The official website of the anime adaptation of ONE and Yuusuke Murata’s One Punch-Man manga has announced on Friday that Rikiya Koyama (Detective Conan’s Kogorou Mouri) will voice Sea King and Toshiyuki Morikawa (One Piece‘s Enel and Hatchan) as Lord Boros. The character designs were also revealed.
- Rikiya Koyama (Detective Conan’s Kogorou Mouri) as Sea King, king of the Seafolk who wants to conquer land and plans to turn humans into slaves
- Toshiyuki Morikawa (One Piece‘s Enel and Hatchan) as Lord Boros, the leader of the Dark Matter Thieves who comes from outer space and wants to battle warriors
The main cast for the anime is as follows:
- Makoto Furukawa (Banri Tada from Golden Time) will voice Saitama
- Kaito Ishikawa (Tsumugu Kihara from Nagi no Asukara) is voicing as Genos
- Yuuki Kaji (Eren Jaeger in Attack on Titan) will voice the Speed of Sound Sonic (Onsoku no Sonic), a villainous assassin
- Aoi Yuuki (Madoka Kaname in Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica) will be voicing as Tornado of Terror (Senritsu no Tatsumaki), a S-class rank 2 esper hero
- Yuuichi Nakamura (Kyousuke Kousaka in Oreimo) voices License-less Rider
- Kazuhiro Yamaji (Jouji Saiga from Psycho-Pass) as Silver Fang
- Hiroki Yasumoto (Germany from Hetalia) is voicing King
- Masaya Onosaka (Takeshi Momoshiro in Prince of Tennis) joins the cast to voice Puri Puri Prisoner
- Wataru Hatano (Gajeel Redfox from Fairy Tail) as Metal Bat
The main crew members of the anime’s staff were also unveiled and will consist of:
- Director: Shingo Natsume (Space☆Dandy)
- Studio: Madhouse (Hunter x Hunter, Parasyte)
- Script: Tomohiro Suzuki
- Character design: Chikashi Kubota (Robotics;Notes, Shinsekai yori)
Anime visual:
Here is a synopsis of the series from Haruhichan:
In this new action-comedy, everything about a young man named Saitama screams “AVERAGE,” from his lifeless expression, to his bald head, to his unimpressive physique. However, this average-looking fellow doesn’t have your average problem… He’s actually a superhero that’s looking for tough opponents! The problem is, every time he finds a promising candidate he beats the snot out of them in one punch. Can Saitama finally find an evil villain strong enough to challenge him? Follow Saitama through his hilarious romps as he searches for new bad guys to challenge!
You can visit the anime’s website here: http://onepunchman-anime.net/
And follow its Twitter here: @opm_anime
