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AKB48's Miku Tanabe to Make Voice Actress Debut in Robot Girls Z Plus Anime
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The Robot Girls Z Plus anime's radio program Roboga Radio - Kikanakya Zen'in Furubokko Da Z! Plus announced during its live recording on Sunday that Miku Tanabe (pictured at right), a member of the AKB48 idol group, will star in a guest role in the show's fifth episode, which will premiere in September. The role will be Tanabe's first as a voice actress.
The Robot Girls Z Plus shorts' story is based on two classic "Toei Manga Matsuri" films, Great Mazinger tai Getter Robo (Great Mazinger Vs. Getter Robo) and Great Mazinger tai Getter Robo G - Kūchū Dai-Gekitotsu (Great Mazinger Vs. Getter Robo G - The Great Space Encounter). The series premiered in Japan in May. Crunchyroll is streaming the shorts online.
The returning and new cast members of the anime include:
- Kazusa Aranami as Grenda-san
- Inori Minase as Gre-chan
- Mariko Honda as Z-chan
- Sayuri Yahagi as Liga-sama
- Maaya Uchida as Gecchan Dragon
- Misaki Kuno as Pon-chan
- Minami Tsuda as Jeeg-san
- Natsumi Koike as Paan-san
- Emi Nitta as Raicchi
- Kaori Takaoka as Triple Gai-chan
- Naomi Ōzora as Bal-chan
- Emi Hirayama as Shō-chan
- Shiori Mikami as Gō-chan
- Ari Ozawa as Gai no Jō
- Ayana Taketatsu as Bossborokko
The returning staff members include:
- Producer: Yoshihide Moriyama
- Line Producer: Takahiko Sakagami
- Original creator: Gō Nagai
- Series Composition: Kazuho Hyodo
- Script: Kazuho Hyodo
- Character Design: Tetsuya Kawakami
- Director: Hiroshi Ikehata
- Co-Production: LandQ studios
- Animation Production: Toei Animation
- Production: Toei Animation/Toei Video/Toei Channel
The Robot Girls Z anime is the current incarnation of Toei Robot Girls, the project that turns Dynamic Planning and Toei Animation's "legendary super robots into beautiful girls!!"
The stars of Robot Girls Z series are Z-chan, Gre-chan, and Grenda-san. Together they (try to) defend Photon Power Town from "the enemy, the mechanical beast girls of the underground empire." The villains are led by Baron Ashura, the underground emperor "bent on world domination(?)" — or at least, town domination.
Crunchyroll streamed the first series as it ran in Japan last year. The television anime spawned a compilation movie in May 2014.
Source: The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
