By the way... Looking forward to the second half of this.

Truth be told, I never saw Megazone 23 on cassette back then. Ever. It wasn't like today where, even if the local stores aren't carrying it, you can get it online. My video store didn't have it. It simply wasn't available to me, and I didn't even know it existed. I never thought to get it, and I had never seen any version of it until recently, when I saw Robotech: The Abortion.

Megazone 23 on the other hand was pretty widely available in America through Streamline and then later ADV.

Hmm, that's interesting. If you REALLY care, there's a couple of one or two second out of doors shots in the ADV DVD release that are not in the Streamline/Orion VHS, Streamline/Image DVD, or my old VHS fansub. I will have to get out my old VHS fansub and compare the ending shots of Tokyo... perhaps my VHS fansub comes from the original Victor VHS.

It could've. Another noticeable bit is when Shogo walks out into the background as the camera starts to zoom out, there's a dissolved shot of Yui's face that is seen for a moment before it goes away, this isn't present on the VHS edition as well, so I would assume those bits were improvements/redo's they did sometime later after the tape was released.

There's also two versions of the sex scene in part II. One version (the version on my VHS fansub) is shorter than the version on the ADV DVD of part II.

Hmm, I thought I read that someplace too. I also have a tape of the original English dub made in the 80's as well, not sure what sex scene was used in there if they had used it (the one with "Johnny Winters" and "Suzy Sue").

I would really love a nice big scan of the original Victor VHS if you could supply it, Chris! Thanks for the comment!

I could do better than that. I also have a copy of Megazone 23 Part II on VHS as well with a pretty nifty cover as well. Both tapes also have folded inserts which mostly gives out detailed info on the characters and mechs seen in both films.

There's also two versions of the sex scene in part II. One version (the version on my VHS fansub) is shorter than the version on the ADV DVD of part II.

I would really love a nice big scan of the original Victor VHS if you could supply it, Chris! Thanks for the comment!

Thinking of the produce placement in the film, I'm also reminded of "Cream Lemon" and other stuff getting stuck on a computer monitor panel elsewhere in the film as well (not to mention a truck with the logo of the releases of this OVA, Victor).

Speaking of Victor, I have the original VHS edition of Megazone 23 that was released in Japan for 13,800 yen. The cover isn't anything to write home about though. Mostly a shot of Yui's head with Shogo seen standing by it to the right, though his skin is painted the same color as Yui's hair. Perhaps it was more a stylistic comment they made of the guy in the film this way, much in the similar manner of the dating segment that some of you have complained about as being cheap, when in fact, it's probably one of those artsy things they tried for an OVA at a time when they were just starting up. I didn't find the dating segment that bad myself, but the sex scene is pretty bizarre to the right people!

That ending shot of Shibuya or such Jeremy mentioned was also seen on my VHS copy, but for whatever reason, it was originally rendered a lot poorer in it's original incarnation, but redone shortly later. I enclosed a screengrab from my tape for comparisons.
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Someone in another forum mentioned that to me as well. I guess in subsequent releases they fixed this, but it's neat finding a rare gem of a gaffe on my tape!