![]() Even when Saban was still afloat, there were home media struggles because when the company first started to license anime, VHS releases were plentiful, however by the late 90's only Region 2 and Region 4 VHSs and DVDs were released which are long-out of print. Like-wise, many anime that were dubbed or distributed by Saban Entertainment have been in limbo since 2001, due to Disney buying the company and doing nothing with the anime licenses which have been expired for quite some time.The only official uncensored, English subbed release of Digimon series before Xros Wars was of the first three series on Netflix and Hulu briefly in 2015 before the license for the Japanese versions expired.It's also impossible to find the series in Japanese, even fansubbed. The series was eventually rescued by Discotek Media, but as a dub-only release because the Japanese version never received a home video release.Despite this fact, there are still no official releases for it yet. If anyone wants to see Fighting Foodons again, they're pretty much out of luck considering that this is one of the rare anime series that 4Kids has done pretty well, if nothing else for its Narm Charm.Ultimate Muscle only has its first 4 episodes available on DVD from Funimation's long out of print DVD sets released in the early to mid-2000's.Funimation's VHS and DVD releases are also long out of print, and even then only 23 out of the 100 total episodes were released on those formats. The series pilot and two other episodes were included with the 2012 Wii release of Kirby's 20th Anniversary. Episodes of the English dub version of Kirby: Right Back at Ya! are hard to find nowadays, most infamously "Shell Shocked", which was only aired once when they did reruns since the initial run was preempted by a baseball game at the last minute. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first 52 episodes are on DVD (courtesy of Viz Media) and can be found really cheap. ![]() Later episodes were never released on DVD, so those with Bile Fascination will have to look hard.
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