Funimation’s got a busy summer slate of anime series for fans to check out in general but also when it comes to the Broadcast Dubs. The next show making its way to the format are the two Danganronpa series with the Future Arc and Despair Arc. Christopher Bevins / Christian LaMonte are the ADR directors for both of them and they’re set to premiere on August 10th at 8pm and August 11th at 11:30am ET respectively.
Future Arc
The cast includes:
- Bryce Papenbrook as Makoto Naegi
- Caitlin Glass as Kyoko Kirigiri
- Felecia Angelle as Aoi Asahina
- Christopher Bevins as Yasuhiro Hagakure
- Greg Ayres as Monokuma
- Anastasia Muñoz as Monomi
- Tia Ballard as Daisaku Bandai
- Chris Rager as The Great Gozu
- Ian Sinclair as Juzo Sakakura
- Kaiji Tang as Kohichi Kitakura
- Justin Briner as Ryota Mitarai
- Ricco Fajardo as Kyosuke Munakata
- Jād Saxton as Ruruka Ando
- Erin Fitzgerald as Seiko Kimura
- Brandon McInnis as Sohnosuke Izayoi
- Mark Stoddard asKazuo Tengan
- Colleen Clinkenbeard as Chisa Yukizome
Despair Arc
- Colleen Clinkenbeard as Chisa Yukizome
- Johnny Yong Bosch as Hajime Hinata
- Todd Haberkorn as Teruteru Hanamura
- Kaiji Tang as Kohichi Kitakura
- Carrie Keranen as Mahiru Koizumi
- Bryce Papenbrook as Nagito Komaeda
- Aaron Dismuke as Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu
- Brina Palencia as Ibuki Mioda
- Justin Briner as Ryota Mitarai
- Ricco Fajardo as Kyosuke Munakata
- Christine Marie Cabanos as Chiaki Nanami
- Natalie Hoover as Sonia Nevermind
- Patrick Seitz as Nekomaru Nidai
- Morgan Garrett as Akane Owari
- Clarine Harp as Peko Pekoyama
- Kira Buckland as Hiyoko Saiyonji
- Kyle Hebert as Kazuichi Soda
- Scott Frerichs as Tanaka the Forbidden One
- Stephanie Sheh as Mikan Tsumiki
The Japanese cast includes Megumi Ogata as Makoto Naegi, Yōko Hikasa as Kyōko Kirigiri, Saki Fujita as Seiko Kimura, Inori Minase as Ruruka Andō, Takuya Eguchi as Sōnosuke Izayoi, Hidekatsu Shibata as Kazuo Tengan, Keiji Fujiwara as Kōichi Kizakura, Kanata Hongou as Ryōta Mitarai, Rie Kugimiya as Daisaku Bandai, Kenta Miyake as Great Gozu, Chiwa Saito as Aoi Asahina, Masaya Matsukaze as Yasuhiro Hagakure, Takako Sasuga as Monomi, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Kyōsuke Munakata, Mai Nakahara as Chisa Yukizome, Junichi Suwabe as Jūzō Sakakura and Minami Takayama as HajimeHinata.
The new anime adaptation will be taking place after the second game installment but it’s going to work two different seasons that focuses on different elements. The first half is set to land in July and will focus on the cast that we knew from the first season of the anime. The second cour that’s coming later will focus on the characters from the second game, which has not had an anime adaptation. The two parts will be called Mirai-hen and Zetsubou-hen respectively.
The series is being directed by Seiji Kishi based off of composition by Norimitsu Kaihou. It’s being animated at studio LErche with Kazuaki Morita and Ryoko Amisaki serving as the character designers.
Original series concept: Hope’s Peak Academy is an elite high school that accepts only the most talented students. Individuals who successfully enroll receive their own unique titles, suitably reflective of their skills and traits. Of the fifteen candidates admitted to the peculiar school that year, Makoto Naegi is a completely ordinary individual who has been accepted by sheer chance, with the title of “Ultimate Lucky Student.”
Naegi and his fellow classmates are initially ecstatic to be chosen to study at this prestigious institution, but these feelings of happiness are short-lived. They are soon confronted by Monokuma, the principal and resident bear, who traps them inside the school. The pupils’ hopes of escape and graduation hinge on one of them successfully murdering one of their peers without being discovered. However, if the killer is caught, he or she will be executed, and the