BODY: Marvel's Japanese arm dropped a roster, not a trailer, on October 22 — and for dub-watching fans here, the 29 names were the news. The Japanese voice cast for Avengers: Doomsday is now set, two months out from the film's December 18 day-and-date release in Japan and the US.
Kenta Miyake returns as Thor, his first outing in the role in four years since Thor: Love and Thunder and seven since Endgame. Yuichi Nakamura is back as Steve Rogers, Junpei Mizobata as Sam Wilson's Captain America, and Momoiro Clover Z's Kanako Momota as Black Panther / Shuri. The supporting bench reads like a who's who of Japanese voice work: Maaya Sakamoto as Invisible Woman, Takehito Koyasu as Mister Fantastic, Yuki Kaji as Sentry, Akio Otsuka as Red Guardian, Mutsumi Tamura as Yelena Belova, and Mugihito as Professor X opposite Katsuhiko Sasaki's Magneto.
Nakamura's comment was the one fans seized on. He admitted the trailer blindsided him — he had considered Steve's arc closed after Endgame — and is openly unsure what footing the character returns on. "Is this the Steve we know? An ally? Or, impossibly, an enemy?" he wrote, before landing on the conclusion that any version would be interesting. Mizobata added a pointed hint: the trailers, he said, contain misdirection.
The omission is louder than the list. Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom has no announced Japanese voice in this list.
The insider take
That blank next to Doom stands out because Iron Man's longtime Japanese voice, Keiji Fujiwara, died in 2020, so who speaks for Downey as Doom is an obvious question. The announcement does not say why the slot is empty; it may simply not be ready yet.
Originally reported by 映画ナタリー - 最新ニュース (Japanese).