Funimation Announcement Roundup for ACEN 2010

Funimation has announced a slate of new licenses and cast lists during the Anime Central anime convention held this past weekend in Rosemont Il.

The English dub cast lists for the forthcoming releases of Casshern Sins, Shikabane Hime (now being released under the title Corpse Princess on home video after streaming last year) and Eden of the East were announced along with a new slate of licenses to be released during this year into 2011.

Casshern Sins English Cast

Synopsis

Casshern – a cybernetic assassin with no memory of his past – awakens in a corrosive wasteland where nothing survives for long. A plague known as the Ruin sweeps across this once-vibrant world, reducing everything in its path to rubble and scattering any chance for salvation. Robots and humans alike – or what little remains of them – seek vengeance against Casshern for the life he took and the role he played in their Ruin. A machine built to kill, Casshern murdered the last hope for this world, but now, lost in a future he does not recognize, he will fight to save the dying.

FUNimation Entertainment will release the first season of the series in two 12 episode sets in August 2010.

Eden of the East English Cast

Synopsis
Akira Takizawa wakes up naked outside the White House with no memories. He’s got a gun in one hand, a cell phone in the other, and doesn’t know if he’s a good guy or one of the worst. He doesn’t remember the phone gives him instant access to ten billion yen and a woman who can make his most outlandish requests a reality. He doesn’t recall his connection to the ongoing missile attacks terrorizing the Japanese people. Or the part he played in the sudden disappearance of 20,000 shut-ins. He doesn’t even remember he’s supposed to save Japan and will be murdered if he fails. Whatever it is he’s tangled up in, Takizawa’s definitely in deep – and that’s not even scratching the surface.

Shikabane Hime (Corpse Princess) English Cast

Funimation Entertainment will release Corpse Princess Part One: AKA and Corpse Princess Part Two: KURO on DVD on September 14, 2010

License Acquisitions
Former Geneon USA license Gun X Sword

Rosario + Vampire
Synopsis
Due to poor grades, Tsukune Aono, an average high school student, has been unable to get accepted into any private academy of his choice. By exceptional accident, the only school to accept him turns out to be anything but ordinary; the school is attended by youkai disguised as humans. Fearing for his life, he attempts to escape only to meet Moka Akashiya, a beautiful girl who just happens to be a vampire. Despite this, Tsukune decides to stay at the academy, hiding his human nature from students and teachers. Tsukune also discovers that when the rosary around Moka’s neck is removed, her true nature emerges.

Rosario + Vampire Capu2
Synopsis
A new semester has arrived for Tsukune and the gang featuring a handfull of girl obsessed female first years and it seems like among these first years emerges another vampire who holds a grudge against her sister Moka. What shall this grudge lead to in the future and shall Tsukune suceed in taming this new problem child into his friend, no one knows what the future holds.

Chrome Shelled Regios
Synopsis

In a barren future where mankind has retreated into mobile cities, a young man with a mysterious past seeks a fresh start. Reluctantly recruited into a student military unit he must once again wield his special powers in defense of his new home against the Filth Monsters that plague the wastelands. In a polluted world where cities battle over scarce resources, even students are used in the fight for survival.

FUNimation Entertainment will release the series on DVD starting in late 2010.

Chaos;Head

Takumi lives a secluded lifestyle as a hikkikomori. One day, after chatting online with a mysterious stranger, a visit to a URL and a blog lead him to a real life murder. FUNimation will release the 12-episode dramatic series directed by Takaaki Ishiyama in 2011.