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HitokiriShadow
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While your oppinion may differ (of course) and its been a while since I saw the series, it never really suffers from time management issues. The last episode may have benifitted from another episode (in place of the panty-thief episode, preferably) but lets save that one for the last volume review as that opens up a whole 'nother can of worms.
Again, its been a while since I saw Mai HiME, but I don't remember Natsuki being rich or her financial status even being mentioned. But she does have her own motorcycle, so I guess it could be implied.
You're impression is correct. |
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Nagisa
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I imagine the group she's working for does pay her a healthy salary. Not necessarily rich, but enough to support her ridiculously expansive lingerie collection. As for the motorcycle and other such equipment, as I remember her superiors provide those; she doesn't buy them herself. |
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Zeiram
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ah yer mistaken
 shizuru buys the lingerei for her
haha this series so kicks ya ___ after awhile x_x lmao nice assertions tho, natsuki to me is not rich at all, but perhaps she gets checks in th email time to time from her estranged (and never mentioned) father. there's info in some artbook about her meeting duran, her father etc, but the translation has not been completed yet man i love this series x_X its not cliche at all, its just fun |
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Nagisa
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Actually, it does get quite cliché in a few places. But the thing is, it willingly acknowledges these clichés and usually handles them in a decidedly more tongue-in-cheek fashion. "Heh, hey check this out. We've got a moe character who's going to try her best." *wink wink nudge nudge* Something to that effect. |
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Zalis116
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Unfortunately, DDD has this volume backordered, so I'm still waiting on the dub for these episodes. That end of episode 8 should prove a fair test for the dub VA skills. These episodes overall helped endear Mai to me as a character, particularly the flashbacks that reveal the side of her that's not "I'm the heroine of this story! I'll do my best!" And somwhere around episode 18 or 19 spoiler[the full story of her mother's death is revealed, making things even sadder.] Overall, they help deepen the mysteries by not revealing anything about Nagi and introducing more HiME and start things on a slightly different path. I'll be looking forward to this disc, and hoping that these new VAs grow into the roles and become the quality talents of tomorrow's English dubs. |
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WesW
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How old are the girls used as VA's in this series? Are they finally getting teens to do these schoolgirl parts, like they do in Japan?
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Joe Mello
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Dunno, but it's good to see SOMEONE ELSE in Ocean Group do the dubbing. The usual suspects are fine, but it's annoying to hear the same people over and over and over again.
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Key
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I assume you're referring specifically to Akane? (Who's voiced by the same person who does Yukino, BTW.) If so, it's a competent English dub performance but nothing that will blow you away. Mai's is better, while Miyu and Akane's boyfriend are a bit of a disappointment. Again, competent but not exciting on the balance. The song being sung by Alicia Searrs wasn't redubbed, though.
Not sure on most of them, since a lot are new names. If they're not teenagers, they're at least on the younger side. (And the majority of teenage roles are voiced by adult seiyuu in Japan, I would point out.) |
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teferi
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They shouldve have re dubbed alyssa's song. That had me shuddering the entire time from the pure engrishiness O_o;;
I seriously do not understand how people can sit through that and then say it's awesome. the show is fun but that song... |
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shadow_Hiei
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Wow, think this guy's a Mai fan?
Not that there's anything wrong with that. I like Mikoto, Natsuki, and Midori more, but Mai's pretty likable too. As with the first volume, it isn’t a spectacular dub but it isn’t likely to generate major complaints. You're wrong about that last part. I don't mind the dub (for the most part), but I see a lot of people jumping on it on anime forums, and not just sub-snobs either. The biggest complaints seem to be about Shizuru's and Mikoto's VAs. I don't like Shizuru's dub voice either... country accents almost never work in anime dubs. (only exception that comes to mind is Osaka from Azumanga Daioh) I didn't really care about the sound track... nothing really stood out to me except for the OP, and that stood out for the wrong reasons. (It starts out okay, but I hate it when it seems like its about to speed up and the only thing that happens is the backup singers start singing... it goes downhill from there) |
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Key
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Umm. . . yeah. Almost fanboy-level, I'm afraid. 
Okay, I could see the complaints about Shizuru; that one threw me, too, but I'm assuming she has an accent in Japanese that I just can't hear and they were trying to duplicate that. But Mikoto? I thought that one was a pretty good match. |
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shadow_Hiei
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I don't know Japanese, so I can't say this for sure, but I hear that Shizuru uses a Kyoto dialect, which is apparently very formal and proper. I don't know how they chose a southern accent based off of that. Meh...
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