Anime Editing News

According to Anime Prime, Media Blasters will be releasing two separate versions of Yasuomi Umetsu’s latest OAV series Mezzo Forte. “Since this Green Bunny title has scenes of a sexual nature, they will be releasing both an uncut version on their Kitty label and an edited version on their AnimeWorks label.” Only the first episode of this OAV series is currently available in Japan. In it, the single sex scene is actually a dream sequence, so it can be edited out for the American market without disrupting the progression of the story.

Also according to Anime Prime, the recently released Countdown Conjoined VHS tape that collects the AD Vision Countdown and Countdown Continued is actually a compilation of the edited versions of both OAVs, although the tape is not specifically labeled as a general release, edited version. The uncut versions of Countdown OAVs 1 & 2 are apparently still only available on their original, separate VHS releases.