{"id":441345,"date":"2026-05-23T08:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/441345\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T08:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:32:19","slug":"akane-banashi-anime-reveals-additional-english-dub-cast-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/441345\/","title":{"rendered":"Akane-banashi Anime Reveals Additional English Dub Cast – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Netflix<\/a> revealed on Friday additional English dub<\/a> cast members for the third episode of the anime<\/a> of writer Y\u016bki Suenaga<\/a> and illustrator Takamasa Moue<\/a>‘s Akane-banashi<\/a> manga.<\/p>\n


\n \"6a-akn-kellen-goff-v2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9Y\u016bki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue \/ SHUEISHA<\/a>, Akane-banashi Committee<\/p>\n


\n \"7a-akn-anne-yatco\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n \u00a9Y\u016bki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue \/ SHUEISHA, Akane-banashi Committee\n <\/p>\n


\n \"8a-akn-landon-mcdonald\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n \u00a9Y\u016bki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue \/ SHUEISHA, Akane-banashi Committee\n <\/p>\n


\n \"9a-akn-khoi-dao\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n \u00a9Y\u016bki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue \/ SHUEISHA, Akane-banashi Committee\n <\/p>\n


\n \"11a-akn-jonathon-ha\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n \u00a9Y\u016bki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue \/ SHUEISHA, Akane-banashi Committee\n <\/p>\n


\n \"10a-akn-darius-johnson\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n \u00a9Y\u016bki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue \/ SHUEISHA, Akane-banashi Committee\n <\/p>\n

The newly announced dub cast includes:\n<\/p>\n

Darius Marquis Johnson<\/a> will also appear again as Guriko Arakawa.<\/p>\n

\"akane\"Image courtesy of TV Asahi<\/p>\n

Yuki Suenaga, Takamasa Moue \/ SHUEISHA, Akane-banashi Committee<\/p>\n

The previously revealed English dub cast members are:<\/p>\n

The English dub staff members are:<\/p>\n

Netflix debuted<\/a> the English dub for the first two episodes on May 17. It will launch later episodes weekly.<\/p>\n

The anime began airing on TV Asahi<\/a>‘s “IMAnimation” programming block on April 4. The anime also has its own “Akane-banashi Global” YouTube<\/a> channel<\/a>, where full episodes stream for free in North America and Latin America, after their television broadcast in Japan. <\/p>\n

The anime is also streaming on aniverse in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. ADN<\/a> is streaming it in France, Monaco, Andorra, Switzerland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Anime Box<\/a> is streaming it in Spain and Anime Generation<\/a> is streaming it in Italy. The Ani-One YouTube channel is streaming the anime in the Asia Pacific (excluding Korea and China). Bahamut, ChungHwa Telecom MOD & Hami<\/a> Video, LiTV<\/a> & Ofiii, Line TV, My-Video<\/a>, Catchplay, and friDay are streaming the anime in Taiwan. Bahamut is streaming it in Hong Kong and Macao. Catchplay is streaming it in Indonesia and TrueID is streaming it in Thailand. playmax.mn STAR TV<\/a> is streaming it in Mongolia. Laftel and Aniplus<\/a> Channel are streaming it in South Korea.<\/p>\n

TV Asahi describes the story:\n<\/p>\n

\t“With only your voice and body\u2014master the art.”<\/p>\n

Akane Osaki, captivated since childhood by the magical performances of her father, Shinta Arakawa, witnesses a shocking incident during his decisive performance for promotion to shin’uchi master rank). Six years later, now a high school student, she sets her sights on becoming a shin’uchi herself\u2014pushing forward in the highly competitive world of rakugo.<\/p>\n

A passionate and authentic rakugo drama begins now!\n<\/p>\n

Suenaga and Moue launched<\/a> the manga in February 2022. Shueisha published the 21st compiled book volume on April 3. The manga was nominated<\/a> for the 47th Kodansha<\/a> Manga Awards and<\/a> the 16th Manga Taisho awards in 2023. The manga ranked<\/a> at #4 for the top 20 list of manga for male readers in the 2023 edition of Takarajimasha<\/a>‘s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook.<\/p>\n

Viz Media<\/a>‘s Shonen Jump<\/a> service and Shueisha’s MANGA Plus<\/a> service both publish<\/a> the manga in English. Viz Media is also publishing<\/a> the manga in print.<\/p>\n

The manga made<\/a> the American Library Association’s (ALA’s) Young Adult Library Services Association’s (YALSA) 2024 list of Great Graphic Novels for Teens, and The New York Public Library also named<\/a> the manga on its Best Books list for teens in 2023.<\/p>\n

Source: Press release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix revealed on Friday additional English dub cast members for the third episode of the anime of writer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-441345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}