Canaan

[tonka]

[ShawnMerrow]

@Newshawk

the way that Yun Yun stepped up and saved Maria is what makes her my hero.

She is my favorite for that and because she is a very nice person. Also no matter how hard her life is, she keeps doing her best.

@LadyOfWicca

What’s wrong with Tonka’s choice? I always thought that Liang Qi was a very complex and endearing character.

Ever heard the term that someones elevator does not go to the top floor? In Liang Q case they never installed the elevator. :lol:

[Sensei_Terry_Silver]

I watched Ep. 11 over the week-end and all I can say is : kudos to Jessica Boone for her performance as Liang Qi. Seriously, she ranks at the top of my “psycho nutjob” list of characters.

Please bring on more shows like Canaan Sentai !

[dragonrider_cody]

Some editors at ANN selected Jessica Boone’s performance in Canaan as the “Best Dub Performance - Female” for 2010.

Anime in America: Theron and Carl's Best (and Worst) of 2010

2010 also lacked a stand-out female performance, with the best merely in the Very Good category: Maxey Whitehead as the new Alphonse Elric and Caitlin Glass reprising her role as Winry in FMA, Stephanie Young as Juiz in Eden of the East, and Jessica Boone as Liang-Chi in CANAAN. From that group, I give Jessica the nod for convincingly handling her character’s full-blown psychotic turn in the series’ second half.

I’m just watching the first half on bluray, but this really makes me look forward to the second.

[tonka]

@dragonrider_cody

Some editors at ANN selected Jessica Boone’s performance in Canaan as the “Best Dub Performance - Female” for 2010.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2011-01-03
“2010 also lacked a stand-out female performance, with the best merely in the Very Good category: Maxey Whitehead as the new Alphonse Elric and Caitlin Glass reprising her role as Winry in FMA, Stephanie Young as Juiz in Eden of the East, and Jessica Boone as Liang-Chi in CANAAN. From that group, I give Jessica the nod for convincingly handling her character’s full-blown psychotic turn in the series’ second half.”

I’m just watching the first half on bluray, but this really makes me look forward to the second.

Whaaaat!!! You haven’t seen it yet… :ohmy:

Shame on you… :dry:

[tonka]

@Sensei_Terry_Silver

I watched Ep. 11 over the week-end and all I can say is : kudos to Jessica Boone for her performance as Liang Qi. Seriously, she ranks at the top of my “psycho nutjob” list of characters.

Please bring on more shows like Canaan Sentai !

Well there’s this little show called Michiko & Hatchin that is right up that alley, unfortunatly it isn’t R1 licensed yet, if ever.

Go, Sentai, Go!!!

[Froggy]

I can’t believe this one wasn’t on my “MUST WATCH” list. I decided to check it out after Newshawk cast me as Yun Yun. (I love her and her flat chest, by the way Newshawk, so thank you) I watched the first 8 episodes today. I probably would have finished it in one sitting if my computer hadn’t been acting so hinky lately.

[Prede]

I haven’t commented on this yet? HOW DARE I?? I watched this show in like 3 days, it was so good!! Really it blew me away. It’s such a great, high octane, and intense series, with amazing characters. Really I liked each and every one of them. Not to mention the dub was my favorite dub that came out last year, perfect. Liang Qi is my favorite character, and ohhhhh Jessica Boone was insanely (I ran out of adjectives) good !! I agree with Theron Martin, she was the best dub voice actress of last year, hands down.

[Newshawk]

@Froggy

I can’t believe this one wasn’t on my “MUST WATCH” list. I decided to check it out after Newshawk cast me as Yun Yun. (I love her and her flat chest, by the way Newshawk, so thank you) I watched the first 8 episodes today. I probably would have finished it in one sitting if my computer hadn’t been acting so hinky lately.

Just remember, under that flat chest beats a HUGE heart!

[celestial_being]

@tonka

@Sensei_Terry_Silver

I watched Ep. 11 over the week-end and all I can say is : kudos to Jessica Boone for her performance as Liang Qi. Seriously, she ranks at the top of my “psycho nutjob” list of characters.

Please bring on more shows like Canaan Sentai!

Well there’s this little show called Michiko & Hatchin that is right up that alley, unfortunatly it isn’t R1 licensed yet, if ever.

Go, Sentai, Go!!!

I’m all for Michiko & Hatchin getting a dubbed release, but that ending was pretty weak. It was pretty darn good until the end, kinda like Canaan, but Canaan had a great dub to make up for it. Andy McAvin was given an, ahem, interesting role and he did it amazingly.

BTW does anyone else think that “Lesley Pedersen” (Alphard) sounds eerily reminiscent of Alice Fulks?

[AllieRose]

i watched caanan on netflix and then the next wednesday it came on anime network lol it made me sad

[celestial_being]

What’s sad about that? I live via my phone so being on Netflix is a plus IMO.

Though I saw this on bluray. Sadly the main cast doesn’t really do cons so I can’t get it signed. As awesome as Hilary Haag and Shelly Black are, they have a weakness. This is it lol.

Though Alphard totally sounded like Alice Fulks to me. Was it just me?

[Prede]

Hmm I’m just not hearing a voice that sounds like Alice Fulks in this. It’s totally Lesley Pedersen/Tesh as Alphard through and through. I personally loved the Shelley Calene Black/ Hilary Haag combo. But it was Jessica Boone who plays Liang Qi in this, that was the absolute star of this show.

[celestial_being]

If Lesley Tesh == Lesley Pedersen then I could see this. The ANN forums had flagged Lesley Pedersen as an alias :blink:

I agree that Jessica Boone was excellent in this. Liang Qi was not.

EDIT: I find it strange that both Lesley Pedersen and Lesley Tesh were credited as different roles in CANAAN. Why would one person have 2 different names in the same show?

[Prede]

Lesley Tesh got married and now she’s known as Lesley Pedersen .

[celestial_being]

…and only did one VA role after that.

Though it is still odd to see one person credited with 2 different names, for different roles, in the same show. Things didn’t get that convoluted with Christine Auten or Shelly Calene-Black.

IMDB shows a name change, but when it comes to anime, IMDB is not the place to look.

[Prede]

I am 100% they’re the same person. Not sure the confusion as to what to list her in the credits, but probably just due to different people working on the same show. I’m pretty sure she got married and that’s why her name changed . I was familiar with her work before she got married. I’m sure we’ll hear more from her eventually, when she gets cast in some more roles. I liked her in Red Garden the most, but she was amazing in Le Chevalier D’Eon too. She was also pretty good in Pani Poni Dash.

[celestial_being]

Lesley Tesh was Uno and Gilgamesh and Lorenzia (SP) in Le Chevalier D’Eon. On an interesting tangent, Stephen Foster says in the commentary for that show that when Tesh’s character had to make sensual moaning noises the sound techs looped it lol.

Back on track, I can “see” the resemblance between those 2 roles of Tesh with which I am familiar and Alphard. Part of the problem stems from watching Gilgamesh right before Canaan. Alphard’s conversation with the protagonist at the assassination attempt sounds eerily reminiscent of the Countess von Werdenberg though.

Though neither actress seems to do work for Sentai these days, which reminds me that Sentai doesn’t seem to have actresses with similar vocal capabilities these days. Funimation has all bases covered on the deeper/raspier/more “mature” female voicing “field” though.

[Slowhand]

Season 1 Complete Collection Cover/Disc Art

Blu-ray

[blakdragon7]

I was looking for this show on eBay. Good thing the new release just dropped.