...fair enough. I guess it isn't OOC, but I still find it disheartening that she'd do that... Given the circumstances, I guess it makes sense that she wouldn't hesitate to be so blatantly disrespectful of someone she's so utterly demonized through her POV.

As a side note; Yes, Dan Green as Mikage and Mamiya's VA are both excellent in their roles. That's probably what makes the dub so great in the Black Rose arc...[watching ep 20-wakaba duel) I think Wakaba's VA is fairly decent, and it sounds like she voices some of the other faceless/crowd girls, which is interesting/fits with the whole "not special" thing.


If I had to add a quote, Nanami says "Just who the hell do you think you are?!" in ep 32, which made me laugh because I recently watched Gurren Lagann. And in 20, Anthy says something to the effect of  "You must draw the sword NOW." (I think this is when in Japanese she said "The sword, quickly!" I like the little emphasis she uses in the dub.


Edit: Fun fact; Utena's VA (Rachel Lillis) also voiced Chu-Chu.

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Oh my god I just saw that. Had to rewatch for the lols. And you're right, Akio's glare is totally fitted for it too ("How DARE you emit such horrible sounds in this residence in front of our guests? >:[ "). In the same episode Saionji's against the duels and goes "Don't try to stop me!" and to me that line sounds like he's drunk or something, XD

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I recall reading an interview with Crispin Freeman in which he mentioned the cast didn't know about the rest of the story when they did the first season.  So they were doing the characters based only on the content of the first 13 episodes.  He mentioned that if he had known more about the story he would have done Touga's and the Prince's voices very differently.

Even though I agree it's a pretty atrocious dub, that made me more inclined to respect the efforts the cast put into it.  I don't usually watch it, but it does have moments.  My personal favorite, which is dramatic rather than comic is in Ep 13 when Akio says, "The young always wish to destroy the world."  The subs give a completely different line there, but it always felt so thoroughly appropriate.

I'm just rewatching episode 32 "Romance of the Dancing Girls" and just for fun I've been switching between japanese and english. When Nanami and Utena are in the bedroom I found some interesting quotes

Japanese quote wrote:

Utena: Can't sleep?
Nanami: You two sleep facing each other like this every night?
Nanami: It's weird.
Nanami: It's like you're sort of crazy or dense or something...

English quote wrote:

Utena: You can't fall asleep?
Nanami: You two really sleep facing each other like this every night? That really freaks me out
Nanami: That's so weird.
Nanami: It's like you're sort of crazily a part of each other together even in sleep...

For some reason, Nanami's last sentence gives more insight than her japanese quote. Anthy and Utena's bedroom symbolism is just a bit clearer to me now. Also, now it makes more sense to me the last scene in episode 34. I've always thought Anthy knew what Utena was dreaming that time (or perhaps she was even having the same dream as Utena)

Maybe Anthy could see Utena's dreams every night? or even manipulate them?

As a sidenote, I read the comments above and I just listened Anthy's laughter in episode 25 with english dub... oh, god