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Once this airing ended, though, a home video release was still nowhere to be found.

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In turn, director Hidekazu 'Eiichi' Sato, who went on to direct Time Jam: Valerian & Laureline as a Japan/France co-production following Kiss Dum's original airing, took full control of this new version.

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As for Yasuchika Nagaoka, he was apparently not a part of this 'retake' of Kiss Dum, though he was re-credited for 'Original Concept', replacing the 'World Business Enterprise' that had replaced him on the original TV airing he was also still credited as 'Chief Director'. It would start airing a few days later on fellow satellite channel BS-11, with each episode there being followed by a short, minute-long segment called Road to Kiss Dum R, where the staff & cast openly discussed the production of the original version. So, on April 27, 2008, Kiss Dum R - Engage Planet (again, the halves are essentially interchangeable) re-debuted on TV, this time airing midday on AT-X, TV Tokyo's anime-focused satellite service. They wanted another go at it, and this time they'd do it 'right'. You see, even with the problems that came about, the staff for Kiss Dum were driven to deliver the best product that they could muster, and what aired on TV Tokyo in late-night was simply not good enough for them. A DVD release was planned to start in June of 2007, & had even been licensed for English release by Bandai Visual USA, before getting delayed to that July & then being 'indefinitely postponed'. Satelight's sixth original anime production didn't work out quite like how it was intended, either as the sci-fi novel adaptation it was originally intended to be, or as the original story that Yasuchika Nagaoka conceived before having to effectively bow out due to whatever problems he was having the staff apparently did had a rough scenario to work off of, but that's all.

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That's because Engage Planet Kiss Dum did eventually see a home video release, one that actually did see the series officially make it outside of Japan.' '.You can tell that I decided to focus this Demo Disc more on Kiss Dum's apparent production hell, and how that seemed to radically alter the direction the story took, alongside the sometimes rough visuals, rather than have it be a direct assessment of things like storytelling, the characters, or the people behind the animation, visual style, designs, music, or voice work.