Kutie Pie
"It is my destiny."
It's worth mentioning that Amanda being a drugged-up wild party animal to the point of being blacklisted is why she couldn't be Rei in the Rebuild movies anymore, but most everyone else could, and she's still super bitter about it to this day. I take everything she says with a grain of salt at this point because of her nasty attitude on social media and wishing rape on a girl.
With that said, however, it honestly wouldn't surprise me if we were lied to this whole time about why it was ADV/Sentai Filmworks couldn't renew the license for NGE, and the reason was because Gainax was peeved off by the English script and by Matt Greenfield telling them to sod off. While I don't believe Netflix used the exact same script that ADV originally had before rewriting it, I think it sucks the closest translation we have of the series is the Netflix dub which had stilted acting and it "couldn't afford" to license "Fly Me to the Moon".
NGE fans have always been in a lose-lose situation.
I love accents in general, but accents in anime is really lovely. Since I try to watch (historical/foreign) drama piece anime in English anyway (when available), I honestly don't know if original Japanese tracks ever have actors doing foreign accents when they're not speaking broken Engrish, and dialects aren't the same as accents, but it's always such a treat to hear them. I hate that people have such a stick up their butts about the use of accents these days when it's called voice-acting. Like acting (as in, a theater performance on stage), you're pretending to be someone (or something) you're not, and voice-acting means doing weird things to your voice including accents. Let voice-actors do their job and act. It's supposed to be fun.
