Look, the name says it all. 4Kids is broadcasting shows FOR KIDS! I'm so tired of all the whiney, whingey anime obsessed people out there who constantly rag on 4Kids for editing scenes like this one I heard about in Yu-Gi-Oh where originally a pervert was recording women in a gym, so they edited out the camera and all the scenes shot through the camera. If they aired something like that they'd be burnt at the stake by all the angry western mothers of the world. Though I don't know what you're saying about them editing out the Japanese culture. When I was younger I watched alot of shows like Digimon, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh (Oh and Bey-blades) and the characters use to always ho down things like sushi, rice and Japanese treats (I always used to wonder what they were eating...if they have stopped doing that maybe all the people who were as confused as I was wrote up about it).
No-one's forcing you to watch the edited versions. Okay admittedly they do cut out wierd things (I was surprised to learn that Yu-Gi-Oh had a mother in the original series, my best guess is that they figured he needed a little dramatic back story and if he did have a mother it would be like a running joke. "Oh here comes Yugi, the boy with the mother who doesn't give a shit if he fights in deadly card games and galavants all over the world fighting villains") but like I said before they make it for kids. In fact that's why I can never take the real anime seriously. To me a standard anime show is the equivalent of Popeye punching Olive Oyl in the face after Wimpy hid Popeyes booze to stop him drinking...and then they all go off looking for the seven magic crystals of Lamma with swords the size of motorcycles and enemies what look like transvestite clowns with really bad hair-dos.
