No Pizza Hut!? WHY?!

[kihayo.livejournal.com]

I thought I would share with the community the answer I received from Bandai. Since some people were wondering as well.

QUESTION:
I've been a really big fan of code geass since it aired in Japan. I just
recently watched the dub on the adult swim website, and no I haven't
e-mailed you to complain about it. I noticed that all the pizza hut ads
were censored out. Will it be like that on the dvds as well or will it
have the original imagery?

Thank you for taking you time in reading this, hope you hear from you
soon.

ANSWER:
Dear Kim,
Unfortunately, the Japanese rights holders did not clear the Pizza Hut logo for outside Japan, however we did try to get permission and Pizza Hut declined to give us permission.
So, unfortunately, we were unable to provide the Pizza Hut logo for broadcast and DVD releases.
Regards,
support@bandai-ent.com

Comments

[gakupoid.livejournal.com]

No me gusta. I'd seriously be surprised if they even watched the entire series all the way through to find every reference with their logo. Unless Bandai got stupid and showed every one of them to the company. Oh, Bandai... sneak a few back in will ya? ;_;

YUM! FOODS NOOOOOES D:

[saitaina]

They can be sued for a LOT of money if they aired even one of the ads (though, considering how many ads there are, one or two might be mised...I never realized how many there were until I started the Code Geass Text Files).