Post by thatgamingasshole on Mar 16, 2021 2:13:26 GMT
Ok so from what I understand, there were supposed to be two versions of Tank Police, one edited for American audiences where they referred to as the penis mines (you read that right) as Weapons and called the urine in the canisters (you read that right too) Plasma.
But I mentioned in the official page:
"Ok so, I am literally certain I have an old VHS tape that was recorded off, I believe, Showtime or perhaps HBO back in the 90s when Anime was still new. I was a youth, but thankfully my mom allowed me to watch...well basically everything. We watched R-rated action movies and slashers together when I was 5, because she's that kind of cool mom. Anyway, I saw a version of this which kept the strip tease scene and even the phallic weapon stuff, but DID change the urine to "plasma" and in fact I recall my grandmother scoffing at this because she was taken aback by the use of such a "fancy word". Like, she thought they were trying to sound too smart for "some cartoon", and my mom agreed. I just thought it was a fun action movie. The copy of the VHS is buried under a ton of other VHS tapes in my house, but it was in effect a partial cut or a PG-13 cut I guess. Oh yeah also the end credits were untouched (I remember because, at age 5, I loved the SONG at the end and had no idea what I was looking at)."
Now I have looked through a lot of old videos, but keep in mind I have eight different containers and several dressers filled with old VHS tapes, so "finding" it in this case is a multi-year goal for me. But I am literally CERTAIN of what I said. It's another edit, with the end song and most or all of the nudity/sexual innuendos in place but small edits like the "plasma" and "weapons" things. It was in english too, and I used to watch it as a youth when my grandfather was still alive and he died in 1996.
So...is there more than one dub? Like a largely unedited version? And again this was NOT on Sci-Fi, this was definitely on some kind of HBO, Showtime type place. Either that or rented from Blockbuster. Either way it was not the Saturday Anime version, and in fact I'm virtually certain there were no commercials. I watched Saturday Anime like a religion, and this I know had the ending song in place and while some edits were made it was largely untouched.
My only guess is that it was either a mostly unedited version with an english dub, or an exclusive edit that maybe was only shown on channels like HBO or Showtime. Possibly an exclusive blockbuster edit? Or am I just misunderstanding the found media article. Thing is I know, for a fact, the end song was UNTOUCHED but the Saturday Anime version lacks the original imagery, and the "Weapons" and "Plasma" were still there not urine or penis bombs. So that literally cannot be it. It was basically a combination of the Saturday Anime version and the uncut english edit.
Or again, am I misunderstanding the article?
