Kingjason is right.
It's culture clashing that causes a lot of anime to get cut up, or changed somehow over here in the states.
I hate to bring up kiddie anime, but I found this to be the perfect example:
In Japan, Pokemon has different character traits for James of Team Rocket. In Japan, the character of James is a cross-dresser by habit. That would not fly apparently over here in the US on broadcast television at least.
Just a small example of how cultures often dictate what gets broadcast, changed, cut up, rearranged, mangled, dangled, diced, sliced, drawn and quartered, burned at the stake, hung until dead, and beheaded. (gassssppp wheeeezzee!)
Respectfully,
Martok2112
KJ, I will try to check out the manga of Akira when I can.
Thanks for the headsup.
