at all.
- Okay, that's the same scene, yeah.
- That girl's skirt?
- (speaks Japanese) yeah, inside that girl's skirt
- Yeah. - What the (bleep).
I'm not down with that.
- Wait, is that part not in the regular,
in the other version.
- She's there, but it's not quite as like ...
We're going to look up her skirt for Pokemon.
- Well when ...
- I have a feeling,
of what's going to happen.
Oh my god.
Wait, no. - He just sort of ...
Brings out a gun!
- No, this is not what I thought ...
- He just brought out a gun. - Was going to happen.
- Oh god!
Poor Ash!
- Whoa!
- So interesting because there aren't guns in Japan.
- Yeah, no.
- Like, no one has guns. - That's not their thing.
- Right.
- God Brock, god bless him.
- Brock.
(cartoon sounds)
- [Blonde Woman] See prune juice.
Will, I told you.
I said this is ...
Yeah.
- [Long Haired Brunette Woman] That's interesting.
He brought a tea set,
but he offers them prune juice instead of tea.
- Why are they drinking prune juice with a tea set?
Did they think that American kids
would be so offended by tea?
- It's like I didn't even know this show
was Japanese as a kid, because they did stuff like this.
(upbeat techno music)
- Yes, Kai. - This was the guy I liked.
- Yeah, same.
He's so cute, he's the best one.
- Oh wow, this is very different.
- Do the kids in America watch this?
- Yeah.
There's almost a hip-hop element to the American version.
I could imagine an executive going in and being like,
rock and roll is dead.
- I just don't understand why this cute bunny
had to become a grown ass man.
- Imagine what we would look like if we Digivolved.
We would be like ...
Really buff.
- That's super cool!
- Nice hair, good color.
- I want to take him home with me.
- Count the useless things they had to say
in that moment when they're about to die.
- But in this one she says,
"He looks like an angel."
That's so much better.
- Oh, you hear that music by the way.
- This is so much more emotional.
- The Japanese voices never feel as whiny.
I really don't like the whiny American actors.
It's some like, falsetto, weird thing going on.
(exclaims in high pitched voice)
- The English one just made it so silly
and the lines they had
just made no sense
for the height of the emotion.
(Yu-Gi-Oh! Theme song)
- I already feel the shadow realm coming in here.
- Yeah.
- Brooklyn accent, it's insane.
I can't believe I watched this and I wasn't like,
this is so cheesy.
- There is so much anguish.
- You could see it on his face with that shading.
- This has to be better, it can't be worse.
(somber piano music)
- I also like the music is completely different.
- His name isn't Joey in the original version.
Jounouchi-kun, Joey.
- That's pretty much the same.
- I love how he doesn't have this Boston accent anymore.
- Yeah, he sounds like an adult human.
- And they translate that to
I'm winning battles left and right.
- In the English version, I feel like they just it's
the opportunity to make a joke,
and I'm actually kind of happy about it.
- I am not happy about it.
- Booyah!
Yeah, I don't think he said booyah, in Japanese.
(upbeat techno music)
- You know moving forward, if I ever decide to
binge an anime series at this point,
definitely going to go for subbed.
- You know if you're someone who's a bit older now,
returning to anime I feel like is really worth your time
to take a look at the Japanese subtitled versions
and really see how, you know,
the creators of the show
and the voice actors meant it to be seen.
Because this is so crazy how different it is.
(upbeat techno music)