The English voice cast for Adult Swim’s upcoming adaptation of Junji Ito’s horror manga “Uzumaki” was announced at Anime Expo over the weekend. Created in partnership with Production IG USA, the animated TV series is currently in production.
The Japanese and English voice actors, respectively, for the series include:
- Kirie Goshima – Uki Satake / Abby Trott
- Shuichi Saito – Shin-ichiro Miki / Robbie Daymond
- Azami Kurotani – Mariya Ise / Cristina Vee
- Kirie’s Dad – Toshio Furukawa / Doug Stone
- Shuichi’s Dad – Takashi Matsuyama / Aaron LaPlante
- Shuichi’s Mom – Mika Doi / Mona Marshall
- Katayama – Katsutoshi Matsuzaki / Max Mittleman
Written and illustrated by Ito, the original manga series told the story of the citizens of Kurōzu-cho, a fictional city that is plagued by a supernatural curse involving spirals.
“Let’s leave this town together,” asks Shuichi Saito, a former classmate of Kirie Goshima, a high school girl who was born and grew up in Kurouzu-cho. Everything from a strange whirlwind, billowing smoke from the crematorium, and the residents is turning into spirals. People’s eyes spin in whirls, a tongue spirals, and the bodies twist unnaturally. In an attempt to escape the curse of the spirals, Kirie decides to flee from Kuouzu-cho, but can she get away from this turmoil?
The “Uzumaki” manga is made up of three volumes that were first published in 1998. The manga received a live-action feature adaption in 2000. Most recently, Ito’s work received another anime adaptation in Netflix’s “Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre” anthology.
Directed by Hiroshi Nagahama, the series will feature music by Hereditary’s Colin Stetson.
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