The website for the new Casshern series, Casshern Sins, has updated with cast info and a tiny little trailer (the trailer can be seen at the official site).

Casshern himself will be played by Tohru Furuya.  Furuya has played alot of hero type characters that people might remember.  Yamcha from Dragonball/Z/GT, Amuro Ray in Gundam, Tuxedo Mask/Kamen in Sailor Moon, Pegasus Seiya in Saint Seiya among god knows how many other roles in other shows.

I consider that to be great casting, but a bit of a suprise, Daisuke Ono was announced as the voice of Casshern for the upcoming Tatsunoko vs. Capcom game.  Ono had never played Casshen before, but is an anime VA who has been getting bigger and better roles over the past few years.  The assumption me, and quite a few others made, was he was cast in the game because he would be Casshern in the new series.

Cho will be Ohji, Akiko Yajima will be Luna, Nami Miyahara will be Lyuze, Yuko Minaguchi will be Ringo…

and the big villian?

Kenji Utsumi will be playing the Braiking Boss.  Lots of past good roles for him (including playing the Braiking Boss in the mid 90′s Casshern OVA).  Shenlong in Dragonall/Z/GT, Alex Louis Armstrong in Full Metal Alchemist, and alot more.

Casshern Sins Official Site

The one thing that was mentioned at the Funimation panel of interest is the Dragonball GT Season 1 set will be 5 disks.  Since the set is 32 episodes and the solicitation info at quite a few stores said 3 disks people started to get a bit worried about video compression.  5 disks should be fine for 32 episodes though, let’s just hope that like the trailer shows, lets hope these episodes aren’t cropped like DBZ was.

Awhile ago we learned that Fabulous Films would be releasing the classic series Mysterious Cities of Gold on DVD in a few different countries, the USA included.

Mysterious Cities of Gold was a coproduction between quite a few different companies and groups and is one of the first anime (the first?) that aired on Nickelodeon back in the 1980s.

It came out in the UK, it came out in Australia, and everything has been silent on the USA front, so what happened? Continue reading →

Well there goes my Otakon guess that Media Blasters would announce the show.

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In February Toon Disney will be rebranded as Disney XD (which is the same name as Disney’s online video viewer service).  The new channel will have a general focus on the 6-14 year old boy market.

It will continue to have a good majority of the current shows it has now, like Batman the Animated Series and likely Power Rangers.

One show that will be joining Disney XD is RoboDz, a CGI anime that Disney co-produced with Toei and airs on Toon Disney’s Japanese counterpart.  RoboDz is a short form story where each episode is 5 minutes long.

Disney to target boys with rebranded cable channel {LA Times}

Thought I’d make a post so anyone who wants can make a comment with any licensing predictions for Otakon.

Honestly, I don’t quite have many guesses this year myself, the industry has been a bit to jumpy.

But here is what I know for now. Continue reading →

At the moment Gurren Lagann is being released in a relatively barebones sub only format. Starting near the end of the year it will start getting a slightly different release with lots of extras and a dub directed by fanboy favorite Tony Oliver. Bandai’s official blog put up a preview of the box that will come with Volume 1 of the more deluxe version of the series. Continue reading →