Marvel Future Avengers, the latest television anime based on the Marvel comic book superheroes, revealed its cast, staff, and world premiere date of July 22 on Tuesday.

The cast stars:

Eiji Hanawa as Iron Man

Man Kazuhiro Nakaya as Captain America

Yasuyuki Kase as Thor

Kenichirou Matsuda as Hulk

Kaori Mizuhashi as Wasp

Aki Kanada as Makoto

Atsushi Tamaru as Adi

Juri Kimura as Kuroe

Yuzo Sato (Iron Man, Gokusen, Kaiji) is directing the anime at the studio Madhouse, and Japanese writer Ryuu King (Dragon Ball Super scripts, Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers) is in charge of the series scripts. Takahiro Umehara (Iron Man, Beyblade, Claymore) is designing the characters.

The series will have its world premiere on the BS (broadcast satellite) channel Dlife at 8:00 a.m. on July 22, and then it will repeat every Monday at 6:00 p.m. According to the producers, it is intended for a young male audience.

The anime follows Makoto, a young boy who gains superpowers due to an evil gene manipulation experiment. Makoto and other youths join the Avengers as apprentices named "Future Avengers." The anime shows Makoto and others as they train, fight villains and grow, under Avengers members Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, and Wasp.

Additionally, Teruaki Mizuno ( Kyōryū Taisen Dinobout, Metallica Metalluca ) is drawing a manga version that debuted in Shogakukan's Bessatsu Coro Coro Comics Special magazine's April issue.

Marvel previously teamed up with Madhouse to create the Iron Man, Wolverine, X-Men, and Blade television anime series. All four series aired on the G4 television channel in the United States, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released all four series on DVD in North America in 2012.

Marvel and Madhouse also created the Iron Man: Rise of Technovore film in 2013, and the Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher film in 2014.

Marvel and Toei Animation most recently collaborated on the Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers television anime series, which premiered in Japan in April 2014.

Toei also collaborated with Marvel on the 1978-79 live-action special-effects (tokusatsu) version of Spider-Man . Kodansha published Ryoichi Ikegami's manga re-imagining of Spider-Man in Monthly Shonen Magazine, while Marvel itself created the Mangaverse comic project.

Source: Animate Times

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