[100% OT]

[Robert Jacques]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:54:43 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:

> "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisprog at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.365.1279305436.24349.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>> On Friday, July 16, 2010 11:02:29 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm only familiar with Funimation for their treatment of Dragonball,  
>>> DBZ
>>> and DBGT (and Kai), and as I recall from way back then, they had a  
>>> habit
>>> of cutting a lot out and changing all the music (and the music-changing
>>> habit seems to have been retained by Kai, at least partially). Do they  
>>> do
>>> that with their other shows, too, or was that just a dragonball thing?
>>
>> At this point, they pretty much never cut anything (and you can get  
>> uncut
>> DBZ
>> and the like now too).
>
> I've heard that their "uncut" DBZ series did still cut some things. Or  
> did
> they do another uncut? (Not that it really matters. As much as I used to
> love DBZ, I got tired of it a long time ago.)
>
>> They did do more editing in the past, but I think that it's been several
>> years
>> since they really did that on anything. They've come a long way since  
>> they
>> did
>> DBZ.
>>
>
> That's good to hear. The whole anime/manga localization industry (at  
> least
> English-localization anyway) seems to have really gotten a lot better  
> over
> the years. "Flipped" left-to-right mangas are an ancient relic, and I  
> find
> myself going for anime subs less and less: for instance, the English  
> dubbing
> on Death Note was amazingly good. I tired listening to the japanese  
> audio on
> that, and actually rather disliked it by comparison.
>
>

For the record, all the cuts you are talking about were done by 4kids,  
which had the broadcast rights to several popular shows, none of which  
survived intact. Funimation got the DVD distribution rights and later the  
rights to the uncut version and went back re-dubbed everything. Also, the  
DBZ Kai and the various 're-mastered' editions have all been pushed from  
the Japanese side and weren't things Funimation did.