{"id":521909,"date":"2026-07-12T05:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T05:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/521909\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T05:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T05:37:22","slug":"crunchyroll-reveals-cast-staff-for-same-day-english-dub-of-hanaori-san-still-wants-to-fight-in-the-next-life-anime-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/521909\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunchyroll Reveals Cast, Staff for Same-Day English Dub of Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life Anime &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"424\" alt=\"hanaori-san-kv-logo-copyright\" border=\"1\" src=\"\/thumbnails\/max300x600\/cms\/news.9\/235849\/hanaori-san-kv-logo-copyright.jpg\" class=\"lazyload\"\/>Image courtesy of Pony Canyon<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Hekiru Hikawa, Kodansha \/ Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life Anime Production Committee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=7606\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crunchyroll<\/a> revealed on Friday it will stream a same-day English dub for the television anime of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=46869\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hekiru Hikawa<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=37858\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/manga.php?id=29564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hanaori-san wa Tensei Shite mo Kenka ga Shitai<\/a>) manga starting on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The English dub cast includes:\n<\/p>\n<p>The English dub staff includes:\n<\/p>\n<p>The anime will debut on July 11 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=23248\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Animazing<\/a>!!! block on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=582\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a> TV, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=160\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TV Asahi<\/a>, and 22 other affiliate channels at 26:00 JST (effectively July 12 at 2:00 a.m. JST). The anime will then air on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=518\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AT-X<\/a> on July 12, and on BS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=124\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NTV<\/a> on July 13.<\/p>\n<p>Crunchyroll will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2026-04-27\/crunchyroll-to-stream-smoking-behind-the-supermarket-with-you-4-more-2026-anime-reveals-english-dub-\/.236806\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stream<\/a> the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, and India.<\/p>\n<p>The anime&#8217;s staff includes:\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=128497\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Masayoshi \u014cishi<\/a> performs the opening theme song &#8220;High Maintenance Girl&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=94314\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maaya Uchida<\/a> performs the ending theme song &#8220;Very Good Encounter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=5286\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seven Seas Entertainment<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2025-12-03\/seven-seas-licenses-lazy-girl-momogusa-miss-kobayashi-dragon-maid-ilulu-spinoff-5-more-titles\/.231674\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> in December it will release the manga in English in omnibus format. The first volume will ship in October 2026. The company describes the story:\n<\/p>\n<p>\tNarukami Ryusei is your typical NEET. He spends his days shut in his room playing video games without a care in the world, living a lazy life. But the truth is, Ryusei used to be a powerful demon king in another world! So why not spend this new life doing whatever he wants? Except, he wasn&#8217;t the only one reincarnated into this world. The hero who struck him down is here too\u2014and she&#8217;s a really cute high school girl?! Can Ryusei survive reuniting with his foe in a new world, or will he find himself fighting even in this life?<\/p>\n<p>Hikawa (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/manga.php?id=6360\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pani Poni manga<\/a> creator; character designer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=17260\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Concrete Revolutio<\/a> anime) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2021-07-21\/pani-poni-hekiru-hikawa-launches-new-manga-in-august\/.175381\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched<\/a> the manga in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=88\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kodansha<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/manga.php?id=21182\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning two<\/a> magazine in August 2021. Kodansha released the ninth volume on March 23.<br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/news\/announcements\/2026\/7\/10\/hanaori-san-still-wants-to-fight-in-the-next-life-anime-english-dub-release-date-cast-crew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crunchyroll<\/a> (Liam Dempsey)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image courtesy of Pony Canyon \u00a9Hekiru Hikawa, Kodansha \/ Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-521909","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\/521909","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=521909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}