Watched it twice back to back, first with the Japanese hypersonic track and then with the Streamline dub, in preparation for reviewing it. You can read the review
over here if interested.
The whole dub is
still on YouTube, so I decided to introduce Mom to this one - having WiFi meant I finally could, surmising that she'd enjoy it after how much she liked
Wolf Children from the same director, Mamoru Hosoda; I can't wait to check out his
Summer Wars and
Mirai myself and he certainly has a chance at becoming one of my favorite directors. I think it was actually even better the second time around. I couldn't help noticing this time how much it gets right - Makoto does everything a teenager would do if they found out they could leap through time, like going back to ace that test, going back to the time you had your favorite dinner, and of course, going back to eat your snack before your greedy sister could - I especially love Makoto's reaction to the latter, dubbing her a "brat," though I'll admit to having been even harsher about it since I seem to distinctly remember calling mine a "selfish bastard" after she ate my pizza and didn't leave me a single slice, not even a crumb. I was especially cocky at that age, like a hybrid of Shotaro Kaneda and Asuka Langley, so it's probably a good thing I never figured out how to time-leap, or else I'd have had to learn the hard way like Makoto does.
Again, the whole dub is
still on YouTube, so I introduced her to this one; she did like
Trigun as well. I'm still amazed by how the new insurance girls sound just like the original insurance girls; if Funimation re-dubbed the original show and used them, I really wouldn't mind. Luci Christian, who dubs Meryl here, has really impressed me recently as Nami in
One Piece and Hani-senpai in
Ouran High School Host Club, the latter of which also has Caitlin Glass rising up the list of my favorite voice actors. And
Trigun was what sold me on Johnny Yong Bosch as a voice actor and made me re-examine the Pioneer dub of
Akira; he's really surprised me as 14-year-old Chakuro in
Children of the Whales where he sounds
just like a kid - shows just how much he can stretch himself. I also couldn't help noticing this time around that Gendo Ikari (father of Shinji) himself John Swasey was a perfect choice to dub Gasback, especially when the character's history comes out. Later, guys. Gotta go - Mom's hounding me to watch TV with her.
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