>      But seeing how quickly the censors are to cut and manipulate what we 
see> on TV as it is, I think that it actually _is_ better that way... Sure, 
they 
 
> still get cut up on cable, but imagine how bad it would be if they were 
> "edited for TV broadcast"?  Remember Sailor Moon?

I am generally of the opinion that "Edited for Television" is the sign
of great evil in the Anime world.

But the really sticky points come from (1) financing a US translation
by doing a TV release (2) making such extensive edits that a single
hybrid DVD release is not feasible.

The existence of hybrid DVD releases has underminded the basis for
many of the dub/sub tensions of the past, since economies of
scale favor a single hybrid release if they haven't been doing extensive
edits for the dub.

The way they did the Sailor Moon S, and Super S seasons was a comparitively
good model, comparied to the earlier releases: they produced a (silly)
dub script, dubbed the _entire_ video track, then cut additional
scenes for the TV version. This left them with parallel video for a DVD.

"CardCaptors" was a hack-and-slash edit of the worst kind: but fan
pressure/demand led to the release of a seperate subtitled DVD.

Ranma 1/2 has the minor virtue of having a commercial sub release
for home video already "in the can". On the other hand, this work
wasn't always done with a future DVD release in mind.

I read a review of the Viz season 2 DVD box which asserted that it
appeared to have been done from the Viz dub video source. Can anyone
comment on this?

Having already bought a lot of Ranma 1/2 twice (dub/sub anime, US/Japanese
manga), I'm not rushing to complete my collection (I put it
on my Xmas list, but have been spending more money/time on stuff
that's new to me.

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    Albert Lunde          Albert-Lunde@northwestern.edu (new address)
                          Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (old address)