Purpose of Title~Sakura (the main character) goes around and collects (or Captures if you will) magical cards made by the
Clamp
Rating~PG for Mature Situations
Card Captor Sakura (sub)~Card Captors (dub)
Card Captor Sakura is a very loved manga and anime by Clamp. The edited version, Cardcaptors, shown on
Kid’s WB on Saturdays, is getting some bad reviews. Some people are saying that its too edited and they butcher the lines from translation. Now, I can’t say I agree or disagree with this statement, because I
have never seen the episodes (I did see the subtitled First Movie) in Japanese. Now that the episodes are
coming out on VHS and DVD (YES!!), I can finally see what’s wrong with the dubbed version. So, for right
now, I’m going to base my comparisons off the movie (if you people have complaints, I’m sorry I’m a
deprived person and have never seen the Japanese subs) and the edited versions that are shown on TV (also my
knowledge of the manga version). Alright, first off, Sakura is just a regular “bubbly”girl in forth grade.
Her friend is Tomoyo (Madison in edited), a techno freak (I mean that in a good way ^_~) whose mom is
super rich. One day, she’s in her dad’s library, when she finds a book called The Clow. She opens it, and
out pops Kero (Keroberos, Kero-Chan, Cerberos) the protector of the cards. He hands her the Clow Key,
and she becomes a Card Captor (basically). After that, she tells Tomoyo, and she captures cards,
and “Madison” tapes her. Sakura has a huge crush on Sakura’s brother Toya (Touya, Tori)’s best friend Yuki
(Yukito, Julian). After a few episodes, Li is introduced. He comes to Sakura’s school from Hong
Kong. He harasses her for the Clow Cards, but Toya steps in, and defends her. Then basically they all
have to find Clow Cards. Some more unimportant people are introduced in further episodes (oh yeah,
whats-her-face, *thinks for a second* Melin comes in, she pretty important). Overall, I feel that the
Cardcaptors on WB is pretty good. Even though I know that they are changing some of the phrases, they do
that a lot for the American shows on tv. If you’re an anime purist, then go for the subtitled edition, but
if your open-minded and don’t mind the occasional edit of some scenes/lines, then go for the one on WB.
^*~_:.>UPDATE!!<.:_~*^
The sub Card Captor Sakuras have arrived!! Now I can compare the 2 (heehee *grins evilly*). Now I see what people mean when they say that they butchered the lines and scenes!!
*examples*
The scene where Tomoyo is standing aside and is filming, and Li and Sakura both give Yuki chocolates.
Dub Version~~
Tomoyo~Sakura *leans over and whispers* Guess what, I’m putting pics on my website *leans closer* and
they’re of you collecting the cards!!
Sakura~*looks shocked* What?!
Tomo~Just kidding!! *giggles*
Sub/Manga Version~~
Tomoyo~Sakura guess what!! *leans over and whispers* I think Li likes Yuki too!!
Sakura~*looks shocked* What?!
Tomo~Looks like you’re battling for the cards and for love!! *giggles*
(Note) I am not perfect at picking out lines perfectly, so this is the jest of it ^_~
Another example~~
Sub (First episode)~~ Sakura is skating alongside her brother Toya, talking about stuff
Dub (a bunch of episodes later, yet “all new”)~~Sakura is skating to her field trip to the zoo (which she
wasn’t doing in the sub...)talking to “Julian” (hmmm...)
This is the exact same scene...yet they totally changed it in the dub!!
Now I see what you all are complaining about!! I guess we can’t have the concepts of homosexuals here in
America...(but watch prime time tv and you see it the whole time like Will and Grace, etc....hmmmm). I
guess our children are too young to understand homosexuality. What ever the case, I think it’s a
load of sh–I mean poo (got little eyes reading this ^_~).
*Things that ticked me off (dub version)*
Kero’s voice!!!!(guess New York is our equivalent of Osaka in accents!!) Its too....manly!! In the
Japanese, he has this cute little voice (like him), but in the dub they changed it!!
They skipped the first few episodes!!!!Its pretty sad, that when I go to the mall to get a video, there
is the subtitled ones, and the dubbed ones. Put one right next to the other, turn them around and look at
what episodes each of the first Volumes have. Its not until the 3rd volume of the sub that the 1st episode
of the dub is on the back. I suppose KidsWb thought it would be better to hurry and add the male Card
Captor and worry about the conflicts of the show later. Well it doesn’t work like that my friends at
Wb!! Its hard to follow the story when Sakura has cards we’ve never seen (or for little/newbie viewers,
heard of). One episode, Sakura has a bunch, then in the next “all new” episode, she only has like 2
(the “new” episodes are the ones they are coming back to, jumping around chronologically like a rabbit).
They changed some peoples names, but not all!!!! They made Tomoyo Madison, and Toya Tori, and Yuki Julian,
but they left Sakura, Li and Melin!! That makes me really mad. Like little kids can’t pronounce Japanese names like Toya or Tomoyo!! If you’re going to screw up their names, at least do the other peoples too!!
(example Sailor Moon Usagi~Serena, Rei~Raye, etc).
They made a super stupid theme song!!!! The least the could do was dub the tune of Catch You Catch Me!!
Sailor Moon did that!! I don’t care if they need an english song, but do it to a good beat!! (They could
go the Outlaw Star/Blue Sub 6 way and use the Japanese song).
They made it “Cardcaptors”!!!! Its named Card Captor SAKURA for a reason ya’know!! This one goes with the
skipping episodes thing. We can’t have a FEMALE be the main star now can we?! There’s Superman, Batman,
etc. and they don’t make it Super People, or just Super!! I’m not trying to be all womens-rights like
about it, but I think its just stupid!! KIDS WB WA BAKA DESU!!
They didn’t add Kero’s note at the end!!!! In the sub there are little notes about what happened in the
episode, and a brief view of an outfit or something that a person wore in the episode. It’s a lot better
than the review of a card that she didn’t even capture that day (guess that’s what WB is doing for the
missing episodes, add them at the end of the later ones...). Kero is so much cuter than the scary
announcer guy telling stuff about cards.
Feel free to send in some comments you have about my review (as long as its not cussing me out, I may post them here.) My E-mail
