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Hunter x Hunter Adds Aya Hirano, Masaya Matsukaze to Cast (Updated)
posted on by Egan Loo
This year's 46th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is revealing on Monday that Aya Hirano and Masaya Matsukaze are joining the cast of the new Hunter x Hunter television anime. Hirano will play Menchi in the sixth episode on November 6, while Matsukaze will play the character known as Gittarackur as of the fifth episode on October 30.
The second television anime adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter manga premiered on October 2. The cast thus far have been different from the cast in the earlier 1999-2001 television anime. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime in several countries as it airs in Japan.
[Via Moe Ota-News Sokuhō]
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Update: Dates corrected. Thanks, molibdaenum.
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