Comments on: Vote for your favourite Mikuru!

By: Ashram

Ashram — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:07:02 +0000

Went with #2 here, stood out pretty easily over the other three to me. Good thing it’s got a massive lead over the other ones too!

By: Haesslich

Haesslich — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 03:07:01 +0000

#2′s better than #1, if only because #2 doesn’t tear your eardrums out when she does the ‘porny caterwaul’, as someone so eloquently put it. And yes, #4 sounds WAY too young.

Personally, they all annoy me, but I’ll take #2.

By: exalt dragon

exalt dragon — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:44:39 +0000

oops i mean mean the first one is the best… XD

By: exalt dragon

exalt dragon — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:42:48 +0000

I just remembered that i haven’t finished listening to SOS-Dan Radio Shibu Bangai Hen-1 YET… and the first one is the first…DUH..

By: quigonkenny

quigonkenny — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 05:54:47 +0000

Vinland:
From what little I know of her, she’s rewritten her dialogue in the past, which is probably a good thing if this clip is any indication.

Makes sense. She’s got more script and adaptation credits than voice credits on her ANN page.

By: Vinland

Vinland — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 04:31:07 +0000

It’s too bad Jason is on vacation. This is just begging for a Dr. Jack post.

#1 is nice because it’s the oldest-sounding voice (Mikuru is a second-year high school student despite her looks and behavior, remember.) She completely blows it when it comes to the porny caterwauling, though.

#2 nails the delivery, but the voice itself is a bit generic and Sheh is kind of overexposed, for good or ill. From what little I know of her, she’s rewritten her dialogue in the past, which is probably a good thing if this clip is any indication. “HOW IN THE WORLD DO I SHOT WEB” image macro in 3… 2…

I can’t say anything nice about #3.

#4 sounds the youngest, but it’s like Kyon’s Sister young. That’s bad, but the childish petulance of her “I don’t want to” makes me want to hear other samples. And, if she can pull it off, would make the difference between her and Adult Mikuru like that between night and day.

By: AK

AK — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 04:04:51 +0000

Oh. Haven’t checked that one out yet.

This time I took the liberty to listen to the voice tracks, in full. I agreem when they try to do it in English, it DOES sound like porn.

By: Bridge Bunny

Bridge Bunny — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 02:19:06 +0000

You sure about that? >>>

I am refering to the Code Geass ones.

By: LianYL

LianYL — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 01:24:56 +0000

lol?

By: quigonkenny

quigonkenny — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 20:50:48 +0000

on Mikuru-chan:

I think #2 is the best voice, and yes, steelbound, I do believe that is the English voice actress for Orihime (and Eureka 7′s Eureka, who she sounds more like in the clip), Stephanie Sheh. I actually think this is a good sign, because even though they’ve just announced it, they appear to have at least had auditions for the voices, which means the actual DVD releases may be not too far off (I’d guess mid-year).

I do think they could have picked a better example for a Mikuru voice sample, but a good costume-rape receiving voice is very important for the character…

on Orange-kun:

Too funny! What a great scene! Kudos to the unknown licensor of this anime (I can’t believe people are still fansubbing it, now that it’s licensed ^_^) for picking such a recent and humorous clip to reference, as it shows that they may be even farther along than Bandai and SHnY. Don’t know about their choice of voice actors, though. I don’t know if the accents were Singaporean (hey, aren’t you from Singapore, DM?), but they did kinda have some kind of strong accent. At least it wasn’t French! And their audio balancing needs a little work. The volume on those voices was all over the place!