Glitter Force

Glitter Force is the English version of ''[https://besttvshows.miraheze.org/wiki/Smile_PreCure! Smile PreCure!] (スマイルプリキュア！ Sumairu Purikyua'') dubbed by Saban Brands from 2015 to 2016.

Plot
Somewhere in the universe exists a place called Märchenland, where characters from fairy tales live. Near the corner of Märchenland exists a world called Bad End Kingdom, where the antagonists of all fairy tales gathered. In order to show everyone the "Worst Ending", the people of Bad End Kingdom traveled to Earth to collect Bad Energy. If the villains succeed, all the worlds in the universe will suffer from the "Worst Ending".

In order to prevent the "Worst Ending", the 5 Legendary Warriors, Pretty Cure, need to collect Cure Decor, the power of happiness of Märchenland's Queen. The Cure Decor, however, has been stolen and hidden away. Set to the task of finding Pretty Cure, Candy the fairy follows the 5 Beams of Light to Earth, where she meets a flustered Miyuki, a transfer student on her first day of school, and already running late...

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The title change led to many backlash. This is because Futari wa Pretty Cure, the first season in the Pretty Cure series, did receive an English dub under the name Pretty Cure, and Saban subtitling any show based around their Power Rangers franchise. This is like when 4Kids renamed Tokyo Mew Mew into Mew Mew Power and Ojamajo Doremi into Magical DoReMi.
 * 2) It was dubbed by Saban Brands instead of by one of the most popular dubbing companies such as FUNimation, The Ocean Group, Nelvana, Viz Media, Aniplex of America, or even Sentai Filmworks and DKP Effects (alongside with DKP Studios). Besides, these companies dub even better than Saban.
 * 3) The dubbing is so bad that it officially made fans consider Saban to be the spiritual successor to the infamous 4Kids Entertainment.
 * 4) The wasted voice acting talent does not match with the characters' personality. For example, Kelsey (Colleen Villard) doesn't speak with any sort of distinct accent, wiping away the uniqueness she had in Japanese by speaking with a Kansai dialect. Lily's English voice (Alex Cazares) sounds a bit too old or mature and raspy for such a crybaby female character (and please, for your own sake, don't comment about her voice on Twitter because she will block you, can't take criticism well or won't take advice from fans). Candy's English voice is the most annoying since she's voiced by Debi Derryberry (the voice of Jimmy Neutron from the 2001 movie and the 2002 television series, Jay Jay the Jet Plane from Season 2-4, Clay from Playhouse Disney: Imagine and Learn from 2002-2005, Nergal Jr. from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, and Coco Bandicoot). Emily's English voice (Laura Bailey) is irritatingly scratchy-sounding like a teenage woman. Pop (Todd Haberkorn) sounds like he has nasal congestion despite being a mature and nice fairy. Brute (Keith Silverstein) sounds ridiculous than intimidating. Brooha (Mary Elizabeth McGlynn) sounds like every generic witch’s voice. Queen Euphoria (Mary Elizabeth McGlynn) sounds like she’s much too depressed and much too sick.
 * 5) The names have changed, and even the original Japanese names that already have American English names are given different names (e.g. Cure Happy/Glitter Lucky, Cure March/Glitter Spring, Cure Beauty/Glitter Breeze, Royale Queen/Queen Euphoria and Joker/Rascal).
 * 6) *The settings aren’t safe from this, their names are changed as well despite already having American English names too (e.g. Märchenland/Jubiland and Bad End Kingdom/The Shadow Realm (this name also refers to the other Shadow Realm from the Yu-Gi-Oh! 4Kids dub).
 * 7) Like many of 4Kids Entertainment's dubs, the dialogue is inaccurately translated and sounds like it’s from the animated Bratz series.
 * 8) *Cure Peace/Glitter Peace's catchphrase for an infamous example as she says "Puppies and kittens. The power of love."
 * 9) *Another insulting example is "It’s like a fairy-tale, with girl power, and makeup!".
 * 10) *There is even out of place dialogue added to the transformation scenes, and it’s so obnoxious to listen to.
 * 11) *Its English dialogue tries too hard to be funny, but it feels more cringworthy, like when Kelsey (Akane) calls out a lame pun on Queen Euphoria (Royale Queen) by calling her "highness" because of her height in episode 21 (24 in the original), or a lady joking that the meal Emily and Lily (Miyuki and Yayoi) cooked was made from a bird’s nest in episode 13 (14 in the original).
 * 12) It suffers from Americanization (a trend common with many of 4Kids Entertainment's dubs), with characters given American names, and Japanese references removed. For example, okonomiyakis are called pepperoni pizzas. This was just like Pokémon's rice ball edits, either calling them "jelly-filled doughnuts" or redrawing them as sub sandwiches.
 * 13) *Speaking of okonomiyaki, episode 10 was removed in this dub just because the episode was heavily focused on okonomiyaki. Hypocritically, other episodes show this food and its name is referred in episode 22 (25 of the original) without these episodes being cut-off by the dub.
 * 14) *Another example of the okonomiyaki, in episode 18 (21 in the original), Kelsey (Akane) wished she would flip 50 "pepperoni pizzas".
 * 15) *Many writings, signs, books, advertising, and other Japanese texts are replaced with cheap text fonts in the dub, the most infamous part is when Kelsey’s (Akane) restaurant in the dub is renamed into a generic "Restaurant"
 * 16) *To add salt to the wound, they changed the setting of Osaka (a real-life location in Japan) to the Asia-Pacific Expo. Also, the Asia-Pacific Expo isn’t a city, it’s a building where people go try Japanese food.
 * 17) It uses unnecessary modern slang like "besties", "epic win", and "selfies", which weren't even used in the original Japanese version. It tries way too hard to appeal to younger kids to be "hip" and "cool", but it fails miserably.
