Mermaid Forest (2003–2004)
8/10
I am glad this at least adapted more of the story
14 May 2023
Warning: Spoilers
A young man unknowingly eats a piece of mermaid's flesh and becomes immortal. For a long time he searches for other mermaids hoping they'll grant him mortality. Finally, he finds them, but they're about to eat a girl and he can't let that happen.

The series on the hand gave the two characters thankfully more detail, and I do think the animation give how it was produced around the same time as Inuyasha was a massive step up (the previous two were good as well) not mentioning it did adapt more story then those OVA's including them.

Also the ost was excellent.

My only bad qualities was that there was still some animal cruelty (thankfully only one scene), child abuse and on top of that a SA scene. Also Masato was a lot more unlikeable here.

The dubbed version was by New Generation Pictures/Post Office Inc. While I am not trying to be LA biased in anyway or always going with the more recent, however for most parts i did find that better the latter two. The only, I didn't really like how Yuta's voice changed after 3 episodes in. I do find a massive after this Justin seem to have disappeared from anime dubbing. Overall though I do think in the end Liam ended up having more work as so yeah he is probably my favourite voice between the 4 actors for Yuta.

That being said though for Mana I am not too sure as at first I did find Megan Hollingshead's take a bit too Rangiku sounding for my liking. But she did thankfully improve.

While I will give Erika Lenhart/Weinstein some credit that it does sound unique coming from her since majority of her roles that I have heard are either teenagers or mature women, But I just think Masato being voiced by an actual kid like with the Scars OVA would've made me take them seriously.
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