the D team

Kodai Ōja Kyōryū King: DKidz Adventure (古代王者恐竜キング Dキッズ・アドベンチャー, Kodai Ōja Kyōryū Kingu D Kizzu Adobenchā?) is a kodomo or kodoshonen, or a child-oriented anime that attempts to remain true to the format of dueling and fighting super-powered dinosaurs. The anime is aimed and targeted mostly towards young children and primary elementary-school aged kids (even if the main characters are 12-year-olds). It is produced by Sunrise and began airing on TV Asahi on February 4, 2007. It is released on DVD in Japan by BEAM or Happinet, the same Japanese video company that released another Japanese anime, Digimon Data Squad on DVD. 4Kids Entertainment has licensed the anime and it was distributed by Shout! Factory in the US. The anime was launched under the name Dinosaur King on September 8, 2007 on 4Kids TV. Begin this fall it will be on The CW4Kids. The English script follows the Japanese script closely, although occasionally a joke will have its meaning changed. While the D-Team's country of origin is not explicitly specified, Shout! Factory has left in elements that identify it as being Japan, as in the original: maps and city names, Japanese cuisine, and text remain, for the most part, unchanged. Despite this, characters all use Sega's official English names. An original soundtrack has been created, although Shout! Factory occasionally uses some of the original Japanese music. As with 4Kids localizations, the show has been censored to allow for US sensibilities and to allow it to be screened for an audience demographic of 6-11. Edits include the airbrushing or removal of scenes containing violence and even coughing or exhalation of smoke, edits to lessen the emotional impact of scenes, and the censoring of nudity. Example's include the airbrushing of Ursula's fan service in the episode "Alpha Bets it All". The show was also cropped from widescreen to fullscreen.