'Re:Zero' Announces English Dub Cast

03/06/2018 12:47 am EST

Fans of Re:Zero - Starting Life In Another World - were excited to hear that the series would soon get an English dub after being in a right limbo ever since the series was first released and simulcast in Japan.

But soon after Funimation acquired the rights to the series, it announced that an English dub of the series will soon be available on home video and now has revealed the cast behind the dub.

The English dub cast is as follows:

Funimation is set to release the series on Blu-ray and DVD, starting with the "Season 1 Part 1" later this Summer.

For those unfamiliar with Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World, the series was originally created by Tappei Nagatsuki with illustrations provided by Shinichirou Otsuka. The story follows Subaru Natsuki, a homebody who wakes up in a fantasy world on his way home from the convenience store. Meeting a silver haired elf named Satella, he decides to help her on her journey to recover a stolen item.

After the two are mysteriously killed, Subaru wakes up to realize that he has gone back in time to the point when he first entered the world. Realizing he has a new power called "Return by Death," which sends him back in time every time he dies, Subaru decides to use this new power to try and make a better life for himself in this world with the mysterious silver haired elf.

The series originally began life as a series of light novels, it has since been collected into fifteen volumes since 2014. The series was adapted into three different manga series by Daichi Matsue and Makoto Fugetsu, and was adapted into an anime series by White Fox in 2016 that ran for 25 episodes. It has been licensed for an English language release by Yen Press.

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