-They took out harmless scenes and most of the comedy to make it more
serious.
-They
changed episode plots or parts of episodes that were perfectly normal, like the Christmas episode or character's reasoning for some scenes, and changed the dialogues to stuff that didn't really do anything or even make sense.
-Much of the romance was toned down, only keeping the romance between Syaoran and Mei-Ling somewhat intact, with only another romance ultimately only being hinted on the final episode and Sakura's crush on Yukito, at first was shown, but eventually disappeared without reason to her confession to him being reduced to a chat between friends. Despite the fact that the romance still stays somewhat around Syaoran and Mei-Ling, many things involving the romance between them, like
good-luck charms for romance or
magic cards that help with talents, luck, romance, etc, were still omitted.
-Episodes were taken out(including one that showed some real character development between Sakura and Syaoran) due to the fact that Tomoyo sings and they took out all of her singing scenes. Also, the final episodes were combined into one episode.
-Hilariously enough, you wonder why they took out so much of the comedy and yet keep the scenes where the furball Kero gets drunk on alcohol-filled chocolate(despite the fact that the episode didn't air right away at first).
-******* flashbacks! Remember the Gamera movies that used past movies as footage for some of their other movies. Now imagine localizers trying to think of what they could do after removing those comedic moments and deciding to replace them with ******* flashbacks that last forever and
even get repeated in later episodes. Imagine seeing one flashback in one episode and then one of the next episodes, that same flashback happens again.