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I have to admit, when I found out that some of the earlier anime (Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, etc.) shows were heavily edited, I was a bit disheartened, at least not until I understood how many of them pretty much hindered the storyline.
I wonder what was the reception of the seiyuu that worked with these massively edited shows?

NJ_ wrote:

Saban also has PreCure as well, this was confirmed by multiple sources including Sam Pinansky (from Anime Sols) on this very forum.

OH GOD NO! Considering how popular Precure is in the otaku community , if saban does a massive hack job , the outcry would be even worse than what 4kids got.

4Kids: Why are boobs, guns, violence, and cuss words a stigma on American TV and kids' shows? Why? I don't understand it! Who the hell decided those things had to be taboo? We live in the real world, and in the real world, those things exist. They cannot be erased. Kids can learn to handle these things if you'd let them.

And fudge the FCC! They're an unconstitutional body that violates the First Amendment! They have no right to crack down on such content and they never will. People watched Bugs Bunny cartoons with guns, alcohol, and tobacco in them and it was funny. What happened to us as a society that we could tolerate such things on TV then but not now? What went wrong?

Swedish kids' shows have the "worst" swears unbleeped and nobody bats an eye. Why can't we be like Sweden in that regard?

SahgoDN wrote:

Oh. Sorry, I didn't know that. That is incredibly saddening.

Oh no, a kid's anime is being dubbed as a kid's show!

THE HORROR

Mr. Oshawott wrote:

I have to admit, when I found out that some of the earlier anime (Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, etc.) shows were heavily edited, I was a bit disheartened, at least not until I understood how many of them pretty much hindered the storyline. I wonder what was the reception of the seiyuu that worked with these massively edited shows?

They don't care either way, from what I've gathered. It's like Robin Williams going out of his way to praise/deride Koichi Yamadera for the bang up job he did in the 1993 Japanese dub of Aladdin. No, they don't care. It has no effect on them. I've heard that Naoko Takeuchi barred the last Sailor Moon season from being aired outside Mexico since Sailor Moon was butchered around the world, not just the States, believe it or not. That's most likely a rumor, but I dunno. I also heard she is not a fan of redubs or dubs at all of Sailor Moon.

It's also why shows like Sailor Moon had to have the stupid PSAs at the end of each episode (Jill Frappier, one of the writers and voice actors, admitted to hating working on them).

They could have easily localized that season by making the Starlights all female. Other dubs of it have done that.

I've heard that Naoko Takeuchi barred the last Sailor Moon season from being aired outside Mexico since Sailor Moon was butchered around the world, not just the States, believe it or not. That's most likely a rumor, but I dunno. I also heard she is not a fan of redubs or dubs at all of Sailor Moon.

Can you imagine a comedy show airing on prime time right before 20:00 and a mostly nude dancer dancing for all to see (wearing only a thong) on US tv ?

^But "Pretty Cure" is the dumb name we're used to.

That said, "Precure" is nice and meaningless if you don't know the derivation, so I'm not sure why they felt the need to completely rename the franchise.

Also when in the hell did Konami got the license for the yugioh anime series? i know they exclusively have the license for the TCGs , but didn't NAS and TV Tokyo reclaimed the anime series from 4kids during that lawsuit they served on 4kids when they were still showing 5D's?.

I know that much cause i buy those japanese DVDs via import

The only thing that baffles me in the whole editing anime business thing is why is there a need to change the background music?

Also, let's not act like "Pretty Cure" isn't as equally a dumb name as "Glitter Force".

To be fair, there really shouldn't be anything that needs a "hack job" considering how remarkably clean the series is in terms of dialogue and scenes overall. I can't even recall one piece of dialogue or scene that would even be considered objectionable. The most changes I can see happening are the names, the theme songs, and few cuts for time constraints.

Just look at how bad Digimon Fusion and Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal are censored. Any skirt/shorts that's above the knee is digitally lengthened and any shirt that exposes bare shoulders is altered. The girls civilian and Cure outfits would be pretty altered.

kevinx59 wrote:

The only thing that baffles me in the whole editing anime business thing is why is there a need to change the background music?

I've always wondered about this too. Is it because the companies can't get the rights for the music and sound effects? Do the companies think that american children will be confused by the original Japanese music? that they are not used to it, and it is too different from what is heard in American shows? hmm maybe I should send this question to answerman.

Any skirt/shorts that's above the knee is digitally lengthened and any shirt that exposes bare shoulders is altered. The girls civilian and Cure outfits would be pretty altered.

yea i never liked the fake southern accent, but its as i said, would take her take as robin over Stephanie young.

also Green's take as dragon is a lot more menacing over the funi version.