The six-episode mini-series premieres on Netflix on October 17
The New York Comic Con 2024 panel for new animation project Mobile Suit Gunma: Requiem for Vengeance confirmed British and Japanese casting for three characters on Saturday.
The newly announced cast members are:
British actor: Chris Parham
Japanese actor: Hōchū Ohtsuka
as Rolph Ronet Image via Mobile Suit Gun: Requiem for Vengeance animation project website
© SOTSU・SUNRISE
British actor: Derrick Dover
Japanese actor: Kyonosuke Kami
as Yury Kellerne Image via Mobile Suit Gun: Requiem for Vengeance animation project website
© SOTSU・SUNRISE
English actor: Kole Yadon
Japanese actor: Kazuki Ura
as a Gundam Pilot Image via Mobile Suit Gun: Requiem for Vengeance animated project website
© SOTSU・SUNRISE
© 創通・サンライズ
The previously announced Japanese voice cast is:
The six-episode, 30-minute Mobile Suit Gunma: Requiem for Vengeance series began streaming worldwide exclusively on Netflix on October 17. The story focuses on the European front during the War One year of popularity of the first anime anime.
The story focuses on Iria Sorari, and the mechas include the mobile suit Zeon Zaku II and the mobile suit Federation Mobile Suit.
Staff at Sunrise and Safe House produced the animation entirely using Epic Games' Unreal Engine 5. Gavin Hignight (Tekken: Bloodline, Transformers: Cyberverse, Star Wars: Resistance, Marvel's Spider-Man game) wrote the script and German artist Erasmus Brosdau (Origin Zero,”The Lord Inquisitor: Seed of Ambition” of Warhammer 40,000) directs the project. Naohiro Ogata (Mobile SuitGundam: The Witch From Mercury, Mobile SuitGundam Thunderbolt) and Highnight are executive producers and Hiroaki Yura is producing.
Manuel Augusto Dischinger Moura is the main character designer, and Kimitoshi Yamane (Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, various Gunma projects) is the mechanical design supervisor. Wilbert Roget II (Mortal Kombat 11, Call of Duty: WWII, Lara Croft and Temple of Osiris games) composed the music.
Australian actress Celia Massingham (DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Ladies in Black) voices the title character and performed the motion capture for the animation.
Source: Mobile Suit GTA: Requiem for Vengeance the animation's website, Gundam.info
Disclosure: Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc. (Sunrise) is a minority, non-controlling shareholder in Anime News Network Inc.