One thing to say. Wow. Just freaking wow.
Never has one of my threads been this popular in my entire life. I just say that
Cardcaptors is like a media satan, then all of a sudden people are making death threats towards Nelvana? Fantastic. I'm going to add a few more comments on what I think about
Cardcraptors.
I watched the entire first (COUGH*EIGHTH*COUGH) episode. Not funny, not cute, not interesting. It just jumps into the prospect of collecting Clow Cards for some random reason that isn't thoroughly enough explained. The only information we have on the background story is the opening sequence.
I'm going to go through this detailed list of opinions for the voice actors used in the dub. The only ones I heard, mind you.
- Carly McKillip - "Sakura Avalon"
Carly's voice was
okay. Not the best I've ever heard, but it was okay. It definitely suited her character as she was in the dub, but her acting skills could be upped a bit. Apparently she already had extensive acting experience, doing many musical performances for
The Wizard of Oz, but I guess voice acting just isn't her forte.
Kero's voice, or rather, "Keero's", sounded like some wanna-be surfer dude guy. Did not enjoy the performance. He actually did Ed's voice in
Ed, Edd, and Eddy, and I do not see what Nelvana saw in him that so fitted Kero.
- Rhys Huber - "Li Showron"
Hmm, not the best voice. It was
okay, like Sakura's. He has a somewhat small carreer in acting, and doesn't have much information on him.
- Brian Drummond - "Aiden Avalon"
Loved it. Perfect voice actor. Only voice I liked. He has extensive voice-acting skills and can act well in a number of scenarios. Apparently he also did Vegeta in
Dragonball Z.
- Maggie Blue O'Hara - "Madison Taylor"
Do not even START. Just don't. Good voice actor, HORRIBLE for the role.
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About the second movie. I don't think Nelvana was in charge of the dubbing job on that, and it was actually done pretty well from what I hear. Name changes were opted out, original storyline was retained, and the whole S&S theme was kept as well.