Tiger & Bunny first movie to premiere in the UK on September 22
As I recall, Ozaki talked about wanting to bring the Tiger & Bunny movies to the West. And he has hereby stood behind his word.
MangaUK tweeted this image earlier today and when I saw the “Movie 1 Premiere” on the poster I thought “it couldn’t be…” but the U.K. fans – and consequently European fans since this brings the BDs and DVDs closer to our reach – are getting a really good treatment. The first BD/DVD combo volume is coming out October 29th in the U.K.
(I also noticed that Blue Rose is gone from the promotional poster. The poster looks so much better without her that it just underlines how pasted on she was in the previous version.)
I know I can’t be the only one planning a trip to the U.K. in September, right?
Update: According to The-O Network, Viz’s North American release of Tiger & Bunny on DVD and Blu-ray will be early 2013. It could mean that the dub will first be broadcast on TV in the USA, and it goes straight on DVD in the U.K.
Of course, the dates could be subject to change…
Let’s talk dub cast
Viz has started to trickle announcements on the Tiger & Bunny English dub cast on their official T&B Facebook page. So far we have:
- Patrick Seitz as Sky High/Keith Goodman
- Travis Willingham as Rock Bison/Antonio Lopez
- Jamieson K. Price as Albert Maverick
- Stephanie Sheh as Kriem
- Steven Blum as Jake Martinez
At the current speed (announcement every other day) they can drag this on for weeks – and Kotetsu and Barnaby’s VA’s will probably be the last ones to be announced.
We don’t usually watch dubs, and the American voice actors we recognise we have learned to know from game dubs. Because of that we don’t really have any expectations, other than that we don’t want to hear Vic Mignogna in any role, and we would absolutely love to hear Yuri Lowenthal in some role, preferably as Ivan.
What do you think of the cast choices so far, and who would be in your dream voice cast?
Update: More cast announced.
- Laura Bailey as Dragon Kid/Huang Pao-Lin
- Kari Wahlgren as Blue Rose/Karina Lyle
- John Eric Bentley as Fire Emblem/Nathan Seymour
I don’t know if my google-fu is failing or if John Eric Bentley hasn’t done notable anime work before, I only found an IMDB page that seems like it’s the right person.
For Fun: Pre-order Bingo
Today’s pre-order war over G.E.M. Kotetsu inspired me to make this bingo chart. (I doubt anyone has time to play bingo while smashing F5, tho.) This is a v2 of the bingo chart because I realized I’d left out a rather important one.
Well, you know the drill. Re-arrange to your liking or add some objectives of your own for future wars!
Review: Hero Awards 2011
The event everyone wanted to go but couldn’t was released on BD/DVD on April 20th. This review is about the DVD version, the Blu-ray has the exact same contents in HD. Neither have English subtitles.
TIGER & BUNNY Hero Awards 2011
Format: DVD (region 2) / Blu-ray (region free)
Runtime: 2 hours 39 minutes
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: N/A
Extras: pamphlet, final episode event recording, movie announcement trailer
Hero Awards 2011 was held at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall on November 13th, 2011 and the recording is from the evening event. Almost all of the main cast could make it, only Tsuda Kenjirou (Fire Emblem) wasn’t able to join until at the very end of the event. Despite this he wasn’t entirely absent, there were video messages and he did the “commercial breaks”. All the rest of the heroes’ seiyuu are there, also including Lunatic’s who was the MC for most of the event. Continue reading →
A little update, if you will…
Hi, it’s derpchan, the member of This is Sternbild who has a little shopping obsession. I mentioned in my review of the Limited Version of Katsura’s artbook that getting S.H.Figuarts Wild Tiger with it made me want more – specifically Barnaby.
Thanks to the frequent reprints, I finally managed to grab him and today he arrived.
“So, how about that fried rice, Bunny?”
And a few more pictures in the Facebook album.
Seems that the S.H.Figuarts of Wild Tiger and Barnaby have finally reached a point where they aren’t constantly SOLD OUT. Barnaby was in stock at Big in Japan and Wild Tiger at Hobby Search.
Now I’ll stick to my guns and wait for Fire Emblem – I’ve been wanting him ever since I saw his Figuarts but Bandai saved the girls for last because even Lunatic is coming out before them. (Hopefully they’ll release Crapsuit someday, too.)
