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...?!  Uh, I hate to have to point this out to 
you, but Escaflowne's been available uncut on VHS 
for about 18 months.  And the DVD release will be 
completely uncut, as well.

Ditto for Card Captor Sakura, on the DVD release.

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This is fine with me.  Most American cartoons 
(with a few exceptions) blow chunks.  More anime 
on TV is a good thing.

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Uh, whatever, but you're wrong on that one-- 
Bandai Entertainment licensed the show for 
broadcast from Sunrise, they have the copyright 
on it.

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The edited version of Escaflowne is sanctioned by 
Sunrise.  It's in the contracts.

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It'll be unedited, only there'll be some name 
changes... Kenshin will be Speed Racer, Sanosuke 
will be Racer X, Kaoru will be Trixie, Hajime 
Saitoh will be Chim-chim, and Makoto Shishio will 
be Captain Terror.

Seriously, it's totally uncut.  Ditto for the 
OVAs and movie.  (The English-dubbed version of 
the OVAs is titled Samurai X, presumably to tie 
in with the broadcast version if Sony manages to 
sell it for TV.  Dumb move, IMO, because if the 
show gets on TV and is popular, you'll have tons 
of 12-year-olds getting the savagely-violent 
OVAs.)