I've heard that Macek (sp?) was totes a fan of the series he was so loosely adapting. He was just forced to take liberties because he could only license part of the show, so he had to do nonsense like slap episodes from different shows together and try to pass it off as one story.
Also, the lip flaps don't always match the original Japanese dialog either. They tend to animate before recording the voices.
He smashed three series together because you needed 65 episodes to get syndication and back then syndication was a thing people cared about.
Well... I would say that there is more freedom, but that it is a consequence of the same forces that mean that there is less of it over here. Anime production involves a lot less oversight as far as content goes because there is less monetary investment and, Japanese ultra-fans being looser with their wallets than Americans, a greater percentage return. While this means that there is more fan pandering outside of children's programming and film, it also means that oversight is much lower with respect to more outré things. No-one would make serial experiments: lain or Kemonozume or Mouryou no Hako over here because there is too much money tied up in creation to allow for potential failure and too little fan investment at the teen and adult level... which, in the latter case, is reinforced by American attitudes about animation.
Turns out I got confused; I was thinking of Heavy Metal, which Nelvana wasn't involved in. I did notice that both movies were co-produced by C/FP, though...
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