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Viz Media Reveals One-Punch Man Season 2 Anime's Dub Cast

Viz Media revealed the new English dub cast for the second season of the One-Punch Man anime at its Shonen Jump panel at New York Comic Con on Friday. The company also began streaming a video clip for the dub.

The new cast members include:

• Greg Chun as Garou
• Alan Lee as Suiryu
• Bill Millsap as Gyoro-Gyoro
• Jason Marnocha as Orochi

Adult Swim's Toonami programming block will premiere the anime with the English dub on October 12. Toonami revealed on Thursday what the full schedule will be starting on October 12:

11:00 p.m. – Dragon Ball Super
11:30 p.m. – One-Punch Man (Season 2 Premiere)
12:00 a.m. – Dr. Stone
12:30 a.m. – Fire Force
1:00 a.m. – Food Wars!
1:30 a.m. – Demon Slayer (Series Premiere)
2:00 a.m. – Black Clover
2:30 a.m. – Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
3:00 a.m. – Naruto Shippūden
3:30 a.m. – Lupin the 3rd part 5
4:00 a.m. – My Hero Academia

The new season of One-Punch Man began with a television special on April 2, then the first episode premiered in Japan on April 9. Viz Media acquired the master license to the second anime season, including digital streaming, TV broadcast, electronic sell-through, home media, and merchandising rights for North America, Latin America and Oceania. The company streamed the show with English subtitles as a Hulu exclusive. Crunchyroll streamed the series in Europe, excluding French- and German-speaking Europe, and in the Middle East and North Africa.

Chikara Sakurai (Magimoji Rurumo, episode director for Naruto Shippūden) replaced Shingo Natsume to direct the season at J.C. Staff (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, Children of the Whales). Madhouse animated the first season.

Madhouse and director Shingo Natsume's first 12-episode anime season based on ONE and Yūsuke Murata's One-Punch Man manga aired in Japan from October-December 2015. Viz Media and Daisuki both streamed the series outside of Japan as it aired. The anime premiered with an English dub on Adult Swim's Toonami block in July 2016. Viz Media released the first season on home video in North America.

Thanks to Nicholas Reichling for the Toonami schedule news tip.

Sources: Email correspondence, Viz Media's Shonen Jump NYCC panel, Viz Media's YouTube channel