The voice cast of the Saint Seiya CG film "Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary" has been announced on their official website last Thursday.

The chosen cast for the film are:

Ishikawa Kaito (Nobunaga the Fool, Golden Time, Tokyo Ravens) as Pegasus Seiya;

Akabane Kenji (Maganebu!, Star Driver) as Dragon Shiryu;

Ono Kensho (Kuroko's Basketball) as Cygnus Hyoga;

Okamoto Nobuhiko (Tiger & Bunny, Yogakura Quartet, Ao no Exorcist) as Andromeda Shun;

and Nojima Kenji (Psycho-Pass, High School DxD) as Phoenix Ikki

This popular Sanctuary arc from Kuromada Masami's original Saint Seiya mythological fantasy manga will be the one to be adapted and the official website previously contains the following quotation from the mangaka himself: "The Seiya legend began here."

It was confirmed in February 2011 by Toei Animation that the production for a new computer-animated film of Saint Seiya had been pushed through. Satou Keiichi (Tiger & Bunny, Ashura) is in-charge of the project, while Kuromada is credited still as the original created and chief production supervisor. It is also him who gave the film's title. Aside form that, the screenplay is written by the scriptwriter of the six Tiger & Bunny episode, Suzuki Tomohiro.



The Shueisha's Weekly Jump magazine has ran the manga from 1985 to 1990 and has 34.4 million copies printed worldwide as proclaimed by the teaser trailer. In fact, after that, it was quickly adapted to a television anime series in 1986 that has been popular not only in Japan, but also in France, Italy, other parts of Europe, Brazil, other parts of South and Central America, and Asia making the anime aired in over 80 countries around the world. It has been a decade since the last Saint Seiya film, Saint Seiya Tenkai-hen Hoso ~Overture~.

The film is scheduled to open in Japan on June 21st and will be shown also in Mexico and Peru this year.



via Anime News Network