Naruto's voice actress stars in Pokemon!

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The Japanese Pokémon official Twitter account reported on August 30 that Junko Takeuchi, who is best known as the voice of Naruto Uzumaki, will play Red, the protagonist boy in the Pocket Monsters: The Origin TV anime special. In Japan, the 41-year-old voice actress is also famous for her voice works for Rin Natsuki/Cure Rouge in Yes! PreCure5/Yes! PreCure 5 GoGo! and Mamoru Endou in the Inazuma Eleven series. And 68-year-old veteran voice actor Katsuji Mori will voice Dr. Okido who lives at his research lab in Pallet Town and gave Red his Starter Pokémon. The TV anime special is based on the original Pocket Monsters: Red & Green games and will be aired on TV Tokyo and its affiliated stations at 7:00 p.m. on October 2.

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[Hypemaster]

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Not bad....not bad at all

 

[FreakensteinAG]

I wonder if, in this series, Red will tame a Ninetales :gn:

 

[MasqueradeNX]

Very nice.... When is this New TV show coming out?

 

[Sir Blades]

no one was more worthy of that role.

 

[LitAquarius]

Yeah well, It's not an anime based off the Pokemon adventures manga. So I'm not interested in this at all. And sadly the Pokemon Adventures Manga will never see an anime version of itself unless it's fan made animation.

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[Stacks]

Hell yeah that would be nice