Well, they did do ONE thing right that I should mention.
Casting Kyle Hebert(Adult Gohan) as Sousuke Aizen was a good move.
He seems like he would play a good "innocent and friendly guy who you wouldn't suspect to be behind every bad thing that has ever happened" kind of guy.
Still, the others are unforgivable.
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If you think that's the worst you need to brush up on your anime history, good sir.Wheee_It's_Me! wrote:*browses through entire thread*
...wow...I can't believe no one has mentioned Cardcaptor Sakura...er, I mean, "Cardcaptors", LOL.
That could pretty much go down in history as not only being THE WORST hack job EVER done to a series but the English voice acting was just...wow...it's so far beyond bad it shouldn't ever even be mentioned in polite conversation.
What happened to CCS is really not terribly uncommon and has actually inspired far greater results in other cases.
Some other examples of this:
-FoxKids now infamous release of Escaflowne (wherein the soundtrack was put through multiple changes, the first two episodes were pushed together so they could make the show jump straight to the action and sell to young boys better, a major character death was completely removed, and the edits angered the distributors enough that not only did the show not finish its airing, Bandai severed all contacts with Fox thanks to the incident.)
-Robotech (which managed to graft three completely unrelated series togther and, in the process, created what is still considered to be one of the most infamous legal battles over the rights to Macross (a back-and-forth battle which only recently saw ANY sort of resolution.)
-Tranzor Z (an attempt to release the 1974 series Mazinger Z which is nowadays mainly remembered for Z-grade voice acting and some ridiculous name changes (Dr. Hell being changed to the more child-friendly Dr. Demon) alongside the fact the series was chopped down to 1/3 of its original length and virtually all references to Japan completely removed) (and thanks to the fact the company has practically vanished off the face of the planet, the license remains untouched, and thus, the series has never received a proper US release. Compared to CCS eventually getting uncut releases, I'd say this one wins the battle of 'Who got screwed?')
and finally
-Warriors of the Wind (Streamline's attempt to try and make 'Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind' sell better in the US by making NUMEROUS changes (such as removing the female protagonist.) The edit became pretty infamous on both sides of the Pacific (and is the reason why Miyazaki has a very strict 'NO CUTS' policy.)
All things considered, Cardcaptors, in the pantheon of infamous edit jobs, has really already kind of faded into obscurity.
Nowadays when people look back on infamous edit-jobs of the early days of anime you'll hear about Sailor Moon's 'They're cousins, not lesbians' edit and DBZ's 'I can see their parachutes! They're OK!' way before mention of CCS (I think in part due to the fact you guys got a 'fixed' version in overall faster time than most of the others did (Hell, even the US releases of Yu-Gi-Oh! and One Piece are considered more infamous by this point...partly cause there's still NO word if they'll ever get full uncut releases on those.)