Birthday • 1983-08-05 Gender •
Male Location • Vancouver, BC Member Since • 2003-08-02 Occupation • Writer; Part-Time Hero Real Name • James
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Achievements • Visiting eight different myO friends in person thus far Anime Fan Since • Winter 2001 Favorite Anime • Neon Genesis Evangelion, .hack//SIGN, Naruto, Bleach, Beck, Peacemaker Kurogane, Ranma 1/2 (the guilty pleasure) Goals • Visit the myO friends I've missed thus far; complete a cosplay from 300 Hobbies • Writing, Gaming, Kung Fu, Movies, Acting somewhat strange in general Talents • Can recognise most quotes from almost any movie/show on first listen; Can recite the entire 12 days of Christmas by memory
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Saturday, March 3, 2007
And now, to rape your childhoods just a little more . . .
So take a big-name, big-money Japanese franchise. Clearly the kids love it. So let's see if we can't make some money over in the west! Let's do it! But first, how can we make it so it'll speak to our audiences a little more . . . . .
Yes, I'm talking about Sailor Moon.
No, I'm not talking about the dub.
Here's where you'll love where I'm going with this story . . . Toon Makers bid on the rights to Sailor Moon before DiC did. BUT . . . . . their plan was to make their own version of it! Not just dub a new language track and stuff, no, they wanted to make their own version.
And it was gonna be half animated, half live-action.
And there was gonna be a black girl and a wheelchair girl.
I couldn't make this stuff up. I'm dead serious.
So they made a 2 minute promo to which some people like to erroneously refer as "Saban Moon" (y'know, Power Rangers style):
Surprise surprise, this never flew. The reason? This show would cost more than just dubbing the original show (that's the official reason, anyway . . . I'm sure someone else realised the idea sucked diarrhea as well).
Hehe . . . suddenly the Sailor Moon dub doesn't seem so bad anymore, nya?
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And now, to rape your childhoods just a little more . . .