Not to sure on Johnny Sokko, but I know Shout wasn't able to get high quality version of Seven & Ultra Q due to the stupid court battle between Tsuburaya and Chaiyo.Shonen King wrote:I'm concerned with video quality too. Everything Shout factory releases as far as toku is concerned seems cheap. The covers are generic and the video sources are not the best. Sometimes they seem like quickie releases to make a fast buck. I'd would much rather support sub groups who actually love the programs.
So I watched the 1st episode of Mebius on Cruchyroll & the Fushigi-chan version, (since that's what I had available) the official subs are of a decent quality in my opinion. I noticed that they used the term "Father of Ultra" instead of "Ultra Father", the name description for Dinozaur may have also been changed, and it looked as if some of the dialogue between between characters was probably interpreted/translated a different way.
I don't really mind since I don't see toku going as mainstream as anime has, and I doubt with Zyu and Mebius getting official releases is going to put Tv-Nihon out of business. I'm all for this if it get's just a couple of people interested in the fandom, heck I wouldn't be writing this right now if it wasn't for English dubs of Godzilla, Gamera and Ultraseven entertaining me as a kid.
As for that box I think it should read "before Power Ranger there was Zyuranger" Super Sentai makes it sound like Zyu was the first ignoring everything that came before.