Differences between KNT and SPC

[BurkeWorld]

Bad Kyo! Bad!

Burkey

[QuickSlashSpeedy]

Yeah, when they cut stuff like this it makes the show confusing.

I'm really upset that Speedy kissing Guido on the cheek was cut out, but Speedy kissing the Big Cheese on the mouth was left in? WTF!? 

I must have missed that part. Speedy liked Luciel (spell?), and Polly it seemed, but, I didn't see any male kissing. So, does that make him bi or something?

[D-Mac]

I must have missed that part. Speedy liked Luciel (spell?), and Polly it seemed, but, I didn't see any male kissing. So, does that make him bi or something?

It was in KNT's version of Gender Bender Butterflies, when a butterfly landed on Speedy and turned him "feminine".
Take that however you wish.

[QuickSlashSpeedy]

I never saw Gender Bender Butterflies.

[Daisensei]

The KNT (Japanese) version of Gender Bender Butterflies is KNT 25 - Kawaî? Yattarô onna ni naru, available at Supersonic's FTP.

The episode where kisses is Let the Cellar Beware or its KNT counterpart, if my memory isn't betraying me.

EDIT: sorry, the tile of KNT 25 was wrong.

[KageReneko]

Just look the scene when the Nyankee is trapped in the barrels and Yattarô makes OmiChan gets mad... She looks so cuuuuuuuuuute!!!!

[KunimasaKunimasaOiOiOi]

Okay, okay.
I just finished watching episode 1 of KNT, and I actually like the American cartoon better.  Most of the time, I find US-dubbing and modification crap (as evident in G Gundam), but I REALLY like SPC better.  Then again, I saw the series originally as SPC, but I found SPC to be much funnier.

Although I did find it funny when Ko'on-no-Kami-sama called Wanko-no-Kami a homo (how ironic, because I'm a huge supporter of gay rights).

[Mechadon]

It's also ironic considering Ko'on-no-Kami is the cross dressing freak.

Thanks for pointing out my mistake Kunimasa.

[KunimasaKunimasaOiOiOi]

It's also ironic considering Wanko-no-Kami is the cross dressing freak.

Isn't Wanko-no-Kami Big Al?

[Violet]

Okay, okay.
I just finished watching episode 1 of KNT, and I actually like the American cartoon better.  Most of the time, I find US-dubbing and modification crap (as evident in G Gundam), but I REALLY like SPC better.  Then again, I saw the series originally as SPC, but I found SPC to be much funnier.

Although I did find it funny when Ko'on-no-Kami-sama called Wanko-no-Kami a homo (how ironic, because I'm a huge supporter of gay rights).

I like both, but I do think SPC is funnier than KNT.  It doesn't take itself seriously, doesn't worry about making sense, its all just goofy and fun.

[KunimasaKunimasaOiOiOi]

Okay, okay.
I just finished watching episode 1 of KNT, and I actually like the American cartoon better.  Most of the time, I find US-dubbing and modification crap (as evident in G Gundam), but I REALLY like SPC better.  Then again, I saw the series originally as SPC, but I found SPC to be much funnier.

Although I did find it funny when Ko'on-no-Kami-sama called Wanko-no-Kami a homo (how ironic, because I'm a huge supporter of gay rights).

I like both, but I do think SPC is funnier than KNT.  It doesn't take itself seriously, doesn't worry about making sense, its all just goofy and fun.

Totally!

[adam808]

SPC is what I remember fondly, KNT is a newer interest. Getting back into SPC/KNT did get me more interested in anime.

[littlebadwolf]

Having now watched the subtitled version of the first episode (thanks to Daisensei, Tigriss & co), I think some of the differences have abundantly made themselves clear.

1.  KNT is a light-hearted action-adventure; Samurai Pizza Cats is a comedy.  While KNT has its share of sight gags and the occasional quip, it takes the action portions of the show very seriously, and some characters, like Big Al and Bad Bird, are almost wooden in comparison with their English counterparts.  It's clear that the show uses a lot of stock footage, but while KNT seems to gloss over the fact, Samurai Pizza Cats revels in it, and shoves it in the viewers' faces.

The gags are far more rapid-fire in the English version.  In the first episode, Big Al says that the fate of Edoropolis is in Nyanki's hands now, or something to that effect, in the Japanese version, while in English, he wonders if he should have ordered some food from the Pizza Cats, since he was already talking to them.  Or, another example, Guido calling out the name of his attack in the original version compared to, "Hey, guys, remember the 60's?" when twirling his umbrella.

2.  The narrator.  The Japanese narrator simply exists to fill in the gaps in the story, or occasionally explain what's happening to the audience.  By comparison, Terrence Scammell's English narrator becomes more involved with the plot, to the point where he's having conversations and arguments with the heroes and villains.  In Samurai Pizza Cats, the narrator is himself a character in the program.  Not to mention the fact that he has a lot more lines in general, something that's easy to do when the "character" doesn't ever have to be on-screen.

3.  Puns.  In a lot of ways, Samurai Pizza Cats is a more faithful adaptation than a lot of Japanese-to-English translations.  Why?  Simply because the puns are actual puns in our language.  Instead of a direct translation of the Japanese double entendres, which, in many cases, renders them somewhat humorless, the writers gave the characters names which are funny in English, like Polly Esther and Jerry Atrick.  This is truer to the spirit of the original rather than the content, but it's still an interesting difference, especially when compared to some of the Japanese names (Yattaro, Pururun Nyan, etc.).

...Maybe I'll think of some more later.

[NPC]

Terrence Scammell

Is that the Narrator's voice actor?

[adam808]

Definitely can't blame them for changing the names. The idea with SPC wasn't being technically accurate to the original but preserving and adding humor. Otherwise it would have been lost in translation. Thanks for the creativity, SPC writers.
I still want to see all the KNT episodes translated, though. Unlike when I was a younger (like 12) or not really an anime-style fan (rather a cartoons in general fan), the original dialogue of KNT might now interest me. I didn't really get into anime until after rediscovering SPC and it's Japanese counterpart.
My only pizza cats shirt is of the front cover of the KNT BGM CD. Wearing it right now.

That's my favorite funny quote of KNT, the "bad bad." I laughed so hard the first time I heard that. One of my screenames is bbyab808 which equals badbadyouarebad808

[felineki]

The narrator still does interact with the cast in KNT, although not nearly as much as in SPC.

Bad Kyo! Bad!

Burkey

Bad! BAD! You are BAD!
(Sorry, couldn't help myself. If you've seen the KNT version of Mission to Manhattan, you'll understand )

[littlebadwolf]

From what I understand, Terrence Scammell played the narrator, Guido, Jerry, and Emperor Fred.  I think that's why he's listed first in the credits.

What I like about the localization is that they changed so much that we basically have two different shows, here. 

[Threaux]

Terrence Scammell did...
Guido Anchovie, The Narrator, Jerry Atrick, Bat Cat, Emporer Fred Tokugawa, Cannonball Battalay, and Cosmo

Plus some other minor roles that I might have missed.



He is the most awesome of the voice actors IMO.

[littlebadwolf]

Wow!  Even more than I thought!

[Blackcat]

SPC: The KNT parody!

That says all-_0