User blog comment:GlitterInformer/Smile Pretty Cure!/Glitter Force SDC: Final Thoughts/@comment-6011846-20190507081350

For me, to put it simply, viewers including kids these days demanded foreign mediums to be accurately translated with its original names, episodes, music, and visuals intact.

The voices don't match their characters. And, yes. Viewers don't like how Alex Cazares made Yayoi sound too mature and raspy for such a cute, shy, and crybaby character. I'm one of those people who got blocked by her on Twitter for when I thought Saban butchered the series, the dub being unsuccessful, and suggested she should sound like the Japanese voice. Debi is NOT a technical voice actor. Because each character she voiced sound too much like Jimmy Neutron. She couldn't provide a voice that sounds different from her known character. There is no ease in her voice, no head voice, or anything. She has been an voice actor since 2001, and nothing has changed. I don't know if that's how the directors wanted or people just think she is a great actor just because she did Jimmy. Saying she is a great voice actor just because did one character is not a good reason. An actor has to do more than that. Act and sound different from their normal self, and having different voices to do other characters. Even her Mana voice is terrible. I nearly Laura could've done Akane instead because her voice sounds boyish at times, and strengthen her vowels and softening her consonants is the best way to do an Osakan accent in English. People say Keith is the best at Wolfrun, and I can see that. Voicing the three main villains does sound professional, but he comes off as a hog. Do like one or two. Give someone else a chance to voice the other main character. Danielle and Kate did a good job voicing Nao and Reika, but someone should ask Danielle make her "no" sound like a scream rather than sad sounding. I nearly threw up when I heard Pop's English voice. Even I can provide a better voice for Pop than Todd. I can match Pop's Japanese voice to make it sound like people in real life sound the same when they speak in different languages without being to nasally congested, making him sound younger and mature at the same time.

Suspension of believe is a problem in the dub, like you said. The Asia-Pacific Expo looks more like Kyoto and Osaka than to be exact replicas. Translating a show that's from another country is not going to confuse us because we get the show is set in Japan, and we can assume they are not actually speaking the dub language. We can say the dialogue is just translated for the viewers. Also, there is nothing wrong with emotionally driven scenes like Yayoi's father and Nao's family because it makes the situation real in its world to help kids handle serious stuff like the classic Disney films. There is nothing with seeing characters cry or if people cries. That's being human and having feelings. Same thing as being happy or mad. We are not robots. Sure, there are people who don't cry, but there is an indication about how they feel on the inside and know how to handle something serious. There are mediums that are made from and set in other countries that we got used to something that is foreign, and kids can understand them since we have people who are from other countries who exist in the US. Europeans and Asians even have watched American TV shows, and they are OK with something that is the norm in the US. We should be OK with anything that's normal in Europe or Asia. The kids can say the Japanese names if characters can say them. Just like how we are able to say Pikachu. Skipping and merging episodes feels like the episodes are being cluttered that it's hard to keep up consistency. Same thing with the music videos changing clips every second without continuity where the characters got separated from each other without a transition.

Adding music to the silences feels kind of annoying that even we're not bothered when scenes are supposed to be to give the show time to breathe and match the environmental tone. The dub score makes the scenes feel more like a joke than to be serious. Blush's music don't sound like kid songs. The Pretty Cure could've been translated as well, and they're already TV-G friendly. Blush's music sound like teen pop, and have the lyrically inappropriate "spend all our money, forget about all our problems."

The visuals are fine the way it is. If people are so concerned about viewers getting seizures, don't darkened the show. We can't be able to see what is happening during the attacks and moves. We can simply turn down the backlight and brightness from our TV's menu setting. And the exclusive music videos look hideous with characters having flat colors. The Japanese music are fine enough.

The translating in Glitter Force is 4Kids level bad that Saban never learned like what they did to Digimon. The Glitter Force catchphrases don't describe their character. "Puppies and kittens, the power of love" is the worst phrase I've ever heard. "Sparkling and Glittering. Jankenpon" is a much better phrase since kids do say "roshambo" knowing it's from another language and matches the timing. Some dialogue change make the characters talk out of character like when English Candy said the Glitter Force would never run away, which goes against what Japanese Candy said, who doesn't know who the Pretty Cure are. The added conversation on what band to be called either Pixie Force or Glitter Pixies is the most pointless addition that it's just wasting time in the dub. The fairies should have kept their verbal tics to indicate that their fairies and blending in as fairies. Translating a foreign language helps us communicate with people around the world. Changing the words can make foreigners think you are saying terrible about them or being inaccurate.

Overall, the Glitter Force series is what I consider the worst thing that Saban Brands ever did. I worry that Glitter Force will make companies think to make a great series, they have to take an existing foreign series, and changing it all up to insult the original series, the people who worked on the series, and the intelligence of viewers. I know Glitter Force Doki Doki is much worse when cutting down even more of the episodes. So don't expect to change my mind about it. Hasbro shouldn't even touch Glitter Force. Toei should know better than letting someone taint their series. Pretty Cure deserves better. Pretty Cure is already a kid-friendly series that parents can let their kids watch. That's why older viewers have the right to critique a kid series if it doesn't appear suitable for kids as promised. It needs a company to give the series an overseas release with subtitles, and a translated dub. Like Viz Media, and the people and actors who wish to honor the original so that is feels like a thankful tribute, and as a guiding light for companies to do a translated dub.

I give the Glitter Force series a 1/10.