{"id":1941,"date":"2000-06-19T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2000-06-19T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2000\/06\/19\/card-captors-premiere\/"},"modified":"2000-06-19T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2000-06-19T15:16:00","slug":"card-captors-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/card-captors-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Card Captors Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Card Captors has debuted on Kids&#8217; WB.  The first episode shown was the eighth episode in the Japanese release.  The episode was used to premiere the series because it introduces Sakura&#8217;s male rival Li, who they [Nelvana &amp; Warner] hope will attract male viewers to the series.  The episodes featured the mainstays of CLAMP based anime: foreboding dreams, Tokyo Tower, a cute mascot, effeminate males, and their signature character design.  The resources that Nelvana put into the show were apparent.  A new CGI sequence of the Clow Book was used for the intro and commercials, and there was a new English vocal in the background music.  The names of the supporting cast have been changed.  Sakura and Li retain their names, but Sakura&#8217;s video camera obsessed friend Tomoyo has become Madison, her brother Touya has become Tory, and her brother&#8217;s classmate Yukito has become Julian.  Dialogue was changed slightly, for example Tomoyo\/Madison seemed less obsessed with Sakura.  The &#8220;Kero Explains it All&#8221; (Kero-chan ni Omakase) end feature has been replaced by an end feature that profiles one of the Clow cards.  It might be that &#8220;Kero Explain it All&#8221; was not included because Kero-chan smokes a pipe during the feature. Fortunately they left in Kero biting Li&#8217;s finger.<\/p>\n<p>With the launch of Card Captors on WB, Nelvana has updated their site.  As well as sections on Clow mythology, an episode pictorial, videos, and a high quality image gallery, the page also an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelvana.com\/cardcaptors\/html\/faq.pl\" target=\"_blank\">FAQ<\/a> that should interest anime fans. The FAQs feature reasons behind the translation choices, a full rundown of character name changes, and the fact that Pioneer is aiming for a September DVD release of the subtitled version.<\/p>\n<p>The domestic episode two, entitled &#8220;Double-Edged Sword&#8221; looks to the ninth Japanese episode &#8220;Sakura and the Mysterious Brooch.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Card Captors has debuted on Kids&#8217; WB. The first episode shown was the eighth episode in the Japanese release. The episode was used to premiere the series because it introduces Sakura&#8217;s male rival Li, who they [Nelvana &amp; Warner] hope will attract male viewers to the series. The episodes featured the mainstays of CLAMP based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}