Funimation have revealed the cast for their upcoming dub of the One Piece film, One Piece: Stampede.
The latest movie launched in Japan on August 9th, alongside the series 20th anniversary. It ranked #1 on it’s opening weekend, and was the largest first-day attendance at the Japanese box office in 2019 so far (selling over 350,000 tickets). The film has earned a cumulative total of over 5.3 million as of September 22nd.
The film will premier in North America on October 24th in Japanese with English subtitles. Subsequent screenings in this format will also occur on the 29th and 31st. English dub screenings will occur on October 26th and 30th.
For Canada, the film will feature in Japanese with English subtitles on October 25th and November 5th, and pure English on October 28th and November 8th. Advance tickets are available for sale now on Funimation’s website.
The cast includes many reprising their roles from the anime’s dub. With Cole Brown passing in 2016, Chris Rager will voice Whitebeard. The film’s ADR Director will be Mike McFarland, while Clint Bickham is the ADR scriptwriter.
You can find the run-down and full English and Japanese cast below:
“The world’s boldest buccaneers set sail for the great Pirate Festival, where the Straw Hats join a mad-dash race to find Gol D. Roger’s treasure. There’s just one little problem. An old member of Roger’s crew has a sinister score to settle. All bets are off when the most iconic pirates of One Piece history band together for a swashbuckling showdown, the likes of which have never been seen!”
- Luffy
Japanese: Mayumi Tanaka / English: Colleen Clinkenbeard- Zoro
Japanese: Kazuya Nakai / English: Christopher R. Sabat- Nami
Japanese: Akemi Okamura / English: Luci Christian- Usopp
Japanese: Kappei Yamaguchi / English: Sonny Strait- Sanji
Japanese: Hiroaki Hirata / English: Eric Vale- Chopper
Japanese: Ikue Otani / English: Brina Palencia- Robin
Japanese: Yuriko Yamaguchi / English: Stephanie Young- Franky
Japanese: Kazuki Yao / English: Patrick Seitz- Brook
Japanese: Cho / English: Ian Sinclair- Trafalgar Law
Japanese: Hiroshi Kamiy / English: Matthew Mercer- Teach (Blackbeard)
Japanese: Akio Otsuka / English: Chris Rager- Bullet
Japanese: Tsutomu Isobe / English: Daman Mills- Buena Festa
Japanese: Yusuke Santamaria / English: Mick Wingert- Donald
Japanese: Ryota Yamasato / English: Anthony Bowling- Ann
Japanese: Rino Sashihara / English: Macy Anne Johnson
Funimation gained the licencing rights to One Piece in June 2007. The series was originally broadcast in the west by 4Kids Entertainment from September 2004 to November 2005 when the show stopped broadcasting. It was criticized by fans due to its heavy censorship. 4Kids Entertainment becoming defunct in February 2017.
