Instead of just importing a show and subbing or dubbing it, we should have random American companies buying the licenses to like 5 random seasons from 5 random animes, cutting them into pieces and Frankensteining them into one show with a new dubbed narrative that has nothing to do with the original source material, all with the sole purpose of selling old Japanese toys to American kids
Instead of Naruto and One Piece we could have Pirate Ninja Battleforce where Naruto and Luffy are brothers named Chuck and Bronson. Every once in a while there’s a fight scene from Neon Genesis Evangelion spliced in
Most people don’t know that the Generation 1 Transformers toyline was really like four or five different Japanese toylines smushed together. Some of the toys were licensed from mecha animes like Macross, and that’s why the characters never appeared on the cartoon, because Takara, who made the toys, didn’t want to promote characters who were part of other companies’ toylines in Japan.
Instead of Naruto and One Piece we could have Pirate Ninja Battleforce where Naruto and Luffy are brothers named Chuck and Bronson. Every once in a while there’s a fight scene from Neon Genesis Evangelion spliced in
You joke but that sounds awesome
One of the things that made me realize that intellectual property laws are bullshit was the Kafkaesque legal battle over the rights for the original SDF: Macross between the company that made Robotech and the original Japanese studio. Kotaku has a pretty decent primer here.
Robotechs existence is actually great because getting vintage Macross models costs tons while you can fine the same exact ones but Battletech on ebay for like 1/5th the price.
