Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31524712-20181013103752/@comment-37117761-20181018235330

Nipasu wrote: GlitterInformer wrote:

LaytonPuzzle27 wrote: I have never seen anyone defend or supported the 4Kids dub of One Piece then why would anyone is defending or supporting Glitter Force? The reason I'm against this is because if I support Glitter Force then I would be considered a traitor or a 4Kids Lover in front of the whole anime community. Here's my opinion: 4Kids dubs are worse than Glitter Force. I can't say much about Glitter Force Doki Doki because I've only watched the first episode, but I can say that most of the episodes are dubbed well. As I said above 75% of the episodes are the same as their Japanese coutnerparts, just with the names changed. I don't mind this, as a character named Emily is just as sympathetic as a character named Miyuki. Plus, the voice acting is quite good once you get past episode 1. However, 25% of it is on the level of 4Kids. 8 episodes are removed, and 4 more are heavily edited/censored for no good reason. The reason I don't dislike Glitter Force as much as a 4Kids dub is that if 4Kids had made Glitter Force, it would be heavily edited all the way through. Voice acting aside, some of the 4Kids editing tropes can actually be found in the Doki Doki dub.

I can't recall the Smile dub that much in terms of plot points, but the Doki Doki dub had quite a lot of plot stuff removed, though mainly the smaller stuff. One thing both GF dubs have in common is that anything Japanese is considered as 'foreign', so I can't say neither 4Kids or Saban localized more than the other. The only unique thing I can recall about GF'd edits are the screen tinges: not even 4Kids went as far as darkening transformation and attack scenes (As well as other random scenes where the shadowing is unnecessary). Oh, okay. With 19 episodes chopped off, the plot is bound to suffer. The question (which will be answered as soon as I get around to watching more of Doki Doki) is if it was censorship or simply due to the 30-episode constraint.

Overall, the plot in Glitter Force is the same as in Smile Pretty Cure! The only major changes in episodic plots come in episodes 1, 30->25, 42->34, and 48->40. Episode 1 adds Emily (Miyuki) dreaming about the other team members doing Glitter Force stuff together and her later recognizing the girls at school from her dream, as well as a scene where Queen Euphoria (Royale Queen) exposits the backstory of the show to Emily.

Episode 25 (30 of the original) is an episode about the team travelling around the world. The dub adds a small clip show recapping some of the fights they've done in the past to the beginning of the episode, causing a lot of the scenes later in the episode to be cut. Additionally, the scene of the team getting the Royal Clock was moved to episode 26 (31 of the original).

Unlike the past two, 42->34 and 48->40 don't have sweeping edits made to them, but each has an important scene removed. The original Japanese episode 42 has a scene where Nao thinks her sibilings are dead and she breaks down in tears. The dub removes this, probably so they wouldn't scare the kids. In the last episode of the show, 48->40, a scene of the girls crying after Candy leaves Earth is removed.

And, of course, there's the skipped episodes, but those were filler. Let's hope that the next Glitter Force stays away from major edits like these.