SpongeBob (TBS Japanese dub)

スポンジボブ, not to be confused with the NHK dub, is one of two Japanese versions of Spongebob. It airs on the Tokyo Broadcasting System.

History
When Spongebob first aired in Japan on Nick Japan, it was popular. Other stations broadcasted it too, like NHK, TV Osaka, even the Yamanashi Broadcasting System. NHK was planning on broadcasting and continuing this dub just in case Nick Japan closes. They did that in 2007, but when a certain station was looking at NHK, they got an idea. TBS thought of making their own dub of Spongebob, so TBS would compete with NHK in later years. So they grabbed Tohokushinsha to dub it and asked Nick to dub this. They said okay, and this dub was born. TBS first broadcasted it's dub in February 12th, 2005. It was the first major commercial station to broadcast Spongebob in Japan before TV Osaka (TV Tokyo affiliate) in the Kansai region in 2018. BS-i (now known as BS-TBS) first broadcasted this dub on the same day as TBS and was also the first commercial satellite station to broadcast it before BS Fuji in 2013. It airs every Saturday. In 2013, they took a hiatus and waited for Season 9 to stop airing in the USA. After that, they dubbed the season 9 episodes. The dub was nicknamed TBS Spongebob.The dub was sucessful, and competed well in ratings. Some points it gained higher ratings than Nick/NHK's dub. DVDs were released for this dub by TBS Video. In 2012, TBS Channels 1 and 2 got the show for reruns of older episodes. New and old episodes air and rerun currently on TBS, it's Kansai affiliate MBS, it's Nagoya affiliate CBC, and it's satellite station BS-TBS. You can also buy this dub on TBS On-Demand if you see the TBS On-Demand label and you an also find it on Itunes. The movies (except the third movie) were also dubbed and broadcasted on TBS and also had dvd releases too. Some DVDs had both NHK and TBS dubs at the same time in special editions.

Cast
Spongebob - Koichi Yamadera

Patrick - Toshiharu Sakurai

Squidward - Katsumi Suzuki

Mr. Krabs - Kenichi Ogata

Sandy - Miyu Matsuki (until season 3), Kana Asumi (Season 3 and after)

Plankton - Cho

Mrs. Puff - Kazue Komiya

Pearl - Miyu Matsuki (until her death), Ryoko Shintani

French Narrator - Toshiya Ueda