Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan

Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan
Original Title	岸辺露伴は動かない (Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai)
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio	Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Voice Director	Tony Oliver
Translation & Adaptation	Songju Chong Khoi Dao Kris Knigge
Recorded	2021
Dub Country	United States
Original Country	Japan
Episodes	4
Year	2017-2019

Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (岸辺露伴は動かない, Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai) is a 4-episode OAV based on the manga one-shots by Hirohiko Araki. It ran in Japan from 2017 to December 8. 2019. Netflix produced an English dub of the series, which premiered on its streaming service on February 18, 2021.

Synopsis Set between Diamond Is Unbreakable and Golden Wind, the series follows the character Rohan Kishibe, a famous manga artist who wants to give his works more realism, and therefore travels around the world to draw inspiration from people's lives. He does this by using his Stand ability – a manifestation of his inner strength, named "Heaven's Door", which he uses to read and write in a person, allowing him to learn everything about them and altering their memories and behaviors.

Cast

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
	Rohan Kishibe	Takahiro Sakurai	Landon McDonald
	Koichi Hirose	Yūki Kaji	Zach Aguilar
	Okuyasu Nijimura	Wataru Takagi	Jalen K. Cassell

Episodic Characters

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Episode
	Young Man (Originally Confessor)	Hiroki Takahashi	Crispin Freeman	1
	Confessor (Originally Butler)	Naoya Nosaka
	Tramp	Shōto Kashii	Mark Whitten
	Confessor's Daughter	Hina Kino	Skyler Davenport
	Yukako Yamagishi	Mamiko Noto	Faye Mata
	Laborers	Shō Okumura	¿?
			¿?
	Minoru Kagamari	Takamasa Mogi	Howard Wang	2
	Naoko Osato	Atsumi Tanezaki	Suzie Yeung
	Gunpei Kamafusa	Junji Majima	Stephen Fu
	Naoko's Daughter	Yūki Takada	Faye Mata
	Shuichi	Takeaki Masuyama	Mark Whitten
	Naoko's Father	Shinnosuke Ogami	Zeke Alton
	Batsudera		¿?
	Mikitaka Hazekura	Yasuyuki Kase	Mark Whitten
	Akira Otoishi	Shōtarō Morikubo	Andrew Russell
	Tamami Kobayashi	Satoshi Tsuruoka	Frank Todaro
	Kyōka Izumi	Mai Nakahara	Brittany Cox	3
	Ikkyū	Kaori Mizuhashi	Jessica DiCicco
	Yoma Hashimoto	Kōki Uchiyama	Aleks Le	4
	Mika Hayamura	Chinatsu Akasaki	Skyler Davenport
	Trainer	Ryōta Takeuchi	Kane Jungbluth-Murry
	Yoma's Manager	Saori Terai	Faye Mata
	Gym Staff Member	Satoru Murakami	Andrew Russell

Additional Voices

• Faye Mata - Girl (ep. 2), Scout (ep. 4)
• Bob Carter - Demon Spirit (ep. 1)

Credits

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Notes

• Vic Mignogna doesn't reprise his role as Rohan Kishibe, being replaced by Landon McDonald due to the blacklisting of Mignogna over sexual harassment revelations.
• Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan is notable for being the first English dub production of a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series to be unionized, due in part to Netflix's dubbing agreement with SAG-AFTRA and due to the appearance of union-based actors like Crispin Freeman and Jessica DiCicco. This makes it the fourth anime series dubbed at Bang Zoom! to transition from a non-union to a unionized dub production after Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga, Sword Art Online: Alicization, and The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods.

Transmission via Streaming

Company	Date	Category	Format	Content	Classification	Country
	February 18, 2021	TV Series / Netflix Original Series	Digital	4 eps.	16+	United States

External Links

• Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan at the Internet Movie Database
• Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia