Funimation Adds Rosario + Vampire anime and 5 more

[Kid Ryan]

Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-05-15/funimation-adds-rosario+vampire-anime-more

The North America anime distributor FUNimation has announced at it's Anime Central panel on Saturday that it has licensed the Rosario + Vampire, Rosario + Vampire Capu2, Chaos;HEAd, Chrome Shelled Regios, Rideback, Heaven's Lost Property (Sora no Otoshimono), and GUN x SWORD anime series. All of the new titles will ship in 2011 — except for GUNxSWORD and Regios, which will ship in late 2010.

Funimation has also announced the English dubbing casts for Eden of The East, Casshern Sins, and Shikabane Hime. The company is offering a "free ride" to Comic-Con International in San Diego this July to the most ardent Fullmetal Alchemist fan; fans can enter by posting their video pleas on YouTube and http://www.fullmetalalchemist.com/comiccon/.

Takayuki Inagaki (Desert Punk, Indian Summer) and Gonzo's 2008 Rosario + Vampire television series and it's Rosario + Vampire Capu2 sequel adapt Akihisa Ikeda's supernatural school comedy manga of the same name. The story follows an ordinary high school boy who fails to get into any private academy except one — which happens to be populated by supernatural creatures (yōkai) disguised as humans. To survive, Tsukune Aono has to pretend that he is also a yōkai and blend in. Viz Media publishes the manga in North America.

Director Takaaki Ishiyama (Viewtiful Joe, Karura Mau) and the MADHOUSE anime studio adapted Nitroplus and 5pb.'s Chaos;HEAd computer visual novel for television in 2008. In this 12-episode psychological suspense series, a shut-in teenager named Takumi becomes embroiled in a series of mysterious deaths around the Tokyo neighborhood of Shibuya, all of which could lead to a larger calamity.

Chrome Shelled Regios began as a series of fantasy academy light novels from Shūsuke Amagi, before Itsuro Kawasaki (Sengoku Basara, Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE The Movie) and ZEXCS brought it to television last year. The 24-episode series takes place in the future when humanity lives in isolated mobile cities called Regios to escape the pollution on the planet. Layfon Alseif enrolls into the Academy city of Zuellni and joins the 17th Military Arts Unit of Nina Antalk.

Atsushi Takahashi (Detroit Metal City anime) and MADHOUSE adapted the 12-episode Rideback television anime series from Tetsuro Kasahara's manga last year. Rideback tells the story of a student named Rin Ogata and her "iron horse" robot motorcycle in 2020, a tumultuous time of anti-government student protests. With her transforming motorcycle and her agility from years of ballet training, Rin joins the fight against the GGP regime that rules the world.

Suu Minazuki created the Heaven's Lost Property (Sora no Otoshimono) modern fantasy manga before director Hisashi Saito (Bamboo Blade) and AIC A.S.T.A. animated it for television last year. The 14-episode series centers around Tomoki Sakurai (Souichiro Hoshi), an ordinary middle school boy and avowed pacifist. A strange girl often appears in his dream to ask for his help — only he can not remember her face when he wakes up. Then, his life gets more complicated when an unidentified mysterious animal (UMA) falls out of the skies. The "animal" turns out to be Ikaros (Saori Hayami), an angel. Crunchyroll simulcasted this anime in multiple countries worldwide as it aired in Japan.

Code Geass director Goro Taniguchi and AIC A.S.T.A. created the 26-episode GUNxSWORD television anime series in 2005. The anime follows a lone man, armed with a a shape-shifting sword and a powerful Mechanized Armor, who hunts the mysterious clawed man who had murdered his bride. Van is accompanied by Wendy, a girl who offers to be Van's new bride if he can help her find her brother. Geneon Entertainment had licensed GUNxSWORD before it ceased its distribution operations in North America.

The English dubbing cast for Eden of The East (with ADR director Mike McFarland) is as follows:

Akira Takizawa: Jason Liebrecht

Saki Morimi: Leah Clark

Juiz: Stephanie Young

Kuroha Diana Shiratori: Christine Auten

Daiju Mononobe: John Gremillion

Micchon: Stephanie Sheh

Haruo Kasuga: John Burgmeier

Sis: Lydia Mackay

Kazuomi Hirasawa: J. Michael Tatum

Satoshi Osugi: Michael Sinterniklaas

Panties: Newton Pittman

The English dubbing cast for Casshern Sins (with ADR director Jason Grundy) is as follows:

Braiking Boss: Paul Slavens

Casshern: Eric Vale

Luna: Trina Nishimura

Lyuze: Brina Palencia

Leda: Shelly Calene-Black

Ohji: Jerry Russell

Ringo: Monica Rial

Dio: Jerry Jewell

Dune: Jason Douglas

The English dubbing cast for Shikabane Hime (with ADR directors R. Bruce Elliot, Terri Doty and J. Michael Tatum) is as follows:

Keisei Tagami: J. Michael Tatum

Makina Hoshimura: Luci Christian

Ouri Kagami: Aaron Dismuke

Rika Aragami: Cynthia Cranz

Saki Amase: Monica Rial

Takamasa Sōgi: Joel McDonald

Itsuki Yamagami: Cherami Leigh

So they finally licensed Rosario + Vampire? Cool :cool:.

I look forward to watching the anime series for the first time via FUNimation's English Dub.

[Koby]

I posted this on Kametsu earlier.. xD

Ermm. Nice really.. but I'd have expected Media Blasters if anyone to grab Rosario + Vampire. It's just not the type FUNi usually gets. I hope FUNi does a good job on casting unlike they have been recently. They really need to hire some more people too since they keep licensing so much. It's getting old that every dub has the same 5 or 6 voices.. :/ Of all of them listed above. I'm most interested in hearing what the ones that were already announced before.. Eden of the East and Shikabane Hime turn out in the dub.

[Kid Ryan]

I posted this on Kametsu earlier.. xD

Ermm. Nice really.. but I'd have expected Media Blasters if anyone to grab Rosario + Vampire. It's just not the type FUNi usually gets. I hope FUNi does a good job on casting unlike they have been recently. They really need to hire some more people too since they keep licensing so much. It's getting old that every dub has the same 5 or 6 voices.. :/ Of all of them listed above. I'm most interested in hearing what the ones that were already announced before.. Eden of the East and Shikabane Hime turn out in the dub.

I never go to "Kametsu", just the Forums for it, lol.

And I was actually expecting Viz Media to pick up the anime since they are publishing and distributing the manga here in the U.S.

[Koby]

I never go to "Kametsu", just the Forums for it, lol.

And I was actually expecting Viz Media to pick up the anime since they are publishing and distributing the manga here in the U.S.

Viz does quite a bit of Manga that they don't pick up the Anime for. Their Manga publication is separate from their Anime. So just because they do the Manga doesn't mean anything. xD

[Kid Ryan]

Viz does quite a bit of Manga that they don't pick up the Anime for. Their Manga publication is separate from their Anime. So just because they do the Manga doesn't mean anything. xD

Well it should be mandatory for them to pick up the anime too.