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Aniplex USA Produces English Dub for Fate/Grand Order - First Order Anime, Hosts Premiere at Anime Expo

Aniplex of America announced on Saturday at its panel at A-Kon that it will produce an English dub for the Fate/Grand Order: First Order anime special, and will premiere the English dub at the Anime Expo event in Los Angeles next month.

Aniplex of America also revealed the English dub cast for the special. Tony Oliver is the voice director of the dub. The dub stars:

• Griffin Burns as Ritsuka Fujimaru
• Erica Mendez as Mash Kyrielight
• Kira Buckland as Olga Marie Animusphere
• Xander Mobus as Romani Archaman
• Jalen K. Cassell as Leff Lynor
• Tony Oliver as Cú Chulainn
• Kaiji Tang as Emiya
• Melissa Fahn as Medusa
• Kari Wahlgren as Altria Pendragon (Alter)

Aniplex of America describes the anime:

The year is AD 2017
The last era in which magecraft still thrived.
The Chaldea Security Organization was founded to focus on preserving the continuation of human history. They observe a world which magecraft couldn't observe and science couldn't measure all to prevent the certain extinction of humanity. But one day, the future that Chaldea continued to observe disappears and humanity's extinction in 2019 becomes clear. Rather, it had already happened.
The cause seems to be related to Fuyuki, a provincial town in Japan, in the year AD 2004. There, an “unobservable region” that had not existed before appears.
Based on the assumption that Fuyuki is the reason for humanity's extinction, Chaldea issues an order to explore, investigate, and possibly destroy this singularity – a quest for the Holy Grail: the Grand Order.

The 74-minute television anime aired in Japan on December 31. Aniplex of America, Crunchyroll, and Daisuki streamed the special the same day.

The anime is based on the Fate/Grand Order smartphone game. Aniplex released the game in Japan in summer 2015 and it has been downloaded more than 9 million times. The game is getting an English release in the United States and Canada on June 25.