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Cathy Boehm wrote: GlitterInformer wrote:

Shadowneko wrote: here we go with the censorship debate again. It's not just 4kids as before the Saban was the bad offender. They didn't seem to learn their lesson as I can name plenty of horribly censored dubs they did way back in the '90s. Funimation started this way by butchering Dragonball but got better. Heck even some shows that people are pretty nostalgic for like the original voltron were cut up and changed drastically(I own Beast King Go Lion. I think that it's better ^^).

I don't know anything about Glitter Force I just refuse to watch it after seeing most of Smile I said this before to somebody else, but in my opinion, Glitter Force is 75% great and 25% bad. The 25% is made up of the 8 skipped episodes and the handful of episodes (1, 30, 42, 48) that were heavily edited. For all of the other episodes, you'd get the same experience in the dub as you would in the sub. If you've already watched Smile, Glitter Force is unecessary, but it's still worth checking out. The first episode of Glitter Force kinda sucks (unecessary editing and poor voice acting), but episode 2 is good. I like Suite Precure, and also, the 8 episode been skipped thing makes me feel like an idiot. I am not idiot. Anyway, still, can I dub Suite Precure as Glitter Force: Musical? Why does 8 episodes skipped make you feel like an idiot? You're not Saban.

By the way, I heard that Glitter Force was originally supposed to air on Nickelodeon. That channel requires all of its shows' seasons to be 20 episodes long. Thus, in making Glitter Force a 2-season dub, they had to cut 8 episodes to bring it down to a multiple of 20. However, Nickelodeon rejected the show, so it was put on Netflix. The same excuse can't be used for Glitter Force Doki Doki, and my theory is that 19 episodes were removed because Saban didn't have enough money to dub the season in full. Hopefully with Hasbro's money and knowledge that Glitter Force will be on Netflix, we can get the whole season dubbed! If Hasbro plays its Glitter Cards right, the franchise has a bright future.