Viral sensation, musician and YouTuber Corpse Husband will be making his debut as a voice actor in Tribe Nine, a new sports action/sci-fi anime series from Japanese studio LIDENFILMS (Tokyo Revengers), co-produced by Funimation. The full English dub cast and crew for the show, based on the manga by videogame director/novelist Kazutaka Kodaka (Danganronpa, Akudama Drive), were announced today.
Tribe Nine is set in a cyberpunk world where gangs of young people strive for dominance in Extreme Baseball. Corpse Husband will serve as the English voice of the masked antagonist, Ojiro Otori, leader of Chiyoda Tribe who believes winning is everything. To become the best XB player, he was taken in at a young age and trained by the leader of Neo Tokyo, Tenshin.
VERY excited to announce that i will be voicing Ojiro in the English dub for Tribe Nine✨
From the same creator as Danganronpa & Akudama Drive
I couldn’t have asked for a better first role
very honored to be a part of it❗️ pic.twitter.com/8HyKhQVooo
— Corpse Husband (@Corpse_Husband) February 6, 2022
The English dub cast features Jacob Hopkins (To Your Eternity) as Shun Kamiya, heading up the Minato Tribe; Casey Mongillo (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure STONE OCEAN) as Haru Shirokane, Phillip Sacramento as Taiga, Brittney Karbowski (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime) as Saori Arisugawa, Kevin D. Thelwell (MEGALOBOX) as Santaro Mita, Brendan Blaber (Combatants Will Be Dispatched!) as Manami Daimon and Joshua Waters (Ishida and Asakura) as quadruplets Ichiro/Jiro/Saburo/Shiro.
The roster also includes Valentine Stokes as Yutaka Gotanda, Caitlyn Elizabeth (Minami Oi), Calvin Joyal (Yasuhiro), Moxxi (Nekomaru), Edwyn Tiong (Judge Robot) and Kent Williams as the Narrator.
Tribe Nine is directed by Yū Aoki (BEAN BANDIT), with series composition by Michiko Yokote (Heaven’s Design Team) and character designs by Rui Komatsuzaki (Akudama Drive) and Simadoriru (Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia), adapted for animation by Yosuke Yabumoto (Dual Masters!).
The English dub is produced at Sound Cadence Studios in Texas, with Marissa Lenti as ADR Director.
Tribe Nine episodes are rolling out in English and Japanese at funimation.com.
