18 "Manatsu no Koi! Ichigo no Heart wa Yurayura"
(Midsummer Love! Ichigo's Swaying Heart)
2002-07-27
17 "My Knight in Blue Armor" 2005-10-08
Summary here

It seems to me that 4Kids is more into altering scenes than cutting them these days. And it's getting anoying. Oh well. At least the music was nicely done today.

So we have another alteration heavy episode. The entire first half was sort of mixed around... But it still managed to flow pretty well.
So they changed Ryou's clothes for no reason at all. I wonder what their logic was... Seems to be a waste of time.
The characters' hair also seemed extra shiny in this episode.


As usual, the script stays to the plot, but takes roundabout routes to get it across, picking up SDAs along the way.

Just a random thing I've noticed: It seems that every episode has one big cut somewhere in the episode, along with many smaller ones.

The dub reuses the ending of last week's episode instead of dubbing the shortened recap from the original.

The dub moved the scenes during the fight around. Details:

Original
Mint fighting Pie, Zakuro appears
Blue Knight preparing to fight Kishu
Zakuro defeats fish, goes to find others with Mint
Blue Knight fighting Kishu
Lettuce and Pudding fighting Tart
Lettuce and Pudding running
Group meets up

Dub
Lettuce and Pudding fighting Tart
Mint fighting Pie, Zakuro appears
Zakuro defeats fish, goes to find others with Mint
Blue Knight preparing to fight Kishu
Blue Knight fighting Kishu
Lettuce and Pudding running
Group meets up

Zakuro's necklace is decrossed, but instead of turning into a stick, it's made into a circle. And of course her weapon is decrossed.

Zakuro's transformation in the original was a shortened one. The dub uses her full dub transformation (first time in a while since we've seen it).

(1 second) A close up of Zakuro's face after she appears is cut.

"A giant carrot attacked me at the airport. My agent's sure going to have a hard time explaining that to the tabloids."

So they can't just sense danger and go to help any longer? Aww.

The episodes are synched for a bit, then they start scene moving again:

Original
Blue Knight fighting Kishu
Ichigo thinking about the Blue Knight
More Blue Knight/Kishu fighting
Ichigo thinking more
Ichigo wakes up

Dub
Blue Knight fighting Kishu
More Blue Knight/Kishu fighting
Ichigo thinking about the Blue Knight
Ichigo thinking more
Ichigo wakes up

Also, instead of panning up the tree, the dub shows more of the tree rotating.

"I'm talking to you, blond, blue and chivalrous."

Hee.

(3 seconds) Ichigo wondering why the Blue Knight is helping her is cut.

"I don't know, but he's a real hunk!"
"Yeah, if you're into the whole foot-long pointed ear thing."

I bet them ears can do some niiice tricks ;P

The dub adds a flashback to the first episode where Elliott tells Zoey that she's heavier than she looks.

This is probably the most random alteration ever. 4Kids decided to paint over Ryou's clothes so that instead of his white/green shirt and purple pants, he was wearing the normal black shirt and white pants.

But it doesn't make sense because later in the episode when Kiki is saying that the Blue Knigt is Elliott, he's wearing the white/green shirt and purple pants in her chibi diagram.

The text on Keiichiro's screen is erased.

(1 second) Ryou running up in the flashback is snippet'd.

(1 second) Ryou speaking to Ichigo in the flashback of them dancing is snippet'd.

All of the Ichigo/Ryou flashback scenes are sped up a little bit, also.

(3 seconds) Lettuce talking to Ryou is cut short.

(2 seconds) Part of the Ichigo/Aoyama phone convo was snipped out. In fact, I think this whole scene is either littered with snippets or sped up, because my episodes kept falling out of synch.

(4 seconds) Ichigo's mother talking about youth and her husband coming in is cut.

(35 seconds) The alien scene is heavily cut, taking out a lot of the dialogue between Pie and Kishu and completely taking out Tart's lines. There might have been more cut, but my cable blinked out here.

(2 seconds) A snip after Ichigo tripped.

(3 seconds) Ichigo and Aoyama looking at some fish are cut.

The words on the shop where Aoyama gets drinks is erased.

(2 seconds) The panning down onto Aoyama and Ichigo in the sunset is cut.

(6 seconds) Ichigo and Aoyama talking is cut short.

(5 seconds) Ichigo bowing and apologizing and Aoyama laughing is cut. Because we don't bow.

(34 seconds) Ichigo flashbacking to the Blue Knight and Ryou telling her she was heavy and Ichigo, Lettuce, and Pudding going their separate ways at the station was cut.

Total Retained 80%