"High Risk" Situations

[SammieSpitz]

Alright, here's what I mean. I know the title might be hard to understand. With the dubbing, I started worrying about certian parts of Shaman King that I was sure would be butchered into oblivion. With that, I came up with a sort of list of 'high risk' characters, who would be especially vulnerable to all the editing....Now, I haven't seen a lot of the series, but this is what I guessed from what I've heard and seen so far.

Faust: We're gonna find out soon enough what's gonna happen to Faust. Between the violent background story, his ancestor selling his soul to the devil, the fact that he carries around the skeleton of his murdered wife (bullet hole and all), and the psychotic rampage he sort of goes on in his fight with Yoh...Episode 15 got so creepy, I couldn't even really watch it. I'm hoping to change that soon enough.

Hao and his minions: They go on sort of a killing spree, from what I've seen. That and 4Kids might wreak the evil twin subplot by turning it into a stereo-typical scenerio and Hao and company into cookie-cutter villians. Definately a bit of a worry for me, mostly cause I'm sort of a fan of Hanagumi and seeing them ruined....Grr, I don't even want to think about it.

The X-Laws: Similar to Hao and his group, the X-Laws seem go kind of crazy. I came up with a joke saying that the X-Laws are kind of an anime portrayl of Christian Fundamentalism, but that's another story. ;D For some reason, they set off the 'high-risk' bells and whistles on me.

The Tao Family: Ren has already been trashed and Jun isn't much better off. What's to stop them from wreaking the rest of the Tao clan? A family legacy of assasinations isn't something that I'd imagine would sit well with 4Kids.

Comments anyone? I just wanted to actually post something around here, so I put this up to see what everyone thinks. Maybe start a conversation or something.

[Lovely]

"High Risk Characters" heh, that's a good name for them ^_^ .
But yeah, Faust deffinetly seems like a person they are going to change a lot. Which is sad because episode 15 is the episode that totally changed my mind about the series in general. That and later, there is an episode where Faust is carrying an IV around with him (hooked up to himself) and he is ENTIRELY enjoying it way to much XD .

"The X-Laws: Similar to Hao and his group, the X-Laws seem go kind of crazy. I came up with a joke saying that the X-Laws are kind of an anime portrayl of Christian Fundamentalism, but that's another story. For some reason, they set off the 'high-risk' bells and whistles on me."

Yeah, actually, I too think that the X-Laws is kind of a reference to people who take their religion to a bad extreme. So of course, they are going to be changed a lot I'm sure -_- .

Really, It annoys me that 4kids picked up this show considering how many references their are to religion and death.

Oh, and they are already changing Ren's family dynamics in the series. For example, having Lenny say in an earlier episode that he is trying to become Shaman King for his family 0_o.

[Necromancer13]

I hafta agree with u, Faust is absolutely a "high risk" case. but i also hav to say that when i heard that they were bringing it to the foxbox, i bet my soul that it would be extremely butchered. then came the surprise of them keeping a good deal of the violence in (wel...ok, this is almost a fighting anime anyway), and some themes not expressed in their previously butchered "Yu-Gi-Oh" (vomits at the idea of the "being banished to the shadowrealm" crap) so it's only a BIT tougher to figure out what 4kids will do with Faust, cuz i saw a preview for the upcoming new episode, which showed a ske leton chained onto Faust...at least i think i saw it chained. oh well. lets pray they won't kill Faust.

[Reincarnation]

Wow, looking at this thread now is kinda funny, considering that much of what was expected to be edited wasn't. The X-Laws especially, were kept mostly intact, they even made them sound like evangelists.

[kfttjdb]

That's true, about how all the editing turned out. Reading all of the posts worried me at first. The X-Laws do seem to be portrayed as evangelists, in a brainwashed sense. It's creepy.