The popular winter 2025 shoujo anime is getting an English dub

Summary

  • The highly anticipated shoujo anime “Honey Lemon Soda” gets an English dubbed debut on Crunchyroll.

  • Only the first dubbed episode was released today, with weekly episodes following a few weeks later.

  • Fan reception of “Honey Lemon Soda” was positive, particularly praising the animation and soundtrack.

A popular shoujo anime is getting an English dub – and it's coming to Crunchyroll earlier than expected.

Shoujo fans, especially those who like romance, have nothing to complain about this winter 2025 season. Besides that My happy marriageyou can also enjoy the highly anticipated Honey lemon soda!

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Honey lemon soda has been airing in Japan and on Crunchyroll since January 9th. The streaming service will release the dubbed version today – January 22, 2025. As usual, only the first episode will be released for now, and then the dubbing will be given a weekly schedule, a few weeks behind the subtitled version's calendar.

The cast of the English dub version

Crunchyroll has revealed the cast of the English dub. Monica Flatley (Joka in The pharmacist diaries) is cast as Uka Ishimori, while Chris Hackney (F. Scott Fitzgerald in Bungo Stray Dogs) says Kai.

Other actors include:

  • Celeste Perez as Ayumi

  • Kieran Regan as Satoru

  • Landon McDonald as Tomoya

  • Katie Wetch as Remi

  • Conner Allison as Tonbo

  • Adrian Godinez as Abe

  • Anthony Bowling as Mizoguchi

  • Kristin Payne as Uka's mother

  • David Matranga as Uka's father

  • Kayla Temshiv as Remi's girlfriend

  • Ethan Condon and Mauricio Ortiz-Segura as Remi's male friends

  • Caitlin Martelle as Yuru

  • Robin Clayton as Marin

  • Amanda Huerta as Asumi

  • Brandon Acosta as Miru

  • Francine Gonzalez as Mizuki

As for the crew, Shawn Gann (Alya sometimes hides her feelings in Russian) is named as a dubbing director and Susie Nixon is the producer. Matthew Greenbaum adapts the scripts to English. Neal Malley mixes the sound and August Cine is recognized as an engineer (presumably a sound engineer).

Fan reception by Honey Lemon Soda

Shoujo anime generally have modest budgets compared to hyped shounen anime, but so far there are comments on it Honey lemon soda on social platforms were generally positive.

The production delivered decent animation with a great soundtrack – and this type of story doesn't usually require a huge budget to work well. Hiroshi Nishikiori (A certain magical index) seems to know what he's doing with this series.

Honey lemon soda is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Source: ANN, Crunchyroll

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Honey lemon soda

Release date

January 8, 2025

Creator

Mayu Murata

MyAnimeList Score

7.06

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