REC (lost English dub of anime series; 2007-2008)

Cover image for the series.

Status: Lost

REC is a drama/romantic anime about an aspiring voice actress based who is in love and is based on the manga with the same name. It originally aired in Japan from February 2, 2006 to March 30, 2006. REC has 10 episodes with each being around twelve minutes long.

Plot

The plot centers around a working man named Fumihiko Matsumaru who is going on a movie date one night. His date never shows up and as he is about to toss the tickets for the movie away when the main character Aka Onda shows up and begs him to not throw away the tickets. During the date, he noticed that Akak is reading the subtitles out loud for the movie. She reveals that she is an aspiring voice actress. After the date Fumihiko escorts Aka home to find out they live in the same neighborhood. They soon move in with each other where they begin friends, but not lovers relationship.

English Dub

Animax Asia picked up the rights for an English dub. A Redditor by the name of WaskNinja posted on the Lost_Films sub-reddit about an English dub of REC that aired on Animax Philippines in 2007 and/or 2008 on weekends. The redditor reached out to voice actress Emily Woo Zeller, who voiced characters Yoshioka and Tanaka in the English dub. She did confirm that the dub aired on Animax Asia around 2007, but she did not have access to the show. On the now defunct website called animeindia.com, people were users stated that the dub aired around 2008, but did not have many re-runs most possibly due to the fact the anime was not that popular and show's short runtime. No footage of the English dub for REC has appeared online.

English Dub cast

Only two people have been credited with dubbing REC in English. The rest of the English dub cast is unknown.

• David Lee McKinney as Fumihiko Matsumaru
• Emily Woo Zeller as Tanaka and Yoshioka