On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:54:43 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote:
"Jonathan M Davis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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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.
