Man, you went for a classic.
A lot of people are unaware, or downplay the significance of how Anime got its foothold in the west through a wave of Ultraviolence OVA's, often verging on sexploitation throughout the late 80's and early 90's.
Before that it was "Japanimaton", or works localised into oblivion such as Robotech.
(Not hating on Robotech, it's good. But it was THREE different Anime series stitched together.
I will forever hate on Harmony Gold, its creator but that's a different rant.)
The anime community fought for almost four decades to get uncensored anime (And yes, Localisation is censorship) through fan sub communities, VHS trading and bootlegs releases until the scene gained enough notoriety that works began to be imported without harsh edits.
With the biggest stepping stone being clearly 18+ rated Anime that couldn't be localised into oblivion by the measure of having so much of its runtime being most definitely not safe for kids.
So they receiving... Awkward, totally amateur dubs that would eventually usher in the likes of ADV & Toonami by the year 2000.
The mainstream Anime boom.
Only for Crunchyroll & Funimation (now one in the same) to return to the practice of unchecked localisation come 2015 onwards.
Being faithful to a none-English script? Oh no, thats "problematic" it needs alternations before release. No longer with the goal of dumbing it down for children, but by & for politically obsessed progressive freaks.
Ironically the sort of people who if they saw MD Geist, would claim its abhorrent despite its importance in establishing the very industry they currently grift through.
Four decades of fighting for respect thrown away by racists who believe they have the right to alter a foreign authors work solely because it's not written in English.
