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Getter Robo Arc Anime Adds 9 Cast
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the television anime of Getter Robo super robot manga series, revealed additional cast for the anime on Friday. The new cast include:
Yuu Asakawa as Sho Tachibana
Kunihiko Yasui as Schwarzkopf
Daisuke Ono as Ron Schweitzer
Ryōtarō Okiayu as Emperor Gore III
Ryousuke Takahashi as Vice
Akihiro Sakata as Ganryu
Chihiro Nishimori as Gozuro
Shinpachi Tsuji as Musashi Tomoe
The anime streaming the series as it airs in Japan.
Sentai Filmworks describes the anime:
The world is on the brink of apocalypse following an onslaught of invaders. To fight the attacking hoard, one of the original Getter Robo pilots, Hayato Jin, has finished Getter Arc, a new fighting unit based on the final work and ultimate masterpiece of Professor Saotome. Now the son of Ryoma – one of Hayato's copilots on the first-generation Getter – Takuma, the half-human half-Saurian Kamui, and Baku, younger brother of the extraordinary ESPer Tahir, step aboard the Getter Arc to combat the ruthless incursion and restore hope to their ravaged world!
JAM Project perform the opening theme song "Bloodlines: Unmei no Kettō" (Fated Lineage).
Ishikawa ran the manga in Futabasha's Super Robot Magazine beginning in 2002, and it remains unfinished after Ishikawa's death in 2006. Futabasha published three compiled book volumes for the manga.
Sources: Getter Robo Arc anime's website, Comic Natalie
