Gurren Lagann to Debut on TOONAMI Starting August 2014

PR Gurren Lagann Toonami Announcement
SANTA MONICA, CA (July 19, 2014) –Aniplex of America, Inc. has announced today that the legendary TV anime series GURREN LAGANN, will debut on Adult Swim’s TOONAMI™  Saturday line-up this August. The first episode will premiere on August 16th  at 2:00am EST.

From the SAME team that brought us KILL la KILL, GURREN LAGANN comes from the genius minds of Director Hiroyuki Imaishi and Script Writer/Series Composition Kazuki Nakashima. In response to its global popularity, the series was also adapted into two full-length films, Childhood’s End and The Lights in the Sky Are Stars. Aniplex of America re-released the GURREN LAGANN TV Series on home video last year featuring both the original Japanese and English dub which features many popular voice actors such as Yuri Lowenthal (as Simon), Kyle Hebert (as Kamina) and Michelle Ruff (as Yoko). This past July, Aniplex of America also released the GURREN LAGANN Movies in a Double Feature Blu-ray Set (Japanese Language only with English subtitles).

 

Story of GURREN LAGANN

 This is the story of a man who has yet to realize what destiny holds in store for him….

In the distant future, mankind has lived quietly and restlessly underground for hundreds of years, subject to earthquakes and cave-ins.    Living in one such village are 2 young men: one named Simon who is shy and naïve, and the other named Kamina who believes in the existence of a “surface” world above their heads. The destiny of these two starts moving drastically when the ceiling of their village falls in, and a gigantic “Gunmen” and a beautiful girl named Yoko, wielding a superconductive rifle, come from the surface. Together, Kamina, Simon and Yoko ride the mecha “Lagann” that Simon digs out of the ground, and fly up to the surface!

For more details, please visit: www.AniplexUSA.com/gurrenlagann

 

STAFF

Original Story: GAINAX
Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi
Assistant Director: Masahiko Ohtsuka Series Structure: Kazuki Nakashima Character Design: Atsushi Nishigori Mechanical Design: You Yoshinari Design Works: Shigeto Koyama
3D Mecha Design: IMAITOONZ Art Director: Yuka Hirama
Color Setting: Harumi Takahoshi
Director of Photography: Toyonori Yamada
Editing: Junichi Uematsu
3DCGI: SANZIGEN
Sound Director: Tohru Nakano
Music: Taku Iwasaki
Animation Production: GAINAX
Produced by TV TOKYO, DENTSU, Aniplex

 

CAST (Japanese / English)

Simon: Tetsuya Kakihara / Yuri Lowenthal
Kamina: Katsuyuki Konishi / Kyle Hebert
Yoko: Marina Inoue / Michelle Ruff
Nia: Yukari Fukui / Bridget Hoffman
Boota: Shizuka Ito/ Julie Ann Taylor
Leeron: Masaya Onosaka / Steve Blum
Dayakka: Daiki Nakamura / Doug Stone
Viral: Nobuyuki Hiyama / Sam Riegel
Kittan: Kisho Taniyama / Christopher Smith
Rossiu: Mitsuki Saiga / Johnny Yong Bosch
Lord Genome: Narushi Ikeda / Jamieson Price

 

About Aniplex of America Inc.
Aniplex  of America  Inc.  (Santa Monica, California) is a subsidiary of Aniplex  Inc.  (headquartered in Tokyo,  Japan),  a  group  of  Sony  Music  Entertainment  (Japan)  Inc.  and  a  leading  provider  of  anime content and music production and distribution in Japan. Aniplex of America has launched fan-favorite Blu-Ray  and  DVD  releases  such  as  KILL  la  KILL,  Sword  Art  Online,  BakemonogatariDurarara!!, Fate/Zero, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, the Garden of Sinners, Blue Exorcist, Blast of Tempest, Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Oreshura, Servant X Service and Silver Spoon. The company’s ever-growing line-up  of  shows  includes  our  most  recent  titles  Sword  Art  Online  II,  Aldnoah.Zero,  PERSONA4  the Golden ANIMATION, MEKAKUCITY ACTORS, The irregular at magic high school, Nanana’s Buried Treasure, Mushi-Shi Next Passage, Oreimo 2, and Samurai Flamenco.

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