FUNimation announced the major cast and crew for the English adaptation their upcoming release of Bamboo Blade. The current lineup is as follows:

• Tamaki Kawazoe: Cherami Leigh
• Toraji Ishida: Ian Sinclair
• Kirino Chiba: Luci Christian
• Satori Azuma: Carrie Savage
• Sayako Kuwahara: Brina Palencia
• Miyako Miyazaki: Leah Clark
• Yuuji Nakata: Chris Burnett
• Danjuro Eiga: Sean Michael Teague
• Line Producer: Tyler Walker
• ADR Director: Chris Cason
• ADR Scripts: Andrew Rye

Bamboo Blade is a 26-episode anime series based on the manga by Masahiro Totsuka. The series was produced by AIC (Tenchi Muyo!, Bubblegum Crisis), and directed by Hisashi Saito (Sora no Otoshimono, Kigurumikku V3). The series ran on TV Tokyo from October 2, 2007 to April 2, 2008.

FUNimation will release Bamboo Blade in two DVD sets. The first set will hit stores in November.