Im watching the Kimba tapes in order, but it seems like the episodes are out of order. Whats going on?
(Note: This problem does not exist with the Kimba DVDs.) There is a historical reason why the VHS tapes of Kimba seem to be out of order. Here’s the full explanation: The original TV run of Kimba in the U.S was shaped by the way the TV syndication market worked. Osamu Tezuka had his story, which he wanted to unfold across time as each episode was shown each week in Japan. NBC Enterprises knew that they were going to take these episodes and physically ship them to TV stations all over the country, where they would have no control over how they were shown. So they tried to engineer the English scripts to make each episode self-sufficient, and then they actually sabotaged the continuity of the shows by creating new sequence numbers for each episode–putting them into a new sequence that had nothing to do with Tezuka’s intentions. In spite of this, it’s quite obvious to anyone watching Kimba that this is actually a continuing, evolving story. Kimba is a youngster throughout the entire seri
