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NEWS: Saban Listed as Promoting Smile Precure to Licensees as Glitter Force

1. It's clear the series was not making it's way over here any other way.

2. The series is obviously for children, and it makes sense to do all you can to market it to them.

3. The title "Pretty Cure" is a bit strange and awkward anyway.

4. Saban's dubs are usually done with Studiopolis now, and usually turn out fine, voice acting-wise.

I won't watch, but I don't really see how this is a bad thing.

I mean, it's not like Saban isn't doing a good job with Power Rangers: Dino Charge at the moment or anything ridiculous like that.

It's happened time and again to magical girls like Tokyo Mew Mew and even Sailor Moon originally bombed when it first aired on syndicated TV in the U.S. its most severely edited DiC format.

It has NOTHING to do with English names and it isn't just that. It's Saban's history of creating poor adaptations of every show he gets. And you're going to ban someone because they rightfully whine that he's still getting away with this piss poor strategy? You don't have to know anything about it because he STILL does this with Digimon even today.

This is what he does when he gets his hands on any show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdES97hzrd4

But no! Digimon's first 4 seasons were edited, but they were still Digimon and were successful. Then season 5 and 6 got butchered beyond recognition; how did that work out?

4. Saban's dubs are usually done with Studiopolis now, and usually turn out fine, voice acting-wise.

Saban can't write for shit imo. So on top of rampant xenophobic americanization because of Saban's "HURR DURR MURICAN KIDS DON'T KNOW ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES HURR DURR" mentality, which is honestly pathetic even in 2015, we'll have shit characterization, cheesy as fudge plots and numerous plotholes.
I'm not a Precure fan, but if I had a young daughter, I certainly wouldn't let her watched a dumbed down and badly written show. Saban doesn't seem to realise that there are plenty of shows out there marketed towards young children that actually DON'T dumb things down and actually treat their audience with respect.

There was a good reason for Sailor Moon bombing on syndication and it had less to do with the edits & more because of the time slots it was airing on. Over here it aired every weekday morning at 6:30 on WB11 for a year (from 1995 to 1996 when it was replaced by Dragon Ball Z which also bombed on syndication) and it took a while for me to get used to waking up at that hour to watch & record most of it on VHS tapes because prior to that, I used to wake up at around 7 every morning to get ready for school. I already knew what Sailor Moon was after watching & enjoying the R premiere that aired on Fox Kids one Saturday morning but it took a while to get used to watching the rest of that dub and from what I had heard, it aired on worse time slots in other states which also explains why it bombed plus it didn't help that DiC had the show aired out of order during it's premiere run in each of them (first half of Negamoon arc BEFORE Doom Tree).

It did very well in Canada though and I heard was one of YTV's most popular shows which sorta upsets me that it was the opposite for the first Pretty Cure dub when it aired on there years later.

Not only is the episode count reduced from 48 to 40, the running time is reduced from 24 min. to 22 min. too. Unless they cut the OP and ED down to about half a minute each, they'll be cutting into the content of the remaining 40 episodes as well.

Smile Precure's main characters were in second grade, so 13-14 years old. This listing has them as "preteen" girls. Meaning more than just the anime's name will be changed.

I just don't understand the way the anime industry thinks sometimes. They complain all the time about people downloading fansubs instead of supporting official releases. Then they go and take a show like this, completely Americanize the concept, make lots of pointless edits like skipping episodes, then they don't put out an official subtitled release for the fans who are actually old enough to spend money on the show, then they complain about why didn't anyone support the official release of it. It's happened time and again to magical girls like Tokyo Mew Mew and even Sailor Moon originally bombed when it first aired on syndicated TV in the U.S. its most severely edited DiC format. I'm not a huge fan of Pretty Cure. I only watched the original show and it was entertaining enough but I'm not a diehard fan or anything. But it does seem to me like a double standard that the American anime industry always seems to treat magical girl anime in this horrible way that they would almost never treat a shonen action anime that way and then magical girl fans have to wait years to get a proper uncut release and sometimes even that never actually happens.

Pretty Cure is a 22-minute toy commercial, and I can assure you that any treatment it gets is something a shonen-22 minute toy commercial has likely faced before. Last year's dub of LBX by Dentsu not only saw random name changes, a new title and soundtrack, it got 44-episodes edited down to 26. Saban's Digimon Fusion dub is pretty shitty as well, though no where near as severe as what I just listed. This isn't some grand conspiracy against magical girl shows.

The reason most magical girls shows don't get uncut releases (most heavily localized 22-minute toy commercials don't get uncut releases in general) is because they're not popular enough to warrant that. Most can't even support a dub sold to broadcasters globally, let alone a niche product for North America. That's why the R1 anime industry (Funimation, Viz, Sentai, etc.) has looked at Pretty Cure over the last 10 years and kept saying no.

Set, this is hardly the same. It's one thing to change some things when you adapt to a different medium. What Saban wants to do is to take that novel, rip out 10% of the pages and then sell it to you.

As for you people whining about how American has butchered another anime, do you ever stop to think that how Saban and other companies only care about their target audience than you? This has been done for YEARS with animes such as Sailor Moon, Digimon, Samurai Pizza Cats, and any other anime that has come through Saban or any other company that has done the same thing.