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I got to watch the 4th Fruits Basket DVD today!

Yes, it has finally landed in my grubby little hands.

And of course I sat back and watched all 6 episodes in one run, in English for the first time.

The last three... ::gets teary-eyed:: ...damn I love this show *so* much. Just so much. It's so fucking good.

I was playing around with the character/actor profiles, and I finally solved a mystery. I know now why Yuki's voice has always stood out to me. It's.... dun dun duuuuuunnnnnnnn.... MiraiTrunks. That's right folks, it's the English voice of Future!Trunks from DBZ. Who was my crush on that show. And who also had purple hair.

Speaking of the actors, I loved the voice actor for Ayame. At first I had to get used to it being deeper than I expected, but now, oh, how I love it.

And I really want that icon floating around on someone on my Flist's journal that says "Ayam eats his soba noodles with confidence."

Akito in English was just as perfectly creepy as I had hoped. And I am definitely adjusted and in love with Kyo's, Yuki's, and Shigure's voices by now. Although Haru is still my favorite casting choice for the dub. But oh, Hiro! He was voiced very well.

I sincerely wanted to smack him. And find his parents and smack them. Which must have meant he was done correctly.

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I made that Ayame icon for

flutingfrenzy; you can ask her if you can borrow it (with credit to me). :D

I adore the English dub. I love everything about the show, period, so I'm ecstatic that the English dub is as awesome as the rest of it. And yes, Ayame's English voice is DA BOMB. He somehow manages to sound drily snarky and completely insane and PURE SEX, all at the same time. Especially the PURE SEX part--I think he could say "Please pass the toast" and make it the dirtiest thing you'd ever heard.

You should take a look at the interview with the dub actors--it's in the extras. We don't actually get to see what they look like, but it is fun to find out who sounds like their characters and who was changing their voices. See Christopher Sabat carefully choose his words while expressing his concerns about making Ayame offensive! See John Burgmeier having no stage presence as he minimizes his performance as Shigure and then acts all apologetic for having dared to write an English script! Fall in love with him anyway! Laugh your ass off at Jerry Jewell's final comment! Fall in love with him too! Et cetera.

Oooh... the last three episodes are brilliant. I watched them all in a row too.

jeanstarwind had all but the second DVD when she came out to visit me so we went to Best Buy and found that and then watched the whole series over the week.

Brilliant stuff!