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I only recently realised that in Card Captor Sakura the protagonist's friend followed her around all the time with a camera, filming their adventures. I found t
by probably_wrong 6y ago
I only recently realised that in Card Captor Sakura the protagonist's friend followed her around all the time with a camera, filming their adventures. I found that super creepy at the time, and yet here we are now. At least she kept the videos to herself instead of making gifs out of them.
Whether the authors saw the writing in the wall before everyone else, whether it was a reflection of something that already existed in Japan at the time, or whether it was simply a coincidence, I couldn't say.
- xyzzy_plugh 6y agoHer friend is in love with her -- there are generally a lot of themes like this in the series (her brother and his best friend are also in love, etc.).
- khawkins 6y agoAnd her male rival had a crush on a high school boy and eventually her. It steered far clear of sexual tones, but showed romantic attraction. It was so obvious that many of those scenes were censored in the US.
- xyzzy_plugh 6y agoI mean, the classmate in love with her teacher was pretty risque, and it seemed to even be mutual!
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoDon't underestimate the magical girl stories for little girls.
- chmod775 6y ago> It was so obvious that many of those scenes were censored in the US. > It steered far clear of sexual tones. What are the tests or societal norms that censors employ for US releases? What is censored or changed always seemed pretty arbitrary from my point of view, though I have no knowledge of CCS and don't know what specifically was changed there. It feels like romantic, sexual, and violent themes are fine in domestic media, but are censored for imports. As an extreme example take the previous God of War titles with their violence, gore, and literal sex mini-games vs. cartoonish violence and clothing getting censored in imports. Somehow one thing is fine for US publishers, and the other isn't.
- xyzzy_plugh 6y agoThe show wasn't censored in the traditional way. The show was basically reframed as an action monster-of-the-week targeting a much more male audience than the original anime. They basically edited the shit out of it and turned it into a different show. edit: for the record I would not recommend the US "dub", since it's terrible (I don't even think they did the whole series). The original, however, is wonderful.
- Izkata 6y agoAn example of the levels they went to: Renaming the series from "Card Captor Sakura" to "Cardcaptors" wasn't just superficial, they reordered and cut up episodes to try and switch it from main-character-and-rival into duo-main-characters. I did like the new opening they came up with, though it totally didn't fit the overall series aesthetic.
- DavidPiper 6y agoSeconded. They also censored out the explicit (or even mildly implicit) romantic relationships that late-1990s/early-2000s America considered inappropriate. Which, as far as I remember, was most of them - multiple non-heterosexual relationships, multiple student-teacher relationships and multiple cousin relationships.
- timpark 6y agoI can't speak to the censoring of Cardcaptor Sakura... I watched the unedited subtitled DVDs. The edited dubbed version that some people are referring to had the slightly different title "Cardcaptors". But another example of censorship is how the relationship between Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus was changed from being lesbians to being cousins. If you search for "sailor moon cousins", you can read about how that turned out for them. (eg: "they certainly didn’t act like any cousins I knew" -- Sara Roncero-Menendez)
- Izkata 6y ago> And her male rival had a crush on a high school boy This one was subverted later in the series - turns out that highschooler secretly had moon-based magic that was compatible with the rival, that he was subconsciously sensing.