The Garden of Words
Though the release isn’t set to hit retail shelves until August 6th, some early copies of Makoto Shinkai’s The Garden of Words are already finding their way out (we’ll have our review next week!) and that means the dub cast has been revealed:
Takao Akizuki – Patrick Poole
Yukari Yukino – Maggie Flecknoe
Takao’s Mother – Shelley Calene-Black
Takao’s Brother – Crash Buist
Brother’s Girlfriend – Brittney Karbowski
Mr. Ito – David Matranga
Matsumoto – Mike Yager
Sato – Alison Sumrall
Aizawa – Hilary Haag
Young Takao – Blake Shepard
Additional Voices – Shannon Emerick, Kalob Martinez, Andrea Schutter, Wendy Martin, Summer Salah, Shannon Hill
Plot Concept: When Takao, a young high school student who dreams of becoming a shoe designer, decides to skip school one day in favor of sketching in a rainy garden, he has no idea how much his life will change when he encounters Yukino. Older, but perhaps not as much wiser, she seems adrift in the world. Despite the difference in their ages, they strike up an unusual relationship that unexpectedly continues and evolves, without planning, with random meetings that always occur in the same garden on each rainy day. But the rainy season is coming to a close, and there are so many things still left unsaid and undone between them. Will there be time left for Takao to put his feelings into actions and words? Between the raindrops, between the calms in the storm, what will blossom in THE GARDEN OF WORDS?