12-23-2003, 08:17 PM
I find it (editing with a chainsaw and name changes) irritating as hell too, particulairly when someone writing a fanfic in english uses the japanese names (you authors know who you are), but since anime series are considered to be the intellectual property of the creator (which is how Games Workshop stopped online stores from selling their products at lower than retail price) the NA comapanies can't change things without the original creator's concent, which may be granted in a pre-production contract, but TOEI is just as bad as Saban (Bandai? whoever) for allowing this to happen in the first place.
If Saban wants a show for kids they should prduce a show for kids, and let another company who can stomach the idea that adults drink, guns kill, and the people in Japan have Japanese names produce Digimon for North Americans. But they don't because they can get away with it, and it makes cash. Still, it could be worse, it could have been produced by 4Kids...
If Saban wants a show for kids they should prduce a show for kids, and let another company who can stomach the idea that adults drink, guns kill, and the people in Japan have Japanese names produce Digimon for North Americans. But they don't because they can get away with it, and it makes cash. Still, it could be worse, it could have been produced by 4Kids...