Yami = Katelyn Barr: This episode is where Yami gets sick, and Katelyn does it perfectly! There’s a subtle weakness in her voice, proving her illness. It’s so sad!
Oshizu = Melissa Molano: This is more of a note than anything else. She sounds really good, but in 7C, while Oshizu is in her astral form, she sounds more “ghosty”. I’m impressed!
So did the voices stay with the body? Basically Katelyn playing Mikan while she was in Yami’s body and Vice Versa?
Reason I ask is because I despise when the voice travels with the character on the body switch, It’s lazy and it basically states that the Director doesn’t trust the acting talents of their voice cast
I do agree though. Brittany could have easily done Mikami using an alteration of Ikaros’ voice, and Katelyn could have done Yamikan using a voice similar to the one she will have to use for Loli or Darkness Yami. I know they have the talent.
In the Japanese audio, they had Misato voice Yamikan and Kana voice Mikami…
Ringo = Olivia Swasey: This is Ringo’s (she’s Rito and Mikan’s mom) only appearance in the entire series. She sounds okay. With that flair of a ritzy fashion designer.
Sabai = Mark Laskowski: He sounds pretty good, like a father. (he’s Rito and Mikan’s dad btw) Not really much more I could say…
Momo = Natalie Rial: Very important. She sounds okay this episode. Now it could be because she wasn’t acting all innocent this episode, or her voice may be growing on me. I don’t know which…
Yami = Katelyn Barr: Even though she only has about 1 and a half minutes of screentime this episode, it’s all time of bliss! So stoic!
Yami = Katelyn Barr: I’m crying hard right now. She did “Shy Dere Yami” absolutely perfectly! She got Yami’s subtle notes of shyness under her stoicness dead on! It’s so beautiful!!!
Momo, Nana, and Celine were all officially introduced to the anime in the S1 OVA’S.
However, as S1 was over 75% original material, and only used chapters from the first 7 volumes of the manga, many of the important plot points were missed.
Celine was originally a giant alien flower that Lala got Rito as a gift (how she got the space flu in ep 24 btw).
Here’s a picture of her plant form, which only made one appearance in the anime, in OVA #4
Towards the end of the original manga series (in volume 15), she metamorphosed into the humanoid girl she appears as in Motto and Darkness.
None of this made it into the anime. (except Lala getting sick.)
Nana and Momo’s first appearance from the manga is depicted in full in OVA #4.
Rito turning into a girl (Riko) also first happens in the OVA’S. More specifically, OVA #1. True story. Saki and Kentaro (the author and illustrator) decided to turn Rito into a girl for the 100 chapter anniversary of the manga.
That’s why Mikan mentions to Yami that Rito is a girl again. She was decently involved in Rito’s first female transformation.