• watercat@ani.social
        2·
        2 days ago

        OG was way before anime, during ancient japan times with “magical girls” fighting demons to protect towns.

      • imadethis@fedinsfw.appEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        I feel old when I was asking myself, “is that card captor sakura?” in the first few seconds and then realize I was right.

        Also, holy hell how did we all miss the pedophilia between the teacher and her? It wasn’t even in my thoughts about the show until someone pointed it out in a thread 15 years after I last saw it.

        • Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.social
          5·
          2 days ago

          There’s a lot that can go over your head when you’re young. For me it was FLCL and its themes of grooming and abuse along with Mimi being homeless.

          I’d never actually watched CCS as a kid and thought “maybe I should introduce my nieces” but then read the first volume of the manga and WOAH, NELLY. [Bullhorn]Step away from the child.

        • mofongo@discuss.tchncs.de
          3·
          2 days ago

          It wasn’t her, it was another student that had the relationship with the teacher. Sakura had a one sided crush on her brother’s friend (later implied boyfriend).

          Her father though, met Sakura’s mother when she was a high school student while he was a teacher.

          • imadethis@fedinsfw.appEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            Ah, that was it. I think they also downplayed it or amended it slightly in the dub? It’s been a while, lol.

            • mofongo@discuss.tchncs.de
              1·
              1 day ago

              Yep.

              In the anime adaptation, their relationship is not shown in the same light. Their engagement and more romantic scenes between them are removed, and Rika notes that Terada reminds her of her absentee father. Terada is also shown accepting cakes made by Rika and in accepting the bear and naming it after his “hardest working student.” In the Cardcaptors English dub, he is simply called Mr. Terada, and all aspects of the romantic relationship between Terada and Rika are completely removed, with Rika’s shyness and reactions to him made to appear to be more of a general fear of men than romantic feelings.