Skip Beat! (スキップ・ビート!, Sukippu Bīto!) is a Japanese anime television series based on the Japanese shōjo manga by Yoshiki Nakamura. The series was produced by Hal Film Maker and originally aired in Japan between October 5, 2008 and July 12, 2009, consisting of 25 episodes. The series was released in North America on Blu-Ray and DVD by Pied Piper in 2017 with an English dub, which was the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign.
Cast[]
| Image | Character | Seiyū | Dub Actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Characters | |||
| Kyoko Mogami | Marina Inoue | Caitlin Glass | |
| Sho Fuwa | Mamoru Miyano | Grant George | |
| Ren Tsuruga | Katsuyuki Konishi | Robbie Daymond | |
| Secondary Characters | |||
| Kanae Kotonami | Risa Hayamizu | Erica Lindbeck | |
| Shoko Aoki | Rio Natsuki | Karen Strassman | |
| Takenori Sawara | Kenji Hamada | Keith Silverstein | |
| Maria Takarada | Hiromi Konno | Mela Lee | |
| Lory Takarada | Kōji Ishii | Richard Epcar | |
| Yukihito Yashiro | Masahito Kawanago | Vic Mignogna | |
| Minor Characters | |||
| Yūsei Ishibashi | Takafumi Kawakami | Bryce Papenbrook | |
| Hiroaki Ogata | Yoshinori Fujita | Chris Patton | |
| Mimori Nanokura | Youko Honda | Christine Marie Cabanos | |
| Erika Koenji | Atsuko Enomoto | Cristina Valenzuela | |
| Okami | Midori Sangoumi | Ellyn Stern | |
| Eiko | Haruka Kimura | Erika Harlacher | |
| Hiroko Iizuka | Mari Yokoo | Erin Fitzgerald | |
| Ushio Kurosaki | Takeshi Kusao | Jason C. Miller | |
| Seiji Shingai | Hirofumi Nojima | Todd Haberkorn | |
| Nakazawa | Takayuki Kondo | Joe Zieja | |
| Matsushima | Keiichi Nakagawa | Kaiji Tang | |
| Haruki Asami | Ayumi Tsunematsu | Kate Higgins | |
| Make-up Artist | Yukiko Monden | Kimlinh Tran | |
| Ruriko Matsunai | Ayako Kawasumi | Kira Buckland | |
| Funada | Hiroaki Ishikawa | Kyle Hebert | |
| Hikaru Ishibashi | Takayuki Sasada | Kyle McCarley | |
| Nao | Yukiko Monden | Lauren Landa | |
| Yumiko | Shiori Mikami | ||
| Imai | Keisuke Koumoto | Nathan Sharp | |
| Shinichi Ishibashi | Toru Nara | Todd Haberkorn | |
| Corn | Mutsumi Tamura | Zach Aguilar | |
Additional Voices[]
Notes[]
- This marks Mela Lee's first anime dub role not recorded at Bang Zoom! Studios since Saint Tail in 2001. It also marks her first and so far only anime role at New Generation Pictures.
Video Releases[]
| Distributor | Year | Format | Content | Region | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanabee Entertainment | 2017 | 
|
The Complete Series | B DVB-T |
Australia | 
|
| 3 Discs | ||||||
| MVM Entertainment | 2018 | The Complete Series | United Kingdom | 
| ||
| 3 Discs | ||||||
| Pied Piper | The Complete Series | A DVB-T |
United States | 
| ||
| 3 Discs | ||||||
+ 
|
The Complete Series | A DVB-T 1 NTSC | ||||
| 7 Discs | ||||||
External Links[]
- Skip Beat! at the Internet Movie Database
- Skip Beat! (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia