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Cardcaptors - Tests of Courage (Vol. 1) (Geneon Signature Series)

Cardcaptors - Tests of Courage (Vol. 1) (Geneon Signature Series)

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Um, I can't have less than 1 star?
Review: Cardcaptors. Hacked up version of Cardcaptor Sakura.

Where to start.....?

The fact that Cardcaptors starts at episode 8 does not put this dub on good footing to start with.

Then the voice actors.

Sakura is meant to sound like a cheerful 10 year old girl.
SaKOOra sounds like an obnoxious 16 year old who has better things to do than appear in this series.
Syaoran (Li to all Cardcaptor watchers) just seems to sound like a bully through the entire trio of episodes.
And I will not even mention Madison (evil twin of Tomoyo), but can you say "Valley girl"?

Then the cuts.....

All relationships are removed including Sakura-Tomoyo(Madison) and Touya(Tori)-Yukito(Julian) and Syaoran's apparent attraction to Yukito (Julian).

So Japan does not exist then. Sakura now lives in Reedington which some clever person at Nelvana thought would be a clever play on Clow Reed's name (Clow is pronounced to rhyme with Glow, not Cow btw.) And any hint that there may have been of Japanese character has been erased e.g. When Mr. Terada writes Syaoran's (Li's) name on the blackboard and nothing appears. Smooth editing eh?

The total cuts are too numerous to count but they even cut out the point where Yukito (Julian) throws Sakura some candy.
Now what is wrong with that? Don't take candy from strangers?
Hmmmm......

Then there's the music. Or what passes for music in CC.
The original songs fit the mood perfectly. Nelvana seem to have pulled out a music catalogue and selected tracks at random.
The opening song it just scary. The lyrics are bad but the person singing them is even worse!
Give me "Catch You, Catch Me" any day.

Now I will explain why you should buy the uncensored version:

1. You can see Cardcaptor Sakura for what it was originally meant to be, a shoujo (girls) anime. But despite what Nelvana believes, this doesn't mean that only girls can enjoy it . It still appeals to a wide audience, perhaps even wider than CC which has been changed so much as to make Syaoran (Li) seem to play a much bigger part than he does and to convert it into a boys orientated action show. It also shows the hero doesn't neccessarily have to be male.

2. It teaches lessions about *love* (something which Nelvana doesn't want you to believe exists) and friendship and relationships.

3. It is about SOOOO much more than capturing cards. (Which is all Cardcaptors is about)

So if you're too young to buy the uncut version, get your older brother/sister or parents to buy it for you.

If you have a younger brother/sister then let them watch the uncut version and if questioned explain that you are "Helping them with their reading".
I'm sure that once they can keep up, they will be much happier than if they had watched Cardcaptors.

If you think that the uncut version is more expensive then we must look at the facts

1. The Uncut version has 4 episodes on a DVD compared to 3 on the Cardcaptors DVD.

2. Each Cardcaptor Sakura episode is 25 minutes in length compared to the average length of 20 minutes for a Cardcaptors episode.

So do the right thing, and leave this DVD well alone.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: cardcaptors rocks!
Review: well as it says in the title line cardcaptors rocks and well that's really all there is to it

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Oh god noooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: PLEASE DO NOT BUY CARDCAPTORS!... Try Cardcaptor Sakura/Card Captor Sakura (just different spellings)... it is the original Japanese version and you can the videos and DVDs from Amazon. The English dub is NOT worth the money at all! If only some people knew just how bad it really is compared to the Japanese... Sakura and Tomoyo(Madison) sound like little brats in the English dub.. and all the romance and funny scenes are cut making each episode about 5 minutes shorter than it really should be! Names are changed and they always pretend that they're not in Japan... it is sooooo edited any good Cardcaptor Sakura site on the internet will tell you just how bad it is! I could go on forever but please... do yourself a favour and buy Cardcaptor Sakura not Cardcaptors!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Best
Review: I love Sakura because she takes the cards and its cool Idont know why almost all people dont like it the best episode for me is when this guy Lee proposes to Sakura
that he loves her, it was too embarased imagin when Sakura have kids it will be a disaster,imagin what
Sakuras brother will say.I see all episodes but in spanish
so i cant talk about the other characters.thanks.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Anime is not exactly a children's show
Review: These episodes are not so good at explaining things, as all good anime is not. Protesting the editorial, I would like to say that all things are explained to a patient anime fan. If you watch a lot of anime, you can see that this series is being set up for nice twists of plot in the future. Cartoons are not all for children. This particular series is child-friendly, but don't assume that because pokemon is for little kids that all cartoons are. I can see people traumatizing kids with Samurai X for example. lol. Anime is not rated, but has as many genres as any other kind of movie. So, I stick out my tongue at the editor, who seems to not know than no series gets anywhere in the first few episodes, and I urge everyone to watch anime because IT'S SO COOL! *bow*

