Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37117761-20190430170317/@comment-5469588-20190610222851

MetalLuigi64 wrote: Nipasu wrote: I don't know if anybody would want to use GF anymore, specifically because it was Saban's idea and they later went bankrupt. It's because of this that I'm feeling PreCure is stuck right now in terms of Western dubs. I think you're right. Saban killed its own reputation that the viewers are right. We wanted foreign shows to be accurately translated with better production. Americanization is pretty much dead. It's making the US look like Korea. Still, the Korean dubs seem to do a lot better than America's localization. Smile, for example, dubbed all 49 episodes didn't they?

https://prettycure.fandom.com/wiki/File:Witchy_Pretty_Cure_English_Poster_AnimeJapan_2016.jpeg

^ Anybody remember when Toei tried showcasing Maho Girls (or Witchy) Precure at AnimeJapan 2016? This was during the time GF was coming out, with the first half of Smile debuting December 2015. I find it interesting Toei was looking for somebody else (not Saban, it seems) to license Witchy, and they had it under the name Pretty Cure and not GF. Don't think anybody bothered to pick it up, but it's telling that perhaps Toei didn't trust Saban that much to handle Precure for Western viewers?