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February 24, 2003
Martian Successor Nadesico vs Cartoon Network
This is just to list the edits made to Nadesico for it's airing on Cartoon Network's Toonami block for Monday, Feburary 24th, 2003. If anyone is wondering how I made this list, I have a TiVo that I recorded Nadesico with and I have the DVD set of Nadesico. The TiVo is hooked up to my CRT TV and I have a 15 Inch LCD flatscreen DVD Player to the right of my bed that I play the DVD on. I have them both playing together, in sync. When the audio falls out of sync I stop the playback of both, reverse and write down the changes. The white "explosion" flash was cut. This occurred right after the girl says "You're wonderful mister!" and the people open the doors. I am guessing because it showed definite death. "This assignment would involve a lot of lovely young women." "Oh?" "Now, your bonus." was cut. Heaven forbid that men might actually do something for the womenfolk. The last part was probably cut just to make the scene make more sense. When the engineer is offered the job on the Nadesico, he says "If it means getting away from those two, I'd work in the bowels of Hell." Understandably cut, especially since he was talking about his wife and child. When Yurika's father was banging on the door, he says "Dammit, Yurika!" Cut! Again, after Yurika's father and Jun open the door and see Yurika naked, her father responds "My little girl is all woman." We can't have incest, even though they left "Not only is she an officer, but she's well-endowed." After Akito Tenkawa (gotta love Spike Spencer for this one) finishes screaming, he is heard to remark, "Oh, damn, I burned it!" That was cut. Everything falls because of the onlooker's reaction to his statement. Later he screams, "Dammit!" and that was cut. After Akito gets hit by Yuriko, he says "Why me God? Why Always me?" The first part was cut. "Oh" "Yeah, you need to consolidate the fragile things towards the center of the case. And you should wrap them with small articles of clothing like this... like this... pah-pah-panty." When Akito was helping Yurika repack her suitcase. He holds of the pair of panties and his face turns red. Cut! Another "Dammit" Was cut during the interrogation scene. In the same scene, "I think she [Yurika] might know why my parents were killed." I have no clue why they cut this. Akito's Parent's deaths are a very important part of the plot. Maybe someone thought this might leave a kid to want to kill his parents in order to get the next door neighbor's cute daughter 10+ years in the future? During the Jovian battle, Akito's "friends" from the dinner say, "Why are they attacking out there?" "Who can ever figure out what those damn Jovians are thinking?" "That's true. I hope poor Akito isn't watching this." The italicized part was cut. When Akito is taking his "Gekiganger" out of the Nadesico to fight the battle, he remarks, "There's no way I'm going to be trapped inside this ship. I'm just a freakin' cook. I'm not going to get killed in some stupid war." The italicized parts were cut. I kind of understand the "freakin'" cut (and he did say "freakin'") but not the stupid war comment. The only thing I can imagine it getting cut was for political reasons. Something appears to be cut when Yurika recognizes who Akito is, but I don't know what it is. When Akito is preparing to leave for battle, Megumi says, "Good luck and Godspeed." The last part was cut. I guess even saying God is far too much for kids now days. I'd hate to see what Cartoon Network is going to do to Eva. "I did not sign up for this crap." When Akito was being chased by the Jovian Lizards. Before the submarine dock is opened, Yurika says, "Akito, I will not let you die." Cut! "I've had it with this, Dammit!" Same scene, cut! Ruri gives her report after the battle, "All of the enemy were destroyed. Our ground forces were hit heavily but only five deaths have been reported." "Only five? It's just luck, a coincidence!" Italicized text was cut. Deaths are bad, mkay? That's all for today.   Posted by rosyna at February 24, 2003 09:29 PMTrackback Pings: TrackBack URL for this entry: Related:
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This is why I have three shelves of Anime DVDs and refuse to watch toonami. Dubs do enough damage without the extra censorship. *Remembers the number of changes made to Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki when it aired on toonami and sighs* I can't help but think that at least 1 entire ep will be removed from Nadesico and at least 5 from Eva. Posted by: VGZ on February 25, 2003 10:10 AMremember how cheesy and generic the genre is in the first place folks... its not like we're seeing workd of literature chopped by censors... the plots in this crap read more or less like a primitive nintendo game (i.e. get to last level, get powerups, beat big bad guy)... the character archetypes are interchangeable between ANY anime... (lets see, was that Minmei or Fijuko or just th lil blond from vhunterd with a dyejob i cant tell) and even th music is a poorly disguised ripoff of western popculture ('big-o' is an obvious take on the flash gordon theme) oh but wait.. . there is origionality in this genre! some groups turn into giant robots... some into giant robots made out of cars... some turn into giant robots made out of ninjas and some turn into giant robots made out of lions. Posted by: jme on January 12, 2004 10:03 PMI hear that "VGZ" I haven't watched Toonami's anime since they took off Voltron and had Sailor Moon still running. I have an 8 level bookshelf full of all kinds of anime dvds and my fansubbed tapes of yester-year, and I laugh when my friend tells me what was going on in Dragon Ball GT (Like I care, its Dragon BALL!) I didn't even know they put nadesico on Toonami last year! I didn't miss much apparently, I got the DVD's. I even heard they're playing Rurouni Kenshin FINALLY but I don't watch it on Tv hehehe. Anime DVDs rule. Posted by: aja on February 18, 2004 12:12 AMKeep comments on topic. If a comment is unrelated to this post, it may be removed or moderated. |