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The practice of making a new work by combining content from multiple sources. This goes beyond simply adding a Framing Device or releasing different works as an anthology; in a frankenslation, the source works are thoroughly edited and mixed together to form one contiguous, (hopefully) seamless work with its own story. In literature, there is a practice known as a fix-up, when an author takes their previously-published short stories and combines them into a novel. Depending on how much they have to edit the original short stories to make them fit together, the result could be considered either this trope or Canon Welding. Compare MST, Adaptation Amalgamation, Dub-Induced Plotline Change, Canon Welding. Examples |
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The "Ver.E" format was later adopted in a larger format by the Italian release of the Cardfight!! Vanguard G sets, which mix and match stuff from the releases from the English and Japanese releases making bigger sets. For example, the first Italian G Booster Set features the Royal Paladin, Oracle Think-tank, Gear Chronicle and Cray Elemental units from the original G-BT01, the Narukami and Neo Nectar units from the original G-BT02, a single Cray Elemental card from the original G-BT05, half of the contents from the 2014 and 2015 Fighters Collections, a few promos and the entirety of the first G Extra Booster, while the second Italian G Booster Set features the Royal Paladin, Gear Chronicle, Aqua Force and Great Nature units from the original G-BT02, the Kagero and Nova Grappler units from the original G-BT01, the remaining cards from the two Fighters Collections, another Cray Elemental unit from the original G-BT05, a few promos and the Royal Paladin units from the Comic Booster. | |
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Winx Club: Nickelodeon streamlined the first and second seasons into specials, combining old and re-done footage from multiple episodes into one slightly-altered story. All, with a new voice cast. 'The Fate of Bloom' merges "An Unexpected Event", "Welcome to Magix!", 'Friends in Need', "A Friendship Sundered", 'Bloom Tested', and 'Storming Cloud Tower' from the first season, ending with Bloom unlocking her fairy transformation (which originally happened at the end of the third episode). 'Revenge of the Trix' combines 'Friends in Need', "A Friendship Sundered", "Betrayed", "A Great Secret Revealed", "Bloom's Dark Secret", "Honor Above All", "Secrets Within Secrets", and "The Font of the Dragon Fire" of the first season. 'The Battle for Magix' merges "The Fall of Magix", "Mission of Domino", 'Storming Cloud Tower', 'Power Play', 'The Witches' Siege', "The Ultimate Challenge", and 'The Witches' Downfall'. 'The Shadow Phoenix' mixes bits of nearly every episode of the second season. |
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The Cardfight!! Vanguard had a pair of cases of this in foreign releases. The last two Booster sets from the original series were mixed around for their western release compared to the original Japanese edition, becoming the "Ver.E" Booster Sets: The "Ver.E" release of the sixteenth Booster Set Legion of Dragons and Swords features the Royal Paladin, Narukami and Spike Brothers units from the original BT-16, the Royal Paladin, Gold Paladin, Narukami and Aqua Force units from the original BT-17, the Royal Paladin, Gold Paladin and part of the Link Joker units from the booster set based around the Neon Messiah movie and the entire content of the Narukami and Link Joker trial decks based on the Brawler and Deletor subclans, while the "Ver.E" release of the seventeenth Booster Set, Blazing Perdition, features the Kagero, Tachikaze, Link Joker and Granblue units from the original BT-17, the Nova Grappler, Dimension Police and Neo Nectar units from the original BT-16 and the Kagero and the remaining Link Joker units from the Neon Messiah set. The "Ver.E" format was later adopted in a larger format by the Italian release of the Cardfight!! Vanguard G sets, which mix and match stuff from the releases from the English and Japanese releases making bigger sets. For example, the first Italian G Booster Set features the Royal Paladin, Oracle Think-tank, Gear Chronicle and Cray Elemental units from the original G-BT01, the Narukami and Neo Nectar units from the original G-BT02, a single Cray Elemental card from the original G-BT05, half of the contents from the 2014 and 2015 Fighters Collections, a few promos and the entirety of the first G Extra Booster, while the second Italian G Booster Set features the Royal Paladin, Gear Chronicle, Aqua Force and Great Nature units from the original G-BT02, the Kagero and Nova Grappler units from the original G-BT01, the remaining cards from the two Fighters Collections, another Cray Elemental unit from the original G-BT05, a few promos and the Royal Paladin units from the Comic Booster. |
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In the Aftermath: Angels Never Sleep is a heavily edited version of the Japanese animated movie Angel's Egg by Mamoru Oshii, trimmed down to half of its original length and framed with 45 minutes of live action footage. | |
