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This leaves a bad taste in my mouth.... are we regressing, now? I thought the days of taking an anime and trying to turn it into a different show entirely were behind us. confused

Hey, Battle of the Planets may have spliced in a whole new characters and American produced episodes were used to cover plot holes made by skipping explicit arcs, but Gatchaman was always and action show, it's not like Battle of the Planets was turning it into a love-story.

It's certainly not the "first time such wholesale re-crafting" has taken place, it's just the first time they had the nerve to call it art.

Isn't it funny how the minute Naruto was licensed there was a thousand people saying how badly it was going to suck, but this goes right under their nose?

Volcano High was bitchin'.

Don't forget Carl Maceck's Robotech series. That was spliced too.

Volcano High was dubbed and used the voices of popular Rap/Hip Hop artists that have been shown on MTV.

I liked it, but I'm not sure if others did.