Comic Update: Dream Fighter
Even though they have changed their tone a bit regarding this issue, the fact that we’re still talking about editing anime in this day and age is quite nostalgic. When I was younger I used to read sites documenting the multitude of edits done to various Toonami offerings as well as sites which provided photographic comparisons for the original DBZ edits (there used to be this great site called Dragonball Z UNCUT).
At this time I was also watching anime on VHS with my friends, and attempting to download full episodes of random things in the form 20mb .rm files which took something of the order of four hours to download. So, yeah, props to FUNimation for providing an impromptu trip down memory lane with this little controversy. It’s almost especially funny that FUNimation is the source of all this mess, considering not too long ago they were doing an impressive job of pissing off fanboy purists with their dub of DBZ.
I approve all sorts of nostalgia trips. Especially since I wasn’t quite old and interested enough to catch the VHS anime age, I listen stuff from older anime fans like they are some kind of war heroes.
I’m pretty sure DBZ didn’t have asking-for-it loli tits, though.
They had bloodbaths! :D
I like how in that last panel that is supposed to be way back then I can see stuff like the eva platinum perfect collection…
4Kids is still doing this stuff though…
I misunderstood the last 2 panels at first – Rets and Tina are total jerks. Awesome.
And these days I would expect a site called “Dragonball Z UNCUT” to be about very specific yaoi.
@Yuriko: That’s not Evangelion Platinum Perfect, that’s Platinum Complete. Platinum Perfect is the one that came in the tin, and with all the ADV-original special features remaining. Platinum Completing is in a cardboard thinpack (with that cover image), and has the extras stripped.
Yeah Yuriko, it’s as yomikoma says–they’re just being assholes for the sake of being assholes.
@linger Yeah I realized that after I said it as I have the Platinum Perfect (the one in the tin) and it is clearly not that one but still yeah Platinum wasn’t even out at all then.
@wah so are you saying this is not a flashback but Rets and Tina just pretending it was way back when?
The first volume of ‘Anime Invasion’ was my proper introduction to anime in late 2001. The issue had young Goku on the cover and had revealed every single thing that was edited from the TV Dragonball and DBZ broadcasts. Even though I had never been a DBZ fan, that was when I realized that Toonami couldn’t be trusted! All shows should be watched on Adult Swim! Hahaha. Damn anime fans these days are spoiled brats!
Woah, blast from the past! Now if you’ll excuse me, I think I’ll go watch some scrambled pornography on the Spice channel…
Hey wah, just wanted to say thanks for keeping the comic going. I am sure it must take a lot of time. 2 kids mean I have little time for teh animu anymore, but will keep following your comic as long as you keep putting it out there :-)
I’m surprised at you, WAH. A 10-year flashback would have been a golden opportunity for a loli Tina.
@^
There are some lines you just don’t cross. :V
You aren’t even trying with these comics anymore are you…..?
I think this one is p. funny.
Hey they had blood+ ten years ago? That anime time travels!
They didn’t.
@Defectron:
WHOOOOSH.