howdy,
I was just wondering if the DVD versions of Fist of the North Star incorporate the blurring technique used on the video releases, or if it is uncut like the original release? I think FOTNS is fantastic and im gonna have to a bit of trouble to get the DVD hear in Australia. Is it worth getting?
Thanks!!
im from aus to and i wanna know where do you find the dvd of fotns and if you cant tell, where can you get the vhs of it
michael
Just to let you know, that blurring effect is supposed to be there because the makers got bored of the none stop blood spilling and decided to make some of it look different.
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yes out of the hundred odd episodes (The series is being realeased in the UK 36 epss a boxset 6 boxsets you work out the math)by about 40 or 50 something they got bored of the nonstop blood spurting every wear. So the animators decided to film the scens throught fish tanks and blindy colouring in frames with violent red colours. (Johnathen Clements says about some of tis during the Vampire Hunter D audio commantary. (also in D at the scene where Grecko is wandering with the floozes in a shoot around that time when you see all the villagers you can see Ken Shiro and a woman who looks like Kei from Dirty Pair among them,also pointed out by Clements).
shareI just got the animated movie FOTNS on a imported DVD. Does that have the blur over the gore scenes? It should be here next week and I need to know if I should send it back.
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You need to understand that the bluring is done intentionally by the original animaters of FOTNS. It was not added to it for later release's in other countries.
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When the movie was first released in theatres in Japan is had all the gore intact with no blurring. Fist was actually a very popular series shown on daytime tv and because of this parents actually complained and the film had various parts cencored for the home video release. As on now it seems to be impossible to find the uncut footage. The cloest thing you can find is in the Japanese trailer which shows an uncut scene of one of the goons getting his face sliced apart by Rei.
Hay,
Actually, I have a video edition of the first release in England and the entire trailer is non- blurred. I searched out the origional Japanese rental version here in Japan and even that is blurred. So it seems that it really was just in the cinema, tho if someone has a projector and an origional copy I'd love to see it. Another thing, the t.v. version went on forever here in Japan and has a billion new chracters. There is no blurring on the best of DVD I got, and all gore is intact on all episodes. Likewise, the manga went on for another 10 books.