Masashi Ebara is voicing the president of Hanka Precision Instruments in The Ghost in the Shell television anime from Science SARU, and returns as Bolt Crank in EAT-MAN The Over Order, the role he played in the two earlier EAT-MAN anime adaptations.
Masashi Ebara's two most recent credits are both voice roles in new anime. In The Ghost in the Shell, the television series from Science SARU, he voices the president of Hanka Precision Instruments. Bandai Namco Filmworks announced the casting alongside Kenichi Ogata as Col. Tonoda, and both characters appeared in the fourth episode, which aired on Tuesday. The series premiered on July 7 on the Ka-Anival!! programming block on Kansai TV and Fuji TV, airing Tuesday nights at 11:00 p.m. JST, and streams on Amazon Prime Video Japan the same day, with availability on Prime Video in over 240 countries and regions excluding mainland China, Russia, and Vietnam. Mokochan directs, in a directorial debut, with Toh Enjoe writing and overseeing scripts and Shuhei Handa designing characters and serving as chief animation director.
Ebara's other current role is a return. On September 10, Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures announced EAT-MAN The Over Order, a completely new anime adaptation of Akihito Yoshitomi's sci-fi manga. Ebara returns as protagonist Bolt Crank, the role he voiced in the two earlier anime adaptations, roughly 30 years on. Yoshitomi handles the script and design concepts, and Shunji Oga, whose credits include Golgo 13 and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, directs at Studio Cab, the studio he leads. Satoshi Hirayama, known for work on the Lupin III series, is the character designer. A super teaser video and a teaser visual drawn by Yoshitomi were released with the announcement. The teaser video opens on Bolt picking up a screw in a wasteland, then eating metal before a giant weapon appears. A teaser video showing falling screws had been released on September 4 without details.
Across the two stories, Ebara is working in a new adaptation of an established property and in a new series from a different studio, with the EAT-MAN role tying him to a character he voiced in earlier adaptations of the same manga.
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Sep 10
Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures announced on September 10 that Akihito Yoshitomi's sci-fi manga EAT-MAN will receive a completely new anime titled EAT-MAN The Over Order. Yoshitomi, the original creator, handles the script and design concepts, his first credited involvement at the script production stage. Shunji Oga, whose credits include Golgo 13 and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, directs at Studio Cab, the studio he leads. Satoshi Hirayama, known for work on the Lupin III series, is the character designer. Masashi Ebara returns as protagonist Bolt Crank, the role he voiced in the two earlier anime adaptations, roughly 30 years on. A super teaser video and a teaser visual drawn by Yoshitomi were released with the announcement. The teaser video opens on Bolt picking up a screw in a wasteland, then eating metal before a giant weapon appears. Earlier, on September 4, a teaser video showing falling screws had been released without details.
Aug 4
Bandai Namco Filmworks announced two new cast members for The Ghost in the Shell television anime from Science SARU on Thursday. Kenichi Ogata voices Col. Tonoda, and Masashi Ebara voices the president of Hanka Precision Instruments company. Both characters appeared in the anime's fourth episode, which aired on Tuesday. The staff also shared an end card for the episode, illustrated by animator Tetsuya Nishio, known for his work on Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. The anime premiered on July 7 on the Ka-Anival!! programming block on Kansai TV and Fuji TV, airing Tuesday nights at 11:00 p.m. JST. It began streaming on Amazon Prime Video Japan the same day, and is available simultaneously on Prime Video in over 240 countries and regions, excluding mainland China, Russia, and Vietnam. The first two episodes screened at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June and at Anime Expo on July 4. The series marks Mokochan's directorial debut, with Toh Enjoe writing and overseeing scripts, and Shuhei Handa designing characters and serving as chief animation director.