The summer 2020 anime series Appare-Ranman! from PA Works is getting some new distribution through streaming these days. The show saw its simulcast last year arrive on Hulu but with the dub not being added until later, it didn’t get the usual moving over to Hulu for streaming. That was recently updated and now viewers on Hulu and more casual anime fans can pick and choose their language for it with the dub here.
The series is directed by Masakazu Hashimoto, who worked on the series composition and is responsible for the original story. Yurie Oohigashi is on board for the character designs with P.A . Works handling the animation production.
The Japanese cast includes Natsuki Hanae as Appare Sorano, Seiichirō Yamashita as Kosame Isshiki, Aoi Yūki as Hototo, Fumiko Orikasa as Sophia Taylor, Sōma Saitō as Al Leon, Sora Amamiya as Jin Xiaoleng, Kenjiro Tsuda as Richard Riesman, Tetsu Inada as Chase the Bad, and Daisuke Ono as Gil T. Shiga.
Caitlin Glass directed the Englis dub with Shawn Gann assisting working from the scripts lead by Tyler Walker. The English cast includes Lee George as Appare, Ivan Jasso as Kosame, Brandon McInnis as Al, Caitlin Glass as Appare’s Mother, Kenneisha Thompson as Ayane, Cris George as Chase, Robert McCollum as Dylan, Elizabeth Maxwell as Female Announcer, Jalitza Delgado as Fumi, Jamal Sterling as Hanbei, Emi Lo as Hototo, Marcus M. Mauldin as Kakuzo, Jim Johnson as Kuroda, Xanthe Huynh as Sofia, Ace Anderson as TJ, and Suzie Yeung as Xialian.
The series features the opening theme song “I got it!” by Mia REGINA while Showtaro Morikubo is handling the ending theme song.
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Plot Concept: Set in the late 19th century, APPARE-RANMAN! follows Sorano Appare and Isshiki Kosame, two Japanese characters that end up lost in America. Without any money to their names, this socially-awkward engineer and cowardly samurai a trans-America race, which will earn them enough prize money to get back home. Along the way, this buddy racing adventure has the two facing criminals, rivals and all the Wild West has to throw at them as they venture from one end of America to the other in a steam-powered car of their own making.
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