Glitter Force v. Smile Precure argument

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Ok so I got chewed out over having watched glitter force on Netflix as a kid bc its racist, but I'm so confused? I don't know why, and ppl don't explain... From what I've gathered they cut out episodes about non-American holidays, but I don't understand why it's bad? It makes sense to me to cut out stuff that will make literally no sense to American kids for marketing reasons. I'm really not trying to be racist though, I'm just really curious and I wanna learn better if I'm wrong. please explain? ,(o-^-o),
 
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In my opinion they should've kept the episodes (keep the integrity of the original piece of art etc), but it's not the end of the world if they didn't- localizing stuff for kids is difficult and you gave a logical reason why they wouldn't (+ better than censoring / butchering the episodes). But I have never watched this show, so idk what was cut.

Just don't take Twitter nutjobs seriously.
 
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Not to mention that blaming people for stuff they watched as a child is a really mentally incontinent behaviour.
Like, you mostly watched what was running at the time and what looked interesting. Most of the potentially iffy stuff also requires a context a child simply doesn't have.
It is just silly and the person who chewed you out needs to get over their fear of grass and touch it
Here a picture to scare 'em.
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It's the kind of maddeness born in America : every little thing is overinterpreted and is either racist/sexist or whatever for non-sensical reasons because fuck context.

Here in France, most animes for kids were heavily adapted, names where changed, locations where changed, everything non-french was erased. And most of everything was toned down or even cut if deemed necessary, like in City Hunter. That's not racist, it was understandable given the context of the time. They were making everything kid friendly because the european public was supposed to be kids instead of teenagers. And everything was made more French/american or whatever because no one knew anything about japan at the time and Internet didn't exist to be more informed.

But when a young Gen Z dumbass see that, they think it's japanese-erasure or something stupid like that because they can't imagine the world before them. For them, internet was always here, anime was always here, smartphones were always here, gacha games were invented in the middle age. Gen Z sub-humans are not fully developped, especially their brains. They need a older brother to spank them more.
 
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It's the kind of maddeness born in America : every little thing is overinterpreted and is either racist/sexist or whatever for non-sensical reasons because fuck context.

Here in France, most animes for kids were heavily adapted, names where changed, locations where changed, everything non-french was erased. And most of everything was toned down or even cut if deemed necessary, like in City Hunter. That's not racist, it was understandable given the context of the time. They were making everything kid friendly because the european public was supposed to be kids instead of teenagers. And everything was made more French/american or whatever because no one knew anything about japan at the time and Internet didn't exist to be more informed.

But when a young Gen Z dumbass see that, they think it's japanese-earsure or something stupid like that because they can't imagine the world before them. For them, internet was always here, anime was always here, smartphones were always here, gacha games were invented in the middle age. Gen Z sub-humans are not fully developped, especially their brains. They need a older brother to spank them more.
THIS POST IS ANTI-AMERICAN AND AGE-IST. :angery:

(Actually fine with both.)
 
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I liked Glitter Force... :nyoron:

Anyway, most people will call scandal over every little thing for attention. If they said to you in person that's one thing, but online they are just crying babies.
Glitter Force is just the Power Rangers version of Precure: they adapted it to make something different, like PR is adapted over various Super Sentai episodes.
The only criticism is that it's anachronistic. These are not the 80s or the 90s anymore, eastern culture might still seem alien to some (and I do know these people, some are even younger than me!) but its existence is accepted with its differences, there is no need to adapt it to make it more palatable.
That doesn't mean something like Glitter Force can't exist, but you have to be meticulous in how you alter the original and objectively Glitter Force was mediocre.
 
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Not to mention that blaming people for stuff they watched as a child is a really mentally incontinent behaviour.
Like, you mostly watched what was running at the time and what looked interesting. Most of the potentially iffy stuff also requires a context a child simply doesn't have.
It is just silly and the person who chewed you out needs to get over their fear of grass and touch it
Here a picture to scare 'em.
215522-050-8315BB78.jpg
Be careful with that!! you'll give them a heart attack!! LMAO
 
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The real reason why they should have chewed you out should have been watching for Smile Precure in the first place, it's one of the worst Precures. :dogkek:
Tbh I thought that smile precure was the series name- I dunno what they're actually called but I watched glitter force and glitter force doki doki as a kid! I also wanna watch/read the one with the puppy girl!
 
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It's the kind of maddeness born in America : every little thing is overinterpreted and is either racist/sexist or whatever for non-sensical reasons because fuck context.

Here in France, most animes for kids were heavily adapted, names where changed, locations where changed, everything non-french was erased. And most of everything was toned down or even cut if deemed necessary, like in City Hunter. That's not racist, it was understandable given the context of the time. They were making everything kid friendly because the european public was supposed to be kids instead of teenagers. And everything was made more French/american or whatever because no one knew anything about japan at the time and Internet didn't exist to be more informed.

But when a young Gen Z dumbass see that, they think it's japanese-erasure or something stupid like that because they can't imagine the world before them. For them, internet was always here, anime was always here, smartphones were always here, gacha games were invented in the middle age. Gen Z sub-humans are not fully developped, especially their brains. They need a older brother to spank them more.
I'm both American and gen-z though I understand what you mean, I definitely don't have all my ducks in a row mentally. Luckily my dad taught me not to be as much of a wuss puss lol
 
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I'm kind of lost, so it is called "Glitter Force" instead of Smile Precure because Netflix is special? And you're being called racist just for watching a magical girls anime? The only thing I can agree with is @UnnamedPlayer suggesting that regular spanking.
 
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I'm kind of lost, so it is called "Glitter Force" instead of Smile Precure because Netflix is special? And you're being called racist just for watching a magical girls anime? The only thing I can agree with is @UnnamedPlayer suggesting that regular spanking.
"Smile Precure" is a chapter of the "Pretty Cure" franchise. All chapters are independent though there have been crossovers from time to time.
Glitter Force is Smile Precure but modified: the characters are the same but dialogues were changed, episodes cut or shuffled around, and I think the story is slightly different too but don't quote me on that.
This is not the case of "localizers bad!!1!" even if superficially it might look so, at a closer look Glitter Force is really more of a doujin, except it's produced by a professional studio instead of an indie.
 
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I'm kind of lost, so it is called "Glitter Force" instead of Smile Precure because Netflix is special? And you're being called racist just for watching a magical girls anime? The only thing I can agree with is @UnnamedPlayer suggesting that regular spanking.
I have no idea why the name was changed but yes, because they removed episodes based around non-American holidays to better suit an American child audience making it apparently whitewashed.
 
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Glitter Force is Smile Precure but modified: the characters are the same but dialogues were changed, episodes cut or shuffled around, and I think the story is slightly different too but don't quote me on that.
If anyone interested to see all the differences this video goes into it, I think what a lot of people don't like starts around 5:37 in the video:

Tbh I thought that smile precure was the series name- I dunno what they're actually called but I watched glitter force and glitter force doki doki as a kid! I also wanna watch/read the one with the puppy girl!
Futari wa Precure and Heartcatch Precure! are pretty good too.
Even if Futari Wa Precure is somewhat repetitious with it's episodic episode at times.
 
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If anyone interested to see all the differences this video goes into it, I think what a lot of people don't like starts around 5:37 in the video:


Futari wa Precure and Heartcatch Precure! are pretty good too.
Even if Futari Wa Precure is somewhat repetitious with it's episodic episode at times.
Well, that kind of butchering is what we call censorship here, and it doesn't matter because "it's a show for children". Now you all understand why, even when I have them for free, I never use streaming platforms (and even less dubs).
 

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