[SPLIT LIP]

I mean it's not bad, but Mika's voice actor gives him too much personality. He's too human, not as detached and socially nonfunctional as the character's meant to be. It's especially kinda weird when Mika emotionally shuts down completely and goes psycho, yet he's still talking like a normal guy. It's a small thing, but considering how he's progressing in season 2, it's going to be weird if they don't catch on to it.

Everything else performance-wise is give or take save for some changes in dialogue. Minor spoilers: Like when in episode 23 Ms. Merribit is upset at the Tekkadan children watching Mika's fight because she doesn't want them to turn out to be as heartless and sociopathic by watching something so brutal. (since they kinda are) In the dub, she's just concerned about their safety because there's a fight nearby, and the moral implications aren't brought up. (it also makes it look like she's just a really fussy mother and not the lone voice of reason in the sociopathic echo chamber of Tekkadan) This kinda undercuts her whole subplot of wanting to preserve the children's innocence as much as she can, despite them not wanting to be saved because of a misplaced sense of honour to their dead comrades.

Which is gonna be really weird in the next ep when she actually fucking breaks down over that, since it's gonna come out of nowhere.

I'm really looking forward to seeing the last episode dubbed because of how emotional one fight is. I actually like some of the voices quite a bit, like Gaelio's and Carta's. (especially since Carta annoyed me so much in the original) In fact, I'd say every voice is just as good or at least easily acceptable except Mika and Orga. Mika because of the aformentioned misunderstanding of his personality, and Orga because he, like Mika, just sounds too normal. His voice is too high pitched, his vocal mannerisms too casual. He doesn't sound quite like the bold leader he is.

But that's just me. I'm not really a snob when it comes to dubs, as I watched Unicorn in Japanese first, but vastly prefer the English dub in every way. Ditto with G Gundam.