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Space Thunder Kids was edited together with footage from no less than seven different Korean cartoons: Savior of the Earth, Defenders of Space - Phoenix-bot Phoenix King, King Robot, Protectors of Universe - Super Express Mazinger 7, Solar Adventure, Space Transformers - Micro-Commando Diatron-5, Super Mazinger 3 and Iron Man Trio. | |
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To capitalise on the success of Power Rangers, Saban licensed Kamen Rider BLACK RX and turned it into "Saban's Masked Rider": an Aesop-tastic romp starring a superhero alien learning about Earth culture with his adoptive American family. Later editing would get so shoddy that at times, you could clearly see the original Japanese actors, or the fact that the footage they were splicing in was from two seperate movies (Kamen Rider ZO and Kamen Rider J) starring completely different heroes. | |
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Kung Pow! Enter the Fist takes footage from the obscure 70's Chinese film Crane & Tiger Fists and edits it to feature Steve Oedekerk in place of the original protagonist, alongside the addition of multiple new scenes and a general Gag Dub. | |
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Macek also took Part 1 of Megazone 23, edited in some Southern Cross footage, wrote in his own script, and called the result Robotech: The Movie. The script needed drastic alterations too, because the Macross creators didn't want any similarities to their own film, Macross: Do You Remember Love?. The movie was received much worse than Robotech itself; Macek's distributor couldn't get it into theaters in the U.S. because of its tenuous connection to Robotech, and it was still too violent for children (possibly as a result of the action coming from poorly shoehorned Southern Cross footage). He later produced a proper uncut dub of Part 1, which was better received. | |
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YooHoo & Friends was originally a Korean cartoon about Ridiculously Cute Critters going on wacky adventures. The U.S. version, created by David Feiss, threw in a subplot about the title characters being Corrupt Corporate Executives who were turned into animals as punishment for their crimes against the environment. The contrast between the original footage and the new footage is very noticeable and jarring. | |
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Macek merged the completely unrelated Captain Harlock and Queen Millennia to create the rarely seen Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years. | |
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Kamen Rider: To capitalise on the success of Power Rangers, Saban licensed Kamen Rider BLACK RX and turned it into "Saban's Masked Rider": an Aesop-tastic romp starring a superhero alien learning about Earth culture with his adoptive American family. Later editing would get so shoddy that at times, you could clearly see the original Japanese actors, or the fact that the footage they were splicing in was from two seperate movies (Kamen Rider ZO and Kamen Rider J) starring completely different heroes. 13 years later, Adness Entertainment tried its luck, making Kamen Rider Dragon Knight out of Kamen Rider Ryuki in much the same way. This one did much better (at least among its Periphery Demographic), even winning a Daytime Emmy for stunt choreography. But its ratings meant not enough of the intended demographic were watching to keep it alive. The last two episodes weren't even aired, though were made available online. Interestingly, Dragon Knight became a Recursive Import and did quite well back in Japan. It even got a continuation... sadly, in the form of a book nobody in the U.S. will probably ever see. |
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After VR Troopers, Saban licensed two more Metal Heros series, Juukou B-Fighter and B-Fighter Kabuto and turned them into Beetleborgs, apparently aimed at a younger demographic than Power Rangers and being more light-hearted, and changing the story utterly from the Japanese originals. | |
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When Cardcaptor Sakura was initially brought over to the states as Cardcaptors, Nelvana, on top of adding the usual name changes, music changes, and censorship, completely chopped up and re-arranged footage of the episodes in an attempt to re-brand the series into a more action-packed Shōnen anime beyond its initial demographic. Sakura was written to be more of an Action Girl, Li Shaoran was given greater visibility and made Sakura's Stock Shōnen Rival, and most romantic relationships in the series were written out completely. Airings of the series in Canada and the UK at least kept the episodes in the proper order and restored the missing ones. | |
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Nebo Zovyot was adapted as Battle Beyond the Sun. To disguise the fact that it involves rival space missions between the Soviet Union and the United States, the two nations become the northern and southern hemispheres in a post-apocalyptic world. Francis Ford Coppola worked on this while in film school; one of his notable additions was supposedly two monsters based on certain parts of the human anatomy. Scenes from Nebo Zovyot were also used in Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet and the 1966 alien vampire woman film Queen of Blood (alongside another Soviet film, Mechte Navstrechu). | |
