The return of Pretty Cure

Note: Due to a note I gotten from the Blogger administrators in the fewer hours, I was likely obligated to removing one or two old posts concerning the too ill-fitting state of sexuality that worked against their codes. I will do my best to be more friendly and casual in every posts in the future.

And then, do you remember of Pretty Cure? Probably that you wouldn't.

A good source of the many activities of the Anime business in Canada, I Miss Bionix have just announced that the original 2004-05 Anime series (See how its getting a "classic" for some fans due to its obscure status?) to the official Toei's YouTube channel. As only Anime completists will know, Toei Animation is much known to its massive library of long-running Anime series, such as the Dragon Balls, One Piece or Sailor Moon. but more importantly, to animated and producing all of them on the cheap. Looks like typically the DiC cartoons, except to be made in Japan.

I wouldn't tell in details the studio's history if others websites known these facts better than me, but including the original Pretty Cure for the first time in over a decade is all the more strange. A weird cross between Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura, but without the meta-cleverness and high-impact of the former and the substandard journey of childhood of the latter. I remember these dark days when YTV picked up the show for the first time and my reactions were a little off, like they didn't put something more original for a change of the Magical Girl Fantasy thing of old. It don't help that most of these Animes suffers of lack of diversity of racial and faces of people. The childhood innocence of Hayao Miyazaki is unfortunately stolen in this one too.

Ironically, it having to be a sale of 4Kids that didn't worked well. Instead, it went dubbed with English-Canadian voices in Vancouver's Ocean Studios and recorded at Calgary's Blue Water studio. The Western Canada have a strong community of Anime fans by its shortage of Canadian voice-artists who doing up the characters' voices. Because it's more cheaper to dub from Canadian studios than recorded the same dubbing on a American studio, it seems.

Clearly a product of its era, from a time when Anime series were still made from the worst quality at possible and that a desert road of depressing TV cartoons from the mid-00 to the end of all this has just beginning.

(Thank you Jonathan Primus for all the information. Glad that your blog stays active in all these years.)