Crunchyroll has announced the English dub cast and crew for the TV anime adaptation of Syundei’s Go for It, Nakamura! manga, which premieres on April 1.
The English dub cast and crew of Go for It, Nakamura! includes:
English Dub Episode 1 Cast
- Nasim Benelkour as Nakamura
- Patrick Pedraza as Hirose
- Emi Lo as Hamaoka
- Morgan Berry as Kana
- Gillian Lange as Kawamura
- Katie Wetch as Masako
- Weston Loy as Mukai
- Nate Grizzly as Oomori
- Peyton Howard as Otogiri
- Dalton Tindall as Takeuchi
- Julie Shields as Female Teacher
- Doug Jackson as Male Principal
- Students: Dayeanne Hutton, Meg McClain, Kelly Greenshield, Vanessa Benoit, Cheyenne Haynes, Monica Piskor, Trisha Mellon, Kimmie Britt, Jamie Lee, Lacey Deline, Dalton Walker, Matthew Elkins, Conner Allison, Brandon Allan Majella, Brayden Medlin, Sambob Park
English Dub Episode 1 Crew
- Voice Director: Jad Saxton
- Producer: Susie Nixon
- Adaptation: Heather Walker
- Mixer: Rickey Watkins
- Engineer: Seth Aulds
Go for It, Nakamura! premieres on April 1 at 24:30 JST (April 2 at 12:30 a.m. EST) on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, BS11, and Hulu in Japan. Hulu will stream a double-episode premiere in Japan, and Crunchyroll will stream the Go for It, Nakamura! anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS as it airs in Japan.
Yasuyuki Okamura and Kento Nakajima perform the opening theme song “Shunpatsuteki ni Koi Shiyо̄ (Let’s Fall in Love Instantly).” Senri Oe performs the insert song “Glory Days,” and Princess Princess performs the insert song “Sekai de Ichiban Atsui Natsu.”
The anime’s cast includes:
- Chiaki Kobayashi as Okuto Nakamura
- Yuki Sakakihara as Aiki Hirose
- Takuya Eguchi as Sou Otogiri
- Fairouz Ai as Hifumi Kawamura
- Yukihiro Nozuyama as Kota Takeuchi
- Atsushi Tamaru as Ryou Mukai
- Makoto Koichi as Yuka Hamaoka
- Yume Maihara as Masako Okuda
- Tsubasa Sasa as Tsukasa Omori
Kappei Yamaguchi and Junko Takeuchi are also a part of the cast, but their characters have not been revealed yet.
Aoi Umeki directs the anime, writes the scripts, and designs the characters. Drive is animating the series, Naoki Yoshibe is the assistant director, and Yasuko Aoki (Studio Monado) writing and overseeing the series scripts. Ayana Tsujita is the music composer.
Other staff members include:
- Concept Director: Tetsuya Tatamitani
- Art Director: Cheon Bok Lee (Studio Blue)
- Color Design: Harue Ono (MAD BOX)
- Director of Photography: Yū Wakabayashi (ENISHIYA)
- Visual Director: Toshitaka Kanda
- Editing: Yūsuke Ueno (Yanagi Editing Room)
- Color Script: Yue
- Prop Design, 2D Works: Ayumi Nagaki
- Costume Design: Yumi Nakamura
- Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
Syundei launched the Go for It, Nakamura! manga in December 2014. The series is still ongoing with the sequel manga, Go for It Again, Nakamura!, which launched in June 2017. Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the series in English. Lastly, here’s a synopsis of the series, via Seven Seas:
Nakamura is a shy boy who falls in love at first sight with one of his classmates–his dreamy high school classmate, Hirose. But there’s a problem: they haven’t met yet. And Nakamura is a total klutz who might bungle things before they even begin!
