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ICv2 is reporting that 4Kids has let its Pretty Cure license lapse and revert back to Toei 31 months after they gained the US rights and did absolutely bupkis with it, despite planning to debut it on their TV block in fall 2006. Now the series sits in a zone where it has not been officially released yet but has lost a lot of momentum that it had when the initial license was announced. I’m not sure who is waiting for a DVD release but in the meantime, you can try out the first two episodes via Direct2Drive – something I did a few months ago and found them to be entertaining but not fantastic.

In its February 2006 story about its 4Kids license, ICv2 said that the series “has a chance to become the first magical girl anime series since Sailor Moon to achieve popularity here in the States” (did Cardcaptors flop?) and I suppose it still could if it’s marketed the right way. By the way, if you want some recommendations of other mahou shoujo series, Chris Fritz at the Pink Sylphide wrote a post about his favorites earlier this week.

The main reason why I rarely buy download-to-own episodes of anime or TV shows in general is often DRM lockdown preventing me from watching the content how I want. However, I feel the need to try out a system and blog about it; previous examples are ADV Universe, iTunes, and AnimeNation’s PPV. So when I was admitted to the new Amazon Unbox beta and also read that Pretty Cure was added to Direct2Drive along with Digimon Adventure 02, I decided to give each system a try. (To tell the truth, I previously used Unbox to watch NBC pilots last season but there is now a streaming component to it so it’s new in that sense.)
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