Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie

Dubbed in English and released as 'Cardcaptors: The Movie' when the 'Cardcaptor Sakura' series aired on American television. As in the series, which was heavily Americanized and stripped of many of the more unique or risqué elements of the Japanese version, the movie shown in America featured renamed characters ('Sakura Kinomoto' becomes 'Sakura Avalon;' 'Yukito Tsukishiro' becomes 'Julian Star,' etc.), re-done music, and a tremendously altered plot. The result was one of the worst and most widely reviled Japanese-to-English transitions since the importation of anime to the states, in terms of faithfulness to the original. Due in large part to a heavy backlash by American fans of the original Japanese version who resented seeing their favorite show (one which dealt with many more complex issues than the typical Saturday Morning cartoon) turned to depth-less Americanized kid-fodder as 'Sailor Moon' had been several years earlier, Pioneer Entertainment (now known as Geneon) thankfully released the American DVDs of both the series and film in their original unedited Japanese language versions.

Pionner Entertainment released both a edited Cardcaptors The Movie and a Uncut Cardcaptors Sakura DVD.

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