(it did make me want to watch the series, though :3)

So great its not about the fight, then the politics really sucked. Guin doesnt really seem to have a way with peope because he gets betrayed way too much.

But yeah, this is a great series, and you haven’t even seen the best yet. It’s a great in-depth look at acting that changed the way I look at this business.

I’d like to mention the voice actresses who play Maya and her rival Ayumi. This show is about acting, so it puts a tremendous amount of pressure on the voice actors to do something special — and they do.

Kobayashi Sanae plays Maya. Kobayashi-san comes from an acting background, has had a long-running gig as Allan Walker in D. Gray-man, and was Reiko in Natsume Yuujinchou. But her real profession is dubbing foreign films and TV in Japanese: she is the voice of Mischa Barton and Christina Ricci, among many others.

Yajima Akiko is Ayumi, and almost out-acts Maya in many scenes. Yajima-san is a veteran seiyuu whose main role is as funny-voiced Shin-chan in the long-running family hit Crayon Shin-chan. But she can act seriously, and among her many other roles are Kuu in Haibane Renmei and Mari in Blue Drop.

I don’t think anyone’s seen enough of Trapeze to really make any valid judgements on it (other than “this sure is trippy”), but from what I remember of Mononoke (which I really need to go finish up like I’ve been intending to do for years now) that was more of “let’s tell a good yarn with some crazy animation direction” and Trapeze seems like it’ll follow that “let’s tell some yarns” rather than make any super-profound point. You can always watch Paprika for your super-profound point.