so is Funi skipping almost 39 episodes and start at a different point or what?!:blink:
No, 4Kids skipped some episodes.
Counting FULL episodes we're talking about 40, so yeah there was skipping.
If FUNi goes back to episode 1 and re-does it, then they won't be missing.
4Kids skipped the last episoe of Arlong Park where they celebrate, then they skipped all of Little Garden and Apis.
In overall missing footage, I don't think anyone would even WANT to count how many seconds were edited out overall and add them up. But it's over 50 hours of missing footage if you think about adding missing episodes + the little clips that last 2-3 seconds.
Oh no, wait, sorry, 50 episodes is about a day, assuming you take a nap and have restroom breaks. So they cut out AT LEAST an entire day's worth of footage. And you know what's worse? 50 episodes is about a year of work or so, I'm assuming. That means a ton of Japanese men and women who were paid are not having their work seen outside of reruns in Japan.
I'm sure since like 5 artists can work on a small scene doing different parts and such that it's not big deal, but when you consider hundreds of people put in tons of man hours to make a 30 minute episode, and that 4Kids basically destroyed those weeks of work, it kinda sucks.