Yeah, but you guys have talked a lot in those threads. It's a bit much. I figure starting a thread with a blank slate would be easier to digest. I remember the hell out of Transformers growing up. The cartoons, the toys, even the marvel comics. My parents wouldn't let me watch G.I. Joe cause human on human violence (though that seemed to be the only show they objected to), robots beating the crapplication out of each other though was fair game. I don't think I ever saw a bit of Robotech though, toys or show. Similarly, I heard about Voltron and Speed Racer, but I never saw them and it wasn't until later that I learned they were Japanese too. I think I saw Macross on Hulu, so I'm gonna check that out. Do you know, when these shows were Americanized for syndication, if they also changed the story a bit to be more palatable for American culture? Or were they kept pretty true to the source?I think everything mentioned on this page has been mentioned either in #anime or actually covered in #animeclub, so you are a liar liar pants on fire.
They absolutely gutted the story, showed episodes out of order, recut shit, omitted entire story arcs, the whole nine yards.
Ick. That sounds like they didn't much respect the integrity of the original artists. I can see why they would edit our some things, like the drinking and gore, but it's sad to see that they didn't do three series under a Robotech name like the article said was a proposed idea. I think that would be a fair middle ground. I'm watching Star Blazers right now as I type this and I'm enjoying it, partially because it is kind of campy. It makes me wonder though, what they changed over from the original. I did notice one part, when they caught the doctor in the back seat of a car clearly boozing it up, the dub was saying he was experimenting with a sleeping potion. So clearly, there's at least a bit of change here.