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RyanSaotome
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The English Card Captors OP is just made even worse by how amazing the original OP was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDBSV8DL1lU Its probably my favorite OP of the 90s. |
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Mesonoxian Eve
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LOL! This is the funniest thing I've read all week! Holo the Werewolf! 
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Princess_Irene
ANN Reviewer
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I'll admit that the MKR songs have a special place in my heart, but they are terrible. I feel the same way about the El Hazard and Pretty Sammy dub endings. But the English market doesn't have the only godawful dub songs out there - I have a very funny (and terrible) CD of Italian dub music, featuring such hits as "Sailor Moon, La Luna Splendid" and the stellar theme to "Captain Tsubasa," which has lines like "Che campione Holly e Benji, campionissimi!" (Which roughly translates to "Holly and Benji are championy champs!")
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Mesonoxian Eve
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Wow. See, this is what a comparison video does. It makes the list's point of view more accurate. Yes, the dubbed version of CCS is horrendous compared to the original. 
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Magna_Lilly
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Hahaha so glad to see the Magic Knights opening as number one worst. The song itself wasn't horrible or anything, but my gosh, that singer makes my ears bleed.
I never watched Ouran dubbed, but watching the opening... really sounds like one of those fandubs you'd find on Youtube. Just not good quality. I'd say I like the Monster Rancher opening a lot, but I know that is the nostalgia talking 
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walw6pK4Alo
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What? With a broad definition, she certainly is. As are the children from Wolf Children. Unless it's being defined as "has no control in transformation, driven by the moon" and all of the other mythological trappings, anything that can turn into a wolf and back should count. |
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DmonHiro
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Ah... nostalgia... what a cruel mistress. |
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Mesonoxian Eve
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I'm going to go out on a limb here to say you or Ryan haven't seen the show, because if you had, you'd realize Holo is forcing herself into a human form, not the other way around. She even mentions the form is difficult to get used to in the very first episode of the first season. |
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zeo1fan
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I used to watch Ronin Warriors when I was younger. I never remembered the name until this list. Thank you.
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walw6pK4Alo
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How amazing all three of the original OPs were, you mean. That Cardcaptor's OP replaced all of them, right? That makes it three times as worse.
I have seen it. I'll call her a werewolf, you are free to explode. |
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Sakura-Alchemist
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I don't have any MKR nostalgia since I had never seen it, but the OP singing isn't that bad. It doesn't sound any worse than some of the Japanese ops with girls trying to fake a high pitched voice. but I also haven't seen the original so maybe it was really bad in comparison.
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Sheleigha
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Well even if you grow up with them, they can still be bad, and you can always hear them later on. Have you even heard the originals at all to compare?? That's the important question. I mean, "Digimon, Digital Monsters" (which wasn't even added) or Butter-fly, Target, or The Biggest Dreamer? "Monsters rule!" or Close to Your Heart? "Cardcaptors, a mystic adventure!" or Platinum? Once I heard these, I ditched the "theme song MUST have the title of its show in its opening theme". The only one I must say that actually works, is the original Pokemon theme. Not that I don't like some of the original themes, but it just works, and actually holds up. Escaflowne's english isn't BAD with the techno beat, I must say, but it's no Maaya Sakamoto. Either way, ready to take those nostalgic goggles off? |
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Mesonoxian Eve
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Well, you and Ryan are the only two I've ever seen to call Holo a werewolf. I won't explode, but I will laugh at the very, very broad definition you two use to describe her. It's good fun. 
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SahgoDN
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Ehhh. I don't like mixing "new compositions for a TV version" with "dubbed versions of already existing songs" in a list like this; I think both are their own beast that should be judged separately. Especially since dubbed versions compete more directly with the Japanese original than the new TV songs.
With that in mind, I don't think Ouran got the worst English version of a Japanese opening. I mean, it's pretty bored-sounding, but I think it pales in comparison to the Blue Water version of the Dragon Ball GT opening. Terrible lyrics. Completely off timing. Not a particularly great singer. I know some of you have a lot of nostalgia for it, but...yuck. Speaking of Dragon Ball, Justin Cook's take on the Dragon Ball Kai opening is... weak. He is a fantastic voice actor, but his singing could be better (I also don't find Sean's version as good as people say, not to mention all that auto-tuning). "Catch You Catch Me" had an English version (I think it aired in other countries; the English Cardcaptors opening was exclusive to North America, if I remember). It's...bad. The singer doesn't sound too bad, but the lyrics are ridiculous (and somehow Syaoran was snucked in them. Yeah.) As for "original" compositions... well, I tend to hate them because they tend to sound so rushedly put together. Especially Saban. Mon Colle Knights, Shinzo, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Dinozaurs...they don't sound exactly "bad", but so, so uninspired. God. Pokémon openings are usually fine, but Pokémon Chronicles...if you watched it, you know what I'm talking about. "P-O-K-E-aymowen (POKAYMON!)". The Diamond and Pearl rap was also terrible, but at least it was short. And let me just say something: since I'm not from the US, I have absolutely no nostalgia for most of these songs. As such, the worst English-original opening? Dragon Ball Z uncut. I'm sorry. I respect your opinion, but...you're wrong. This is terrible, and it goes for what looks like an eternity. Yikes. (But just to show that I'm not as negative as I seem, I think Digimon Frontier's English opening is okay. Medabots opening is also fine, especially when compared to its incredibly annoying original opening). |
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Mikeski
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Dig out your AD&D monster manuals; a wolf that becomes a human is a wolfwere. But I'd just call her a youkai or kami, since she's Japanese style of wolf-human, and not the western one, despite everything around her being medieval-western.
Otherwise, we can count Inuyasha, since domestic dogs are descended from wolves. (Or if not, count Koga's clan in his show.) And any number of other wolf-youkai.
For other "western/traditional" werewolves, there's Riza/Liza the half-werewolf in Princess Resurrection (and at least one of her full-werewolf relatives shows up as a monster-of-the-week). Akira & his clan in Dance in the Vampire Bund. Ginei in Rosario to Vampire. Now, werewolves in good shows? I dunno. I think vampires are gonna win by sheer numbers, since practically all the werewolves we can think up are appearing in anime with "vampire" in the name of the show... |
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