News: Next Two Batches of Attack on Titan Cast

FUNimation has revealed two new batches of voice actors for the upcoming anime called Attack on Titan.  The dub is planned to premiere at Anime Boston, March 21 -23.  As the convention nears, more of the cast will be announced and shown on the company's blog.  A major character has finally been revealed, and I have to admit I'm a little happy with the choice.


Batch 2:
Character/Actor

• Jean – Mike McFarland
• Sasha – Ashly Burch
• Conny – Clifford Chapin
• Anka – Jamie Marchi
• Hanna – Tia Ballard
• Gustav – Keith Kubal
• Christa – Bryn Apprill
• Ymir – Elizabeth Maxwell

Batch 3:

Character/Actor

• Levi – Matthew Mercer
• Petra – Caitlin Glass
• Hange – Jessica Calvello
• Daz – Brad Venable
• Bertholdt – David Matranga
• Franz – James Chandler
• Rico – Morgan Garrett
• Pyxis – R Bruce Elliott
• Nack – Will Short

Matthew Mercer recently became one my favorite voice actors.  He has done voices in a few video games and a decent number of anime.  He voiced Alvin from Tales of Xillia, Kanji Tatsumi in the latter half of Persona 4: The Animation, and the character of Sinbad in Magi - The Labyrinth of Magic.  I picture his deeper voice being perfect for the cool, serious personality of Levi.  I knew R. Bruce Elliott had to be in this show somewhere, and Pyxis makes a lot of sense.  I'm also glad to see Caitlin Glass among the ones chosen; her as Petra is rather fitting in terms of her voice range and personality.  It seems FUNi is putting their all into this dubbing project, so I'm really curious to see who does the main trio in the coming days.