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The musical score is also not free of problems. Though it generally does its job, someone made the unwise decision to highlight the Shinto chant scenes with a musical selection ripped off from the original incarnation of “Charlie's Angels,” which will sound laughably corny to anyone old enough to remember watching “Charlie's Angels.” At least a smarter choice was made with the opener and closer, with the J-Rock tunes “Secret World” and “Unseen Power” providing a lively start-up and close-out to each episode.

Oddly, no credits are given on the DVD for the dub production, but the casting clearly indicates that it's an ADV effort. The only key cast member who isn't a long-time ADV regular is Blake Shepard, who's done only one major role prior to this series (he was one of the leads in Gilgamesh) but gets the lead role here. Whether or not Mr. Shepard is ready for such a prominent role is debatable, as his is the one questionable casting choice and some of his pronunciations for untranslated words are awkward. Everyone else is a good match, however, and all the other roles are capably-performed. The English script stays very tight in most places and does a remarkably good job of retaining the meaning of the “kagome” chant and still sounding right. The only iffy point here is whether or not “goblin” was the best translation choice for references to Haruka and Sugino.


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