Magic Knight Rayearth and its many English dubs.

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Magic Knight Rayearth is one of CLAMP’s most influential and popular works and one of the most popular magical girl anime of the 90s, but it had many English dubs when it was brought over to America. Let’s go through each one of them.

1. Series (Ocean Test dub): A test pilot dub was produced by TMS and Ocean Productions at some point in the 1990's in an attempt to market the series worldwide. It was an attempt to air the show on Fox Kids during the time. This dub included mandated specific localized character names.

2. Series (Bang Zoom dub): In 1999-2000, Bang Zoom from Los Angeles got the rights to the anime and it was published through Media Blasters from New York. This dub was led by Julie Maddalena as the fiery leader Hikaru Shidou, Wendee Lee of Cowboy Bebop fame as the beautiful but brash Umi Ryuuzaki, and Bridget Hoffman as the shy and intelligent Fuu Hououji.

3. OVA (New York dub): Now this dub will surprise you. In August of 2000, UK anime distributor Manga Entertainment required the license to the OVA series, while its dub was recorded in New York-based studio Skypilot Entertainment. This dub’s 3 main cast was led by three voice actresses from the 4kids dub of Yugioh: Tara Sands (Mokuba Kaiba) as Hikaru Shidou, Amy Birnbaum (Tea Gardner) as Umi Ryuuzaki, and Lisa Ortiz (Serenity Wheeler) as Fuu Hououji.

So, Magic Knight Rayearth’s dub history was a interesting one at best. So, are both the series and ova better worth watching in Japanese or in English?

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