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Hal Anime Film's 1st 7 English-Dubbed Minutes Posted
posted on by Karen Ressler
North American anime distributor Funimation posted the first seven minutes of the anime film Hal with an English dub on Wednesday. The English dub of the entire film will premiere at Anime Expo on Saturday, and Funimation will then ship the film on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on September 2.
The dub cast includes:
| Hal | Chris Burnett (Romeo X Juliet's Romeo, Shiki's Toru Muto) |
| Kurumi | Bryn Apprill (Attack on Titan's Christa Renz, Date A Live's Kotori Itsuka, Red Data Girl's Izumiko Suzuhara) |
| Ryu | Todd Haberkorn (Fairy Tail's Natsu Dragneel, Hetalia's Italy, Ouran High School Host Club's Hikaru Hitachiin) |
Funimation gave a synopsis:
From the studio behind Attack on Titan comes the directorial debut of a bold, new voice in the world of anime.Kurumi's heart was broken by the sudden death of her boyfriend in a tragic airplane accident. Forced to carry on without her beloved Hal, she fell into a reclusive and joyless existence. Kurumi had given up on the world, but a brilliant scientist devised a plan to win her back. By melding futuristic technology with the binary equivalent of human emotion, they created an ultra-lifelike robotic surrogate to take Hal's place – and lure Kurumi from her shroud of solitude. Resistant at first, this shattered beauty slowly yielded to her feelings of longing – and took comfort in the company of a robot. Though their unique bond grew stronger with each passing day, Kurumi and Hal would soon discover that nothing about their artificial love story was quite as it seemed.
Manga creator Io Sakisaka (Strobe Edge, Ao Haru Ride) created the original character designs, and Ryōtarō Makihara (storyboard and episode direction on Guilty Crown, The Tatami Galaxy) made his directorial debut with this film at Wit Studio (Attack on Titan). Izumi Kizara (live-action Sexy Voice and Robo, Q10) wrote the screenplay, which is not based on preexisting material.
Katsuhiko Kitada (Guilty Crown, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos) was in charge of the character animation as chief animation director, and Asami Kiyokawa (Paradise Kiss) served as the visual art director. Michiru Oshima (Fullmetal Alchemist, Beck, Blast of Tempest) scored the music.
