so if may wont be back that means that hoen's male trainer will be back .. ( forgot his name).
although i really wish for may to come back..
Brendan, and most likely if he appears, he'll have more of a role than just a cameo (which is what his prior appearances have been).
And, no offense, but I'd rather not have May back at all. Maybe if they didn't make her like the Fiorello Fangirls or the girls from Love Hina, I wouldn't be so harsh, but... well, you probably can guess why I'm not particularly liking of May to say the very least. Though hey, if you want May to come back, maybe she will, hard to say.
KAORI was always more of a singer than seiyuu... and as long as she's alive, she would be brought back ;) (Well... being dead doesn't really stop that (I'm looking at you, Igor) but...).
So she would just voice Haruka for a few episodes and return to singing =)
(Plus if they change her seiyuu to for example... HanaKana, please, do it =D)
Oh, so its more closer to a Hillary Duff thing, then (ie, she quit acting to pursue a singing career, maybe occasionally getting back into acting if the need fits)?
And I know what you mean by that: Giovanni's VA died yet they replaced him.
Not being Japanese or much of a follower of Japanese icons I have no idea who HanaKana is. However, as long as she doesn't do voices that are similar to Naru Narusegawa, Mutushi, Mitsune, Kanako Urashima, and the like, or heck, the Fiorello Fangirls from the episode Princess vs. Princess (ie, she doesn't do the loud, whiney, obnoxious, silly, spoiled, throwing temper-tantrum type characters that would best be summed up as being... pardon the French [well, technically Italian, but you know what I'm alluding to here] but, bimbo-types). I was not a very big fan of May once I first heard of her voice, and her physical appearance certainly didn't help matters, either.