Crunchyroll has released the first episode of the English dub for Magic Knight Rayearth. Subsequent episodes will air every Wednesday.
The English dub cast and staff is as follows:
Cast
- Rebecca Chiara Marano as Hikaru
- Bryn Apprill as Umi
- Kelly Greenshield as Fuu
- Caitlin Glass as Emeraude
- Bradley Gareth as Zagato
- Jacob Hopkins as Clef
- Erin Nicole Lundquist as Alcyone
- Christopher Wehkamp as Lafarga
- Cassie Ewulu as Caldina
- Sarah Roach as Ascot
- Additional Voices by Abigail Blythe, Monica Flatley, Lisette Monique Diaz, Kayla Temshiv, Kayla Parker, Kim Rivera, Samantha Snow, Marcus D. Stimac, Kiane Chula King
Staff
- Studio: Crunchyroll
- Studio Producers: Justin Cook, Michael Harcourt, Nathanael Harrison
- Producer: Samantha Herek
- Adaptation Supervisor: Ben Phillips
- Adaptation: Jessica Sluys
- Adaptation Prep: Marilyn M. Reyes
- Voice Director: Jonathan Rigg
- Talent Coordination: Tara A. Williams, Brittni Hurley
- Engineering Managers: Gino Palencia, Brandon Peters
- Engineer: Jeremy Woods
- Assistant Engineers: Lyndon Douglas, Stevie Rae Kreiger
- Mixer: William Dewell
The new Magic Knight Rayearth anime will run for two cours. Toaka performs the opening theme song “Otome no Tsurugi (A Young Lady’s Sword)” and Yurina Kawaguchi performs the ending theme song “Hoshiakari (Starlight).”
CLAMP initially wrote the Magic Knight Rayearth manga in 1993 in Kodansha’s Nakayoshi magazine. The series would continue until 1996, and six volumes were released. An anime adaptation would premiere in October 1994 and run until November 1995. A three-episode OVA was released in 1997. Here’s an overview of the original anime series, via MyAnimeList:
Hikaru Shidou, Umi Ryuuzaki, and Fuu Hououji are strangers brought together by fate when they meet during a seemingly normal field trip to Tokyo Tower. Accompanied by a great flash of light, they hear a mysterious woman’s plea to save “Cephiro,” and the junior high heroines are suddenly swept away by a giant flying fish. Afterwards, they arrive in an unknown land, where they encounter a man called Master Mage Clef.
Clef informs the girls that they were summoned by Princess Emeraude to fulfill their destinies as Magic Knights, restoring peace and balance in Cephiro. The formerly lively and peaceful land has been in disarray ever since High Priest Zagato imprisoned the princess, who acted as Cephiro’s pillar of stability. The Magic Knights reluctantly accept Clef’s words as truth and embark on a journey to save Cephiro from the clutches of evil.
