Anime Anime Around the World: Anime in Brazil

[Yu Yu Hakusho!]

Since I just arrived back from Brazil and I have a lot of Anime news to share with everyone, I decided to post this. I selected Brazil because....obviousely, I just told you! I figured we could all use this topic to talk about Anime around the World that you know of and we can talk about it. Right now I'd like everyone to hear about Brazil's Anime, and I know that Americans like me and British are going to be quite angry. Well, at least I was. Actually, I was just dissapointed. Well, here we go.

I should start with the channels that show Anime in Brazil.

Cartoon Network and Fox Kids.
Doesn't sound like much, does it?
Out of those two channels, these are the Anime that I know of that they play every week. But I have to say that CN shows more Anime than FK.
Side Note: Some of these are in the US, but I am posting ALL of the Anime that I watched and looked for in Brazil.

Super Doll Licca Chan (you may know it but I can talk a little about it later. Played by CN)

Bey Blade (I'm pretty sure all of you know what this is)

Dragonball GT (that's right. Brazil ALREADY had DBGT and they are halfway done with the series!!! CN plays it every day and night, except weekends. Brazil has already finished DB and DBZ about 2 to 1 years ago. Pretty sad, huh?)

Shaman King (that's not fair!! Fox Kids shows it)

Shinzo (Fox Kids)

Samurai X (everyone might know this better as the Anime after YYH on Toonami. Sorry, I forgot the name. CN shows it.)

Pokemon (They're finished will ALL of the series...Johto, Master Quest....all of them.) CN shows it.

Dragonball Z (CN)

Gundam Wing (CN)

Inuyasha (CN)

Yu-Gi-Oh! (CN)

Sakura Cardcaptors (not Cardcaptor Sakura. CN shows it.)

Digimon (Fox Kids)

Speed Racer (.....Boomerang.)

That's all I had time to see. I'm sure they have more. And I know for a fact all they they DON'T have on TV they have on DVD and VHS. Even Anime that we've never heard of. They have a good relationship with the Japanese. (on the Anime side)

Now, I was really ticked to see how much more they had than us.

Here's how Brazil get's it's Anime.
Most of the time, if we already have a series like Pokemon or Inuyasha translated into English, it is eaiser for them to translate it from English to Portuguese than from Japanese to Portuguese. But, in cases like Shaman King, Brazil translates it EXACTLY from Japanese to Portuguese and they have themselves an Anime.
The Anime there is so much better in my opioion.
They don't screw with the original music like FUNimation did with DB series, they don't mess with the exact translated words that make the Anime make sense like FUNI did, and they keep everything original as possible.
The only thing I saw that they really changed were a few theme songs and closing songs from some Anime.
All they did was sing the words in Portuguese. Otherwise, everything was original.

And let me tell you, Japanese and Portuguese kind of do sound alike. Plus, there are a LOT of Japanese in Brazil. I saw it for myself in Sao Paulo and it's so funny to see Japanese speak Portuguese like it's their native language (which it is....).

Of course we can all watch DBZ on our DVD's in Japanese and watch the English subtitles. The English was translated EXACTLY from Japanese. And then FUNI went and screwed with the dialogue. In Brazil, they just translate it and don't spend the whole time like FUNI trying to make the show sound 'cool'
FUNI screwed up with YYH and DBZ.
I don't know why they couldn't keep the original music.

Overall, my opinion is that Anime in Brazil is better. They have more of it and it is better quality and done better.
You'd know what I mean if you watched an episode of Shaman King of DBGT. It's AWESOME.

But the only drawback to this is that Brazil doesn't have Yu Yu Hakusho out yet, although I've heard that they're working on getting it.

And let me tell you, Anime in Brazil is SO damn popular.

Not only that, but all of the Anime there is totally UNCUT and UNBOTHERED!!! Like I've said, the culture is much more relaxed there, and if parents don't want their kids to watch a bloody show, they'll just turn it off and that's the end of it. While here in the US they show all the edited crap and we have lost episodes and major storyline cut out just because of these idiots out there that want to make an adult-teen show sutiable for children.
Brazil is different.
Hey, I don't see any kids there with warrped minds going around with Katanas killing people or cussing like there is no tommorow or acting like a shaman just because they watched the original versions of Samurai X, DBZ, or Shaman King.

I think you all get my point.


Hope to hear back from someone. I'd like to hear everyone's views and opinions.

[GotenksSSJ343]

THEY HAVE GT HOW DARE THEY or should I say how dare US take that long to get it here. That's one of the reason's I'm convincing my parents to take me to Japan this summer. More anime more video games more fun for me and my sisters.

[Magnum Apex]

[font=trebuchet ms][color=darkblue]Yup, and that's not only in Brazil, but most of Latin America, too. I watched GT long ago in Venezuela, as well as Rurouni Kenshin. Cartoon Network and Fox Kids are better networks in Spanish.

Oh, and almost unedited, thank you. :) We don't tolerate FCC-like crap.

Oh, but Locomotion is 20 times better than any anime channel ever.[/color][/font]

[Posthumous]

[color=teal][size=1][b]WTF!? They get Shaman King and DBGT?They didn't have that in the US.

I'm thinking about moving to Brazil....[/b][/size][/color]

[Yu Yu Hakusho!]

Yup, that's what I said. I was really pissed when I watched those shows there, too.