'Uzumaki' Anime Miniseries English Dub Cast Announced At Anime Expo
The twists and turns of the four-episode anime’s production are coming to a head
If you’ve been spiraling because you remember hearing about Adult Swim doing an anime adaptation of Junji Ito’s horror manga Uzumaki and realized it hasn’t premiered yet, it’s okay. It’s ended up a very slow process. On the bright side, Production I.G announced the English voice cast during the Production I.G x WIT x Signal.MD panel at Anime Expo last Saturday, July 6.
The cast includes Suzume and Zom 100’s Abby Trott as Kirie Goshima, a role played by Uki Satake in the original Japanese. Infinity Train and Breadwinners star Robbie Daymond, lately of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War and takes over as Joe Kido and Armadillomon in their respective new Digimon movie appearances (but won’t be the voice of either in the upcoming uncut Digimon: The Movie voices Shuichi Saito, voiced by Shin-ichiro Miki in Japanese. Hyperforce Black Ranger Vesper Vazquez and Ladybug Marinette Dupain-Cheng herself Cristina Vee voices Azami Kurotani, who is voiced by Mariya Ise in the Japanese. Her Miraculous co-star Max Mittelman voices Katayama, who is voiced by Katsutoshi Matsuzaki in Japanese. There’s also Doug Stone as Kirie's father, Aaron LaPlante as Shuichi's father, and Digimon and South Park legend Mona Marshall as Shuichi's mother.
The original Uzumaki manga series, published in three volumes starting in 1998, told the story of the people of the fictional Kurōzu-cho, plagued by a supernatural curse involving spirals. They form in everything, from a strange whirlwind to billowing smoke from the crematorium, to the residents themselves being unnaturally contorted while their eyes and tongues take the shape too. Kirie Goshima, a high school girl born and raised in the town, is given an opportunity by former classmate Shuichi Saito urging “Let’s leave this town together”, attempting to escape the curse but can they truly do so?
Directed by Hiroshi Nagahama, the series will finally premiere later this year on Toonami and boasts Hereditary’s Colin Stetson as its composer. Below is the “first look” released at San Diego Comic-Con last year I didn’t get around to covering, which came nearly 4 years after the August 2019 teaser.
Sources: Anime News Network, Bloody Disgusting