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Fans (with some justification) feel that this practice is disrespectful to the creators, as the series is being treated as a pure marketing product rather really "getting" the draw. The practice has fortunately dwindled since the eighties because of the utter hatred modern fans hold for it, as well as the greater accessibility to the original product (although [[Dub Induced Plot Hole|consistency can flounder]] at times). The importing companies have hopefully realized that the [[Widget Series|quirks]] were what attracted many viewers in the first place. The increasing number of import companies born from fan groups (like [[ADV Films]]) may also have something to do with it. The practice has also largely faded, however, because ironically doing things like what Macek did -- replacing whole scripts and renaming whole casts, writing entirely new musical scores, having to spend days editing and re-cutting a show -- is actually ''significantly more expensive'' and time-consuming than a straight dub, especially now that the original source music and the like can be stored digitally and easily layered back into an English track. With the margins of the Western anime market being fairly tight, it simply makes more sense to give the fans what they want.
It's worth noting that there is in fact also something of a "sliding scale of Macekre" here. On one end of the scale, you have shows that were, objectively, pretty severely changed -- but the changes were done by people who understood both the core appeal of the show in question, liked what they saw, and the changes were more to make the show even ''possible'' in another market -- a [[Woolseyism]]. A lot of people consider the anime brought over by [[World Events Productions]] in the 1980s to be an example of this -- ''[[Go Lion]]'' and ''[[Sei Juushi Bismarck (Anime)|Sei Juushi Bismarck]]'' went through a heap of changes, but ''[[Voltron]]'' and ''[[Saber Rider and The Star Sheriffs (Anime)|Saber Rider and The Star Sheriffs]]'' were both quite popular and a lot of fans would contend that the shows still "get" the fundamental draw while avoiding traps that would have made them unairable in 1980s America otherwise (such as ''[[Go Lion]]'''s occasional massive violence). On the other end of the scale, of course, are things like ''Tranzor Z'' (the edited version of ''[[Mazinger Z]]''), which was done without any care whatsoever and without understanding why people like the show at all. Invariably this results in a failed product that buries a franchise in a market for decades and leaves licensors furious. Therefore, it's possible to still change a show dramatically in adaptation and not "ruin" a franchise... but it takes a ''lot'' of skill and care, and too many times that just doesn't happen, leading to some of the more onerous examples found throughout
Keep in mind that [[Tropes Are Not Bad]]. Some people use such dubs as a [[Gateway Series]], and the virulent fan reaction against the dubs may puzzle those not familiar with the original version, or even perhaps those that watched the dubs first. Also, the sliding scale of macekre varies from person to person; what one may consider bad changes another may not mind quite as much.
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