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Jessiwinx boah dann nicht wrote: GlitterInformer wrote:

Nipasu wrote: If it means nothing, then why do they keep adding English logos for Pretty Cure?

Especially if they decide to continue with GF? Perhaps it will be one of the eternal mysteries of Pretty Cure, like why Saban changed Alice's name to Clara. People say, because of copyright of Disneys "Alice in Wonderland" just like how they couldn't keep Jokers name and changed it to Rascal and so on. I doubt it. Can Disney really copy such a common name? Plus, Alice in Wonderland is in the public domain. Unless copyright laws are extremely screwed up, Disney should only have the copyright to their adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, not the story itself.

My guess is that Saban heard that her name was Arisu, not Alice. (In fact, since her name is written in hiragana as ありす, Arisu is a better way of writing her name. If it was really meant to be the foreign name Alice, it would be written in katakana instead as アリス.) They didn't realize how similar Arisu and Alice sounded, so they just decided to come up with a random female name instead. But that's just a theory.