User blog comment:Kdom/The manga and myself, how it began ?/@comment-53539-20091224121656

lol, I noticed that, I'm hoping they update this at some point to allow it because its potential to be very annoying, funny.

When I was a beyblade fan, Beholder-sama, a japanese businessman, explained to us that if you want to show a Korean dub half the staff must be korean. (Which Korean country is the problem one, south or north?). So half of Beyblades animators at least were Korean and when you sat down and looked deeply you could see when the Korean eps happened. Their best animators where their own Japanese ones and Kai Vs. Takao in season 3 was down by the best animator the Beyblade animation team had to offer according to him. I can't remember their name.

Theres a lot of disagreements between the countries... Beholder even didn't like theirs and he was Japanese. He said they try to protect their culture but the problem is their culture is like Japanese was 50 years ago. At the time, I think the Koreans had just recently fired a test missile over the heads of the Japanese and into the ocean on the other side of them. You can guess the cause of the remark and I don't blame him, for the Japanese person that notion must have been so scary.

On Deviantart they said a number of years back, many Japanese companies are going to china and Korea for much cheaper animations anyway. It was killing the Japanese animation trade, since mangaka and animators there DON'T get much money for their work anyway as it was and the jobs were disappearing.

Though I don't take it much since it came from DA, I do note that it was a thought that went around a number of fans sites at the time, if but only for a few days. Many folks didn't care enough anyway.