The americanization of anime.

What I mean by "americanization" is changing things to meet american standards so that its not too challenging. Some examples would be changing shot-gun fire to sound like laser beams in Sonic X, re-writing character's sexualities as in the case of Jakotsu in Inuyasha (whom in the original version is a guy and GAY), dulling down or completely removing references to death, removing of dialogue important to the story because its too controversial, and replacing of awesome J-pop themes with cheesy ninja-turtlish english crap. Hironobu & Hideki's "Sonic Drive" pwnz the crap out of the english Sonic X theme. I don't think it'd kill the kids to hear a song in a foreign language. Inuyasha has some GREAT music and if it weren't for hearing it in an anime I would've never known any of these groups existed. - http://www.projectj.net/gackt.htm