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Author: Psi001

Nov 27th 2017 at 12:32:22 PM

* The ''Cardcaptors'' English dub of ''Anime/CardcaptorSakura'' took several liberties with the characterisations of the cast, largely to make them more politically correct with Western ethics:
** Sakura was made more tomboyish and plucky, with a greater sense of sarcasm. A lot of her more innocent or vulnerable moments such as scenes of her crying or generally acting like a small child were also cut down to [[GirlsNeedRoleModels make her more precocious and mature]], while in the original she is pretty much TheCutie in-universe.
** Syaoran's crush on Sakura was heavily trimmed down from TrueOfficialPairing to mild hints. He held a grudge against Sakura becoming Master of the Cards to improvise against his screen time and awkwardness revolved around this, while in the Japanese edit he had pretty much lost all sense of rivalry towards Sakura by then.
** Similarly Tomoyo (renamed Madison) had her delusional crush on Sakura written out in favour of her just being a CameraFiend.

* Carrying on from the Pokemon examples:
** In the original edit, Meowth is largely a philosophical and rather soft spoken character, while in the English dub, he has more of a Brooklyn tough-guy demeanour (though far from void of some of the Japanese version's wistful moments). His, Jessie and James' ditziness is also regularly Flanderized in the English dub.
** The dub downplays Lillie's very soft spoken and formal dialect from the original, making her almost a GenkiGirl in some scenes.

* A rare WesternAnimation to Japanese dub case, the original series of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' conveyed Shockwave as a rather stoic and dutiful [[TheDragon Dragon]] to Megatron, while in the Japanese edit, he is more of an erratic GrumpyOldMan.