Can't wait for Friday?  Neither can we, happy hour can't come fast enough.  On top of that, this Friday we'll be premiering the highly anticipated English Dub of Blue Drop!  As you know, we've had the subtitled version available on the AN Online Player for quite a while now, and the dub version will be showing up there each week, on the same page.  All you have to do is click on the "Dubbed" button in the options menu to the right of the player.  Nice and easy, no?  

New episodes of the Blue Drop English Dub will be released each week, Friday at 12 AM CDT for the first week, then along with the rest of the Online Player lineup, every Thursday.  We'll continue adding 2 new eps. a week leading up to the release of the DVD/Blu-ray Complete Collection on September 7, 2010.

The cast list was also announced, featuring some familiar voices coming together for the first time in a long time.  The Blue Drop English Dub cast includes:

Blue Drop

Directed by Matt Greenfield

ADR by Clint Bickham

Cast

Mari Wakatake: Hilary Haag

Hagino Senkoji: Monica Rial

Michiko Kozuki: Hannah Alcorn

Akane Kawashima: Tiffany Grant

Yuko Sugawara: Luci Christian

Headmaster Fukamachi: John Swasey

Hiroko Funatsumaru: Shannon Emmerick

Kazumi Yamada: Serena Varghese

Futaba Sizuki: Monica Passley

Mie Sato: Cynthia Martinez

Director Maiyama: Marcy Rae

Mari's Grandmother: Shelley Calene-Black

Hasegawa (Mari's Driver): George Manley

Gen (Gardener): Rob Mungle

Tsubael: Brittney Karbowski

Blue AI: Tiffany Grant

Shivariel: Laura Chapman

Azanael: Kelly Manison

Onomil: Kara Greenberg

Quite the cast list, lots of my personal favorites in this one.  Catch the Blue Drop  English Dub of episode 1, "Hydrangea", (available free to all GUESTS) and episode 2, "Lavandula"(available free for REGISTERED users) this Friday at 12 AM CDT ONLY on Anime Network Online!

About Blue Drop

When Mari Wakatake arrives at the gate of the exclusive Kaihou Academy, she is a girl without a past. Five years earlier, SOMETHING happened to her. Something that took the lives of her parents and every other human on Kamioki Island, then wiped her mind clean of even memories. But if Mari’s past is an unknown nightmare, her future may soon become even more terrifying. Because while she was the sole HUMAN survivor, there is something else that lived through that same night, and her path is about to cross Mari’s again. Something in a female skin has invaded Kaihou Academy, and Mari is its target. The subjugation of Earth has begun, and the heart of one young woman may be the key to our race’s ultimate salvation or damnation. Catch the excitement, mystery, and adventure that unfolds on BLUE DROP!