Dub trailer previews Ping Pong cast

Funimation Entertainment announced the English dub casts for Ping Pong the Animation and Wanna be the Strongest in the World at Anime Detour on Saturday.

The Ping Pong cast, under ADR director Christopher Bevins and ADR engineer Alyssa Galindo, includes:

Aaron Dismuke as Yutaka Hoshino/Peco

Micah Solusod as Makoto Tsukimoto/Smile

Mark Stoddard as Jo Koizumi/Butterfly Joe

Marcus D. Stimac as Ryuichi Kazama/Dragon

Anthony Bowling as Manabu Sakuma/Demon

Alan Chow as Kong Wenge/China

Tyson Rinehart as Ota

Ian Sinclair as Masayuki Sanada

Clifford Chapin as Shuji Nekota

Lindsay Seidel as Yurie

Eric Vale as Egami

Jeremy Inman as Michio

The series will ship on a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack on June 23.

Ping Pong adapts Taiyo Matsumoto's manga. Masaaki Yuasa (Mind Game, The Tatami Galaxy, Kick-Heart) is directing the television anime at Tatsunoko Productions. Nobutake Ito is designed the characters.

Funimation streamed the series as it aired last spring.

The Wanna be the Strongest in the World cast, under director Joel McDonald and lead ADR engineer Peter Hawkinson, includes:

Elizabeth Lewis as Sakura Hagiwara

Monica Rial as Elena Miyazawa

Martha Harms as Rio Kazama

Leah Clark as Misaki Toyoda

Lydia Mackay as Jackall Tojo

Megan Shipman as Juri Sanada

Cristina Vee as Moe Fukuoka

Kristin Sutton as Aika Hayase

Didi Archilla as Yuho Mochizuki

Michelle Lee as Nanami Kanno

Vanessa DeSilvio as Makoto Kirishima

Anastasia Munoz as Chinatsu Suzumoto

Morgan Garrett as Kurea Komiyama

The series will ship on a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack on June 23.

The series premiered in 2013 and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired. Funimation added the episodes streaming in in October.

ESE and Kiyohito Natsuki launched the original Wanna Be the Strongest in the World manga in the inaugural issue of Comic Earth Star in 2011. Rion Kujo (Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero, Ikki Tousen: Shūgaku Tōshi Keppu-roku) directed the series at the studio ARMS (MAOYU, Ikki-Tousen) and Rin-Sin (Queen's Blade, Ikki-Tousen) designed the characters.

Update: Typo corrected. Thanks, A. Jinnie McManus