Oh Lord, I forgot about Medieval!Kaede. I agree on the screaming. GYAAAAAAAAH. The thing that annoys me most about that is that whoever's writing her dialogue seems to think that you can make anything into Olde Englishe just be inserting "ye" into every "you", and you CAN'T--"thee" and thou" and even "you" were in use, too, and they were all used in different parts of a sentence and in different ways when addressing other people of varying relationships. Plus archaic English in feudal Japan is just WEIRD, especially when the rest of Kaede's speech is pretty informal.
I agree that Sesshomaru's snotty voice suits him. But it's made it harder for me to warm up to him as a character in his own right than I thought it would be (hey, I dig bad boys!)--half the time I'm usually snickering over him being "Sandymaru", and the other half I'm usually plotting his quick and brutal death because he's taunted Inuyasha a little too cuttingly for my liking. ;)
Personally, I can't imagine a better voice for Inuyasha than English!Inuyasha--Japanese!Inuyasha usually sounds a lot more calm and, er, sane, and to me, Inuyasha's perpetually-slightly-bitchy (English) voice is as much a vital part of him as his perpetually-slightly-annoyed expression.
And heh, I don't know if the humor in the episodes has gotten "better"--I have nothing to compare to, right? But I think they're hilarious. :)
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Date: 2004-01-16 12:26 am (UTC)I agree that Sesshomaru's snotty voice suits him. But it's made it harder for me to warm up to him as a character in his own right than I thought it would be (hey, I dig bad boys!)--half the time I'm usually snickering over him being "Sandymaru", and the other half I'm usually plotting his quick and brutal death because he's taunted Inuyasha a little too cuttingly for my liking. ;)
Personally, I can't imagine a better voice for Inuyasha than English!Inuyasha--Japanese!Inuyasha usually sounds a lot more calm and, er, sane, and to me, Inuyasha's perpetually-slightly-bitchy (English) voice is as much a vital part of him as his perpetually-slightly-annoyed expression.
And heh, I don't know if the humor in the episodes has gotten "better"--I have nothing to compare to, right? But I think they're hilarious. :)