Gundam 00

Bandai Entertainment Inc. recently announced that it has licensed the rights to the television series Mobile Suit Gundam 00 to Starz Media. Gundam 00 will premiere on the SCI FI Channel on Nov 24th at 11pm.

The US anime fans will be watching Gundam 00 in English

The cast members for the upcoming English language version of Gundam 00 are:

• Sumeragi Lee Noriega - Lisa Ann Beley
• Wang Liu Mei - Maryke Hendrikse
• Lasse Aeon - Andrew Francis
• Christina Sierra - Shannon Chan-Kent
• Feldt Grace - Chantal Strand
• Lichtendahl Tsery - David A. Kaye
• Sergei Smirnov - Michael Dobson
• Soma Peries - Tabitha St. Germain
• Marina Ismail - Paula Lindberg
• Graham Aker - Paul Dobson
• Billy Katagiri - Kirby Morrow
• Alejandro Corner - Andrew Kavadas
• Saji Crossroad - Gabe Khouth
• Louise Halevy - Kelly Sheridan
• Kinue Crossroad - Anna Cummer

And the voice actors for the four Gundam Meisters are by

• Setsuna F. Seiei- Brad Swaile
• Lockon Stratos - Alex Zahara
• Allelujah Haptism - Richard Ian Cox
• Tieria ErdeSam - Vincent

Anyway, for your information, Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is the latest installment in the long running franchise.

This series is set in the year 2307 A.D, when fossil fuels have been completely depleted and humanity has turned to solar energy to maintain its way of life. In this future setting the world is divided between 3 great superpowers, and a delicate balance of power is maintained with the orbital elevators that each superpower possesses.

The controlling nations of the solar power find themselves at war with more impoverished countries. These sun-deprived countries threaten the promised land of God, which leads to the formation of a group called the Celestial Being, whose purpose is to end war and unite humanity through the use of four Gundam mech. The series is directed by Seiji Mizushima and premiered in Japan in October 2007.