The proper Music of the Sub instantly makes a difference.
When I said I liked the VAs in the 4kids versions, I mainly meant the girls. All the male characters instantly sound way better in the Sub.
Well I've finished Mew Mew Power and I gotta say calling the Tokyo Tower "City Tower" is kinda funny.
It's a shame it ended on a direct cliff hanger. I was gonna take a break before picking up with the Sub first (that usually makes adjusting to different voices easier) but now I wanna see what happens next.
Okay I thought I was on episode 17 of Tokyo Mew Mew but suddenly they are flashing back to something I don't recall. Did the order of the 4kids version get mixed around again?
So I've finally put my finger on why the Musical choices of the 4 Kids Tokyo Mew Mew localization bug me.
I spend a lot of time after watching a Magical Girl show also seeking out any old Abridged Series that were made. And in those playing an American Pop Song during the Transformation scene is one of the most common Jokes.
So 4kids playing their mid-00s Pop Rock songs over these transformations feels like a Parody to me.
Well I just watched Cardcaptor Sakura episode 14.
Mackerel now always makes me think of Frenda similar to how Chickpeas make me think of Ezra Fitz.
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So it looks like the first Cardcaptor Sakura movie should be watched between episodes 18 and 19.
I think it was a mistake to classify Rayearth as Episodic in the first place.
I'm already unsure I like where season 2 is going.
Alright I've finished season 1 of Magic Knight Rayearth now, it's Good.
First of all I decided before reaching the end that it shouldn't actually be classified as a Magical Girl Show. The fact is a lot of the Qualia of the Magical Girl Genre is mutually exclusive with being an Isekai. Now Reverse Isekai is a different story.
They only look like Magical Girls as much as they do because they're wearing their Magic JRPG Armor over their School Uniforms.
But most importantly, whether or not someone like me is judging the show as a Magical Girl Show effects how I judge it, the standards and rules I tend to hold that Genre to greatly effects how Okay I'm willing to be with how it ends, or how season 1 ends.
However the show's biggest weakness as a Fantasy show is the failure to make this "Secondary World" feel at all lived in. There's only one episode where they visit a Town and not much happens in it.
In that context it falls shot of even the most Generic and Unimaginative of modern Isekai and Quasi Isekai that so many see as inherently disgraces to the Legacy of Classic Shoujo Isekai like Rayearth. These modern Isekai may not do much to distinguish their Discount Dragon Quest worlds and towns from each other, but they do more then enough to feel like living worlds worth fighting for.
It looks like this issue may be fixed by Season 2 which I'll be starting soon. But some effort should have been put in at the start.
I know to a lot of people the Slice of Life downtime in certain Fantasy Shows kills their "urgency". But to me the Ugrency means nothing if you fail to convince me there even is a world to Save.
Well I've now watched episode 7 and it's definitely finding it's footing.
Loved the Jurassic Park reference.
Only reason I have trouble memorizing their names is that they all seem to be names that are pretty common in Anime.
And who's Spock and who's McCoy is still lining up with what I suggested last time.
I have been very critical of the implementation of the original Music in this 4kids Tokyo Mew Mew localization, but i do have a desire to try listening to these songs on their own.
However it seems like they never released a Mew Mew Power CD like they did for Pokémon.
Kuudere-Hime