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Monster Rancher - would you buy It?

Just give me it all on DVD as it aired on Fox Kids and I'll be happy.

Oh and if you could get cracking on 'mankin' and Ultimate Muscle, that'd be awesome too.

I'm a bit confused on how you'd make an uncut Monster Rancher release. The English dub was edited, and thus just laying it over the Japanese video will result in problems (with scenes that weren't dubbed). You could use branching, but that hurts image quality.

I am on a slow Internet connection myself, so DVD is often a better option, but if Hulu is available I would certainly look at watching it online. We are only talking a legitimate, licensed release of it on Hulu, correct? Not at all trying to be rude of course!

Well, I suppose the English audio could just give out at areas where there was no dub track - Funimation did something similar with a few places in the original Dragonball series. The English track just has music where the original Japanese has narration that was never dubbed over. That is assuming, of course, that the cuts were only ever done sequentially, and no Frankenstein editing of episodes ever occurred.

So then the DVDs would have both sub and dub? Because if it's sub only, a lot of us are going to want the nostalgia of the dub and just go over to hulu. I am guessing though that a lot of us would be ok with the English OP being a DVD extra if it would be easier to keep the Japanese opening on the dub on the DVD to make things match up better (at least I'd be ok with that, so long as I can still see the English OP in some way on the DVD I'd be fine).

Primus, I mean no disrespect, but I've been watching Funimation's Dragonball release, and early on Chichi is riding on the Flying Nimbus with Goku. In the English track, there is simply nothing at that point, though I do beg forgiveness for not remembering the particular episode. In the Japanese track, the narrator explains that Chichi has felt embarrassed because of where Goku touched her, but will now be his wife in the distant future. I assume that the narration was considered inappropriate for western audiences, and therefore was cut from the English. I was watching this on a rented disc from Netflix, so I am very sure it was an official release.

Primus, I mean no disrespect, but I've been watching Funimation's Dragonball release, and early on Chichi is riding on the Flying Nimbus with Goku. In the English track, there is simply nothing at that point, though I do beg forgiveness for not remembering the particular episode. In the Japanese track, the narrator explains that Chichi has felt embarrassed because of where Goku touched her, but will now be his wife in the distant future. I assume that the narration was considered inappropriate for western audiences, and therefore was cut from the English. I was watching this on a rented disc from Netflix, so I am very sure it was an official release. I want to add that I would not watch unlawful releases, and therefore, I am very glad this Monster Rancher proposition would be licensed.