Osamu Tezuka's A Time Slip of 10,000 Years: Prime Rose Anime's English Dub Cast Revealed
Licensing and dubbing studio SkySet Entertainment revealed the entire English dub cast for the remastered edition of Osamu Tezuka's 1983 A Time Slip of 10000 Years: Prime Rose anime special on Saturday: Kenny Armstrong, Jason Bunch, KJ Burbank, David Cherry, Trina Deuhart, Biker Helmkamp, Rebecca Olivia Hodges, Carrick Inabnett, John Martinez, Leo Matthews, Erica Muse, Skye Redden, Kim Rivera, and Doll Shay provide additional voices.Phebe Fabacher directed the dub and Hayden Davis was the engineer. Kym Rose was in charge of adaptation, and Ralph Villegas was in charge of timecoding.The remastered edition of the anime special released on Blu-ray Disc on Saturday. This is the anime's first release in North America and English dub.SkySet Entertainment describes the anime's story: The Blu-ray Disc release includes English dub outtakes, English cast interviews, staff commentary, trailer videos, and pre-production sketches from Tezuka Productions.The A Time Slip of 10000 Years: Prime Rose anime special first aired in Japan on August 21, 1983, as part of the charity program 24-Hour Television: Love Saves the Earth. The anime is based on Tezuka's Prime Rose manga, that serialized in Akita Publishing's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine from 1982 to 1983.Tezuka was a prolific manga artist who drew numerous influential works, including Astro Boy, Jungle Emperor Leo, Black Jack, Princess Knight, Dororo, and Phoenix among many others. These works would go on to inspire following generations in manga storytelling and art, which would earn him the moniker "The God of Manga." Equally significant is his founding of the Mushi Production studio, where he would helm the production of anime adaptations of much of his manga, and other original productions. Perhaps most significant of these was Astro Boy, based on Tezuka's manga, which became Japan's first half-hour animated series. The show pioneered animation techniques and production methods that gave rise to the earliest aesthetics and styles of television anime.Source: Press release
