Naruto cast annonuced
After much speculation around the web, Viz has finally revealed the cast for its release of Naruto:
Naruto - Maile Flanagan
Sakura - Kate Higgins
Sasuke - Yuri Lowenthal
Kakashi - Dave Wittenberg
Hinata Hyuuga - Stephanie Sheh
Tsunami - Cindy Robinson
Ino Yamanaka - Colleen O’Shaughnessey
Konohamaru - Colleen O’Shaughnessey
Asuma - Doug Erholtz
Gato - Fred Tatasciore
Tazuna - Kirk Thornton
Iruka - Quinton Flynn
Choji - Robbie Rist
Hokage - Steve Kramer
Zabuza - Steven Blum
Shikamaru - Tom Gibbas
As previously reported, the Nartuo dub is being produced by Studiopolis, Inc. and directed by Jamie Simone, Jeff Nimoy and Marc Handler.
Most excellent. Quinton Flynn is more anime, that’s always good.
Comment by Sol — August 25, 2005 @ 10:36 am
NO!!!!!!!!!! Why not Steven Blum for Kakashi???? I have been waiting the whole long summer and expected him to be playing Kakashin. =.= so dissapointed, well hope he will appear more later on. Maybe playing Sasuke’s brother heh? haha awsome.
Comment by Terry Ng — August 27, 2005 @ 5:35 am
NUUUUUUU.
WHY? WHY DO TRANSLATIONS HAVE TO BE SO CRUEL?
-sob-
Comment by Ferret — August 27, 2005 @ 1:36 pm
Should’t that be Tsunade instead of Tsunami? I’m not familiar with any of Naruto’s VA’s works, but I’m looking forward to how she handles him.
Comment by bakaboobie — August 29, 2005 @ 6:15 pm
I don’t really know much about the show, so I just used the names ANN got. There were a few spelling errors in the cast names though, so I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the names were wrong too.
Comment by drakh — August 29, 2005 @ 8:10 pm
who will be blessing us with the voice of Orochimaru?
Comment by hunter — September 2, 2005 @ 10:54 pm
Tsunami was Inari’s mother (from the Big Naruto Bridge arc.)
I’m actually glad they didn’t casy Steve Blum in Kakashi’s role. Although he’s done som any things in the past (and he is playing Zabuza,) it’s starting to get a bit tiresome to see him play every super-cool male character in an anime. ^^; Just my opinion.
Comment by Kei — September 4, 2005 @ 3:02 pm
Isn’t Matt Damon doing Orochimaru?
Comment by Maniak — September 6, 2005 @ 8:34 pm
Matt Damon = Orochimaru http://imdb.com/title/tt0409591/
theres no order to there madness ;P
Comment by Narutofan — September 6, 2005 @ 8:37 pm
You’re putting way too much faith into IMDB. Anyone can submit info to them, and they don’t do any fact checking. Like the previous cast list they had (the one with Johnny Yong Bosch as Naruto), this is almost certainly a just made up rumor.
Comment by drakh — September 7, 2005 @ 1:55 pm
Well frankly, having seen it on Toonami, I don’t having anycomplaints yet…so far so good…I just wanna know who they got for Haku…
Comment by Mog — October 4, 2005 @ 5:29 pm
It would be marvelous if Crispin Freeman were cast as Orochimaru-he’s an amazing voice actor(especially for slimy villains like this guy!). However, I did see somewhere that Tony Danza would be Orochimaru. Dang…no offense, Mr. Danza, but Crispin was made for this kinda role!
Comment by U-DO freak — October 22, 2005 @ 10:20 pm
HEY HEY HEY!!!!!!!! WHAT ABOUT HAKU?! EVERYONE FORGOT ABOUT HIM ALREADY?!
Comment by HailZuko82 — September 25, 2006 @ 4:37 am