Product: Galaxy Fraulein Yuna Returns [VHS]
Rating: 4.0
The Craziness Continues
This is the second OVA series - First one was called Galaxy Fraulein Yuna.Ayako has come to play. However, she plays a little rough and puts most of Yuna's team in the hospital. Yuna tries to make friends with Ayako. I'm not going to reveal whether she succeeds or not, but Ayako also has two sisters who decide to make an appearance. They want to defeat Yuna and Earth.The members of Yuna's team get more screen time in this one. Just like the previous one, this is not a show to take too seriously. It's just fun. However, this one is a bit darker than the first.Overall, I think the voice acting is good, but I don't think it works for the singing. The music was written for Japanese lyrics, not English. The songs just don't flow as well. There are only two songs in English - opening scene and at the very end. The only decent dubbed song I've heard recently is the opening theme to Rayearth (first season), but compared to the original Japanese version, it's not perfect either. The Yuna songs here don't dominate the show, but I just wanted to point this out. The dubbing for the last song works better than the concert at the beginning.I do like the opening song "Lightning Heart!" which is not as upbeat as the theme to the previous OVA. For me, the song is saying we're responsible for our own futures. "Let's Go Out" is the closing song and is perfect with Yuri singing it. The song is about going out to eat. On the final part, they go back to using "Good Night, Moon Shadow" which you get to hear in both English and Japanese here. The dubbed version leads into the closing credits where you hear the Japanese version.As usual for ADV, the opening and closing themes remain in Japanese. Typically, ADV gives the translation on the first episode and the phonetic Japanese pronunciation on the second. When there's a third episode (as with this tape), there are no subtitles for the opening song. There are English subtitles on the closing theme here because they change songs.