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Subject: Re: I take back everything I said defending Tokyopop on the Initial D subject

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Chichiri

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Date Posted: 13:28:15 08/13/03 Wed
In reply to: Pasha 's message, "Re: I take back everything I said defending Tokyopop on the Initial D subject" on 13:01:59 08/13/03 Wed

>
>>Not that I care about Initial D, but I'm outraged on
>>behalf of the people who DO care about it!
>
>Yeah, it's too bad. I don't mind that there was an
>(extremely) edited version, as long as the viewers had
>the option of watching an unedited dub and sub. But I
>guess not ...
>
>>You'd think *somebody* would have learned their lesson
>>from Fox's Escaflowne and Sakura, but nooOOOOoooo....
>
>You would think that Tokyopop learned their lesson
>years ago when their Mixxzine stuff was coming out.
>But yeah, I wonder how much money Pioneer lost with
>the "Cardcaptors" crap ... It would be interesting to
>know.
>
>Actually, I was kind of surprised that they apparently
>expected Initial D to be such a hot property that it
>would be on television. The animation and CG isn't
>overly good, even if the plot and characters are okay.
>
>Well, I guess we will have to wait and see what
>happens. Maybe Tokyopop is right and Initial D will
>be the next big thing. Or maybe it will turn out that
>all the money they spent on localization will be
>wasted ...

Well, I think the reason is the show is very addicting for most people after they watch an episode or two. So, assuming people get past the ugly artwork, they may very well sell a lot.

I usually try to be supportive of the anime industry here, but given the way they are mangling the show, I sincerely hope Initial D does bad. Given how well they think it is going to do, hopefully they will get the message that fans do not appreciate changing the show as much as they're doing. Luckily my fiance got the Initial D Japanese DVDs 'cause there's no way either of us would want to touch the American release with a 10 foot pole after what Tokyopop's done to it. ^O^

Chichiri

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: I take back everything I said defending Tokyopop on the Initial D subject	Pasha	13:47:21 08/13/03 Wed
Re: I take back everything I said defending Tokyopop on the Initial D subject -- LrdDimwit, 14:06:39 08/13/03 Wed
Re: I take back everything I said defending Tokyopop on the Initial D subject	Matt H.	15:16:05 08/14/03 Thu
Re: I take back everything I said defending Tokyopop on the Initial D subject -- Meng, 10:03:10 08/19/03 Tue Re: I take back everything I said defending Tokyopop on the Initial D subject -- Matt H., 16:35:47 10/20/03 Mon