Someone explain to me why 4kids...

Doesnt want pokemon to show japanese culture, perhaps?
Maybe they want to westernize the show...

I agree with yeah plus im pretty sure these american kids dont even know what onegiri is anyway.

To prevent the increase of weeabos maybe. But then again, Pokemon is a Japanese show.. hmmmmmmm

Because they're a bunch o' faggots.

Because it's 4Kids. An American child audience doesn't know what a rice ball is, though it is explanatory. 4Kids forgot that America is a melting pot. They have always pull stuff like this.

Just goes to show that 4Kids is racist.

You're average American 10 year old probably has never even heard of the concept of a riceball. Thus having one fly out of nowhere would cause them confusion and being that it is a kids show. So in interest of dumbing it down for American audiences they replaced it for a sandwich that way when the scene comes up stupid American kids no they are talking about food and not some strange triangular white thing that they've probably never seen before. I'm reminded of the first time I played a "Mystical Ninja Goemon" game and had to look up dango on the internet because I had never heard the term before and I kept wondering what the strange multicolored skewered balls they ate to regain health were.

Skittles? lol.

Cultural differences aside though. I mean come on a "rice-ball"? Wouldn't kids have heard of rice? Wouldn't they know what a ball is? Hence isn't the concept of rice ball quite apparent?

I guess editing it to something that can be easily identified by an American audience is the underlying principle.

Well yes that's a pretty easy assumption to make what with our mighty otaku logic coming into play here. But you have to remember that the vast majority of the young people in America these days are idiots. (and I use this term lightly, or at least in place of "Twat-rackets") hell i had a girl in my 11th grade English class that didn't know what the word "Ethics" meant. I don't think it's stretching it to think that the small entitled children who take up a large portion of Pokemon's fanbase. (Or at least the kind that pronounce it "Pokeyman") Wouldn't readily know a translation for the term riceball. or at least wouldn't bother to try to figure it out.

They also took out the pokemon episode where this guy was chasing Ash with a shotgun... I mean why? you see guns everywhere, there is like a gun expo every year and idiot always shoots themselves in the head with an Uzi... Plus in dbz i remember there were 2 guys shooting at Boo or what ever his name is with machine guns and those werent censored out...

4kids is for faggs!!!!

I think I've figured it out. It's because they don't want to give kids an incentive to look things up during commercial breaks.


Because they looked it up, they didn't see the commercial for some shitty, overpriced toy, so they had no incentive to buy it, and, end result is, 4kids loses money. It's economics.

ho~ ho~~ nyce!! guess :D

A sub sandwich, cracker and a BPJ sandwich, wow.
I'll go along with Kuroneko's comment.

Because it's 4kids. They want to fuck every good show and then turn it into absolute crap.

Best answer. XD

Though seriously, 4Kids probably didn't know that any normal kid can jump on wikipedia in commercial breaks to look it up and thought it would be polite to change it into something western.

Or they must hate Japan and all that comes from there.

^These.

these and 4kids needs to fucken die and let another anime company do it right!!