The upcoming 3DCG animated film Gamba: Gamba and his Fellows has had a new trailer released to its official site recently that includes a bit of new casting news. We had previously gotten the bulk of the main cast but had lacked the clear villain casting for the work. That’s now been revealed to be Mansai Nomura as he’s playing Noroi, the white weasel. Nomura has only one anime credit to his name with The Wind Rises where he played Caproni as he’s mostly done live action work.
It was previously revealed that Yuuki Kaji will be taking on Gamba while Sayaka Kanda is taking on the role of Shioji. Kaji has gotten a number of new fans over the last couple of years for his work as Eren in Attack on Titan while Kanda has just a little bit of popularity by voicing the role of Anna in the Japanese dub of Frozen.
The full cast so far includes:
- Yuuki Kaji as Gamba
- Sayaka Kanda as Shioji
- Masako Nozawa as Tsuburi
- Akio Ohtsuka as Yoisho
- Wataru Takagi as Manpuku
- Shuuichi Ikeda as Gakusha
- Yasuhiro Takato as Boobo
- Keiji Fujiwara as Ikasama
- Akiko Yajima as Chuta
- Mansai Nomura as Noroi
The film is set for a Japanese October 10th, 2015 debut. Considering the popularity and sales of the 3DCG Doraemon feature, this really isn’t a surprise. The new film is based n the original 1972 novel and will be called Gamba and His Fellows and has a 2 billion yen budget to it. The film will also be getting a North american release down the line as Avi Arad is on board as en executive producer.
The TV series is one of those quieter pieces of anime history that never gets attention overseas due to its limited distribution. The show came from Osamu Dezaki as the overall director while working with Yoshio Takeuchi and Hideo Takayashi on scripts and episode direction. Both have a wide range of credits over the years with Takeuchi being the chief animation director and an episode director on Space Adventure Cobra while Takayashi worked on scripts for Maison Ikkoku and Master Keaton and a lot of Onii-sama e… His later works included Rainbow, RideBack and Strawberry Panic among others.
Plot concept: An adventurous wild mouse called Gamba travels with his friends to see the ocean but he finds an injured mouse and hears about the violence of white ferret Noroi. Gamba decides to help the mice suffering under Noroi’s tyranny.
