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HIDIVE Confirms Insomniacs After School Anime's English Dub Cast

HIDIVE confirmed the English dub cast for the television anime of Makoto Ojiro's Insomniacs After School (Kimi wa Hōkago Insomnia) manga on Tuesday. The dub debuted last week.

The English dub stars:

• Adam Gibbs As Ganta
• Jad Saxton as Isaki
• Olivia Swasey as Anamizu
• Sean Patrick Judge as Dad
• Christie Guidry as Ganta's Mom
• Brandon Hearnsberger as Haida
• Ty Mahany as Hakui
• Natalie Rial as Haya
• Annie Wild as Isaki's Mom, Kani's Mom
• Brittney Karbowski as Kanikawa
• Patricia Duran as Kanashiki
• Hilary Haag as Nono
• Twosie as himself
• Blake Weir as Ukegawa
• Elissa Cuellar as Vice Principal, Yui

Annie Wild, Cat Thomas, Christie Guidry, Gabriel Regojo, Jack Stansbury, Juliet Simmons, Nathan Wilson, and Neil O’Reilly provide additional voices.

Andrew Love is directing the dub.

The anime premiered in Japan on April 10, 2023. HIDIVE streamed the series as it aired in Japan.

Yuki Ikeda directed the anime at LIDEN FILMS, and Rintarou Ikeda (Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It, The Seven Deadly Sins: Imperial Wrath of The Gods) supervised and wrote the series scripts. Yuki Fukuda (Plunderer) designed the characters. Yuki Hayashi (Haikyu!!, My Hero Academia, Gundam Build Fighters) composed the music. Homecomings performed the show's ending theme song "Lapse."

Viz Media licensed the manga in English and released the manga's first compiled book volume on March 21, 2023. The company describes the story:

Two sleepless teenagers find kinship as they escape to their school's astronomy observatory.

Unable to sleep at night, Ganta Nakami is cranky in class and unpopular with his classmates. He discovers that the school observatory, once used by the now-defunct astronomy club, may be the perfect place for a nap—but he's not alone. Fellow insomniac Isaki Magari is willing to share the observatory with Nakami, and a friendship between the two begins as they bond over the most unlikely of things.

Dark rumors about what befell the members of the astronomy club keep people away from the school observatory, and that's what makes it the perfect sanctuary for Nakami and Magari to get some much-needed rest. Unfortunately, the school faculty can't allow its unsanctioned use. But if there were a new astronomy club, maybe these two insomniacs could have a place to call home!

Ojiro launched the ongoing manga in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine in May 2019.

The manga also inspired a live-action film that premiered in June 2023.

Source: HIDIVE