From: phoenix@mediaone.net
Chris Kern wrote:
>Episode 99 - A man's kindness! Yuuichirou's heart broken by Rei?
>The dub butchered this episode by removing the lines where Yuuichirou
>thought Haruka was a man. The problem is that this renders the
>episode kind of incomprehensible -- it's hard to tell why Chad is
>upset over the situation with Raye, or why he would try to fight Amara
>(if he knew she was a girl). They didn't really change much of the
>overall dialogue so it almost seems like Chad thought Raye had turned
>into a lesbian or something like that.
>
>I don't fully understand why the dub thought they had to change this
>-- they had already used the "people think Haruka is a man" device in
>episode 92, which was basically dubbed unchanged (IIRC). In a way,
>episode 92 was even "worse" (from a potential censorship standpoint)
>because the girls were attracted to Haruka.
I think I know the reason. Based on a theory I brought up in my post
on the episode before this one, I think the writers had only a vague
idea of the Sailor Moon storyline and only twigged to the true nature
of H&M's relationship in episode 95. That is the one where they enter
the love contest and it became obvious to everyone that there is
something special in their relationship, that it had to be more then
simple friendship. IMO, it's at that point that the writers realized
that they had a tiger by the tail and then went to great lengths to
downplay the A&M relationship and to downplay the masculine side of
Amara/Haruka's personality. Even if that meant that Chad would
cravenly and knowingly start a fight with a woman for a reason that
the dub does not make particularly clear.
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