FUNimation has the final piece of their “phase one” plans for the spring 2015 Broadcast Dub anime season coming into play with the May 21st debut of the Ninja Slayer dub at 10am ET. Since we’re down to just a few days before it arrives, the production team for the dub was announced at Anime Central this weekend. The dub is being directed by Tyler Walker, who is working with Patrick Morphy and Kyle Phillips as the ADR engineers. The main cast for it that’s been announced includes:
Ninja Slayer/Kenji Fujikido – Christopher R. Sabat
Laomoto Khan – Bill Jenkins
Dark Ninja – Chris Ryan
Narrator Kent Williams
The series was directed by Akira Amemiya, who has a good line of credits to his name over the years, having started as a key animator that has moved up to episode director status for a number of series, including some fun episodes of Kill la Kill while also serving as series director for Inferno Cop. Yu Sato is slated to handle the scripts while character designs come from Hiroyuki Imaishi and Yusuke Yoshigaki. Studio Trigger is behind the animation itself.
The cast includes Toshiyuki Morikawa as Ninja Slayer, Sho Hayami as Fujio Katakura/Dark Ninja, Chiwa Saito as Nancy Lee, Sora Amamiya as Koki Yamamoto, Risa Taneda as Dragon Yukano, Masane Tsukayama as Laomoto Khan, Tesshô Genda as Clone Yakuza and Goblin as the Narrator.
Plot concept: Ninjas. Karate. Sushi. The dystopian cyber underworld of Neo-Saitama is ruled from the shadows by an intricate web of drugs, yakuza gangs, and evil syndicate ninjas wielding fearsome “karate.” In a sea of the blood of his enemies, a lone maverick stands. NINJA SLAYER is a ninja who kills other ninjas in the name of ninja vengeance. A former salaryman whose family was killed by evil ninjas, Ninja Slayer cheats death and casts away his past to embrace the dark, mystical NINJA SOUL, a mysterious spirit that grants him great power in his quest for revenge. But will this bloodthirsty spirit consume Ninja Slayer before his enemies are all “dead on departure?” Domo. I’m Ninja Slayer.