Nico Nico Douga will be streaming the first episode of the English dub of the hit anime, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica next week. The first episode is scheduled to air Friday, February 10, 2012 at 11:30 PM EST on the Nico Nico Live program. Fans who live in Japan, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand will be able to tune in to watch. After the episode there will be a special segment with three of the English voices behind the characters.

English speaking viewers can watch the stream on Aniplex USA's NicoNico channel.

Source: [Presepe] via [ANN]

UPDATE: Added link to stream.

It sure has been a while since we've last heard any news on Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi (Ookami-san and Her Seven Companions). In fact, the last time we heard about it was when Funimation announced that they had licensed it at Otakon 2010. Today Funimation unleashed the English dub of the 12 episode anime series on their website as well as a trailer on youtube which you'll find below. The English dub voice cast has only been revealed to Funimation's premium video service subscribers so far. It also shouldn't come as a surprise that a Limited Edition DVD / BluRay combo pack for the series has now been posted online with a release date of April 3, 2012.

Aniplex has been spreading the word that they intend to announce the rest of the English voice dub cast for the dark magical girl anime, Madoka Magic on CrunchyRoll's Live Show the all week. They had previously announced a significant portion of the cast at this year's New York Comic Con / Anime Festival. Below you'll find the full voice cast list as well as the first English trailer.

Anime distributor Media Blasters has announced the cast list for the English dub of Bakuman. The series is scheduled to ship out under their AnimeWorks label on DVD at the end of November in North America. They also have the rights to the second season of Bakuman which is scheduled to air this fall in Japan.

The cast is as follows.

• Moritaka Mashiro- Michael Sinterniklaas
• Takagi Akito – Kevin T Collins
• Miyuki, Iwase – Veronica Taylor
• Miho Azuki – Stephanie Sheh
• Kawasaki, Hayato – Jason Griffith
• Fumio, various teachers – Mike Pollock
• Kayoko – Julie Francis
• Suzuki, Eiji – Roby Sharpe
• Hattori – Wayne Grayson
• Aida, incidentals – Scottie Ray
• Sasaki- Dan Green
• Nobuhiro, Kim – Marc Diraison
• Miyoshi, incidentals – Amanda Schuckman
• Yujiro – Chris Niosi
• Various – Matt Bernhard, Rachael Lilis

Source: [The Fandom Post]

Funimation Entertainment has recently announced plans for limited theatrical release of Trigun: Badlands Rumble in the summer of 2011. It is a feature length film that is based on the Yasuhiro Nightow's popular Trigun manga. One of the most well known anime series, Trigun, is also based on the same manga. Along with their plans, Funimation also announced that of the English voice cast's four main characters, only Johnny Yong Bosch will return as the voice of gun-slinging pacifist Vash the Stampede.

In place of Dorothy Elias-Fahn, Lia Sargent, and Jeff Nimoy respectively, the new voices are:

Luci Christian as Meryl Stryfe
Trina Nishimura as Milly Thompson
And Brad Hawkins as Nicholas D. Wolfwood

On a more personal note, it really is a shame to be unable to have a reunion of the cast. Trigun is my and many people’s favorite anime, and I loved its dub. Although if only one actor was to return, it'd really be best that Vash be the one to return. And the new voices are excellent actors – though who the hell is Brad Hawkins?

Until next time, LOVE AND PEACE!

I know I promised no more K-ON! articles but this is the actual final nail in that coffin. The following video is not for the faint of heart. Some of you will love it, some of you will hate it. OK most of you might hate it (especially if you love Yui). The K-ON! English dub is finally ready for the public. I've already said enough as it is, watch the official trailer below and judge for yourself. Bulbasaur is certain they sound like the Babysitter's club. As for me, I'll go cry myself to sleep with a nice big bowl of A~I~SU~.

Check out the trailer below the jump.