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Dessa
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Given the 40 episodes, there's a good chance the broadcaster is Nickelodeon, given their "2 20-episode season" requirement for each Power Rangers series.
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Veniamin
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Besides poor marketing and bad time slots, he picked a season that isn't good enough for marketing. The season's main antagonist also gets tanked easily and shows up at the end with a new form. It basically goes like this (Spoilers if anyone ever decides to watch it) *The 4 Generals use Akanbe (The series MOTW) which causes a "Bad End" to people and collect their sorrow. *They do that for about 23 episodes because the main antagonist "Pierrot" has a clock counting down to his revival pictured below 
*Then the Pretty Cure or "Glitter Force" now tank him easily because standard power-up shtick thus having 20 more episodes for him with another count down just to come back They basically removed any tension of a final boss and one of his subordinates felt more of a final boss than he did. I don't know if repetition can cause kids to lose interest but it's worth taking into consideration. |
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kawaiibunny3
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It's been awhile since I've seen Smile, but off the top of my head nothing too terrible. It could just be filler episodes that they're omitting (Smile has a lot of those tbh) There's a really slow and touching episode about Yayoi (the yellow one) remembering her late father. So that's probably gone. There's also a 2 part episode about them visiting Kyoto, so depending on how they view cultural references that could be condensed to 1 or just cut completely. The final battle arc is also 4 episodes long so I could see that being chipped away at as well. Other than that, there's nothing's really offensive at all. Smile Precure is a show that you could give to your average five year old and they'd be fine. Anything they omit was probably just because. |
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Kimiko_0
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Oops. Yes, that was a typo. I meant second year of middle school, which in Japan means 13-14 years old.
(Sorry, I'm from Europe. The school system here is organized differently than the USAian/Japanese system.)
Probably the more Japanese content, like a New Year's shrine visit, or the school year starting in April and continuing over summer break. That kind of stuff. No idea how Reika's rich/traditional family background will be handled, or Akane's family's okonomiyaki restaurant. |
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DRosencraft
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First, the name. Bad move. Glitter Force is the cheesiest name in the world and tramples the unifying pedigree the name is supposed to hold within the overall series. The idea that young preteen girls cannot comprehend that Precure is a combination of the the words Pretty and Cure is selling the target audience ridiculously short.
Second, the episode total. It's minutely possible they simply made a poor rounding statement. 40 episodes is an odd count for a series to run, so it may have been meant as an approximation to give a framework for how many seasons to look at. But, if they really are cutting down to 40, that's odd but doable. It's odd because with the type of show this is, with the audience they're seemingly targeting, I don't know that there is a real such thing as a "fluff" episode with this series. Are there episodes that don't advance the story or anything like that? Absolutely. The problem is, that's about half the series. They revisit many of the same themes again and again with the same cast of characters. If you're saying there was no other series that fit the bill for they type of series you're looking to license, why burn through it by cutting a full 17% of the series? Obviously they think this'll all work, so power to them, but it certainly seems to be a strange and counter intuitive way of going about it. |
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Hoppy800
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The title just predicted the localizing disaster this will end up, this may not end well for the anime. I wish it was just licensed as is, subbed, on BD and or DVD.
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DmonHiro
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Want to know what's gone?
This: 
And this: 
Basically you can kiss Joker's psychological warfare goodbye. |
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Veniamin
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Imagine how many angry moms would react to their daughters being scarred by a psychotic jester. Oh, and you might as well cut the final episodes because half the Earth was blown away by Japanese Pennywise. 
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Primus
 Posts: 2779 Location: Toronto |
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Cursed property:
- 4Kids licenses the show, but drops the series before release after the poor performances of Magical DoReMi and Mew Mew Power. - Toei releases legal subtitles of the original series that seemingly don't do well enough for them to continue onwards. - Toei pays for a complete English dub of the first show, but it doesn't do well enough to warrant any more in the markets that pick it up. - Saban licenses a later series, chops 8 episodes and changes the name (possibly due to the earlier failures?). |
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Jonny Mendes
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Oh America, you never learn...
Please correct me if im mistaken but this is a American show that uses art from Smile Precure! and is not the Smile Precure anime. So "Glitter Force" it's suppose to be like "Cardcaptors" that was the American edit of the anime Cardcaptor Sakura. If "Glitter Force" have the same "success" of "Cardcaptors" i can't see a great future for Saban. Well them i have to wait to some other company to license the real Smile Precure!. It would be a great present for my daughter that loves magical girl animes. |
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Primus
Posts: 2779 Location: Toronto |
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I'm not saying the dub is great or free of problems, but Nelvana dubbed every episode of Cardcaptors. It was the US broadcaster that felt it would be okay to skip a bunch of episodes.
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Sam Murai
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I share the same sentiments. "Glitter Force" is such a tepid and unimaginative title. It's the kind of title you'd skip over when looking at the TV listings, thinking it's some cheap, lame-brain kiddy show with no effort behind it, or something you don't feel like listening to your kids watch. Was something like "Smile, Pretty Cure!", "Pretty Cure: Smile!" or even "Pretty Cure: Smile Squad" that repulsive? I think with the right push and merchandise marketing, one could establish a good market for the Pretty Cure franchise (not sure about using the "Precure" name out of the gate; perhaps latter down the line once the franchise are fanbase is fully set in). Who knows, maybe Saban may succeed in pulling the wool over enough eyes, but "Glitter Force", particularly (and apparently) under an antiquated heavy localization effort, doesn't seem set for success from the outset, either. |
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TarsTarkas
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Sadly for the anime fans of this series, they are not the intended audience Saban is looking for. So they will slice and dice the material and dumb it down to fit the American kid audience. And if they ever do DVD's of it, it will probably be the western broadcast version.
Fan subs will probably be your only solace. This article has gotten me interested in it, along with that Love Live review. |
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SnowMusket
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Actually, they have started official DVD releases of subbed Super Sentai in the US. Zyuranger is already out and Dairanger is next. So there is a chance of getting Precure DVDs if Glitter Force does well and there is a demand. |
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Jonny Mendes
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Yeah, KidsWB just took a pretty good magical girl show that as intended for young girls and butchered it to go after a young boys audience, complete destroying any sort of plot. But thanks to NIS America my daughter can see the series in the way it is suppose to be watched. I can see Saban doing the same crappy edit work and also destroying a pretty good anime. |
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