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Answerman - Why Did Saint Seiya Bomb In North America?

The ADV dub was pretty good though, other than Seiya's weird accent.

Although I've never seen Saint Seiya I feel that it would have been better to release the series in The United States in the early 90s 2003 are you kidding me what where they thinking.

Cardcaptors was Nelvana, not DiC. And from what I've heard, I'd say Cardcaptors got a worse treatment. DiC cut some episodes from Sailor Moon, but didn't significantly re-order them or try to make Darien/Tuxedo Mask into a main character coequal to Serena.

Funny thing about the whole Neptune/Uranus thing for me, was that even though as a kid I wasn't fully aware of people that were LGBT, I just KNEW something was up. In one of the episodes, why would "Amara and Michelle" be the ONLY same sex team in a "best friends competition"? Not to mention the whole "mention we are cousins quite frequently" raised a few flags. But I honestly thought that Amara/Haruka was maybe originally a boy that could change into a girl upon transformation in the JPN version (which I totally was cool with because hey maybe Boys wants be Sailor Scouts too and kick butt and get transformation sequences), but was changed to be fully a female in the dub because of "we can't have a boy Sailor Scout" reasons.
So when I found out the truth shortly afterwards from a friend, it made sense why the dub treated them like that.

Cardcaptors being on a channel that alot of people got likely helped in its popularity as well, same with Pokemon and Digimon. I can't remember if Cartoon Network/Toonami aired in alot of homes during that time, but it had to be enough to where both Sailor Moon and DBZ became a hit.

Also, it didn't air on Toonami. It was on Cartoon Network's Saturday night action block. It might've had a better chance if it was on Toonami with the rest of the anime, and was less edited.

I don't understand calling the art dated. It's unique and characteristic. And still looks good.

Good art is enjoyable no matter when or what time period it came from.

Likewise, Discotek releasing the movies is a bit puzzling since they are unreleated to both the show and the comic. I can understand testing the waters though

Cardcaptors was Nelvana, not DiC. And from what I've heard, I'd say Cardcaptors got a worse treatment. DiC cut some episodes from Sailor Moon, but didn't significantly re-order them or try to make Darien/Tuxedo Mask into a main character coequal to Serena.

I grew up in Mexico and during my middle school days (1992-1995-ish) Saint Seiya was an obsession for me, my brother and cousins; I even bought one of the action figures. I used to wonder why it was never a hit in the U.S., but I eventually stopped caring.

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Newer installments aren't exactly approachable to fans who haven't seen the old series.

I will disagree a bit because the Lost Canvas OVA is a sort of prequel to the original series, and this makes it fairly approachable to new fans. It is a shame that more of the manga was not animated because its story and characters are compelling in my opinion.