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Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Initial D

only God knows why they changed the character names into Americanized equivalents

Tokyo[pop] censored the brief sex scenes

in one subplot which Tokyopop partially censored from the English edition, we discover that she was sleeping with an older businessman for money

Tsuchiya, like Tak, was famous for diving a Toyota AE86, an old 1983 type of Toyota Carolla.

When they released the first two seasons of the anime on DVD, at least they were careful enough to give us the option of watching them with the original audio and subtitles that featured the characters' original names and didn't censor the most controversial dialogue bits, except for one single Natsuki line in the first episode.

Of course, let's not forget their justification in editing the manga and anime.

So you're saying even the anime subs got censored? Wow. What was this oh-so-radioactive line of dialogue?

When Natsuki's talking to her "sugar daddy" in his car, he says he'd like to see her in a bathing suit. Her original reply is "but you've already seen all of me", but Tokyopop's subs changed the line to "but you've already seen me in a bathing suit".

Funimation's recent re-release of season one used the correct translation.

A couple of issues:

I see at least two "Gunta's" in the article. Um, isn't that supposed to be "Gunma?"

Quote:

Tsuchiya, like Tak, was famous for diving a Toyota AE86, an old 1983 type of Toyota Carolla.

Okay, this doesn't sound right. I think a better way to say it is "Tsuchiya, like Tak, was famous for diving a Toyota AE86, the 6th generation incarnation of the Toyota Carolla."

Sunday Silence wrote:

Quote: Tsuchiya, like Tak, was famous for diving a Toyota AE86, an old 1983 type of Toyota Carolla. Okay, this doesn't sound right. I think a better way to say it is "Tsuchiya, like Tak, was famous for diving a Toyota AE86, the 6th generation incarnation of the Toyota Carolla."

Now this is where my lack of car knowledge shows. But Wikipedia lists the AE86 as the fifth generation of Toyota Corolla, not sixth. (?)

In classic Toyota code, the "A" represents the engine that came in the car (4A series), "E" represents the Corolla, "8" represents the fifth generation (E80 series) and "6" represents the variation within this generation.

Sunday Silence wrote:

Of course, let's not forget their justification in editing the manga and anime.

And as with every other apologia I've encountered for manga and anime censorship over the years, I'm thoroughly unimpressed.

Bottom line, Tokyopop: respect and preserve the creative integrity of what you're publishing, or get the heck out of the business. Oh, wait.

And thus, the saga has unfolded. We're still wildly excited and overwhelmed by the initial fan and industry response to Initial D -- future plans for the property include all the things fans have asked for over the years -- and only occasionally received for such a mainstream property: premium, uncut, subtitled DVD releases, limited collector's sets of the uncut manga themselves, exclusive ‘bundles’ comprising rare merchandise and obscure treasures… Rest assured, we are committed to making Initial D available in as many fan-friendly formats as possible.

Initial D actually got me into cars haha. I went from driving a 2004 Grand Am (because a car's a car right?) to rocking an S-13 240SX <3 I've watched the anime over and over (it never gets any less exciting to me) but I haven't ever really read the manga.