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Funimation Reveals Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut Anime's English Dub Cast
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Funimation revealed the English dub cast for Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut, the television anime of Keisuke Makino and Karei's Tsuki to Laika to Nosferatu (The Moon, Laika, and nosferatu) light novel series, on Saturday. The cast includes:
- Tia Ballard as Irina
- Stephen Fu as Lev
- Jad Saxton as Anya
- Mark Stoddard as Korovin
- Marcus Stimac as Viktor
- Jonah Scott as Mikhail
- Kyle Phillips as Yustin
- Anthony Bowling as Semyon
- Jarrod Greene as Zhores
- Kimmie Britt as Roza
- Caitlin Glass as Natalia
- Bill Jenkins as Gergiev
- Christopher Bevins as Mozhaysky
- R. Bruce Elliot as Narrator
Cris George is the ADR Director. Katelyn Barr is writing the ADR scripts, and Helena Walstrom is the lead ADR engineer. The English dub will premiere on Sunday with the first episode.
Funimation is streaming the anime as part of its fall 2021 lineup.
The show premiered on TV Tokyo on October 3 at 12:35 a.m. JST (effectively, October 4). The anime is also airing on BS Nippon TV, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, and AT-X. The series is streaming on d Anime Store, ABEMA, GyaO!, and other services.
The original novels' story is set in a fictional world, 10 years after a long war divided the world into two superpowers: the Union of Zirnitra Republics in the east, and the United Kingdom of Arnak in the west. Both of these superpowers now test their ambitions against each other in a space race. In 1960, the Union's Premier Gergiev announces Project Mechtat (Dream), a prestigious plan to launch manned missions into the final frontier. To this end, the Union establishes the isolated city of Laika 44, where cosmonaut candidates compete for planned manned missions to space, and scientists develop the technology to make it happen, all in an environment of secrecy.
The story centers on Lev Leps, a backup astronaut candidate, and his new companion, the vampire Irina Ruminescu. As part of a daring new Operation nosferatu, Project Mechtat will use Irina as a test subject for various conditions expected in space, and ultimately as part of a manned mission, with Lev overseeing Irina's training as a cosmonaut. For reasons of their own, both dream of going into space.
Akitoshi Yokoyama (Cutie Honey Universe, Photo Kano) is directing the anime at Arvo Animation. Original novel creator Keisuke Makino is in charge of the anime's series scripts. Hiromi Kato (I'm Gonna Be An Angel, Kobato., Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East) is designing the characters. Yūji Kaneko (Kill la Kill, Spriggan) is the art director. Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, Black Butler: Book of Circus, Inazuma Eleven) is composing the music.
The rock band Ali Project is performing the opening theme song "Hi no Tsuki" (Scarlet Moon), and singer-songwriter Chima is performing the ending theme song "Arifureta Itsuka" (A Wonderful Someday).
Shogakukan's Gagaga Bunko light novel imprint launched the novel series in December 2016. Seven Seas will release the first volume of the light novel series physically in English in August 2022 and will release it on digital platforms.
Sojihogu launched a manga adaptation of the novels in Kodansha's Comic Days website in March 2018, but the series went on indefinite hiatus beginning in January 2019 due to Sojihogu's poor health. The series has not yet resumed. Kodansha published the manga's first compiled book volume in November 2018.
Source: Funimation (Nicholas Friedman)
