Happy Nadia's Birthday!

[jmarken]

On May 31, 1875, our spunky heroine was born. To commemorate this momentous occasion (^o^) I wish you all a Happy Nadia's Birthday! I'll be celebrating by watching the Omake again. I really should set aside the time to watch the whole series again; maybe I'll do that this summer. In the meantime, Happy Nadia's Birthday to all!

[vtr9kvictor]

Nadia was a damn good show. Happy Birthday Nadia! What her English voice actress's name?

[aquapermanence]

:D Thinking about Nadia's birthday makes me want to sing a copyrighted song. All together, now!

"Happy Birthday to--" ::gets clobbered by attorneys::

[JackProton]

Heh, I just reached that episode last night at midnight. Coincidence? I think not. :D

[EmperorBrandon]

Nadia was a damn good show. Happy Birthday Nadia! What her English voice actress's name?

Old (Streamline) dub = Wendee Lee
New (ADV) dub = Meg Bauman

[meganly_chan]

Just don't eat any meat - she'd kill you!

[Njr Scrawl]

Nadia in her own way, is as mixed-up as Rei & Shinji in Eva. Aspects of her character are indeed shared between those two. Rei is vegan or vegetarian, for example.

Nadia the show, is carried by its female characters IMO (though Gargoyle & co are some of the best anime villains). Nadia, Elektra & Grandis are too often overlooked as 3 of Gainax's best creations. They all take time to grow on you, but then become truly appreciable.

Kikuko Inoue (Elektra), best know as Belldandy of OMG, is best known to English audiences.

Yoshino Takamori (Nadia), is probably most known these days as Juliet Douglas in FMA. But she's also Minami in Jinki Extend & Hanabi in the Paris Sakura Taisen OVAs.

Kumiko Takizawa (Grandis), seems most obscure. She is voicing a character in an episode of Hell Girl, Funimation's new show for later this year.

[EmperorBrandon]

Kumiko Takizawa (Grandis), seems most obscure. She is voicing a character in an episode of Hell Girl, Funimation's new show for later this year.


I am familiar with her name, as she voices Sae's mother (small role) in Magic User's Club TV. Yoshino Takamori seems to have had a number of years (going by ANN) after Sailor Moon S that she was not doing any anime voice acting, though she resurfaced with FMA and some more recent stuff.

[jmarken]

Yoshino Takamori seems to have had a number of years (going by ANN) after Sailor Moon S that she was not doing any anime voice acting, though she resurfaced with FMA and some more recent stuff.


I'm glad to see she's resurfaced. I'm biased :sd: , but I always liked her voice acting.

[JTurner]

Nadia is indeed an excellent series with arguably one of my favorite dub tracks of all time (Monster Island, I miss you *sniff*). Except of course for those horrible horrible Island and African episodes (the worst Anime filler of all time)--both of which should have remained on the cutting room floor where they belong. They nearly ruined my enjoyment of the show. Okay, except maybe perhaps for Ep. 31. Otherwise, I'd rather see this series like this: Eps. 1-22, last half of 27, first of 28, some of 30, 31, & 35-39. But the other episodes? It's the stuff of nightmares. (And jmarken, please don't try to argue about why these episodes were "necessary" to you; I dislike them immensely, and that's that.)

It's too bad, really, because what good the show offers is more than amazing. I especially like, in eps. 1-8 and the Nautilus ones, how Nadia slowly grows from an angry, tormented, stubborn girl into a caring young woman, all under her close relationship with sweet Jean (arguably one of the finest heroes in any show--who WOULDN'T want to be friends with this intelligent, outgoing, caring -- if somewhat nerdy -- inventor? Even my mother fell for him.

In short, Nadia is great stuff, but it should've been a 27-episode series instead of a 39-one. Extending the show on the insistence of the executives -- and throwing together such senseless and thoughtless stories -- was a major mistake on both Gainax and NHK's part.

-Jon T.