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Was the Cardcaptors dub better than what people thought?

I can't answer for the dub as I didn't hear much of it. However, the main problem that people had with Cardcaptors was that they pretty much butchered the show to produce it.

Reportedly, Nelvana heavily edited the show for its UK, Canada and Australia release. The edits were to remove "objectionable content" and strictly Japanese references. WB Kids took this edited version and tried to make it a show around Syaorun Li as the hero (to appeal to boys). They omitted any episodes that revolved around Sakura alone which is why it is so much shorter. The episodes that were retained were edited to have the same effect.

When NISA released the show, there would have been no point in trying to get the Nelvana dub since it would not have matched the original animation.

Yuukaa_Sa wrote:

I wish Diskotek would releases Cardcaptors in the Nelvana dub cause it's my favorite. Yes i know it has cuts and changes but I don't care. I'm hopeful since they have been releasing shows like Beyblad & Medabots. Cause the new english dubs is just horrible and kills the series for me. I don't like the Japanese version either.

The old CardCaptors dub is dead forever. Clamp hates it, so it gone.

This is true of most shows from the 90s from prominent manga artists that were heavily adapted in the West. They usually weren't consulted at all and should've been, and are now VERY salty about it.

BigOnAnime wrote:

Out of curiosity, why are they still okay with the dub of the first movie still being around? If you turn the subs on while watching the dub, the lines rarely match.

Movies work differently. The legal frameworks make it so the producers need to consult a lot less with the original creators. But generally, edits are a much bigger sore spot than a modified dub.

Then what was even the point of Funimation doing the kickstarter to make their own dub of the show?

getchman wrote:

a better, updated dub and apparently adding back a few scenes that were previously edited out

So that means even the uncut dub with Ocean actors wasn't good enough?
Or was there even such a thing in the first place?

There's actually more to this since apparently CLAMP doesn't want that dub released anymore.

hence Kawamori calling Robotech a "bootleg" and 4Kids lost the rights to Mew Mew Power when the mangaka got wind of the alterations.

Reportedly, Nelvana heavily edited the show for its UK, Canada and Australia release. The edits were to remove "objectionable content" and strictly Japanese references. WB Kids took this edited version and tried to make it a show around Syaorun Li as the hero (to appeal to boys). They omitted any episodes that revolved around Sakura alone which is why it is so much shorter. The episodes that were retained were edited to have the same effect.

So that means even the uncut dub with Ocean actors wasn't good enough? Or was there even such a thing in the first place?

It was mostly Funimation being lazy... that Funimation tried to make a bigger deal than they were since the scenes in total don't even equal to 8 minutes.

And I honestly disagree with it being a "better" dub too personally but that's comparing who they cast as certain characters with both the original dub and the JP version. I even had issues with it as they were announcing the cast itself; not even considering the one I had the biggest issue with turned out a sex pest and doesn't even fit the character.

I dunno if I'd call it nepotism in this case.

They definitely made a bigger deal out of the additional footage than they should have though, given it doesn't add much at all outside of some additional fluff here and there (Like I said, it's not even a full 8 minutes) and how they were originally going to make the release of the original dub Kickstarter-exclusive (which thank god they backed down from)

I can't recall who the other party was, I think it might've been Anime Limited, had the idea of just having the additional scenes as bonus stuff but they ultimately decided to just follow Funi in that regard.

1) Canada's airing of the show, outside of some obvious name changes like Kinimoto to Avalon and whatever they did to Li's name (its not even romanization!) , was relatively uncut outside of editing out Japanese text and toning down Tomoyo's crush on Sakura and the latter's crush on Yukito, at least enough to get past the the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council at the time, since both are absolutely still there if you know what to look for.

2) There was no massive editing to make Li look like the main character. The Canadian airing kept Sakura as the lead. In fact, Canada aired everything in their proper order, including the movies as well versus what happened with the US airings