Crunchyroll confirmed on Wednesday that it will stream English dubs for two shows that premiered in Japan on October 7, and it released the cast lists for both. The Magic Knight Rayearth remake gets a full dub, and Sasaki and Peeps season 2 gets one with most of its original English cast back in place.
Both dubs debuted the same day the announcement went out.
Magic Knight Rayearth
Rebecca Chiara Marano leads as Hikaru, with Bryn Apprill as Umi and Kelly Greenshield as Fuu. Caitlin Glass voices Princess Emeraude, Bradley Gareth is Zagato, Jacob Hopkins plays Clef, and Erin Nicole Lundquist, Christopher Wehkamp, Cassie Ewulu and Sarah Roach round out the main group as Alcyone, Lafarga, Caldina and Ascot.
The dub is produced at Crunchyroll, with Justin Cook, Michael Harcourt and Nathanael Harrison as studio producers and Samantha Herek producing. Ben Phillips supervises adaptation, Jessica Sluys writes the scripts, and Jonathan Rigg directs the voice sessions.
The announcement follows Crunchyroll's Psyren English dub cast reveal earlier this month, and it uses the same production pipeline. If those names feel familiar, it is because Crunchyroll has been using this same core team on a large share of its seasonal dubs for years. That consistency shows up in the performances, and for a CLAMP property with a lot of old-school fans, it matters.
The new Rayearth anime airs in the IMAnimation W block on TV Asahi and its affiliates, at 11:45 p.m. Japanese time. That is a late slot, so the simulcast timing will not be friendly to everyone.
CLAMP serialized the original manga in Kodansha's Nakayoshi from 1993 to 1996, and it ran six volumes. Two television seasons followed in the mid-nineties, the first from October 1994 to March 1995 and the second from April to November 1995, plus a three-episode OVA in 1997 that retold the story differently. All three versions are still argued about by people who were there the first time.
The premise has not changed. Hikaru, Umi and Fuu get pulled out of a Tokyo Tower field trip and dropped into Cefiro, a world that is falling apart because Princess Emeraude has been taken by the priest Zagato and can no longer sing the prayers that hold it together. The mage Clef gives the three girls magic and tells them to fix it. They are high schoolers. It does not go cleanly.
Sasaki and Peeps season 2
Tyson Rinehart returns as Sasaki, Erin Nicole Lundquist voices Peeps, and the first episode's cast also brings back Taylor Murphy as Neighbor, Hollis Beck as Abaddon, Robin Clayton as Shizuka, Ray Hurd as Müller, Lisette Monique Diaz as Elsa, Reagan Murdock as Akutsu and Julie Cleburn as Hoshizaki.
Charles Nguyen, Kirsty Johnson, Cory Phillips, Jennifer AuBuchon, Randy Pearlman, Rowan Gilvie, Eli Farmer and T.J. Anthony fill out the episode in supporting parts, including Magical Pink and Einhart.
Justin Cook, Michael Harcourt and Nathanael Harrison produce again. Ben Phillips and Jarrod Greene supervise adaptation, Matthew Greenbaum writes, and Caitlin Glass directs. Glass is also voicing Emeraude in Rayearth, which means she spent the same production window on both shows in two different roles. That happens more often in this industry than most viewers realize.
Season 2 began on October 7 at 11:00 p.m. JST on Tokyo MX and BS NTV, and it also airs on AT-X. The first season covered the setup: a tired office worker buys a pet bird, the bird turns out to be a sage from another world, and Sasaki ends up with powers and the ability to cross between worlds. He wanted a quiet life. He does not get one.
The light novels, written by Buncololi with art by Kantoku, started at Kadokawa in January 2021 and are still going. They won both the tankōbon and novel categories in the 2022 Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! guidebook, which is a rare double, and volume 13 shipped on March 25. Yen Press handles the English release.
Where to watch
Both dubs are on Crunchyroll. Rayearth is the bigger get of the two simply because the franchise has thirty years of history behind it, but Sasaki and Peeps has the advantage of a returning cast, and returning casts are the main reason people stick with a dub across seasons.
Source: Source: Anime News Network, citing Crunchyroll
Featured image: Key visual for the 2026 Magic Knight Rayearth anime, via Anime News Network.
