No Export for You/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

* Toei notoriously won't release the fifth season of ''[[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Moon]]'', ''Sailor Stars'', in the United States, or ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]'' outside Japan and Latin America. For some reason, a Mexican company (Inter-track) got to make a pretty decent dub of all of ''Sailor Moon'''s seasons. Indeed, more recently, they've refused to license ''any'' of their ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' properties and have offered no explanation as to why, despite multiple licensees like Cloverway (who handled the dub), [[Geneon]] (before they went under) and [[ADV Films]] expressing open interest in licensing the entire series including ''Sailor Stars''.

** Also, for whatever random reason, Toei didn't give [[Geneon]] (then known as Pioneer) or [[ADV Films]] the next episode previews for the seasons they ''did'' license, and left one episode out of ''[[Sailor Moon]] R''. The episode was simply a filler [[Beach Episode]], but it apparently took Geneon by such surprise that they had to revise their boxart and packaging at the last minute to get rid of references to it. They were given a vague explanation that the creator didn't like it, though the episode was released for the later Japanese DVD. [[Bad Export for You|It's also well-known by now that the masters ADV got were the original masters DiC used to make their dub almost a decade earlier, and time had not been kind to those tapes. Needless to say, the video quality on the ADV release was generally quite poor and showed significant age and coloration loss. One recalled disc even had an episode with about 10 seconds of DiC's audio mistakenly spliced in. Plus, ADV was forced to use Toei's pre-made subtitles rather than doing their own, resulting in an extremely wonky translation]].