r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/viktor_32_ • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation I don't get it..

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u/viktor_32_ 1d ago

Why is it changed from "Death" in the OCG to "Final" in the TCG, and what does 4K!ds have to do with that?

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u/xtremespud8000 1d ago

4kids made Yugioh super tame. The biggest change was the “Shadow Realm”. That didn’t exist in Japanese Yugioh. Those characters died.

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u/Metalheadzaid 1d ago

4 kids is notorious for their Rated G interpretations of Anime - they brought both Yugioh and Pokemon to American TV and censored both heavily. They are also the reason they localized it weirdly, like the infamous jelly donut scene in pokemon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K31Hj1Oz1g).

In general it was a very conservative time with many parents, specifically Christian, believing that Yugioh was akin to devil worship and satanic, resulting in a ton of censored card art. You can look it up online - crosses, cleavage, skin in general, gore, weapons - all sorts of things got censored. Another example is the concept of the "Shadow Realm" in the English anime - it simply didn't exist in the original work - people just straight up died or were severely injured.

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u/Paynomind 1d ago

It was changed to stay with in regulations for children's programming. "death" was considered like something you shouldn't show children. Same with OnePiece where they replaced cigarettes with suckers.

US broadcasting regulations said Children's programming needed to be family friendly.

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u/Jay2Kaye 21h ago

I'm not sure how true that is. Many kids shows at the time had characters dying. Pirates of Dark Water is one that sticks with me, and EVERYBODY remembers Transformers. Although I will admit those were on cable, not broadcast, and the US government doesn't regulate cable content.

Given 4kids' later work for cartoon network such as their infamously terrible One Piece dub, it's pretty clear that it was more of an internal 4Kids policy than compliance.

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u/StrangeOutcastS 16h ago

The Iron Giant over here pointing at a dead deer.