[Samatarou]

Chalk me up as another "I've only heard of Yui Horie" person: Multi, Tohru Honda, etc... I think she is doing a good job with Minori-chan.

I haven't really noticed anything special about the other performances as yet. In some anime the emoting etc really stands out, the ability to paint a whole character picture with a single word... however that also calls for finely honed scripts, and apart from the japanese word play (which is mostly going over my head) I'm not seeing anything special for the actors to get their teeth into at this stage, no real subtle nuances or anything.