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Me and Roboco Anime Film Reveals More Multiverse Roboco Cast Members, Fist of the North Star-Inspired Video
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This year's 11th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed more cast members for the upcoming Me & Roboco anime film on Monday. Each of the new cast members will be playing a "multiverse" version of Roboco. The film's official website and social media accounts also posted a second Multiverse Roboco promotional video (heavily inspired by Fist of the North Star), a visual assembling the Multiverse Robocos, and a visual for Roboco (classic sci-fi action worldline):
The new cast includes:
- Shigeru Chiba (Fist of the North Star's narrator) as Roboco "from a classic sci-fi action worldline" (third Roboco in image below) where the war between humans and robots has caused the destruction of the world.
- Sumire Uesaka (Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian's Alya) as Roboco "from a romantic comedy worldline" (fourth Roboco in image below). She is clumsy, which causes "a series of lucky To Love-Ru events."
- Masako Nozawa (Dragon Ball's Goku) as Roboco "from a Showa-era gag manga worldline" (fifth Roboco in image below), and who creates a characteristic sense of tension.
The film's staff had revealed in December that the film's story will have a "multiverse" storyline. As previously announced, the film will feature a Roboco from a "straightforward battle world line" that Mayumi Tanaka (voice of Luffy in One Piece) will voice.
Shun Matsuo will continue to play the "normal" Roboco.
The television anime of Shūhei Miyazaki's Me & Roboco (Boku to Roboko) manga premiered in December 2022 on TV Tokyo and its affiliated channels, and ended in June 2023. Each episode was five minutes long. Crunchyroll began streaming the television anime in July 2023.
Akitarō Daichi (2001 Fruits Basket, Ninja Girl & Samurai Master, Kodocha) is returning from the earlier television anime to direct the film at Studio Gallop.
Shueisha's MANGA Plus service and Viz Media both publish the manga in English digitally simultaneously with its Japanese release. Viz Media also began releasing the manga in compiled volumes digitally in October 2021, and it describes the story:
In a world where most families own a cute maid robot, average elementary kid Bondo hopes for one of his own. But the wacky robot who shows up is anything but average!
Miyazaki launched the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in July 2020.
Source: Weekly Shonen Jump issue 11
