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Originally Posted by suguru
Yeah, this is a definite win for me, I loved the first episode--Horie Yui was good as usual, Asano Masumi as Mariya was awesome....
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Masumin (
Asano Masumi) is wonderful in this show. She has developed her play-evil laugh to a fine art.
And I think
Horie Yui's voice works perfectly, too. There is a slight, almost symbolic, difference between her voice as a male and as a female in this show. But even her female voice is slightly restrained to make it like either a gentle male or a kind onee-san. I'm not as big a fan of Hocchan's as many people, but I think she's doing a great job here.
And I want to say how impressed I am with their singing group, Aice5, which does the OP: it's them plus
Kanda Akemi (who plays Kana),
Takahashi Chiaki (Takako), and
Kimura Madoka (Kimie). Maybe not quite
Sakakibara Yui (who does the ED), but better than most of the seiyuu singing units out there, imho. Here's a pic of the group (Masumin, Chiakingu and Hocchan l-r in the back; Akechan and Mame in front -- click to enlarge):
As for the gender-reversal trend (Kashimashi, this, Ouran, even Simoun, in a way), I think it must mean
something. In any case, I wrote about it a few months ago in my blog:
Do boys just want to be girls?