Legend of the Mystical Ninja (known as Anime Ganbare Goemon in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

) is an anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 television series, based on Konami

Konami

is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...

's best-selling-in-Japan video game franchise Legend of the Mystical Ninja

Ganbare Goemon

, known as Legend of the Mystical Ninja, Mystical Ninja, and Goemon in North America and the PAL region, is a long-running video game series produced by Konami....

. The television series was produced by TV Tokyo, aired from 1997 to 1998, ran for 23 episodes, and 5 volumes of videos were released on VHS

VHS

The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....

 and DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

. It was eventually picked up in North America

North America

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 for an English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 dub done by ADV Films.

English-version voice actors and their characters

• Tiffany Grant
  Tiffany Grant
  Tiffany Lynn Grant is an American voice actress and script writer who is known for her English-dubbing work with the former ADV Films on such anime films and television series as Neon Genesis Evangelion, in which she voiced the character Asuka Langley Soryu...
  
   - Tsukasa
• Vic Mignogna
  Vic Mignogna
  Victor Joseph "Vic" Mignogna is an American Anime Award winning voice actor and musician who has done voice work for many anime series, movies, and video games...
  
   - Goemon
• Chris Patton
  Chris Patton
  Christopher David Patton is an American voice actor who works on anime for Funimation Entertainment, ADV Films, Seraphim Digital, and OkraTron 5000...
  
   - Ebisumaru, Itakaro
• David Born - Dr. Mudanashi, Seppukumaru
• George Manley - Impact
• Greg Ayres
  Greg Ayres
  Gregory Scott Ayres is an American voice actor who works for anime series at Funimation Entertainment, ADV Films, Seraphim Digital, and OkraTron 5000. He has provided voices for a number of English language versions of Japanese anime films...
  
   - Sasuke, Hatarino
• Hilary Haag
  Hilary Haag
  Hilary Haag Scarborough is an American voice actress who worked for ADV Films and Seraphim Digital and currently lives in Houston, Texas. Attended Lamar Consolidated High School and went on to study English Rhetoric at Texas A&M University...
  
   - Asuka
• Jessica Boone
  Jessica Boone
  Jessica Boone is a classically trained American actress with extensive experience in Shakespeare and musical theatre. She has been a leading player with Prague Shakespeare Festival and Houston Shakespeare Festival where her roles have included Rosalind, Juliet, Helena, Regan, Thaisa and Innogen...
  
   - Yae
• Jim McClellan - Monoshiri
• Kira Vincent-Davis
  Kira Vincent-Davis
  Kira Vincent-Davis is an American voice actress who works for Funimation Entertainment, ADV Films, and OkraTron 5000...
  
   - Omitsu
• Andrew Klimko - Chief Inspector, Jojima, Zan Pan
• Andy McAvin
  Andy McAvin
  Andrew Mark "Andy" McAvin is an American actor and voice over actor with nearly 80 credits to his resume. He also appeared in over 120 professional theatrical productions including Broadway musicals. He does voice work in anime dubs for ADV Films and Seraphim Digital.One of his most prominent...
  
   - Junichiro (Tsukasa's Father)
• Ed Paez - Director
• Kevin Corn
  Kevin Corn
  Kevin Corn is an American voice actor who has voiced characters in several anime titles for ADV Films.-Voice roles:*Angelic Layer - Kotaro Kobayashi*D.N.Angel - Daisuke Niwa*Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu - Masatami Hyuga...
  
   - Noboru
• Lorinda Boyd - Yoko (Tsukasa's Mother)
• Monica Rial
  Monica Rial
  Monica Jean Rial is an American voice actress, ADR Director, and Script Writer who works for Funimation Entertainment, ADV Films, Seraphim Digital, and OkraTron 5000...
  
   - Nyanko, TV Reporter
• Patricia Duran - Rokudenashi, Tomoe
• Randy Sparks - Principal
• Rick Pearsall - Makuamuuge
• Shelley Calene-Black
  Shelley Calene-Black
  Shelley Calene-Black is an American actress and voice actress who has worked for Funimation Entertainment, ADV Films, Seraphim Digital, and OkraTron 5000...
  
   - Noboru's Mother
• Tony Oller
  Tony Oller
  Tony Oller is an American actor and musician from Cypress, Texas. He is known for his role as Walt Moore on Gigantic, Jesse in Lifetime's "Unanswered Prayers". and as Daniel "Danny" Neilson on As the Bell Rings.-Career:...
  
  - Mini