At this point, I want the show's production to get even more confusing. I don't care anymore. What can happen next? A sex scandal? Murder most foul?
Another new composer? Let's get crazy.
This is still manageable to me. FUNi probably has the international version. I'll just buy that when they release it and then import any future soundtrack CDs and the TV version's theme song CDs from Japan. Then I should have everything minus the exclusive dialogue that Yanami and Nozawa presumably recorded for the TV version's previews and recaps. Does that cover everything so far, we think?
kenisu3000 wrote:All the talk about sloppy cuts does lead me to believe the Japanese home release is going to be different from its TV broadcast, so it is a little disheartening to think that I've been documenting the past 11 episodes for practically nothing, but... such is life. I'll still keep documenting the rest of the broadcast anyway.
I certainly wouldn't say you're doing it "for nothing." You're the only person documenting a very obscure and very effed-up part of television history. It's going to be a great resource. We're all grateful for it.
Anyway, I simply don't understand the complaints about the international version being a little longer. "
Kai must be short! No, shorter! Even shorter! Keep cutting! Shorter! Fit the whole thing in ten episodes!" We know that the first few international episodes were severely edited down for the Japanese TV airing. They were horrible. That's not the show I want to support.
Kai is cutting filler. It's closer to the manga. We're getting what we wanted, but we shouldn't have to throw proper pacing out the window to get it. That clip of the Korean-dubbed international version looked great. More background silence, better music placement, lines of dialogue that
aren't being delivered back-to-back-to-back-to-back. If this is what we can look forward to, then I say "bring it on."
Can the Buu arc of the
Dragon Ball manga be properly adapted in 50 episodes or less? Of course. And if they were animating it from scratch, then that's what we would be expecting. But they're working with footage that simply wasn't written or animated to move that quickly. There has to be some breathing room
somewhere. It's not going to be perfect, but the first two arcs of
Kai were just as horribly paced. We have nothing to lose from the series moving just a teensy bit slower.