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Summary: No caption for hearing impaired
Review: No caption!!, October 12, 2004
A Kid's Review
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Summary: OK but......
Review: As everyone else said, this looses a lot in the translation, which this company has done to pretty much all the animes it get. The voices are bad (I mean come on! Joey lives in Japan, but sounds like he's from Brooklin) Get this if you like the Kid's WB version but I suggest you get an import from the Japaneese to get the real effect. Another reason to get the Jap is because they have a season before this that never was, and to our dismay probly never will be, released in America
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Summary: Watch Out For this (...)
Review: As you might have gleaned from other reviews on this page, there are in fact two completely different products that present the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh:
1) Yu-Gi-Oh: The Complete First Season (henceforth called TCFS)
2) Yu-Gi-Oh: The Perfect Collection (henceforth called TPC)
What's the difference? Well, several things.
1) TCFS is listed on Amazon, TPC is not.
2) TPC is the original, uncut episodes, dubbed by a foreign distributor. TCFS is an edited set, put out by 4Kids Entertainment in the US, with some violence and language removed, and also has different voices than TPC's dub. You can see several reviews here complaining about the scenes cut out in TCFS. The reason why this was done is that TCFS is a Kid's version, TPC is the original adult version.
3) Most importantly, TCFS, for one reason or another, retails for about $40 more than TPC.
Now, most people would normally love to have uncut episodes of a show over cut ones. And if the uncut episodes are less expensive, it should be a no-brainer. UNLESS you're buying it for a Kid. If you're buying for a kid, you may want, and be willing to pay more for an edited version. And in any case, the kid is going to want the version that has the voices that he's heard on TV. He's not going to get why everybody sounds different.
Whichever version you want, these are the facts. There *are* two different versions, they are not quite the same, and their prices are very different. And this is where the potential for abuse comes in.
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If you should see an ad like that, and be thinking about buying, check the fine print first, and look to see if it contains the words "International Version". If it has those words, then the seller is going to substitute TPC for TCFS, (despite the fact that TCFS is the product being listed), and try to claim that they're really the same thing (despite having different titles).
What is a fantastic price for TCFS is not all that great a price for TPC. You could do better elsewhere. But be that as it may, just be aware, that if you place such an order for TCFS, TPC is what you're going to get. If that's what you wanted, fine. But if you deliberately ordered the Kid's version because you WANTED the kid's version, be aware that you're not going to get it, despite what it says on your receipt.
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Summary: DA BOMB!
Review: Here it is, the whole season 1 DVD collection of Yu-Gi-Oh! Everyone loves Yu-Gi-Oh, and now you can get all the season 1 episodes (48 I think) for one low price. This makes a great gift for Yu-Gi-Oh! fans from 6 to 60. Order now and you'll get it in time for that perfect Easter present.
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Summary: Having watched the series on dvds , it think its great.
Review: I first came about watching yu-gi-oh one sunday morning on tv , im 22 years old just to let you know the age range , its not only kids that find this series intresting.
anyway it was a duel between yugi and underwood , from the moment i started watching it i was hooked.
soon after i started getting the dvds and watching the series that way.
so far i think duelist kingdom is better than battle city , mainly because of all the mystery involded in it and the major charaters get introduced.
i like the dub and the voice overs , everyone has there own views but heck the voice actor for kabia is amazing and yugi is really brought to life and joey seems to grow throughout the series as well. , reading the manga of the origonal shadow games in shoen jump graphic novel it feel like that humour they have there is well protrayed over to the series.
seriously if your looking for a good series to buy , then buy this. by all means try the origonal japanese version too , my language skills not that great so ill stick to english version but in some cases the dub makes the series seem better.
just remember (chessy line coming up) Its time to duel.
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Summary: No caption!!
Review: I think the box set is awesome! I was hooked on the series from day one. The visuals are stunning. What makes this a winner for me are the English voice-overs, the US actor for Seto Kaiba...is in one word...HOT! Deep and rich. What a voice! The voice actors for Yami Yugi and Joey are pretty cool too! I can't wait for the Complete Second season!
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Summary: Good that all the Eps are in this set - Big BUT coming...!
Review: I would have to agree with the last review for this item.yeah, it's great that Yugi comes in this box set for the first season - but 4Kids Entertainment needs a good kick in the teeth! If you're confused - here's the low-down: As far as I know 4Kids Entertainment is the company that made the english over-dub for this anime, they are also in charge of the visual editing aspect of the show. Here's the problem with the english visual edit and the english over-dub: In one ep of the show, Tristan (excuse the spelling) punches Joey and Joey hits the ground - that's the original Japanese version. The english version goes like this:
The animation of Tristan punching Joey has been taken out (edit) and all we see is the animation of Joey on the ground. Joey's lines then go something like this: "Ow! Why'd ya "shove" me for?!" - when in the animation Joey has a big punch mark on his face for all to see. I think these edits are because cencorship changes every year so somethings CAN be said or shown on TV and somethings can't. In my opinion - the english voices ain't so bad.
I Like Yami-Yugi's voice. Just on a side note - some more differences between the Japanese and English versions: No 1: The Dark Magician is called The Black Magician is the Japanese version. The orginal Japanese name makes alot more sense when the dark magician becomes The Black Chaos Magician or The Magician of Black Chaos - whichever. No 2: As far as I know - I could be wrong - but in the Japanese version Merick's name is Malick - I don't know why 4Kids changed his name - I think it's down to a bad translation on their part. No 3: Tristan's real name is Honda, Téa's real name is something else and the name of Joey's sister is something completely differant. No 4: If you may not know the name "YUGI" is the Japanese word for game or amusement and the name "YAMI" means darkness. So the name "Yami-Yugi" means "Dark-Game" or The Shadow Games in the show. Cool, huh? Ok, so all up - it's good that you can buy the season 1 box-set in english. But, if you can get your hands on the original Japanese un-edited version with GOOD english sub-titles - I say go for it! review © copyright M.A.Thompson 2004
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Summary: Ugh...
Review: Okay, I personally don't like this idea. But that's just me not liking what the 4Kids or whatever company did to Yu-Gi-Oh. If you do like the dubbed version, then by all means, go ahead and buy this. However, I recommend the original, uncut Japanese version more. If you look around on the net, I'm sure you can find it somewhere. Some anime stores even have them. If you choose to go ahead and buy the dubbed, just know that most of the scenes and any plot at all were taken, sliced up, sugar-coated, fluffed up, and then shown. There are very few scenes like they were in the original.
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Summary: STAY AWAY.
Review: Okay, let's take a look at the pros and cons of this box set: Pros: * Contains 49 episodes over 16 DVDs. Cons: * Far from Uncut.
* Only includes the Edited English version as seen on Kids' WB!
* The voices... well, to be blunt, SUCK.
* The translation... if you can even call it a "translation"... is completely off and doesn't capture any spirit of the original Japanese version.
* The music is synthesized bullcrap equivalent to toddler's xialaphones (however it's spelled).
* Nearly every frame is censored, due to the original cards having... OMG teh japanees wryting!!! 4Kids took this show and completely blowed it out of proportion. If you like Yugioh, or even the dub, don't buy this set. You're much better off buying the R2 sets [...] or taping the episodes off of Kids' WB!, Cartoon Network, YTV, etc. Don't support these DVDs until 4Kids gets the gall to release an Uncut version.
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Summary: Awesome, but could be better
Review: This DVD set has all of YuGiOh Season 1, and it's well worth the buy for those who don't mind the dubbed version. I gave it 4 stars because the characters and plot are well developed. However, if you can find the uncut version with subtitles, I reccomend it.
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