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B: The Beginning Anime Streams English-Dubbed Promo Video

Kōji Fujimoto (arrangement, programming).

Netflix will begin streaming the anime worldwide simultaneously on March 2.

The show's Japanese voice cast includes: (Note: not all name spellings are official)

• Hiroaki Hirata as Keith / Kazama / Dr. Flick
• Yūki Kaji as Koku
• Asami Seto as Lily Hoshino
• Hiroki Touchi as Eric / Toga
• Minoru Inaba as Boris / Meyer
• Ami Koshimizu as Kaela Yoshinaga
• Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Brian / Brandon
• Shintarō Tanaka as Mario
• Atsushi Goto as Jean / Henry / Richard
• Toshiyuki Morikawa as Gilbert / Ross
• Kaito Ishikawa as Minatsuki

The show's English cast includes:

• Ray Chase as Keith / Dr. Flick
• Kyle McCarley as Koku
• Doug Stone as Boris
• Faye Mata as Lily
• Johnny Yong Bosch as Minatsuki
• Xander Mobus as Laica / Henry
• Allegra Clark as Kaela
• Brianna Knickerbocker as Yuna
• Patrick Seitz as Mario
• Jalen K. Cassell as Eric
• Erica Mendez as Young Koku
• Cristina Vee as Young Yuna / Erika / Kukuri / Takeru
• Keith Osterberg as Jean
• Ezra Weisz as Abbot
• Khoi Dao as Brandon
• Todd Haberkorn as Quinn / Jonathan
• Derek Stephen Prince as Julian
• Ben Diskin as Kamui
• Marianne Miller as Izanami / Lily's Mom
• Sean Chiplock as Red
• Edward Bosco as Blue / Richard
• Keith Silverstein as Yellow
• Jake Eberle as Lily's Father
• Joe Zieja as Lily's Brother

Tiger & Bunny) is composing the music.

Netflix first unveiled the 12-episode series under the title Perfect Bones, but later changed the title to B: The Beginning. Each episode will be about 23 minutes long. Netflix describes the story:

In a world powered by advanced technology, crime and action unfold in the archipelagic nation of Cremona. Koku, the protagonist. Keith, the legendary investigator of the royal police force RIS. A mysterious criminal organization. A wide variety of characters race through the fortified city as it is beset by the serial killer, Killer B, and a chain of crimes in this suspense drama by director Kazuto Nakazawa and Production I.G.

Earlier plot descriptions for the series describe a future where scientists are aiming to create "perfect humans" to achieve world peace, but the new humans they create are kidnapped by an evil organization.

[Via WTK]