Following the recent announcement of the release of the dubbed version of Chihayafuru in domestic format, HIDIVE arrived to cover the streaming.
The third season of the popular Japanese traditional card game series, Karuta, has long been in the history books, but its version dubbed into English was severely delayed due to various circumstances.
But the Sentai Filmworks team recently announced their production and introduced the otaku world to their voices and commissioned team.
A fairly complete cast consisting of:
- Luci Christian as Chihaya and the child version of Chihaya
- Blake Shepard como Arata
- Adam Gibbs como Taichi
- Bryson Baugus como Desktomu
- Juliet Simmons as Kanade
- Greg Ayres as Porky and Yukari
- Maggie Flecknoe como Sumire
- Gareth West as Akihito
- James Belcher as Dr. Harada
- Vicki Barosh as Mrs. Miyauchi
- Shannon Emerick as the child version of Arata
- Chelsea McCurdy as the child version Taichi
In the technical department, Jonathan Rodriguez and Patrick Marrero are the audio engineers for the English dubbing. Joel McCray is a writer for ADR. Katrina Leonoudakis is the translator and Brent Marshall is the mixing engineer.
The Sentai Filmworks license will bring this new edition of the anime to many territories in the West, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Europe, Portugal, the Scandinavian region, Central and South America. Launching its editions this July 27.
Chihayafuru
When Chihaya Ayase was in sixth grade, she had a dream to see her sister become a recognized model. His world is transformed when he meets Arata Wataya, a transferred classmate of Fukui, who, along with teaching him the true meaning of what a dream was, reveals to him the magic of the traditional Japanese card game: Karuta. Arata also shares his ultimate desire: to become the best karuta player. Chihaya will quickly become infected with her passion for this game and will decide to direct her new dream towards the horizon of becoming the best karuta player in Japan.
When she meets him for the first time in a karuta encounter, she is deeply impressed to see him calmly retrieving cards with intense concentration and agility. Arata, after the game, reveals to him that she has innate abilities to play, as was the case with her extraordinary hearing. She loves the game and decides to enter this world in the company of Arata and his close friend Taichi Mashima. In this way, a deep friendship is built between the three.