The changing of the flashback sequence severely affected the story and was completely in disregard for the reason that the scene was there in the first place: To detail how Mylanda's hatred for Lahrri developed. Although it would have been nice to have the 'where are they now' segment on the North American release, it didn't affect the rest of the story. The previews for the next disc being grouped together at the end of each disc DID contain spoilers for upcoming stories.

Dialogue in the English audio & hearing-impaired sub tracks of episode 20 on volume 7 was altered. This alteration occurs right after the title screen, "Tomodachi (Friends)", at around the 2:00 mark. This is an important scene because it reveals the reason for Mylandah's hatred of Lahrri. It is a flashback to a year before (4998, when Lahrri would eventually become Cosmo Beauty), when Mylandah witnesses Mr. Miracle selecting Lahrri for exclusive training. It is revealed that they were once teammates and friends, but Mr. Miracle's decision drove a wedge between them. That is exactly what that scene depicts when watched with Japanese audio and/or English subtitles (sub track 1).

However, when you watch with English audio and/or hearing-impaired subtitles (sub track 2) you get a different story. Let me point out that the scene is never explicitly stated as a flashback, i.e. there is no caption reading "1 year ago". The dialogue is supposed to infer that it takes place before Lahrri ever became Cosmo Beauty in the first place. But the English dub changes the conversation between Mr. Miracle and Lahrri into one of "reclaiming" her title, setting it in the current year, 4999. To further this notion, Lahrri asks Mr. Miracle why he's abandoning Kris for her. This doesn't make any sense and I have no idea why the dialogue was changed. Either it was a mistake on the part of person who wrote the dub script or they intentionally changed it.

The 'where are they now' segment showed what happened to the main characters several years after the events shown in the 26 episodes. The following is a brief description of the missing segment (may contain SPOILERS) with screen shots courtesy of Kenneth Lee:

Intro: This whole ending starts off with a shot of Akari, Ichino, Kris hugging.

1. Jessie Gurtland: It shows her back in New York, teaching young street kids the proper way to practice Track / running. She's kneeling next to the little kid, showing her the proper starting sprint pose.

2. Ayla: She's quietly sitting at home pregnant with a 2nd(!) child. Her husband rushes across the screen in the background carrying their 1st baby who's crying, and then in the next frame she's quieted down.

3. Tanya: She's back in Africa (in the wilds) wearing a cheetah animal skin and carrying a spear. She's racing (and outrunning!) a cheetah.

4. Ling Pha: Ling is still running away from her grandfather and the Ling Family Giant Balloon of Death .

5. Anna: Anna's running (or working in) a restaurant now. She's wearing a cute waitress outfit and her little sister (or was it older?) is working with her now, but she's freaking out (almost spilling some food) as a handsome, young, blond-haired guy walks in: Jacky Bryant from VIRTUA FIGHTER 3! (No Joke - you only see his back, but he's got Jacky's hair, and he's wearing Jacky's patented leather jacket (same design and everything)! Very funny.)

6.Lahrri and Mylandah: Both of them are quietly sitting in a library, leaning against some bookshelves studying some books. Both are wearing very elegant, lady-like clothes, with Lahrri wearing an formal, Old English-type blouse.

7. Yumika Karashima (female Doctor for the students): She's attending a friend's wedding, wearing a beautiful elegant, blue evening gown. She catches the bride's bouquet that was thrown, but it shows her fumbling it and dropping it!

8. Ichino's Little Brother: He's on a Quiz Show and it shows him getting excited and swinging at the Osaka News Reporter (the one who reported on the events in many of the episodes). The Osaka Reporter seems to be the host of this Quiz Show.

9. Eric (Mr. Miracle's traitorous assistant): Eric is sitting quietly in his new medical clinic... for ANIMALS! There's a bear, a horse, a dog, and a goat, sitting there waiting for treatment, and they all have Akari's cute bunny-ears-type hair!

10. Grant Oldman (Headmaster for the school): He's standing proudly (in his traditional Japanese outfit) riding atop a WHALE in the middle of the ocean!

11. Then it pans to the newly built AKARI KANZAKI MUSEUM! There are lots of school girls attending / visiting the museum. Then the tour guide - dressed in the original track uniform used by Akari and friends, also wearing a "Bunny Ears" hair piece - shows off their greatest monument: An Akari statue with all 3 versions of her Akari House! Hahahaha (it's so cute)!

12. FINALLY, it shows Ichino "Itchan," Kris, and then Akari all running (with Akari in the lead, of course) - all wearing cute, regular "normal girl's clothes" - in a giant field next to Akari's house. They are running towards a giant "GOAL" sign that is painted into the field behind their house.

The End.

• Currently the only way to see the 'where are they now' segment is to get the last LD or DVD of the Japanese home video release.