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Fell in love with this! ^^

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Shiidou Hikaru	Jul 14 2003, 08:11 PM Post #1
Pillar of Cephiro Group: Root Admin Posts: 6,026 Joined: 13-July 03 From: Castle of Cephiro Member No.: 3	For years I was a big Tenchi Muyo and Utena fan, but a little while ago I found MKR, and I just fell in love with this show -the plot, the story, the characters, the music, the beautiful artwork, everything about MKR, I just can't get anough of!^^ At first I couldn't decide if I liked Umi more or Hikaru more. Eventually I decided on Hikaru, because she is so human, she makes mistakes like all of us do. She also finds out that the hardest battles in life are fought on the inside, and not on the outside.

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Shiidou Hikaru

Jan 4 2004, 12:49 PM

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Good luck! ^_^

Lol, yes the dub voices were cast all wrong, well Fuu's was pretty close I thought. Hikaru and Umi actually had good, experienced VA's (Julie Maddelina and Wendie Lee), but their voices don't fit the characters which was a casting mistake. So I don't blame them, the director was at fault this time.

Umi-chan is soo obnoxious at the beginning isn't she? In the manga, she is even worse - Umi calls Clef all sorts of bad names, picks on Hikaru for being "boyish" and tries to use her magic power to do bad things. :P However when Umi is paired as the "straight man" with Mokona as a comedy team, they are hilarious together. ^_^ Umi's attitude at the beginning may seem to be the result of self-centeredness, but it really isn't. It's really self conviction. Umi knows very well who she is as a person, so the idea of becoming a Magic Knight is preposterous to her and she doesn't want any part of it. Eventually she embraces the concept, although not for Cephiro and Princess Emeraude, but for the sake her friends Hikaru and Fuu.

The "bad guys" in MKR is sort of a relative term. At the end of the first season, the three Magic Knights could be seen as the bad guys couldn't they? At some point there was even a discussion about that, and Umi and Fuu agreed to never play rpg's ever again.