Axess: Cut Episodes Part 6

Following up from my last post about cut episodes, we have two more coming up that were skipped. My reasoning for them being cut remains the same, though I have some speculation as to why they weren't chosen compared to the episodes that were chosen.

Mayl's First Date
Plot Synopsis Here
Lan talks Mayl into trying to Cross-Fuse with Roll, but she just isn't in sync enough to pull it off. After the experiment at SciLab, Lan's dad gives them tickets to a theme park, which then comes under attack from darkloids.

As the title implies, this is an episode exploring Lan and Mayl's more romantic relationship. Young romance can, and has been done tastefully in childrens' cartoons before, but when we're dealing with foreign concepts of "taste," it's not surprising Viz Media decided to err on the side of caution by dancing around, and changing certain lines to tone it down some for US viewers. While I doubt there is anything in this episode really disturbing, the subject of 11 year olds dating each other is not a very comfortable subject for many US parents, and I think this episode was skipped over in favor of an episode that did make it to air, MistMan's Tower, which also explores Lan and Mayl's relationship in a more friendship oriented manner. Had the season been allowed to air in full, this episode might have made it in still.

Top and Grandchild
Plot Synopsis Here
Basically a retelling of a scenario featuring TopMan from Battle Network 4. Old guy Net Battles and builds tops. Wow, these episodes are really reaching for anything to kill time till the finale aren't they? Probably skipped over because of it's irrelevance to the main plot.