Crunchyroll Adds English Dub For Gunma-chan Season One
Crunchyroll added an English dub for the first season of the Gunma-chan television anime last Wednesday. Voice actor Shakyra Dunn confirmed she voices Buchi, Francoise, and Meemi's Mom, among others.
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Why it matters
The dub arrives years after the first season aired, and it gives the Gunma Prefecture mascot anime an English-language track for the worldwide streaming the prefecture said it planned after broadcast.
Key Facts
- Crunchyroll added an English dub for the first season of the Gunma-chan anime last Wednesday.
- Shakyra Dunn voices Buchi, Francoise, and Meemi's Mom, among other roles, in the dub.
- The first season premiered in October 2021 and ran 39 episodes of seven minutes each.
- The second season premiered in April 2023 with the main cast and staff returning at studio Ascension.
- Mitsuru Hongo directed and wrote the anime, and Karin Takahashi voiced Gunma-chan.
The season premiered in October 2021 across Tokyo MX, TV Kanagawa, TV Saitama, Chiba TV, Gunma TV, Tochigi TV, Sun TV, and KBS Kyoto, running 39 seven-minute episodes. The second season aired from April 2023, with the main cast and staff returning at Ascension.
The English dub covers the first season only; the second season, which premiered in April 2023, has no dub mentioned. The first season ran 39 episodes at seven minutes each and aired three at a time on television, with the final episode in December 2021. Mitsuru Hongo directed and wrote the anime at Ascension, and Karin Takahashi voiced the title character, with Aya Uchida and Yui Ogura as Aoma and Mimi. The mascot itself dates back further than the anime: the pony design debuted as Yuma-chan for a 1994 sports competition and became Gunma-chan in 2008.
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Sources
- Anime News Network Crunchyroll Adds Gunma-chan Anime's English Dub