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'''The Uncut Story of Mewtwo's Origin''' (Japanese: '''{{tt|ミュウツーの誕生|Mewtwo no Tanjō}}''' ''The Birth of Mewtwo'') is a ten-minute anime short added to the beginning of ''[[M01|Mewtwo Strikes Back]]'' in all television airings in Japan and in the Japanese home video releases from the third one onward; the version of the movie that contains this short and additional CGI edits is known as the ''kanzenban'' (Japanese: '''完全版''' ''full version'') and it was first shown on [[TV Tokyo]] on July 8, 1999, while its first home video release was on VHS on November 12, 1999. | '''The Uncut Story of Mewtwo's Origin''' (Japanese: '''{{tt|ミュウツーの誕生|Mewtwo no Tanjō}}''' ''The Birth of Mewtwo'') is a ten-minute anime short added to the beginning of ''[[M01|Mewtwo Strikes Back]]'' in all television airings in Japan and in the Japanese home video releases from the third one onward; the version of the movie that contains this short and additional CGI edits is known as the ''kanzenban'' (Japanese: '''完全版''' ''full version'') and it was first shown on [[TV Tokyo]] on July 8, 1999, while its first home video release was on VHS on November 12, 1999. | ||
Although the ''kanzenban'' was created to be later used in the United States, the North American theatrical version (November 10, 1999) removed the short while still using the footage from the ''kanzenban'' for the rest of the movie instead of the footage from the Japanese theatrical version. On March 21, 2000, ''Mewtwo Strikes Back'' was released in home video in the United States, and both the VHS and the DVD included the first two minutes of the short dubbed in English as '''The Story of Mewtwo's Origin''': in the VHS these scenes were added to the beginning of the movie while in the DVD they were included as an extra. The full English dub of the short was first | Although the ''kanzenban'' was created to be later used in the United States, the North American theatrical version (November 10, 1999) removed the short while still using the footage from the ''kanzenban'' for the rest of the movie instead of the footage from the Japanese theatrical version. On March 21, 2000, ''Mewtwo Strikes Back'' was released in home video in the United States, and both the VHS and the DVD included the first two minutes of the short dubbed in English as '''The Story of Mewtwo's Origin''': in the VHS these scenes were added to the beginning of the movie while in the DVD they were included as an extra. The full English dub of the short was first released on a Japanese DVD of the movie released on June 23, 2000, which contained both Japanese and English audio tracks. It was later included under the title '''The Uncut Story of Mewtwo's Origin''' in the Special Features of the international DVD of ''[[Mewtwo Returns]]'', released on August 17, 2001 in Australia and on December 4, 2001 in the United States. | ||
This short increases the movie's length from 75 to 85 minutes, and the prologue's length from 10 to 20 minutes. Like the original prologue, it is adapted from parts of the radio drama ''[[The Birth of Mewtwo]]''. | This short increases the movie's length from 75 to 85 minutes, and the prologue's length from 10 to 20 minutes. Like the original prologue, it is adapted from parts of the radio drama ''[[The Birth of Mewtwo]]''. | ||