Thanks for the cookies and great posts, guys.
And I guess I should be grateful after all for Cardcaptors, because I know that I would have never met alot of great fans like you, moezy-chan, and alot of others, but I just have this grudge against it. I mean I oddly enough might have been in the CCS bandwagon several years ago if not for Cardcaptors. I had initially foudn out about CCS in late 1999 when I just getting into anime and had a friend who told me about several of the best animes currently in Japan. Just starting to get into anime back then, he recommended that I get Cardcaptor Sakura, but seeing as though it was only in Japanese with subtitles, I was lazy back then, and really only wanted an English dub, so I kind of forgot about it. The next year, Cardcaptors came on Kids WB, and I thought it was same thing as CCS, so I watched it, and I really wasn't impressed at all. It seemed almost like a Pokemon clone after each episode showed the same repetitive card of the day theme. So after the first season was over, I lost interest and stopped watching it, and considered the Cardcaptors hype all a big disappointment. But I went on watching other anime, mostly mindless Toonami anime like Ronin Warriors and Gundam Wing at the time, but of course, they were getting old, and after a few years, I pretty much lost all interest in anime. I think I went about 3 years without watching a single minute of anime. It wasn't until late last year that I somehow came across an article about Cardcaptor Sakura, which explained how the American dub Cardcaptors did it no justice. I thought it was interesting, and remembered that I did like anime alot at one time, so I thought I should give it another shot. With the original releases of the original uncut CCS DVDs now available in America, I decided to order the first volume, and it was that moment on, I realized what I had really been missing. CCS got me back into anime, and the 1750 minutes I spent the series was some of the most enjoyable minutes I've had in a while, but I still wish I had watched it when I was younger. If only I had watched CCS before CC!!! ...... lol.