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Sunday, February 16th, 2003

DragonBall GT to be Edited Proving, once again, that any company is only as good as it's latest release, Funimation has made some drastic changes to the music and sound effects for the dub of DragonBall GT and announced they will skip the first 15 episodes (although they may be released in the future). No details if these changes will affect the Japanese audio or subtitles, but it seems dub fans are out of luck. Funimation has made some progress on doing decent releases for their other recent DragonBall releases and their other new release, but now seems to be intent on making the same mistakes they and Saban made when DragonBall Z was first released in North America. I'll add this information to the DragonBall editing report when time permits.

RANMA 1/2 Season 7 in the correct order? As of disc 5, it appears that Viz has left season 7 of Ranma 1/2 ((Ranma Forever) in its original broadcast order. Maybe they finally heard the complaints about season 6 (and prior seasons) and finally did the right thing. I just wish it didn't take them this long.

Friday, February 14th, 2003

HAPPY THIRD ANNIVERSARY!

Three years and still going strong.

Monday, February 3rd, 2003

COWBOY BEBOP MOVIE NEWS According to THIS listing, the Cowboy Bebop movie has been rated "R" by the MPAA. This would tend to discredit the earlier rumors of this movie being edited to achieve an "PG-13" rating.

Sunday, January 12th, 2003

UPDATED EDITING REPORT: NIGHT SHIFT NURSES Rusty Smith has provided a detailed editing report for Night Shift Nurses that covers the first three episodes that CPM has only released in an edited form. Read the updated editing report HERE or find it in the 'Full List' link.

SAINT SEIYA EDITING NEWS ADV Has confirmed that Saint Seiya will be available in both an edited dub only version with the title of 'Knights of the Zodiac' and as an uncut version with the title 'Saint Seiya'. The uncut 'Saint Seiya' will have both Japanese and English audio and the dub and sub scripts will reportedly retain the same names, terms, and plot as the original. The edited 'Knights of the Zodiac' version will only be available in a heavily edited version (and will be the version shown on television).

As always, we recommend that only the unedited Saint Seiya be purchased.

MANGA DIGS ITSELF A DEEPER HOLE Unconfirmed news out of Ohayocon (as reported by Anime on DVD) indicates that Manga might edit out the openings and endings between the three Read or Die episodes to make a seamless 'movie' (the first opening and the ending(s) would reportedly be included before and after the content of the episodes).

Editorial:

Considering Manga's bad track record, their lackluster DVD authoring, and their inability to listen to their customers (or to interact with them without insulting or patronizing them), I don't have any trouble believing they would actually be stupid enough to do this. I, and other anime fans, cringe when Manga licenses a title, because we know they don't seem to be capable of putting out even simple titles without making a mess of some part of it.

Sadly, the mindless masses will probably either not know of these mistakes/changes or come up with excuses to ignore the flaws in yet another flawed Manga release.

Wednesday, January 8th, 2003

EDITING REMINDER: Dangaioh Just a reminder, Manga's upcoming DVD release of Dangaioh is dub-only and edited, just like their VHS release of this title. Read the editing report HERE or find it in the 'Full List' link.

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