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NEWS: Glitter Force Trailer Previews English Dub

It's written at a very elementary school level and I guess it works for its target audience, but without some of the juicier elements that Sailor Moon introduced, it's not really trying to expand its reach to anyone older than that.

Laura Bailey? You have my attention. The rest of the cast sounds very familiar too, so it's certainly a high quality group of actors.

After reading the premise, it's pretty much My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic but with magical girls. With that said, I'd give it a shot if I had Netflix.

Might ask a friend for his credentials.

Laura Bailey hasn't been in anything Funimation-related (other than Soul Eater Not!) in a long time. Like Troy Baker, she's been too busy with teh vidya to bother with animu for the last few years.

It's just a shame it's been ignored in America until now, and the first exposure Americans will get is this heavily altered dub.

The uncensored show that aired in Japan was aimed at the exact target audience Saban is aiming for. While it would certainly need to be dubbed to appeal to kids here, very little (if any) changes are really necessary to appeal to kids here. (and a more faithful dub could've kept fans of the original alongside the new kids audience) That's why people are so shocked they're going to all this trouble to localize it, because it feels pointless.

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Well, the lead character being voiced in most Funi works, well, cool! And maybe the others from somewhere I dunno yet, but yeah, this seems to be going nicely good. Will wait on the weekend! X3

Laura Bailey hasn't been in anything Funimation-related (other than Soul Eater Not!) in a long time. Like Troy Baker, she's been too busy with teh vidya to bother with animu for the last few years.

Yo-kai Watch is a very recent example though, and in the waters of Disney , which has been burned twice in anime (though for different reasons). I do want Yo-kai Watch's anime to succeed, but I am worried about it because of its channel and it being a faithful adaptation aimed at western kids being largely untested. It also faces HUGE competition, not just in the loads of domestic kids' entertainment already vying for their attention, but the move away from action and towards fast-paced slapstick comedy and Diary of a Wimpy Kid style slice-of-life.

I don't know how pronounced it is elsewhere, but in North America, at least, males tend to stay away from media aimed at females as there's a cultural stigma. It's not just Precure, but pretty much EVERYTHING aimed at girls and women.

I don't really know that much about the source material, but unless it was written with an international audience in mind, like Pokémon, I have a hard time believing it could remain unchanged due to differences in culture and media between Japan and North America. There are a lot of things seen as okay in Japan that is totally unacceptable in North America and vice versa, and there are narrative tropes common and well-liked in Japan that even little kids would find weird and off-putting in North America and vice versa.

But I'm curious: Is there really next to nothing in the anime as it was in Japan that would not anger parents somewhere?

I'm not really worried about the faithful adaptation part. I've seen kids as young as 6-7 watch Naruto's extremely faithful dub, and LOVE it. The fact that even more localized series like Pokemon, Beyblade, Digimon, etc. are becoming more faithful nowadays seems to suggest the newer generations aren't that bothered by it. That's not to say I don't think the Yo-Kai Watch will fail, just that if it does I imagine it'll be due o other factors like Disney X D or competition. So far though it actually seems to be doing fairly well, from my understanding. Not a huge success, but well enough that it doesn't seem in any danger of going anywhere anytime soon.

There's still a bit of cultural differences there, but not a lot. A lot of it is stuff that can be wrote around or adapted, like changing a manzai contest into a comedy contest. But there really isn't much in the way of objectionable content, compared to your usual shonens or even some shojos. I say all of this as someone who has actually watched the Japanese version too, though admittedly I have not seen as much as I'm sure others have.

All right. I remember a lot of the edits done to shows like 4Kids' One Piece and Nelvana's Sailor Moon.

Where my concern lies is that Disney canceled Doraemon outright (I'm not sure about the reason behind that) and eventually gave Naruto Shippuden to Toonami (I'm sure because they put it on the air without knowing how messed up it gets later on), so I think it's risky putting Yo-kai Watch on a channel that has booted an anime series twice before. That being said, that Yo-kai Watch was greenlit at all indicates there is some level of faith from the Disney people.

All right. I remember a lot of the edits done to shows like 4Kids' One Piece and Nelvana's Sailor Moon were to avoid upsetting parents, whether it's to hide the fact that it's from Japan, removal of religious stuff, removal of tobacco and alcohol, less revealing clothing, death being a taboo, and such. Kids don't mind any of that, but I know some parents would've. When I was little, my father would try to find any excuse to not let me watch cartoons, for instance. (Though this was because he wanted me to act more maturely, and he felt anyone who watched TV animation was immature, regardless of age.) It's interesting to hear that an anime naturally does not have any of that content without it being made for international audiences.

In that case, I'll watch Smile Precure instead of Glitter Force.

It's written at a very elementary school level and I guess it works for its target audience, but without some of the juicier elements that Sailor Moon introduced, it's not really trying to expand its reach to anyone older than that.

Good luck with that. Since there is no legal way to watch it you really have to go out of your way to find subs. I know when I looked once I couldn't find anything. Newer shows you can usually find but the older ones require some digging.