Talk:Jim Kido

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Seriously, this is one of the reasons why I COMPLETELY ABOMINATE the stupid nature of English dubbing companies for children anime: Their destructive decisions. Though I wonder if this one is just a "they couldn't memorize his original name and inadvertly recycled the dub name when a similar character appeared, then only noticed the mistake when was too late and decided to go along with it", which teaches us another reason for keeping the original names: Consistency is easier. Just look the DATS crew in DS and their unmatching names with the dub, or the anime/game D.N.A./DigiSoul inconsistency. I already consider bad enough that they westernize Japanese names because "It's more marketable" (Is there any proof of this? Foreign names never prevented any show from being succesful in Brazil) and other non-sensical, unneeded, or uncalled changes, but it gets worse when they produce these  abominations  that we have to deal with. I still hope that these companies will stop disrepecting anime someday. But until that day comes...
 * So... When covering them, what do we do? Do we use "Jim (X)" everytime we refer to one of them, or do we open a special exception and call them by their Japanese names with the "Jim" only being used in the lead? 22:06, October 22, 2012 (UTC)
 * Pretty sure they just did it because the two characters were totally redundant to each other in the first place. Making changes doesn't necessarily mean they're making it worse.
 * We treat them as separate characters, one of which only appears in the dub. 00:43, October 23, 2012 (UTC)