"Earthshine" wrote:Haha! Roget, I remember that. At least them changing Pinoko's name to Penny made sense, but the Roget thing was a little odd. Not terrible but still odd. I mean why did they even need to change his name? Censorship laws trying to block out the reference to Black Jack the card game or the weapon? Afraid that that kids watching the show would turn into gamblers?
I know right? At least Penny made some sense, (Though, still aggravated and annoyed me cause the names sounds bland,generic and changed Pinoko's name for some reason. but well... Americans.

JK!) but Roget? I was like "WTF?! What kind of name is Roget?! Is that even a real name? Why not leave his name alone? WTF English dubs?"

There is really no need of him changing his name at all. There's nothing wrong with gambling and playing Black Jack and stuff. I'm pretty sure those kids in america who watched it back then are gambling right now, without even knowing his name was Black Jack instead of freakin frakin Roget. (lol. Freakin Frackin.

) I'm not too familiar with the weapon called Black Jack, but with the card game however, English Astro boy changing the name is just plain out Ridiculous in soo many ways. But, oh well! English dubs usually do that kind of stuff anyways. (Stupid American Censorship....:rolleyes

They
Could've at least left Black Jack's name alone. I see nothing wrong with it. It's just a Casino game.
At least us Hispanics who aired Black Jack in Spain and other countries, left his name as it is. (Probably cause the show itself was called Black Jack to begin with. They had no other choice.) And many parents
still let their kids watch it. (Though, the siging in the Spanish BJ's wasn't all that great.)
btw, sorry for the late reply. I was going to reply to this eariler, but as you can see, I forgot about this thread.
