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NEWS: Saban Brands Acquires Digimon Anime Franchise

I feel that the fanservice is part of the show. Taking that out would be equivalent to removing someone's kidney. You still can live, but you won't be whole.

Aside from being against censorship from a moral standpoint, I feel that media products are best enjoyed unadulterated to do it justice (regardless of the type of media and country of origin). In that respect, I'm also against dubbing, localizing, editing etc...

...but of course, that's just my opinion. Different strokes for different folks and you're free to disagree with me.

Awesome! Between this, Adventure finally going on DVD, and the upcoming PSP game, its a good time to be a Digimon fan!

And fanservice hasn't really that big in the series since Savers in my opinion. Characters like Angewomon and LadyDevimon might have have bared a bit of skin, but it always seemed pretty tasteful and they didn't go out of their way to focus on bust shots or whatnot. Personally I think even Kazemon and Zephyrmon were pretty tasteful but I seem to be in the minority there. [And yes, I know about Sexy Dynamite, but that's a ...special little case in itself.

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I'm looking forward to this BECAUSE of the edits to some extent. All that fanservice can get the heck out of Digimon, thank you very much.

Fanservice and Digimon have gone together since the beginning of the franchise. Fanservice is a main staple of anime in general. Removing it would be, like Actar said, removing part of it's soul.

Besides, how can you hate a Digimon who shoves enemies' faces into her crotch to make them pass out from nosebleeds? All of her attacks pretty much involve her camel-toe or her jiggling breasts from what I remember, it was a really fun series. Enjoyed it a lot more than Savers which came off a bit stale and bland, aside from Masaru punching Digimon randomly (which was kind of silly I admit)

...There are people who watch Digimon for fanservice? I always watched it because, even when in Saban's goofier version, its plot and characters were miles ahead of any other toyetic anime.

Anyway, I can accept TV edits (provided there's an uncut version) if the show at least has the original music. Unfortunately, that seems to be the one step Saban refuses to take.

As such, I won't be watching this, but I am glad for Digimon dub fans. Personally, I hope they get Tom Fahn to voice Shoutmon--it'd be nice for English Digimon fans to have the same experience as Japanese fans.

Fanservice and Digimon have gone together since the beginning of the franchise. Fanservice is a main staple of anime in general. Removing it would be, like Actar said, removing part of it's soul.

Hmm a Fanservice based Digimon

But yeah I do agree minor edits aren't that bad, honestly I don't know if its funny or sad that even all ages/kids anime have fanservice problems these days (a bit of both I guess) But yeah I look forward to this eventually airing on U.S. TV *hopefully*

It would be "removing part of its soul" only to a person who is so sex-starved that they would enjoy fanservice in a children's show (and it IS a cynical merchandise-driven children's show, no matter how hard you try to make it seem like some amazing anime).

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Hmm a Fanservice based Digimon

Quite a few, actually.