Yes indeedy, the official site is now up, and the main four cast members– i.e. the Gundam Meisters –have been cast:

• Setsuna F. Seiei: Brad Swaile
• Lockon Stratos: Alex Zahara
• Allelujah Haptism: Richard Ian Cox
• Tieria Erde: Sam Vincent

Well, here I am waiting for the Host Club panel to start– it might be a little late, they’re not eve letting people in yet. This room is HUUUUUUUUUUGE. I’m desperately charging my laptop off to the side; at least the Internet works. I think I’m just gonna hang out here instead of up front, since I need to leave early and I don’t want to run out of power in VIZ. I need a new laptop battery, by the way, mine is seriously uber-failing.

They’re letting people in now (11:35am). Hurry up, man, I only have like 15, maybe 20 minutes tops!

I’m definitely going to be late to VIZ– 11:45am and they still haven’t started.

11:49am: The audience is singing the Sailor Moon theme song (English ver.) o_O;

11:50am: We’re starting! FINALLY! The host for the panel is ADR director Caitlin Glass, who is (of course) directing the Ouran dub.

Anyway! Here’s the list of characters I expect to see cast announcements for, plus the cast to date (after the –). I’ll fill it in as we hear it (And for you desperate types– I did just see Vic, and I think I saw Greg Ayres earlier too, though all I really caught was a flash of pink hair).

Aww, the cast is gonna wear Ouran uniform jackets, how cute!

Haruhi Fujioka: Caitlin Glass herself.
Tamaki Suou: Vic Mignogna
Kyouya Ootori: Jay Michael Tatum (thanks Brad!)
Hikaru Hitachiin: Greg Ayres
Kaoru Hitachiin: Todd Haberkorn (thanks Josh and everyone!)
Mitsukuni Haninozuka: Luci Christian
Takashi Morinozuka: Travis Willingham
Ranka Fujioka: It’s…Mike McFarland. And he’s wearing a dress and a red wig and everything. Whoa!
Nekozawa: Patrick Seitz
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Yasuchika Haninozuke: Aaron Dismuke
Hinako Tsuwabaki: Brittney Karbowski
Momoka Kurakano: Carrie Savage
Kirimi Nekozawa: Cherami Leigh
Ritsu Kasanoda: Chris Sabat
Toru Suzushima: Eric Vale
Chizuru Maihara: Jamie Marchi
Kasanoda’s Dad: R. Bruce Elliot

EDIT: The first 13 episodes are coming out in a single box set in October, with a follow-up sometime thereafter but still unannounced. No MSRP or other details just yet.

If yesterday’s announcement of Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka’s eroge-to-anime adaptation excited you, AnimeSuki’er Siegel Clyne’s cast list for the show may blow your mind.

Heroine Yuuhi Katagiri, a spoiled princess-type character, will be voiced by Rie Kugimiya (Fullmetal Alchemist’s Al Elric, plus every tsundere character you’ve ever loved). Meanwhile Aya Hirano is taking on the role of Minato Nagase, the younger sister of the main character who is “cool” but very affectionate to her nii-san.

The other heroines are:
- Marina Inoue (Zetsubou-sensei’s Chiri Kitsu, and Gurren Lagann’s Yoko) as Tsukasa Kiryuu
- Ryou Hirohashi (Bamboo Blade’s Tamaki, KimiKiss’s Sakino) as Nagomi Shiraishi
- Rie Tanaka (Azumanga Daioh’s Yomi, Gundam SEED’s Lacus Clyne) as Shiina Mizuki
- Erino Hazuki (ARIA’s Akari) as Mikoto Tachibana
- Emiri Katou (Lucky Star’s Kagami) as Karen Ayanokouji
- Kaori Fukuhara (Lucky Star’s Tsukasa) as Aya Nijou

And a few more characters:
- Akira Ishida (Gundam SEED’s Athrun Zala, Naruto’s Gaara, Nana’s Shin) as Fuyuhiko Nishino
- Rikiya Koyama (Kamen no Maid Guy’s Kogarashi, Hajime no Ippo’s Mamoru Takamura) as Seijirou Sugishita
- Yuu Kobayashi (Zetsubou-sensei’s Kaere Kimura, School Rumble’s Lala Gonzalez) as Sai Fujimiya

This is also the cast for the Playstation 2 port of the game (NOT the cast from the original PC game). Pretty impressive, hm? We still need a cast member for the protagonist, though.

Sweet Carrie Savage is playing the role of Kurakano Momoka, the freshman vice class representative and a frequent client of Haruhi’s. And the brilliant Eric Vale is Toru Suzushimaid [sic], heir to the Suzushima Trading Company. His drama? He doesn’t think he is worthy of his fiancé (whatevs!) and plans to leave Ouran for England.

Uh-oh. Does this mean that FUNi is waiting until AX to unleash the actual club members’ voice actors? GEH! (The picture above is the two characters mentioned, btw, if you weren’t sure.)

Tangentially, FUNi is going to start a podcast on Monday. Hmm..