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Originally Posted by tuthead  The first season had a different format, didn't it? (A challenger/challenger battle with the winner facing the Iron Chef. The final battle was 90-minutes.) Also, Ishinabe was the IC in 5 of the 10 first season battles. From the narrator's comments in the Sakai special, Food Network seemed like they didn't even want to acknowledge Ishinabe. (They called Sakai "Iron Chef French I.")
It's a shame they skipped those first 13 episodes of season 2. I would have liked to see the Cheese battle (212), and how did they deal with Flour (209)? |
Oh no doubt. And what's a sad, sad shame is that KTSF San Francisco probably broadcast some of the most epic episode ever, original Japanese with English subtitles. And I remember seeing it on air when in San Francisco. Wonder what ever happened to those tapes. That was a the BEST Iron Chef ever! Original language with English subs, oh mercy. THE BEST EVER! I hope those are not lost forever.
Don't worry, we are going to find and watch some of the original episodes, because I know where they are. They are in Akihabara Japan. You can't order them over the net, and no one shares them as the Japanese have an "alergy" to English. They just don't want to use it on the Internet. So finding this stuff online is hard. But there are shops in the Tokyo underground that have them. Of course they will be 100% Japanese, but that's better than never seeing them.
My dream is that someone would find the KTSF tapes in Japanese with English subs and offer them for sale. I would buy every episode to watch with my wife, and help polish my Japanese as well.... But we can only dream....
What Japan has, we are going to find, and bring back...
And it's probably everything we are missing from our collections.
My wife said that she saw a VHS tape of Iron Chef #1 episode while we were there in a shop (in June), but at the time I was not interested. So they have them.
PS: And the nice thing is, something that few people know, the US and Japan share the exact same VHS and DVD format (NTSC and Region 1), unlike Europe with Pal and Region 2. So ALL VHS tapes and DVD's from Japan work 100% on all US VHS players and DVD players. That's a major plus!
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