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Summary: Terrible adaptation of a CLAMP classic
Review: The North American 'adaptation' of the show Card Captor Sakura is an insult to the the orignal japanese manga-ka CLAMP. Hardly any of the whimsical air to the orignal version has been spared and has been turned into a less than acceptable piece of policital-correctness by the North American distributor Nelvana. The wonderful plot and characters has been destoryed in favor of drastic character and plot changes, meaningless edits, terrible background music, sub-par voice acting, and the deletion/rearrangment of episodes.To truly enjoy Card Captor Sakura as it was ment to me, I'd reccomend the subtitled DVD by Pioneer or the orignal manga (at least Mixx's graphic novels or better yet the Kodansha bilingual editions)
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Summary: A video gone bad.
Review: Hello! This video is horrible! Please take my word for it. This video starts off with episode 8, leaving out main plots and the true meaning to this whole Card captor ploy. Nelvana plots to make a profit out of three of the worst episodes. So far, many of the episodes have been dubbed terribly, and edited with unnecessary editing! Changing the original scripts, everything they say is so screwed! They avoid the main word,"love." They also edit out the fact that Syaoran(Li) and Sakura both like Yukito(Julian). They "americanize" everything. Such as the Tokyo Tower, making it a 'tower.' Changing Tokyo to Readington. Everything is just plain bad! Do Americans not need to know where Tokyo or Japan are in this world? Where are the common sense in people these days? This thing is turning out to be worse than Sailor Moon. The voice actors are ruining their voices in each episode. Li's voice is changing in every episode! The episodes that recently came out makes him sound more and more like Kero! Now, come on, don't even buy this tape. It's so horrible that when you buy it, you'll only admire the cover and the animation, but not the voices, excessive editing, and the episode they start with. My advice, do not even touch that thing!! It's dubbed horribly.
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Summary: ...Steer clear of this tape!
Review: Oh boy. This show, now airing on the WB and Teletoons, has now been put onto a tape... The reasons to NOT buy this product are almost endless. First off, the names of the characters are changed. They swapped "Tomoyo" for "Madison"? ...even though they kept "Li" and Sakura's names, they pronounce "Sakura" wrong, and have the wrong name for "Li"... his first name is Syaoran... which they changed into the last name, "Showron" ... They also changed where everyone lives. The school of Tomoeda is now Reedington, while Syaoran and Mei-Ling's "hometown" (Hong Kong) is never mentioned... what's wrong with being from Hong Kong/Japan? These are just a few of the major changes made to the show. I think Nelvana underestimates the intelligence of Americans these days... but, It's hard to believe how many people *DO* watch the TV Dub. Folks, there are better things out there! Cardcaptors is a show that has been changed from the magical girl anime with the touches of romance and adventure we have come to love from CLAMP to an insanely censored and emotionless cartoon unworthy of even a one-star rating. If you're looking for the good stuff, I suggest you press the back button on your browser, quickly, and go for the subtitles!
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Summary: Tests of Courage
Review: First I must say as a first time Cardcaptor fan this is a must buy movie. It has every thing you need. At first I looked at the reviews for this movie and they where bad! But I dont know what they got stuck in there head. If you love Cardcaptors you have to get this movie
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Summary: What has CLAMP done to you guys, Nelvana?
Review: Ok... Let me get this straight... Nelvana decides to sell the butchered version of the re-runs??? These three episodes were all aired like a million times, so wheres the point in buying this?If anybody really wants this, just go out, by a blank tape and wait for these episodes to air again!(I'll worry if these don't) Trust me... save your money guys...
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Summary: The "dont buy it" review here has a good point
Review: I don't even know why this was released.... It says that this video has 3 episodes in english(awww man, those not so great voice actors, half-way bad music, super episode cutting, no plot stuff???)... Why make a video on it when each of these episodes has aired like a million times each??? If any of you want to see these over and over again, either get the japenese version (a billion times better) or wait till they air these episodes again and record it!
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Summary: we can definitely rule out 'okay'...
Review: The series focuses on the main character Sakura, a fourth-grade girl who accidentally unleashes the Clow Cards on the world, and since then, has dealt with fighting and capturing each card with the help of Kero, the guardian seal of the Clow Book, and Li, a descendent of Clow Reed and Sakura's main (oh wait, Meilin doesn't count...*only*) rival. Everything about the English series, from Madison's newly acquired valley-girl attitude to Li's apparent obsession with the word 'pathetic', detracts from the original enjoyable quality that the CCS series possessed in the Japanese episodes. My exact complaints? It's kind of difficult to have an anime that was originally titled "Card Captor *Sakura*" revolve around the character Li. (...hm...and I don't understand the Pokémon allusions here, since CCS has a different storyline, a different plot, and different characters altogether) I will admit that, if you've never seen the Japanese anime version before, then it *is* satisfactorily all right (despite the fact that the parts of the original story were edited out, making story from the English version somewhat...twisted). But, still, if you're looking to see the better version, go for the subtitled Card Captor Sakura.
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Summary: Do not buy!
Review: This is a terrible series. It has no plot, no character development, and the main character has the world's worst attitude problem? Why? Nelvana, a Canadian company edited this from the once beautiful show, Cardcaptor Sakura. They felt that a show didn't need characters with diverse personalities, a show didn't need humor...a show didn't need a plot. If I were you, I would high-tail out of here and buy the SUBTITLED dvd, also sold here at amazon. You WON'T regret it.
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Summary: Not to bad...
Review: Okay, I am a die hard Sakura fan, however I have so far enjoyed the dub of the series. The voice acting has been well cast, and the translation from the Japanese is well done, given what has been edited.
One problem with the dub, however, is that because of the edits the plot does not hang together well, and many questions are left unanswered. Many of the early Japanese epsidoes (and some of the later) have been removed in the English version, which does cause some problems. However, this was done so the series would appeal to both young boys and girls, since the Japanese series main focus is on the heroine alone, with Lee as part of the supporting cast.
This is a great title for younger kids, and I also reccomend it to parents of older children who may not want them expossed to some of the themes of the subtitled version (IE: Sakura's infatuation with her brother's best friend, Lee's infatuation with Sakura's brother's best friend, and Sakura's Mother having married her teacher at the age of 16, ect.).
Over all, a very good kids series, with a focus on loyalty, friendship, honesty and strength.
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Summary: Good, but not great.
Review: I'm sure by now many people have read the reviews ofCardcaptors by hardcore Card Captor Sakura fans. You could probablyspot them by their near-unintelligible style of writing, full ofsmiley faces and ridiculous Japanese words, like extensive use of theword "baka," mixed into english sentences. However,looking at this dub from an intelligent point of view, I can say thatthe acting and dialogue isn't so bad. What IS bad is the order theepisodes are being arranged. This tape jumps many episodes, like theyaired of the WB, ultimately resulting in a confusing experience. ForCardcaptors viewers, I recommend the subtitled version to get a fullerexperience (plus episodes you may not see on the WB for a long time).
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