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Sometimes I shouldn't read the Youtube comments, because then I see this stuff and it immediately makes me want to create these type of things:



But in all seriousness, not really looking forward to this game. I know they're saying it's "improved" upon the original, but I've never been known to trust Sega, especially on their QA. The only thing that would even make me check out this game would probably a Japanese voice option (which is literally the one thing I ask for in every Sonic game to have), simply because I want to hear who will be doing the new Eggman. On that note, really hope they don't decide to use his son, Akio Ohtsuka. I have nothing against the guy, but he doesn't really have the same range as his father.

KingOfBunnies, on 09 April 2015 - 01:20 PM, said:

This is actually wrong. Mark Kirk wasn't actually at 4Kids during the time of the acquisition and only used information that he speculated at the time. 4Kids Entertainment specifically went after One Piece, in fact influencing Toei Animation to re-track a deal that they had with FUNimation at the time. It's something that Al Kahn really wanted, because of the marketing potential the series had and given how popular it was in Japan at the time (and is still, to this day). There is misinformation because of this interview that's been passed around, some thinking it was the deal with Shaman King or another property, which wasn't the case. The only other show it could've been was Ojamajo Doremi, but the dates don't match up and was licensed later. (EDIT: Friend of mine corrected me on this and the 4Kids Doremi deal technically predates 4Kids going after One Piece. Still I don't think this was licensed as a package deal with that show.)

The problem is 4Kids acquired it without realizing what they had gotten themselves into, in terms of content. The only other series that the company had acquired that had a ton of content issues prior was Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monster, but was tamer compared to One Piece. Another problem, which we can't source entirely, but from what I understand Toei Animation influenced the production of the dub to make modifications for the "sake of making modifications", because they simply had worked with other shows that 4Kids had acquired at the time. Basically, it was the problem of the Japanese thinking that a show had to be over-localized to be successful, and based off what we knew leading up to the dub premiere, it did seem 4Kids had absolute intentions of doing a faithful dub. I still remember to this day, my friend Sam had contacted Toei on the phone a long time ago, in regards to One Piece and their choice of localization companies, and the guy on the other end seemed surprised that he "liked Japanese music" in the show.

Kushami, on 09 April 2015 - 10:43 AM, said:

Unfortunately, those episodes never saw a release on DVD in Japan. In fact, never even aired on Japanese television as far as I am aware. They were eventually released "unaltered" sometime in 2010 (I think it was in September) on various streaming rental websites. The only issue is while they had no edits in the main episode, so we got proper eyecatchers, title card, etc., the issue is TMS never actually got to the stage of applying the credits to the episodes, outside of the voice actor credits on the final episode, so all the opening and endings are blank, with the exception of the song subtitles.

Lanzer, on 08 April 2015 - 01:39 PM, said:

That's a mixing issue on the master end. I believe some of these issues were corrected after the initial broadcast on television, but if they still remain there, I doubt Discotek will be able to correct it. The only way this would even be possible is if the original materials still existed, which is probably unlikely at this point and time.

D.A. Garden, on 08 April 2015 - 02:06 PM, said:

Discotek generally only licenses the stuff for the North American market, though I'd imagine there might exist a few titles which they may have additional rights. Still, even if they did have the UK rights, the problem is that a distributor would have to pick up the rights to the show, as Discotek does not have any infrastructure set up in UK.

RGX, on 08 April 2015 - 06:54 AM, said:

I would expect probably pretty low. Sonic X is not an HD show and the only way I could see them doing it is what they're doing with Samurai Pizza Cats: SD encode of the entire series on 1 (or probably in Sonic X's case, 2 discs, due to being 78 versus 52).