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Sentai Filmworks Announces Infinite Stratos 2's English Dub Cast

Sentai Filmworks announced the English dub cast for the television anime Infinite Stratos 2 anime on Wednesday. The cast, under director Matt Greenfield, includes:

• Josh Grelle as Ichika Orimura
• Monica Rial as Houki Shinonono
• Shannon Emerick as Charlotte Dunois
• Tiffany Grant as Laura Bodewig
• Brittney Karbowski as Cecilia Alcott
• Hilary Haag as Lingyin Huang
• Luci Christian as Chifuyu Orimura
• Cynthia Martinez as Maya Yamada
• Jessica Calvello as Tatenashi Sarashiki
• Luci Christian as M

Additional voices include: Kira Vincent-Davis, Carli Mosier, Nancy Novotny, Sasha Paysinger, Monica Passley, Allison Keith-Shipp, Allison Sumrall, and Tiffany Terrell.

The series will ship on DVD on December 9.

Sentai Filmworks describes the story:

There are probably worse things that could have happened to Ichika Orimura than being the only guy in a training academy filled with military hardware and several battalions of highly competitive and extremely boy-crazed teenage girls. Being caught in a five-girl crossfire between his obsessive childhood friends Lingyin and Houki and the even more zealous British, German and French pilots Cecillia, Laura and Charlotte, at least turned out to be survivable. But surely Ichika's finally put all his female troubles behind him, right? Oh, don't be ridiculous.

None of the femmes fatales in his life have canceled their conquest scenarios. There's double trouble arriving in the form of the Sarashiki sisters, the rest of the school is still waiting in line to take their shot. and when a whole new set of female pilots working for the bad guys shows up with a new generation of stolen IS hardware, things are about to get utterly lethal!

Yasuhito Kikuchi once again directed at 8-Bit, but Kumi Horii (Student Council's Discretion, Zone of the Enders) is handled the new character designs. Takeshi Takakura was joined by Kōichi Mugitani or Chōco (Busou Shinki) on mechanical designs. Chōco replaced okiura on the illustrations for the original novels going forward. Hikaru Nanase is also returned to score the music, and voice actress Yōko Hikasa and other singers performed the anime's "BEAUTIFUL SKY" ending theme.

The light novel series already inspired a 2011 television anime season. Sentai Filmworks and Section23 Films released the first anime season in North America.