You have no idea just how excited I am for the upcoming adaptation of The Legend of Koizumi. It's going to be epic on a scale that we've never even seen before. Screw going all the way up to 11 -- this goes up to 19. So I was rather happy to see this morning a bit of news from New Akiba pointing out that the Koizumi website has updated with their cast announcement, and boy is this turning out to be an interesting cast. We've got Jun Fukuyama and Jouji Nakata taking on some major roles -- you might know them as Lelouch from Code Geass and The Count of Monte Cristo from Gankutsuou. The director, Tsutomu Mizushima, has already cut his teeth directing Big Windup, the Genshiken OVAs and xxxHolic, which can only be good. The animation studio, TYO Animations, is relatively new -- this will be their first series where they're handling animation production themselves. Check out the full cast listing below, and get ready for some of the most epic epicness that ever epic'd your bedsheets, more epically than you can ever hope to achieve.
- Junichiro Koizumi: Toshiyuki Morikawa (Naraku, Inuyasha; Dio, Casshern Sins)
- Taizo Sugimura: Jun Fukuyama (Lelouch, Code Geass; Lawrence, Spice and Wolf)
- Taro Aso: Kinryuu Arimoto (Szilard Quates, Baccano!; Patrick Zala, Gundam SEED)
- George W. Bush: Nobuo Tobita (Ulube, G Gundam; Kamille Bida, Zeta Gundam)
- Yukari-tan: Shizuka Itou (Boota/Darry, Gurren Lagann; Hinagiku Katsura, Hayate the Combat Butler)
- George H.W. Bush: Tessho Genda (Bear King, One Piece Movie 2; Dozle Zabi, Gundam movies)
- Vladimir Putin: Jouji Nakata (The Count of Monte Cristo, Gankutsuou; Alucard, Hellsing)
- Yulia Tymoshenko: Rina Satou (Kiyoh, Gurren Lagann; Negi, Negima!?)
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