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13 years later, Adness Entertainment tried its luck, making Kamen Rider Dragon Knight out of Kamen Rider Ryuki in much the same way. This one did much better (at least among its Periphery Demographic), even winning a Daytime Emmy for stunt choreography. But its ratings meant not enough of the intended demographic were watching to keep it alive. The last two episodes weren't even aired, though were made available online. Interestingly, Dragon Knight became a Recursive Import and did quite well back in Japan. It even got a continuation... sadly, in the form of a book nobody in the U.S. will probably ever see. | |
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One of the two syndicated versions of Thunderbirds, Turbocharged Thunderbirds, alongside multiple edits added new live action footage featuring two teenagers known as "the hackers". | |
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The second of the six Lone Wolf and Cub movies was greatly simplified, dubbed into English, and combined with about 12 minutes of footage from the previous film to create Shogun Assassin, which is considered its own separate film, with a completely different list of credits. Decades later, the other four Lone Wolf and Cub films were dubbed and released on DVD as Shogun Assassin 2 (actually the third film), Shogun Assassin 3 (actually the fourth film), and so on, creating a translation where the sequel numbering is messed up. | |
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VR Troopers was made from three different Metal Heroes series: Chōjinki Metalder, Jikuu Senshi Spielban, and Space Sheriff Shaider. Somehow, having three shows to draw on didn't stop it from recycling plots. | |
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Dub-specific example with Daimos and Grendizer. In Italy, after Daimos was released, dubbing studio Alsennote Different from the company that dubbed the original Daimos anime into Italian, Compagnia Realizzazioni Cinetelevisive (CRC) produced a Compilation Movie called Daimos - Il figlio di Goldrake (Daimos, the son of Grendizer) where it connected the universes of Daimos and Grendizer by stating that Kazuya was Daisuke's son, and he had inherited his robot from him. Completely contradicting the source material, it mish-mashed clips of both series and produced an alternate ending. It even had a DVD release. Italians who watched both series were very confused about the sudden change in canon. You can watch a breakdown of the film here. | |
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The international edition of The Cardigans Life was actually a compilation of songs from Life itself and their previous album Emmerdale (the latter of which was originally only released in Japan and their native Sweden). When Emmerdale finally released in the US years later, the CD edition featured a bonus EP featuring the four songs omitted from the international version of Life. | |
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Ninja the Mission Force is basically a parody of the Godfrey Ho Ninja Movies, using much the same technique but on apparently public-domain Western B-movies. Which are, of course Gag Dubs, Played for Laughs. | |
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The earliest release of Angel's Egg in English was in the form of In the Aftermath: Angels Never Sleep, which is more or less a different film entirely, roughly half of which made up of Angel's Egg footage, and the other half was newly-produced, live-action footage, which attempted to weld a more conventional post-apocalyptic story onto the very enigmatic plot of the original. | |
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Macek's most famous effort was Robotech, a three-way hybridization between Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber MOSPEADA. These three series are unrelated, and the script was mostly from Macross. Robotech made several changes throughout, including censoring nudity (but not all the violence), changing characters' ethnic names from Japanese to English, an original "narrator" who assumed Viewers Are Goldfish, and cutting off a major Macross sequel hook. Anime purists hated it, but it was a commercial success in the U.S. and was indeed credited with creating new anime fans. A subsequent Remaster in 2004 restored much of the original Japanese content, including scenes of violence and nudity. Robotech even got a Recursive Import in Japan (which was credited for reviving interest in the then-moribund Southern Cross). | |