 * 18) Scenes with flashing visuals or fast movement are darkened and dimmed as an attempt to reduce the risk of viewers getting seizures. This never happened in the Japanese version because of what happened since the Dennō Senshi Porygon incident and since you can simply turn down the brightness and back-light from our TV's menu settings.
 * 19) *There are also scenes that dimmed when they have nothing to do with seizures, such as characters running, panicking, and even falling. It’s like darkening all the scenes of Sonic running. Does these types of fast movement give viewers seizures?
 * 20) *Not only are all scenes are darkened, but also tinted. Yellow is mostly tinted in most of the "Season 2" episodes.
 * 21) Much like Magical DoReMi, the dub treats Glitter Force as an awful show.
 * 22) The new English soundtrack is bad. The theme song, for example, completely contradicts the premise of this series. The song "All-Stars" has some hypocritical lyrics such as: "Shopping sprees. Spend all of our money. Forget about all of our problems." Kids would listen to it and think to be a superstar, they have to spend all of their money and they will never worry about going bankrupt.
 * 23) The exclusive music videos are badly animated. The characters look hideous with flat colors rather than blends, and the effects are photo-shopped. The CGI models also look like they were straight out of MMD (MikuMikuDance) and Blender, the backgrounds from some of the "exclusive" music videos look like they were taken from Google Images or Windows Desktop Backgrounds, proving how cheap Saban Brands could be.
 * 24) False advertising: Glitter Force is advertised as a "Netflix Original Series", like most other acquired series. In reality, it is a Japanese anime series that premiered in 2012, ended in 2013 and was dubbed in English two years later. It would be more accurate if it was advertised as a "Netflix Original Dub", because that's what it actually is.
 * 25) Eight of the episodes weren't even dubbed, which resulted in many plot holes and a loss of character development in these episodes.
 * 26) It is only available to watch on Netflix, which may be like a redeeming quality, but anyone who doesn't have an account for Netflix and internet access won't be able to watch it, or because nobody would want to watch this bad excuse for an English dub anyway.
 * 27) Many of the emotional scenes went from sad to humorous:
 * 28) *When Glitter Spring (Cure March) reunited with her siblings, they weren't crying miserably in tears because they were back together, they are crying happily in tears because they’re happy.
 * 29) *Another example is that they removed an emotional episode where Glitter Peace (Cure Peace)’s father was dead because it featured a death of a parent, Yes, they can’t show an episode of dealing with a death of a loved one.
 * 30) *In episode 43 (35 in the dub), they edited some scenes where Glitter Lucky (Cure Happy) attempts to wish her well but she realizes she would only be lying to go back home, so they all respected her dream and they don't want to leave Chloe (Reika) all alone, because she refused to leave them and Candy all alone. And they added some dialogue where they have to go and get some chocolate and they cut out the scenes where they're all crying miserably in tears.
 * 31) *In episode 40 (48 in the sub), they edited the scene where they don't want to say goodbye to Candy and Pop or leave home without them, they cut out the scenes where they're all crying miserably in tears and the last dialogue in the dubbed scene sounds much too ridiculous.
 * 32) * In the same episode, when Candy leaves her friends, she sounds ridiculous when she bids her farewell. And they added the last dialogue where they didn’t even cared that she’ll be gone forever and they cut out the scene where they all cried miserably in tears.
 * 33) It spawned an even worse second season, which was called Glitter Force: Doki-Doki from 2017.
 * 34) The Arabic dub was so poorly translated and cut for no reason at all, that Netflix apologized and Venus Centre agreed to re-dub the two series with the new translation and the uncut version from the original Japanese version that is going to air on Spacetoon Arabic in the future.
 * 1) The Arabic dub was so poorly translated and cut for no reason at all, that Netflix apologized and Venus Centre agreed to re-dub the two series with the new translation and the uncut version from the original Japanese version that is going to air on Spacetoon Arabic in the future.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) At least the original Japanese version of Smile PreCure! is a huge masterpiece, though many people wish they should get a good DVD/Blu-Ray dub of a company that is known to make good dubs such as Viz Media and The Ocean Group of it in the future so it will also be a huge masterpiece than this awful dub.
 * 2) It's quite interesting and unique to have Debi Derryberry in an English dub of a Japanese anime again after Zatch Bell!, the HD remaster of Sailor Moon, and its reboot, Sailor Moon Crystal.
 * 3) It has some funny moments were Buffoon (Akanbe) gets hit by every X he gets when Chloe (Reika) gets the questions right in Episode 15 (16 in the original).
 * 4) Some of the voicework is pretty decent, such as Chloe (Reika), April (Nao), Ulric (Wolfrun), and Pop (depending on your opinion).
 * 5) It only lasted 4 seasons and 70 episodes.
 * 6) Thankfully, Saban has lost the rights to the PreCure series, so we won't be getting anymore Glitter Force seasons.
 * 7) Thanks to the Hindi dub and the two series were finally dubbed and uncut for India.

Reception
Unlike the original Japanese dub of Smile PreCure!, which received positive reception, Glitter Force was panned by critics and fans alike and is widely considered the second worst English dub of all time, next to the 4Kids dub of One Piece and the Ocean dub of Powerpuff Girls Z.

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