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Funimation Reveals Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor Anime's English Dub Cast
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Funimation revealed The English dub cast for its simuldub of the Akashic Records of bastard magic instructor anime on Tuesday. The simuldub premiered on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. EDT. The cast includes:
- Rachael Messer as Sistine
- Josh Grelle as Glenn Radars
- Monica Rial as Rumia
- Morgan Garrett as Celica
- Ben Phillips as Headmaster Rick
- Christopher Wehkamp as Halley
- Quinn Angell as Cecil
- Alejandro Saab as Gibul
- Anthony Bowling as Kash
- Bryn Apprill as Lynn
- Jad Saxton as Wendy
- Kristi Rothrock as Theresa
The anime's Japanese broadcast premiered on April 4. Crunchyroll is also streaming the anime with English subtitles as it airs in Japan. The series is listed with 12 episodes.
In the "action fantasy" story, based on Tarō Hitsuji's light novel series, Glenn is a part-time teacher at a magic school who is inclined to write "self-study" on the blackboard and then take a nap. One of his students, Sistine, gets angry and challenges him to a duel and he is easily defeated. However, when a terrible incident threatens the school, Glenn shows intense dedication to protecting his students.
Minato Kazuto is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS. Touko Machida (Lucky Star, The IDOLM@STER, The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan) is both writing and overseeing the scripts, Satoshi Kimura (Terraformars) is serving as both character designer and chief animation director, and Hiroaki Tsutsumi (Kuromukuro, Monster Musume, Orange) is composing the music. Konomi Suzuki is performing the opening theme song "Blow out," and the characters Sistine (as voiced by Akane Fujita), Rumia (Yume Miyamoto), and Re-L (Ari Ozawa) are performing the ending theme song "Precious You☆."