Why is it so hard to find American dubbed anime?

Question

I want to find dubbed Naruto, Yugioh, Digimon, Bleach, Pokemon, Cardcaptors, One Piece, etc. But I can never find them online apart from youtube but they are deleting all the dubbed anime and I won't even bother with subbed because I don't like the Japanese voices. They don't compare to the English at all.

It's like it's so hard to find any of these series apart from watching them on TV. I think I should have started recording some of these series. I have already with Naruto started on episode 60 and I recorded most of DBZ but all of GT.

Does anyone know where I can buy any of thes DUBBED series and NOT subbed?

Answer 1

They are hard to find online because the rights are owned by various companies that are asking for pirated versions to be taken down.

Naruto (4 seasons in box-sets), Bleach (5 DVDs with more coming), Pokemon (everything up to Diamond and Pearl), One Piece (10 DVDs), Yu-gi-oh (3 seasons at least), are all available on DVD. Usually the DVDs have both the subtitled and dubbed version (most of the Pokemon ones are dub-only though).

Here are places you can find:

Naruto:
http://www.dvdpacific.com/search.asp?title=naruto

Yu-gi-oh:
http://www.dvdpacific.com/search.asp?title=yu+gi+oh

Bleach:
http://www.dvdpacific.com/search.asp?title=bleach

Pokemon:
http://www.dvdpacific.com/search.asp?title=pokemon

One Piece:
http://www.dvdpacific.com/search.asp?title=one+piece

The only two on your list that I had trouble with are Digimon (only the Digimon movie is available) and Cardcaptors (Cardcaptor Sakura, the original uncut series, is available... but only in subtitled form).

Answer 2

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/index.do/3

And yes, most of the cartoons you named can be bought on DVD at stores like Virgin Record Stores, SunCoast Video, and Blockbuster Video stores.