Mermaid Melody is going international!

February 20, 2009

Hell yeah! You heard right; ”Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch” is slowly taking over the world. With taking over the world I don’t mean literary like in invating, but like in it spreads throughtout the world. Aka more and more dubs are popping up. Which again makes me happy.

I guess everyone nowadays knows about ”Mermaid Melody”, but if you don’t, I’ll give you a brief summary. Lucia is a Mermaid Princess of the North Pacific Ocean and has been told that a group of water creatures have invaded the marine world and she must gather the six other Mermaid Princesses and their pearls to bring back the legendary goddess, Aqua Regina, to stop them. To fulfill this, she joins forces with Hanon and Rina, Mermaid Princesses who came up to dry land, use their pearls, turn into singing idols, and use their voices as an offensive. At the same time the show includes a lot of romantic trouble.

Some may say that the show resembles the ”hit show” ”Sailor Moon” that where really popular during the mid and late ninties: It both included a blonde, magical girl in as the protagonist and in both shows plays good and evil an important part. And everyone remembers how that anime ended up right? Over 20 foreign versions @_@ So it may be a good thing that it may look a bit like Sailor Moon ^^;;

Right now, as of 20th February seven dubs are available thoughout the world; The original japanese, a Korean, Taiwan (Chinese) one, Italian, European Spanish, Portuguese and one Hebrew version. And more are to come.. The dub were licenced in the USA, but ADV films did lose it. Still, the possibilites are great for it to be relicenced again.
But I think I’ll try to stop writing now, and instead give you some examples from the dubs:

Original Japanese: