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The Mike Toole Show - Z is for Zoids

My strongest memory of Chaotic Century was the number of times Toonami played it before finally rolling out the final four episodes.

At least they gave us all four in a special event:

I'm 99% certain that Van Flyheight was on Toonami before Bit Cloud was. Van, Zeke, Fiona, Moonbay, Irvine, then the later less memorable second-half time skip characters. That was Zoids to me. I distinctly remember being upset that the next Zoids series was just a basic tournament setup with none of the engrossing story from the first series.

So now I'm extremely confused why the article states that the original Zoids aired after the second series.

That said, if Discotek could release the first Zoids on DVD that would be amazing.

It would be great to see Zoids back in print, but I'm not sure Viz is the right company. Outside of Pokemon, I don't think they'd get away with releasing edited dub-only BDs in 20??. There were rumours the original show/Chaotic Century had an uncut dub produced (the TV version had some profanity you wouldn't expect in a made-for-kids-TV dub) but never released - who knows if that existed and can be hunted down. I'm not sure how much Zero was played with. Fuzors would be a mess because of the changes made for the Japanese broadcast (one episode was completely redone), which was the baseline for the BDs. Genesis is a complete mystery, though those Filipino reports also suggest it was an edited dub.

Situations like that are the kind of things that would require someone passionate to work on the home video products. I really doubt Viz would be that company.

I'm 99% certain that Van Flyheight was on Toonami before Bit Cloud was. Van, Zeke, Fiona, Moonbay, Irvine, then the later less memorable second-half time skip characters. That was Zoids to me. I distinctly remember being upset that the next Zoids series was just a basic tournament setup with none of the engrossing story from the first series.

So now I'm extremely confused why the article states that the original Zoids aired after the second series.

That said, if Discotek could release the first Zoids on DVD that would be amazing.

So was Maison Ikkoku, which I believe was mentioned, but VIZ hasn't renewed it.

Also, Funi released the original Tenchi series some years back, so they could be interested in Zoids if they want to continue the Toonami nostalgia bandwagon. Still, I don't know if that was a failure. FYI, Zoids Chaotic was sixty-seven episodes. New Century Zero was twenty-six.