With the series set to arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on January 20th, 2015 from Sentai Filmworks, the dub cast for the series has surfaced. The show is one that we enjoyed a lot when it landed a few years back and it’s good to see it getting such a good release. The show has Kyle Jones serving as the ADR director and it also has a few names we’ve not seen in some time back in the booth, including Christine Auten! The series originally aired throughout 2012 with a twenty-four episode run and recap episode. Animated by Satelight, it was directed by Takayuki Inagaki and had character designs by Yumiko Hara.
Director – Kyle Jones
Yui – Krystal LaPorte
Yuuya – Corey Hartzog
Aki – Molly Searcy
Shimako – Katelyn Barr
Izumi – Meg McDonald
Kazusa – Kira Vincent-Davis
Eiji – John Swasey
Professor Eyepatch – Jack Ivy
Yuuhi – Maggie Flecknoe
Senna – Allison Keith-Shipp
Admiral Yamaguchi – James Belcher
Adjutant – Joel McCray
Uncle Eiji – John Swasey
Admiral Ozawa – Mike Yager
Tarisa – Terri Doty
Valerio – Jay Hickman
Ibrahim – Ty Mahany
Stella – Allison Sumrall
Vincent – Blake Shepard
Inia – Brittney Karbowski
Cryska – Christine Auten
Frank Heinemann – Paul Locklear
Lida – Juliet Simmons
Mira – Emily Neves
Fikatsia – Angela Foster
Jacob – Santry Rush
Tonya – Cynthia Feaster
Tasha – Kara Greenberg
Jerzy – David Matranga
Yamamoto – Clint Bickham
Plot concept: In 1967, Mankind encountered the hostile alien BETA and the Space Race became a Space War. Despite every measure thrown against them, the BETA made their first deadly landings on Earth in 1973 and by 1998, half of Eurasia has fallen. While the rest of the world stages desperate defensive battles across a thousand fronts, a brutally savaged Japan barely manages to hang on, thanks to the support of the United States, the UN, and a new form of robot/jet hybrid known as the Tactical Surface Fighter. But even as pilots and engineers struggle to develop the newest generation of advanced weaponry, the vestiges of the Cold War threaten to cripple the efforts of the defenders, with the surviving nations fighting to prioritize their own survival. And at the eye of the gathering storm, the actions of 2nd Lieutenant Yuuya Bridges of the U.S. and First Lieutenant Yui Takamura, the sole survivor of a unit lost in the battle of Kyoto, may become the focus upon which the fate of all humanity depends.
[Source: TFP Forums]
Very much looking forward to Christine Auten as Cryska, though I have no idea what to expect from Brittney Karbowski as her co-pilot Inia (who has a weirdly child-like voice in the original). I don’t know that I’ve heard Christine Auten since she was Izumi in FMA.
I’m a little worried about David Matranga as Lt. Sandek (I doubt his first name of “Jerzy” is ever used in the show)� Sandek is older and ruthlessly amoral, and Matranga will always be the young and empathetic Tomoya from Clannad to me. But hey, playing different roles is what they get paid for; let’s see how it turns out.