User blog comment:Trainer Micah/Pokemon Sword/Shield prediction's 4 Anime/@comment-26573805-20180303170434

Under the Alolan Moon is the season 21 opening theme. And yes, it began in New Zealand recently, so no it's not a like. Although I don't have the opening theme's footage yet. But yeah, as of season 19 these opening themes have been going downhill. The Unova songs were really good, but as of recently they've all gone bad. The new songs are composed by someone named Ed Goldfarb if you're not aware of that yet.

I personally think of the dub as a garbage product that has the same consistent lack of production quality value as we've seen from season 9. We've all been seeing the same "JUST GET IT DONE ON THE DEADLINE!!!! GO GO GO!!!!" type of production that we've seen since then. At least the Japanese version's only banned episode to have aired is the Porygon one, but TPCi bans Jynx episode from season 2 (such as its 10th episode, "Holiday Hi-Jynx", its 37th episode "Stage Fight", and the 46th episode "The Mandarin Island Miss Match", thus retroactively turning it from a 52 episode season to 49 eps back in 2014). TPCi has been defacing older episodes with silly unnecessary encodes of season 1's 52 episode batch and destroying the appearances of WTP segments in 4Kids seasons 2-8. Some other countries didn't get the WTP segments in certain 4Kids episodes, I get that, but that does not need to extend to the English dub.

The movie dub used a lazily invented logo even a 7-year old child can draw.

As Sunain has stated here:
 * "We are trying to show English viewers here on this site just how bad the production value of the anime has got to now. It's atrociously bad in all aspects of production. We want the dub to be good. Most of the staff here grew up on our respective dubs of the series."
 * "I really wanted TPCi to pull out all the stops for this movie dub but it's the same old, 'just get it done' that we've seen with the dub since Season 9. Back in the old days we hoped TPCi would take over for 4Kids and INCREASE the production value, now we wished that never came true unfortunately."

These Ed Goldfarb songs is when the dub's opening themes have started going downhill since then. Yet the average fans aren't saying anything about it, and that's the issue. Since TPCi has no incentive to release the Japanese version or make it available for licensees to buy and receive, it's best to keep it more relevant for people nowadays even now in 2018.

In my belief, the dub's best opening themes debates between "Believe in Me" (the opening theme of Season 5, as well as the first 12 episodes of Season 6 which still take place in Johto) and "This Dream" from Season 7.