Popular Dub Localizations
Some dub localizations are actually quite popular in their own right, with even a handful of greatly altered titles proving equally if not more popular than the original.
Several examples include some of ADV's comedy dubs, especially the "alternate", dub for Super Milk-chan and the (admittedly still quite controversial) English dub for Ghost Stories, which contrary to the nature of the original show, was adult in nature and primarily a work of parody, and thus proved popular with a very different audience from the original children's series.
However, the best example of a localization - indeed, an extreme localization - which actually proved to be extremely popular and in-demand (in fact, more so than the original version), is likely Samurai Pizza Cats, the English version by Saban of which is still praised for its humor and often pointed to as an example of an extreme localization that actually worked.
Robotech, the result of several series dubbed, and merged, has formed its own fanbase, and has even spun off several movies and series. Macross, one of the series included in Robotech, later received an uncut English dub by ADV Films. A similar production, Voltron, an English dub of Beast King GoLion and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV, has also been very successful in the United States, and has spun off into its own franchise.
A reference to localization was done in a Futurama episode Reincarnation parodying dubbed anime such Speed Racer and Robotech.
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