NYAF: Code Geass Hits Adult Swim
Bandai announced at the New York Anime Festival that the hugely popular Code Geass, which they licensed earlier this year, will be airing on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block (I called it!). While there's no word on when AS will actually be airing the first season of the series (the 2nd season, which was announced earlier this month to begin airing this Spring in Japan, has yet to be licensed), chances are it'll be sometime in 2008. Perhaps when Blood+ ends this Spring, Geass will be taking its place on Saturday nights. Now if Adult Swim were smart, they'd be like Japan & hire Pizza Hut to sponsor this series. It is in every episode, after all.
Bandai also licensed most of the different manga series connected to the anime, with the exception of the 2 anthology lines that are each aimed at a different gender. Code Geass does, after all, have fan-service for both guys & gals (but when you have uncut boobies on the DVDs & an episode on TV where one female character uses a table edge to masturbate over a picture of another female character, you have to think there's a slight advantage to guy fan-service). Other goods such as figures, a Lelouch jacket, pendants, bracelets, & notebooks will also be sold. & finally, Bandai finally announced the cast list for the dub as well:
- Lelouch: Johnny Yong Bosch (Ichigo in Bleach, Itsuki in Haruhi, host of AnimeTV)
- C2 (CC): Kate Higgins (Miki in Digimon, Sakura in Naruto, Nanako in Lucky Star)
- Kallen: Karen Strassman (Soifon in Bleach, Steyr in Scrapped Princess, Miyuki in Lucky Star)
- Suzaku: Yuri Lowenthal (Alviss in MAR, Sasuke in Naruto, Katsuo/Keigo in Prince of Tennis)
- Lloyd: Liam O'Brien (Ukitake in Bleach, Nanashi in MAR, Gaara in Naruto)
- Tohdoh: Steven Blum (Spike in Cowboy Bebop, Falcomon in Digimon, Orochimaru in Naruto)
- Bartley: Peter Spellos (Whamon/Grizzlymon in Digimon, Sky-Byte in Transformers, Hiroshi in Dual)
- Clovis: Dave Wittenberg (Solomon in Blood+, Kakashi in Naruto, Folgore/Ponygon in Zatch Bell)
- Emperor: Michael McConnohie (Narrator in Bo-bobo, Jurgens in Eureka 7, Babbo in MAR)
- Shirley: Amy Kincaid (Chiharu in Boys Be, Ayu in Mermaid Forest, Kotone in To Heart)
- Milly: Julie Ann Taylor (Sophia in Last Exile, Chiaki in Tenjho Tenge, Meia in Vandread)
- Nina & Sayoko: Kim Mai Guest (Subaru in .hack)