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Hal Anime Film's English Dub Clip Reveals Kurumi and Hal's Past

FUNimation Entertainment began streaming a new clip from the English dub of the anime film Hal on Monday. The film ships on DVD and Blu-Ray 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 gives 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.