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Angry Spirited Away Fans Strike Back

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the colorized-classics dept.

peter_gzowski writes "Anime News Network is reporting that, 'The Japanese consumers in the Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures of Japan have filed a lawsuit against Walt Disney Japan over the red tint on the Japanese DVD release of Spirited Away.' Japanese consumers who purchased the Spirited Away DVD were very disappointed when they discovered a red tint to the film. A hundred thousand consumers complained, but Buena Vista Home Entertainment Japan (a subsidiary of Walt Disney) pretended nothing was wrong with the disc. The original source of news of the suit can be found (in Japanese) at Mainichi. No response from Disney yet."

15 of 328 comments (clear)

  1. Red faced? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet this will leave Disney red faced ;-)

  2. Could it be by bryan1945 · · Score: 3, Funny

    the Communist version?

    (really dating myself here)

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    1. Re:Could it be by offpath3 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nothing wrong with dating yourself. The dinner conversations are somewhat one sided, though... =)

    2. Re:Could it be by troc · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah but he doesn't eat much. And he's REALLY choosey about where we go. And he never pays his half of the bill. And he smokes. And he's vegetarian, no, he says he's vegan. My mistake.

      He likes the odd wafer thin mint (he says it's a waffer theen meent actually) though.

      I have to go, the nice men in their white coats (with odd rusty, reddish stains, hmm) are here with my new jacket.

      Maybe they will let me out tomorrow, apparently I will be wanting some kind of pasta dish. I didn't know I liked pasta but I have just informed myself I do.

      My head hurts

      Troc

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    3. Re:Could it be by grahamlee · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, because in the Communist version the DVD tints YOU!!!

      Sorry guys, the chance was there, my karma is good already, what can I say?

  3. Didn't "see" the problem? by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think Hayao Miyazaki didn't notice the problem with the red tint in his movie for obvious reasons. ;-)

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  4. Re:Hi! by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Funny

    Japan vs. Disney: Spirited Away DVD lawsuit (articles,anime) (rejected)

    You were forgetting that titles with "Strike Back" in them have always had a special meaning to nerds. :-)

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  5. Not the first time they've run into "red tint" by Adam.Steinbaugh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Disney had a similar problem with "Pocahontas" a few years ago, with thousands of Americans complaining about a "red tint" in the film.

    These complaints stopped, however, when Disney admitted they were trying to portray "Native Americans". Consumers were simply mistaken -- the rest of the movie suggested they were Americans of European descent.

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  6. Copy protection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're all mistaken, that's just the latest copy protection Disney came up with. Now they have a list of 100,000 consumers that they can sue for DMCA infringement ;)

  7. watch out by rudiger · · Score: 5, Funny

    hell hath no fury like a thousand angry anime fans.

  8. Re:Hi! by Aronymous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gotcha.

    Watch for my next story submission, "Playstation Bluetooth Tenchi DMCA Beowulf Strikes Back. Khaaaaaaaaaaaaan!"

    from the now-you've-got-our-attention dept.

  9. Re:shrinking population, but... by jgerman · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other news the governemt of Japan was suprised to realize that they could fit their entire population into a single football stadium. ;)

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  10. Re:I beg to differ by CrazyDuke · · Score: 2, Funny

    "hell hath no fury like a thousand angry anime fans."

    A thousand hentai fans would not only leave a wake of death and destruction, but inumerable bleeding orafices as well.

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  11. The Matrix by Stavr0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does that mean we can go ahead and sue WB for the faulty green tint on The Matrix DVD?

  12. Re:Any indication of how this happened? by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 2, Funny

    obviously that's a new, improved spelling of ABSOLUTELY that I'm testing out at the moment...

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