Series and Films That Have Had A Strongly Localized Dub
- Cardcaptor Sakura (in the form of Cardcaptors) (Nelvana Dub)
- Detective Conan (FUNimation Entertainment, known in North America as Case Closed) - title change was due to copyright issue, names were Anglicized but setting was still in Japan
- Digimon (by Saban and later Cloverway Inc.)
- Dragon Ball (original Harmony Gold dub)
- Dragon Ball Z (original short-lived Saban co-production with FUNimation, later uncut dub also had strong localization)
- Ghost Stories (ADV Dub)
- Initial D (Tokyopop dub)
- One Piece (original 4Kids dub)
- Ojamajo Doremi (in the form of ""Magical DoReMi")
- Pocket Monsters (from 4Kids in the form of Pokémon)
- Robotech (from Harmony Gold, English dub of several Japanese anime merged into one)
- Sailor Moon (from DiC Entertainment and later Cloverway Inc.)
- Samurai Pizza Cats (from Saban)
- Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (localized as Battle of the Planets, and again as G-Force: Guardians of Space before given a straight English dub)
- Shaman King (from 4Kids)
- Sonic X (from 4Kids)
- Super Milk-chan (from ADV, note: there was also an uncut dub translation which remained faithful to the original Japanese version of the series; the localized dub was featured as an extra on the DVD release of the series)
- Tokyo Mew Mew (4Kids, in the form of Mew Mew Power)
- Voltron (from World Events Productions, English dub of Beast King GoLion and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! (from 4Kids)
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