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: face it
Review: ok you people, we're all here to write a frikkin review, not to come and see y'all dissing japanese people just because they made Syaoran like Yukito or Sonomi like Nadeshiko! Face it guys, japanese kids are taught the exact same way we're taught, maybe even better! i mean they do come up with all the technology first right? Seriously, i don't really care about Card Captors and/or Cardcaptor Sakura, sure, maybe Nelvana chewed it up for a while, and yes they did mess up the story line to make Syaoran one of the main characters. No offense to any of the North Americians here, but, you can't accept homosexuals can you? is there something wrong with it? Really, Nelvana could have made it better, but they just had to cut out all of those scenes that make Sakura seem like a girly girl! I really think you guys should be quiet about saying, japanese are gross or japanese overuse things, because they don't! Here, people just cannot accept things, ok? and don't flame me about saying all of this because its the truth, if you havent seen Cardcaptor Sakura, then watch Card Captors but if you've watched Cardcaptor Sakura, don't bother whining to other people about how bad it is, really, it'll just cause an arguement.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I liked it.
Review: I started watching Card Captors when it was on as part of Saturday Morning Cartoons. I now consider it to be one of the coolest 'toons out there. There's something different about Cardcaptors that seems to sperate it from the other cartoons out there -- I'm not that good with words so I don't really know how to describe it. I realized when searching the internet for CC sites that the show was originally done in Japaneese and that a lot of people didn't like the way the English version was redone. I can understand that. But I guess because I saw this version first I like it better.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Okay enough, but still lacking...
Review: I know how all you die-hard anime lovers and otakus loathe this show. The 'butchered' american version, I mean. But before you flood the review with how imperfect, how crude how blah, blah blah... The point is, haven't you considered the feelings of the people who have only seen this American version? I share with you a far worse story...here, in the Philippines, the dubbing is, quite literally, eViL. There's nothing to worry about if I filter the sounds through my scratchy-voice repellant eardrums, but it's just so weird to see Sakura talking in the same voice as the big-chested evil woman in the next show. So I advice you to just shut up from commenting about this DVD. I'm very sure you didn't actually buy it, right? If you did and you're unsatisfied, that's too bad. So you haven't got any right to complain about it. To fans who'd like to watch the original sequence of events, get the dubbed version of Cardcaptor Sakura-they talk in the way you're used to, but you get the right order of episodes. I, for my part, am sticking to that format. I hate subs, but I'll gladly take uncut dubs. By the way, I'm the daughter of the person who owns this account, it's not his review but mine ...

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: English dub or Japanese origonals?
Review: Cardcaptors is one of my fav animes. Ive only watched the english version aired on WB, but compared to what other peopl said, I didn't think it was 1/2 bad. Sure it was practicaly plotless, but the flashy stly of animation and almost non-stop action make up for it(besides- Li and Kero are sooo kawaii!). If only I could get my hands on some Japanese english subtitled episodes...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Cardcaptors is awesome!
Review: I'm 17. This is a great show. The original is better, but how could a dub possibly be quite as good as the original? Just don't watch the original and you should be fine. Some people have complained about the fact that the names were changed and then went on to say that we can pronounce Japanese names. Well, of course we can pronounce the Japanese names, but it IS BETTER to have the names changed because we're not used to names like that. Also, someone said they cut out some of the love stories in the show for the dub Well, just so you know, the 'love' stories that were cut out were between two guys and two girls, which is not accepted in our society! So of course they cut those parts out! It wouldn't be a good show for the kids otherwise. The dub is awesome, but I advise you not to see the dub if you've seen the original, and not to see the original if you've seen the dub.


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