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New Fruits Basket Anime's English Dub Brings Back Kent Williams as Hatori
posted on by Karen Ressler
The official English Twitter for the new television dub. Williams played the role in the 2001 anime.
The anime's previously announced English dub cast includes: (* denotes a returning cast member)
- as Tohru
- Eric Vale* as Yuki
- as Kyo
- as Shigure
- Tia Ballard as Kagura
- Mikaela Krantz as Momiji
- Hatsuharu
- Elizabeth Maxwell as Arisa Uotani
- Jad Saxton as Saki Hanajima
voice actor commentary.
The new anime will have an entirely new Japanese cast and staff, as per Takaya's request. The new anime will cover the entire manga's story.
The anime will stream the anime on FunimationNow. Funimation has also licensed the home video rights.
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU) is drawing the character designs. Takaya herself is serving as executive supervisor.
Takaya serialized the original Fruits Basket manga in re-released the manga in 12 updated omnibus volumes beginning in June 2016. Yen Press describes the story:
After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, plucky high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out...into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and it isn't long before the owners discover her secret. But, as Tohru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Sohmas have a secret of their own--when touched by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac!
The first television anime adaptation of the manga premiered in 2001.
