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The world's first Scooby-Doo anime announced - with Frank Welker and Matthew Lillard returning to the voice cast
Both Frank Welker and Matthew Lillard have been voicing Scooby-Doo and Shaggy for decades and now they're heading to Japan in Yokoso Scooby-Doo!
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Despite having no visible income of any kind, the Scooby-Doo gang gets around. Wherever there are mysteries to solve, the Mystery Inc crew will be there. Now, that includes Japan; nearly 60 years after he first debuted on American TVs, we’re now getting a Scooby-Doo anime. What’s more, franchise voice actors Frank Welker and Matthew Lillard are reprising their roles for the new take on Scooby-Doo on Tubi.
The description for Yokoso Scooby-Doo! sounds like someone grew up watching The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo and then got bummed that Vincent Price is dead. While visiting Japan, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy unleash hundreds of mythical monsters across the country. Scooby has a new uncle, Daisuke-Doo, who is helping the pair recapture the monsters, along with Takumi, a tech genius, and Yume, who is described as a “magical girl” in the press release.
OLM, the studio behind Pokémon and the Apothecary Diaries, is producing the new series for Warner Bros. Animation, and Itsuro Kawasaki, who has worked in anime since the late 90s, is directing, so Yokoso Scooby-Doo shouldn’t feel just like a Western cartoon with anime elements to it.
It is interesting that Frank Welker and Matthew Lillard are both set to star in the show as Scooby-Doo and Shaggy. Welker has played Fred Jones since the franchise debuted in 1969 but has also played Scooby for years, along with almost every animal character in animation and half the Decepticons in the original Transformers. Meanwhile, Lillard has been attached to Shaggy since he appeared in the live-action films, going on to voice the character in animation in many subsequent animated appearances.
No release date for Yokoso Scooby-Doo! has been confirmed yet, but it will stream on Tubi in North America and be distributed by Cartoon Network internationally.
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