Funimation kicked off their winter simuldub for Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens yesterday and while they didn’t put out an announcement detailing the cast list, the information has landed. The show has Jeremy Inman serving as the ADR director with Anthony Bowling as the assistant ADR director. No scriptwriter was listed and the cast for the first episode includes:

Josh Grelle as Banba

Daman Mills as Hayashi (Lin)

Kyle Igneczi as Enokida

Ian Sinclair as Harada

Jim Johnson as Ivanov

Aaron Roberts as Jiro

Marcus Stimac as Martines

Amber Lee Connors as Misaki

David Wald as Munakata

Tasia Munoz as Reiko

Stephen Fu as Saito

Ben Phillips as Shigematsu

Dallas Reid as Shino

Eric Vale as Yamato

Austin Tindle as Yusuke

Jarrod Greene as Zhang

Kenji Yasuda is directing it based on the series composition by Shogo Yasukawa. Hideki Inoue is on board for the character designs and Satelight will be animating it.

The series comes from writer Chiaki Kisaki with artwork by Hako Ichiiro with seven volumes out as of the anime premiere. A manga adaptation kicked off last summer from Kisara Akino with it set to complete with the second volume.

The Japanese cast includes Daisuke Ono as Zenji Banba, Yuuki Kaji as Lin Xianming, Yūsuke Kobayashi as Saitoh, Yūichi Nakamura as Shunsuke Saruwatari, Daisuke Namikawa as Jirō, Kensho Ono as Enokida, Aoi Yūki as Misaki, Tomoaki Maeno as José Martínez, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Yamato, Daisuke Hirakawa as Saeki, Kenji Hamada as Shigematsu, Kousei Hirota as Genzō Gohda, and Masaya Matsukaze as Kyoya Nitta.

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