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Sentai Filmworks Announces The Ambition of Oda Nobuna English Dub Cast

Sentai Filmworks announced its English dub cast for The Ambition of Oda Nobuna on Friday. Chris Ayres will direct the cast including:

• Emily Neves as Oda Nobuna
• Clint Bickham as Yoshiharu Sagara
• Caitlynn French as Maeda Inuchiyo
• Carli Mosier as Shibata Katsuie
• Molly Searcy as Niwa Nagahide
• Hilary Haag as Hachisuka Goemon
• Tiffany Grant as Ikeda Tsuneoki
• Kurt Bauer as Asano Mataemon
• Allison Sumrall as Nene
• Margaret McDonald as Matsudaira Motoyasu
• Leraldo Anzaldua as Hattori Hanzo
• Krystal LaPorte as Akechi Mitsuhide
• Christopher Ayres as Kinoshita Toukichirou
• Nancy Novotny as Imagawa Yoshimoto
• Nick Landis as Tomizuka Motoshige
• Scott Gibbs as Okazaki Tadami
• Christopher Ayres as Saito Yoshitatsu
• Nick Landis as Inaba Ittetsu
• Rob Nash as Andou Morinari
• Scott Frerichs as Ujiie Bokuzen
• Luci Christian as Narration
• Carl Masterson as Saito Dousan
• Shannon Emerick as Oda Nobukatsu
• George Manley as Hayashi Michikatsu
• Rob Mungle as Sakuma Nobumori
• Allison Sumrall as Sassa Narimasa
• Blake Shepard as Asai Nagamasa
• Mike Yager as Akao Kiyotsuna
• Andrew Love as Amenomori Yahyoue
• Nick Landis as Maeno Nagayasu
• George Manley as Yoriki no Hanshichi
• Mike Yager as Yatsurugi Rokurota
• Shannon Emerick as Tsuda Nobusumi
• David Wald as Zenki
• Brittney Karbowski as Takenaka Hanbe
• Luci Christian as Narration
• Carl Masterson as Saito Dousan
• Kurt Bauer as Asai Hisamasa
• Shannon Emerick as Tsuda Nobukatsu
• Margaret McDonald as Bontenmaru
• Kasi Hallowell as Luis Frois
• Luci Christian as Himiko
• Rob Nash as Miyoshi Nagayasu
• Scotty Fults as Tsuda Sokyu
• Rob Mungle as Shoukakuin Gousei
• Shelley Calene-Black as Matsunaga Hisahide
• Mark X Laskowski as Konoe Sakihisa
• Greg Ayres as Asakura Yoshikage
• David Matranga as Imai Sokyu
• Scott Gibbs as Miyoshi Masayasu
• Andrew Love as Sugitani Zenjubo
• Tiffany Grant as Mitsuhide's Mother
• Scott Gibbs as Mizoo Shoube
• Allison Sumrall as Od's Mother
• Scott Frerichs as Takayama Dom Justo
• Nick Landis as Konishi Joaquim
• Clint Bickham as Sagara Yoshiharu
• Brittany Karbowski as Takenaka Hanbe
• Alex Campbell as Akao Kiyotsuna
• Nancy Novotny as Magara Naotaka
• Tiffany Grant as Magara Naozumi
• Scott Gibbs as Asakura Kagetake

The DVD and Blu-ray set will ship on December 16. Sentai Filmworks describes the story:

Yoshiharu Sagara thought he knew his Japanese history backwards and forwards, but when he inexplicably finds himself in the past everything he thought he knew was wrong and he's in a very different history altogether! Not only is this timeline's version of the legendary (and very male) Oda Nobunaga now the cute (and very female) Oda Nobuna, but one of the first things Yoshiharu manages to accidentally accomplish is getting one of the Sengoku era's most important historical figures killed!

Still, when you're stuck in the past, have a semi-reliable knowledge of one possible future, and there's now a vacancy in the history books, what's your best present course of action? Aligning yourself with someone with the potential to become one of the most powerful warlords in any of Japan's possible histories might not be a bad start. Provided, of course, that you can keep yourself from becoming too intimately involved in the cloak and dagger action during a time when the cloaks cover body armor and the daggers are paired with multiple swords! But that's just part of the risk you assume when your history becomes her story!

The series title is a wordplay on Nobunaga no Yabō or Nobunaga's Ambition, Koei's simulation game franchise inspired by the real-life historical figure Oda Nobunaga. Yuuji Kumazawa directed the series off scripts from Masashi Suzuki (Shuffle!, Minami-ke: Okawari) and Yuka Takashina designed the characters. Studio Gokumi collaborated with the anime studio Madhouse on the project.