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Do you think they would ever release the Japanese version in the US?

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Or outside of Japan, actually.

I don't quite understand why they won't release it, either on their own set of DVDs or on the english DVDs.
They could put the english names in the subtitles..And have an option to put the Japanese on.

Children aren't interested in reading subtitles? What about the older fans? Not that they really care about anyone over nine when it comes to the anime dub being on DVD..
 
Well, we already have one version without subtitles that we complain about, and I can't imagine the Japanese version being much different. It's still the same plot episode by episode.
 
Because some of us simply prefer the Japanese version to the English version?


As for the topic...the fact that they haven't released the Japanese version *now*, after all these years, pretty much tells me that they have no plans to do so. The dub-only, TV edited DVDs sell well enough, and there's absolutely no indication that adding a Japanese language track with subtitles would increase sales in any significant way. Really, there's no incentive, from a business point of view, to spend the resources necessary to include it.

It's also entirely possible that TPCI's contract with the Japanese producers forbids them from releasing the Japanese version on a home format. They don't have any (steady) releases of the TV series in Japan, so you'd have the whole reverse importation thing going on if Viz was allowed to release the Japanese version.
 
I would like to own the Japanese version of Pokemon eventually, at least in some form. Sadly even in Japan they don't release the show properly in boxsets.

As I said in another thread, I would even buy Johto in Japanese, which is really saying a lot.

I really wish Pokemon would get something similar to the Dragonbox that Dragonball fans get.
 
It'd be nice if they streamed the Japanese version like how Toei is streaming Digimon.
 
Well...they're streaming some Jouto episodes on Japanese Wiis now. And while that's a far, far cry from what you guys are asking for, it's at least *something*.
 
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