Re: Newtype USA DVD for April and Mai Hime.

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:37:24 -0600, Bobby Clark wrote:
Mai Hime was the best thing on the DVD. The first episode is complete from
opening to closing. The English dub is the only audio track. I have seen
the Japanese version so many times, that it was hard watching the program in
English. The English voice cast may get better as they work on the show, so
I don't think it's much of a concern until we get the first DVD. They did
one thing I like a lot. Unlike ADV programs there was no periodic message
during the program. One thing I could not nail was the voice talent playing
Mai. Anyone know who is playing Mai in English?

The first HiME DVD is out already, I got the collection box at Best Buy
today (how could I not, at $26.99 for DVD, box and "Fuuka Academy" T
shirt) and watched it.

As far as I can tell, the episodes are all unchanged, except that the DVD
specials are between the episode which I found a little disrupting. The
end credits are original too (in Japanese), but after the last episode on
the DVD they show another set of end credits, translated and with the
english companies, staff and cast as well.

So we have the following:

Mai Tokiha - Carol-Anne Day
Natsuki Kuga - Cheryl McMaster
Mikoto Minagi - Caitlynne Medrek

Let me know if you want more...

I didn't mind the dub, nothing bad stuck out to me except the funny
pronounciations of the names of course. Some things were translated more
freely such as the infamous "bubuzuke", but I felt they worked fine.

PS: New guy here, was lurking for a while and decided to join the fray :)

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