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This is how Super Sentai became Power Rangers, with the battle footage spliced into entirely new stories. The first three seasons of the latter took three completely separate seasons of the former and reworked it into one "mega-arc", and the later incarnations seem to only be superficially similar to their originals, with the motives of the characters and some story elements being completely changed. Of course, Power Rangers was never intended to be and doesn't claim to be a dub or reenactment of its Super Sentai parent, despite borrowing suits and battle footage. That said, a few seasons are actualy faithful recreations of the original series' plot (or sometimes a Shot-for-Shot Remake, like Power Rangers Wild Force or Power Rangers Samurai), and a few others that made some changes that don't quite make sense. There's a lot of them out there, each with their own quirks. | |
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Japan: Since Gentlemen Take Polaroids wasn't released in the US at first, the original release of Tin Drum in the region (retitled Japan) respectively replaced "Canton" and "Sons of Pioneers" with "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" and a remix of "Taking Islands in Africa" that was previously featured as the B-side to "Visions of China", also adding "Swing" as the penultimate track. | |
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Night Train to Terror combines footage from the unfinished Scream Your Head Off, The Dark Side to Love, and The Nightmare Never Ends, with some new footage added in to make a new anthology film. All The aferomentioned films have the same writer, Phillip Yordan. | |
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For some reason, How It's Made got two different releases in Italy: a regular one and Come è fatto con Barbara, which is the exact same thing but with the addition of interstitials between each segment featuring Barbara Gulienetti (mainly known as the host of the DIY show Paint your Life) recapping the segment that is going to air next, apparently as a way to fit the show on Real Time, a TV channel mainly aimed at women. | |
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Planeta Bur was edited twice for distribution in the West: once as Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet by Curtis Harrington in 1965, containing a few additional American-made scenes and with the Soviet actors' names Westernised to hide the origin; another in 1968 by Peter Bogdanovich (as "Derek Thomas") as Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, along with additional scenes involving nubile Venusian women. | |
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When the original Godzilla was exported to America, it had original footage of an American journalist, Steve Martin, spliced in, and was released as Godzilla King of the Monsters. This version was later shown in Japan, and Steve Martin proved surprisingly popular among Japanese fans. | |
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This was the main method of localizing the Godfrey Ho Ninja Movies. Godfrey Ho was infamous for getting cheap, low-budget Hong Kong films, cutting them to ribbons, and inserting new footage featuring Caucasian actors for distribution in the West. Among his films are Ninja Thunderbolt, Clash of the Ninjas, Full Metal Ninja, and Zombie vs. Ninja. As you could tell, ninjas were a recurring theme, although later efforts included a kickboxing flick and a "superhero" called Catman. He's also done it at least once in the other direction, adding new footage using Asian actors to the Cynthia Rothrock vehicle Undefeatable to create the movie Bloody Mary Killer for distribution in China. | |
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Italian toy company GIG once took the Kinnikuman/M.U.S.C.L.E., N.I.N.J.A. and Fistful of Aliens toylines and sold them as a single toyline named Exogini, with completely new backstories (the first two series, released in the late eighties, presented the characters as aliens from a mysterious planet planning to invade Earth, while the last series, released in the late nineties, was presented as a civil war between the inhabitants of Mars, Mercury, and Venus). When Transformers introduced the Decoy figures as an extra packed in with the regular toys, the Italian release passed them off as a crossover with the Exogini line. | |
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Voltron was created by merging two unrelated Combining Mecha series, GoLion and Dairugger XV. However, while the plot changes were considerable, the interference between the two combined stories was minimal, and each occurred almost in its own continuity. The biggest change was a Never Say "Die" moment; Sven, who dies in the original, barely survives in the dub. This worked out for the best, because there was such a backlash against his death in the original that they introduced his Backup Twin, which the dub could conveniently say was Sven all along. | |
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Infamously, Hasbro was guilty of this when it came to Transformers, which was born out of mashing together two of Takara's unrelated franchises, Diaclone and Micro Change, and then giving the whole thing a completely new backstory, when importing them to be released into the U.S. However, Takara loved the change so much that they eventually dropped both original franchises and imported the Transformers lore back into Japan. | |
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