Here’s our next Free! -Eternal Summer- dub cast announcement! Today, we’re finally revealing the main character, everyone’s favorite mackerel-loving, clothes-stripping waterdere, the cool-yet-passionate swimmer who lives to surround himself in water’s embrace– Haruka Nanase!
Haruka (played by Nobunaga Shimazaki in the Japanese version) is played by Todd Haberkorn, the voice behind such renowned roles as Hetalia’s Italy, Ouran High School Host Club’s Hikaru Hitachiin, Fairy Tail’s Natsu Dragneel, Soul Eater’s Death the Kid, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood’s Ling Yao, and more.
We asked Todd for a few answers to some Free! ES-related questions!
Question: Can you swim? If so, what’s your best stroke?
Todd: I can swim, actually. Best stroke: the otter. I swim on my back and break open sea creature shells with a rock.
Question: What’s your favorite marine animal?
Todd: The marine scuba diver that scares children when they get in the tank to feed the sharks.
Question: When you were in high school, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Todd: I wanted to be an actor!
Check back tomorrow for our next announcement! We’re announcing new dub cast members every day this week until November 16! The announcements hit first on the Free! -Eternal Summer- Tumblr and Facebook page, so make sure you’re following them for the most up-to-date news! For more updates about Free! – Eternal Summer – be sure to also sign up for our newsletter here
Cast so far:
Rei Ryugazaki – J. Michael Tatum
Nagisa Hazuki – Greg Ayres
Makoto Tachibana – Johnny Yong Bosch
Haruka Nanase – Todd Haberkorn
Check out the previous cast announcements by clicking this link.
(As a reminder, if you’re curious about the status of the Free! season 1 home video release and haven’t heard yet, be sure to check out this blog entry for the full explanation. We currently have no newer updates at this time.)
Haru it’s the best.
I have a feeling. If FUNimation announces tomorrow that Rin will be voiced by Vic Mignognanoo, then I know exactly who the director of the show. The ADR Director will most likely be Caitlin Glass.
* director of the show is. *
Even though I’m not the intended audience for this show I was interested in sampling the dub & maybe even buying it. Not so much anymore… Very disappointing that Funimation feels to need to still give Haberkorn big roles when he has arguably the longest streak of miscast roles, underwhelming performances and titles that have bombed attached to his name. Unless there’s a great casting like Jamie Marchi as Miho to cancel out this questionable one, the dub won’t be a priority for me anytime soon.
This could work. And hey it is Todd Haberkorn! Now I just need to mentally prepare myself to think of Todd Haberkorn voicing Haru besides Death the Kid from Soul Eater.
Sweetness! I approve!!
Just trying to think about Todd playing one Haru is sorta fun yet intriguing! Gaaaaah I hope we get a preview tomorrow of all 5 characters together!!!
(Really thought we were saving Haru for Friday though so now I am SO curious about Rin!!!!!)
Wow Todd Haberkorn as Haruka, I didn’t see that coming, but I’m looking forward to it. Tomorrow is most likely gonna be Rin’s voice actor, I really want to know who’ll be voicing him. I’m thinking that he’ll probably be voiced by either Bryce Papenbrook or Eric Vale, I really hope that one of my guesses are right. If both my guesses turns out to be wrong I’ll be kinda disappoint, but I’ll still give his voice actor a chance.
Wasn’t expexting that one, especially for Haru. Well, I hope he does a decent job with it!!
We are bringing back the Ouran cast…
PLACE YOUR BETS: Will Rin be voiced by Vic or Travis?