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Let us do a slow and a careful analysis of what went wrong. How did a sweet and touching anime called Cardcaptor Sakura got reduced into a wrong version of Pokemon? Well, why not start from the beginning. (Hiro: Right on!) The song. The translation of the song shows the dub's quality. For example, in case of Gundam Wing and Ranma 1/2, the dubbers left the song on. For GW, the lyrics were rather unappropriate for children(cough*for North American children*cough), so the songs were played as background songs. For Ranma, the songs had nice subtitles. Let us examine Cardcaptors opening theme vs. CCS opening theme.. |
(Wind, rain, shadow, wood, thunder, power, sleep(Why do we need to know names of the cards?!) Cardcaptors of the Clow, expected the unexpected now)(Cerberus: So nothing happened coincidently after all) Secrets of the Clow were all a mystery(Er, what secrets? It's just a book.) But when this mighty book was open,(Yes, it's mighty. It carries cards and it's size of a standard hard cover.) the powers were set free(That's very nice. Maybe the first episode was made to show the viewer how this all had happened, not the title theme. What do you think?) Cardcaptors, a mystic adventure(Cardcaptors? Who else captures the cards?) Cardcaptors, a quest for all time(What quest? Everything happens in TOMOEDA, their hometown.) Each card posses a power of its own(Wow, we knew that. We feel so smart now.) We got to find them and bring the powers home(I thought you were supposed to seal them in cards. Now we tie up Dash and Shadow and hide them in the basement?) (wind rain shadow wood thunder power sleep(Oh, a repetition. Now we know these cards exist!) cardcaptors of the Clow expect the unexpected now)(Cardcaptors of CLOW? Never knew Clow owned any cardcaptor. And it's one cardcaptor, as far as I know.) Cardcaptors, a mystic adventure(VERY mystic. SaKOOra running around Readington with her bratty pal Madison and her cyber rose customs.) Cardcaptors, a quest for all time(Great, now we know this show is called cardcaptors. Don't we feel smart.) ...cardcaptors.(Yay, the song ended.) |
Want to see you, can't see you, this heart breaking feeling Want to tell you, can't tell you, keep missing chances to tell you Because, because, together we'll spread our wings and I want to run a sky marathon and dream in unison with you! Hey catch you catch you catch me catch me wait! Look at me and please say "I like you" Yes, nice to meet you good to see you surely! My feelings to your heart will go fly fly fly... I'm-in-love-with-you! Sweet... Sakura-chan you're so cuuute!!! The song matches the atmosphere so perfectly and this song sounds so very Sakura-ish. ^.^ Now, our wonderful dub decided to get rid of all front images. That means they chopped bits of episodes themselves and stuck them in where they felt like it. Not only that, CCS had originally 3 opening themes. How many does dub have? One, and the second one (oh joy, oh thrill, oh happiness) has different clips from third season episodes. Well. Now we can start seeing the evilness of dub. But just when you thought this can't be more evil.... See more truth No! I had enough! I need some CCS so I can be sane again! |