Funimation kicked off their winter simuldub for Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens yesterday and while they didn’t put out an announcement detailing the cast list, the information has landed. The show has Jeremy Inman serving as the ADR director with Anthony Bowling as the assistant ADR director. No scriptwriter was listed and the cast for the first episode includes:
- Josh Grelle as Banba
- Daman Mills as Hayashi (Lin)
- Kyle Igneczi as Enokida
- Ian Sinclair as Harada
- Jim Johnson as Ivanov
- Aaron Roberts as Jiro
- Marcus Stimac as Martines
- Amber Lee Connors as Misaki
- David Wald as Munakata
- Tasia Munoz as Reiko
- Stephen Fu as Saito
- Ben Phillips as Shigematsu
- Dallas Reid as Shino
- Eric Vale as Yamato
- Austin Tindle as Yusuke
- Jarrod Greene as Zhang
Kenji Yasuda is directing it based on the series composition by Shogo Yasukawa. Hideki Inoue is on board for the character designs and Satelight will be animating it.
The series comes from writer Chiaki Kisaki with artwork by Hako Ichiiro with seven volumes out as of the anime premiere. A manga adaptation kicked off last summer from Kisara Akino with it set to complete with the second volume.
The Japanese cast includes Daisuke Ono as Zenji Banba, Yuuki Kaji as Lin Xianming, Yūsuke Kobayashi as Saitoh, Yūichi Nakamura as Shunsuke Saruwatari, Daisuke Namikawa as Jirō, Kensho Ono as Enokida, Aoi Yūki as Misaki, Tomoaki Maeno as José Martínez, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Yamato, Daisuke Hirakawa as Saeki, Kenji Hamada as Shigematsu, Kousei Hirota as Genzō Gohda, and Masaya Matsukaze as Kyoya Nitta.
Plot Concept: At a glance, Fukuoka seems like a peaceful town, but crime runs rampant behind the scenes. It’s now a battleground for professional killers, with urban legends suggesting that there’s even one who specializes in killing professional killers. Assassins, detectives, revenge seekers, informants, torture specialists… When stories are told of these and other professionals of the underground, a “killer of professional killers” appears…
