Zeta Gundam, Kodomo no Omocha, and so on. I bet someone will call me shallow, but I have my reasons.
I’m not balls against any sort of changes, as I understand that it’s silly to want, say, original Japanese credits, and despite scrolling English credits often hurting op/ed sequences sometimes (in my opinion), I know and accept its existence.
Opening and ending themes (not to mention music overall) are different, though.
When I buy a DVD, it’s a one-time thing. I am buying this collection for archival purposes, and what I want from my archive is authenticity. OPs and EDs are very much a part of an anime’s identity, and to remove them is to make the product inherently flawed. I know there are always legal/monetary reasons behind these decisions, and I feel for the anime companies, but it doesn’t mean I have to like the result.
OGIUE MANIAX 
I was one of the people unlucky enough to have preordered the Zeta box set, and I have to say, it was really a special case. Bandai didn’t tell anybody they hadn’t bothered to get the rights to the OP and ED theme: the first people to get their box sets were the lucky ones who got to find out. On top of that, the subtitles often didn’t match up with the dialogue, regularly using the dub script instead of an actual translation. Hell of a $120 (retail $200, though I doubt anybody has ever paid that for the set, as its price plummeted as low as $30) lesson. Last time I ever bought an anime DVD on release. The kicker is that while the music was never fixed, Bandai didn’t wait long to make a new, cheaper release with fixed subtitles, and another after that. There was no disc replacement campaign.
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I’m still bitter about the Zeta Gundam debacle myself. I did manage to find a couple volumes of the new release with the better subs at a Big Lots store at least. I suppose in the age of Naruto we should be happy to get any old Gundam released here, but we still don’t have the original series in Japanese yet either. :( Stupid Bandai!
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Gah replaced OP/ED.
You just had to remind me of the dubbed Cardcaptor Sakura.
That was HORRIBLE.
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I wasn’t too angry about the Zeta Release, but I can understand why people were. I’m willing to buy it, but I’d prefer that all content stays intact.
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