Resurrection Cast

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RESURRECTION CHARACTERS

SIO

Young Sio Voiced by: Ariel Winter
Adult Sio Voiced by: Lucy Liu
Sio is the antagonist of the film.  A childhood friend of Afro and the younger sister of Jinnosuke/Kuma, she was an orphan until she was taken in by a noble family to replace their dead child. However, due to the events of the Midnight Battle Under the Bodhi Tree, Sio blamed Afro for her life being ruined in the aftermath and vowed to make him suffer for the thousands of lives that he has slain including her foster family. With the help of Jinno, professor Dharman, and her newly revived Vassals, Sio begins her plans by taking the Number One Headband from Afro and taking Rokutaro’s remains for Dharman to resurrect him with his nano-technology from so that she can use him to kill his own son, while provoking Afro to come to her (and therefore lead to the battle between father and son) by making threats to torture his father.

BIN, MICHAEL, AND TOMOE

BIN (middle)
Voiced by: Mark Hamill
Bin is one of Sio’s henchmen and protector. When Sio was young, he was part of her foster family and always made people laugh because of the funny mask he wore. But after the town where he lived was destroyed (Sio blames Afro for this event), he was almost killed and was reconstructed by the mad professor Dharman as a cybernetic fighter (similar to Jinno’s situation). Now no longer laughing, but a hateful shell of the man he once was, he wears the same humorous Noh mask that he had in the past to conceal his robotic appearance. Bin usually carries a boom box that can fire metal spikes and is capable of turning his left hand into a blade and his right hand into a laser canon as well as using his robotic feet to make huge leaps. He and the other henchmen despise Afro because they consider him responsible for their loss of humanity and desire to kill him in order to prevent Sio from becoming a murderer.

MICHAEL (left)
Michael is Sio’s second henchman. Similar to Bin, he was part of Sio’s foster family and used to entertain people by dressing in a dragon costume. He was also reconstructed by the scientist Dharman as a cyborg after he had suffered nearly fatal injuries. He wears a cloak and a red dragon mask which fires flames and rockets when it opens its mouth. After Afro dispatches the mask and the cloak covering his body, it is revealed that the only organic parts that are left from him are his head and torso, the rest of his body being cybernetic and having attached a pair of long, metallic chains and a huge machine gun on it.

NOTE: Michael doesn’t have a voice actor as he cannot speak, being able to communicate only through his glasses that serve as a digital display for words and images.

TOMOE (right)
Voiced by: Grey DeLisle
Tomoe is Sio’s third henchman. Part of her foster family, Tomoe was a woman who was seen holding a shamisen (guitar-like Japanese instrument) and was very kind to Sio (teaching her to dance among other things). Like the other two henchmen, she became a cyborg assassin after the tragic event that occurred in her town. She wears a wide hat and holds the same instrument that she used to sing at in the past, now being capable of turning it into a deadly weapon. Also, she wears a Noh Mask that resembles her old appearance in order to hide her burnt face. Her jet-propelled cybernetic feet allow her to fly, and her enhanced muscular tissue adds more power to her strikes, thus making her a worthy opponent.

SHICHIGORO (left)
Voiced by: Liam O’Brien
Shichigoro is the possessor of the Number Two headband and a very skilled swordsman. Much like Afro’s swordmaster, Shichigoro believes that by hiding the headband he would stop all the killings, but once he meets Afro, he accepts his challenge because he desires to personally kill him for all that Afro did in the past.

KOTARO (right)
Voiced by: Zachary Gordon
Kotaro is Shichigoro’s adopted son. After witnessing the death of his father at the hands of Afro, he seeks for revenge against him. At the end of the movie, Afro hands him the Number Two headband telling the child that he can challenge Afro ‘whenever he is ready’ – a scene reminiscent of Justice’s speech to Afro as a child.

TAKIMOTO
Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson
Takimoto is the last person seen, greeting Justice. In the manga, he holds a similar duty to Justice that The Empty Seven and Kuma held in the anime, protecting the “Number One” and defeating the current “Number Two”. Although he explains himself as having the goal of observing the order of the world, seeing Afro about to reach the throne room made him ready to interfere. Depending on the possible third movie, it will be unknown if his motives and goals will be carried to the anime, since many of the characters have similar but slightly altered parts in the manga.