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The following contains spoilers for Season 1 of Terminator Zero, now streaming on Netflix.

When it comes to the Terminator franchise, fans are usually treated to live-action movies. The James Cameron Terminator films are the stand out entries, while the films that came after are quite divisive so much so that 2019's Terminator: Dark Fate ignored them.

Fox did run Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles in 2008, but now Netflix is getting in on the action via the anime medium. Terminator Zero details a side quest that runs alongside "Judgment Day" in 1997, bringing with it a host of new characters voiced by iconic actors.

Sonoya Mizuno Plays the Enigmatic Eiko Japanese Voice Actor: Toa Yukinari

Actor Name

Sonoya Mizuno

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan

Date of Birth

Jul. 1, 1986

Notable Movies

Annihilation, Civil War, Men

Notable TV Shows

Maniac, Devs

Sonoya Mizuno's Eiko is a freedom fighter from 2022. She is part of the...

After years of waiting for their franchise to get back on-track, "Terminator" fans finally have a decent on-screen installment in the long-suffering saga. After several studios tried and failed to right the "Terminator" ship, a savior arrived in the unlikely form of Netflix. The streamer's new "Terminator Zero" anime show is a gorgeous and gruesome eight-episode series that represents showrunner/EP/writer Mattson Tomlin's attempt to inject a bit of horror back into the franchise.

It's an element of the original two movies that has been conspicuously absent from subsequent entries. As the "Terminator" films went on, they increasingly leaned into action blockbuster territory, jettisoning the slasher vibe creator James Cameron established with his 1984 original film, as well as the ambient sense of doom from Cameron's 1991 sequel "Terminator 2: Judgment Day." Thankfully, much of that is back in "Zero," which as /Film's Bj Colangelo writes in her review, features...

When writer/director James Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd came up with "The Terminator" back in the early 1980s, they couldn't have possibly predicted that their dystopian sci-fi future, where an artificial neural network-based conscious group mind and artificial general superintelligence system called Skynet would one day determine humans to be a threat and attempt to wipe them out, would one day feel within the realm of possibility. The questions constantly looming over the characters in the "Terminator" universe are ones of absolutes: Can humanity be saved from the threat of Skynet, and more importantly, are we deserving of such salvation?

According to "Terminator Zero" showrunner and writer Mattson Tomlin, this is at the heart of his new anime series for Netflix. As he told Tudum, "I'm not a nihilist — I'm a humanist, and I love people, and I think that there's a reason that we're on this planet.

James Cameron's "The Terminator" is an undeniable action-horror classic, but seven years later — armed with groundbreaking digital technology and a budget that would make it the most expensive film at the time in history — he completely changed action films forever with "Terminator 2: Judgment Day." In the decades that have followed, countless creatives have desperately been trying to capture a morsel of the feast served up by Cameron, to varying degrees of success. Each "Terminator" sequel since, as well as the short-lived (and underrated) TV spin-off "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" exist in the shadow of Cameron's masterpiece, stalked by the looming threat of his genius not unlike a T-1000 tracking John Connor.

The latest addition to the beloved franchise is Netflix's "Terminator Zero," an anime series from studio Production I.G., written by Mattson Tomlin, and directed by Masashi Kudō (the "Bleach" franchise). Instead of rehashing a storyline that...

The following contains spoilers for Terminator Zero, now streaming on Netflix.

A world without technology is unimaginable these days, especially with the advent of artificial intelligence in scientific fields and beyond, paving the way for the future for better and worse. But science-fiction has a way of reminding people of the dark side of human ingenuity, often through the disguise of Armageddon. James Cameron's The Terminator was a seminal piece of near-perfect cinema that came out 40 years ago with that exact message for humanity. Now, history is about to repeat itself as the fight between man and machine comes alive through the artistry of anime.

Produced by Netflix in collaboration with Production I.G and Skydance Television, Terminator Zero takes place in a self-contained corner of the same universe as the 1984 film, but with its own characters and stakes at play. The show finds its place between the overlap of...

Terminator Zero , an upcoming animated co-production based on the Terminator franchise, released a main trailer both English and Japanese dubs on Nuly 31. The Production I.G-produced series will stream worldwide on Netflix on August 29 (Judgement Day in the original Terminator films). Terminator Zero Main Trailer (English) The English voice cast members include: The Terminator voiced by Timothy Olyphant Malcolm Lee voiced by André Holland Eiko voiced by Sonoya Mizuno Kokoro voiced by Rosario Dawson Th Prophet voiced by Ann Dowd Terminator Zero Main Trailer (Japanese) The Japanese voice cast members include: The Terminator voiced by Yasuhiro Mamiya (Magma in Dr. Stone ) Malcolm voiced by Yuya Uchida (Aka in Wonder Egg Priority ) Eiko voiced by Toa Yukinari (Claudia Peer in Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt ) Kokoro voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki (Chise Hatori in The Ancient Magus' Bride ) Misaki voiced by Saori Hayami (Maria Campbell in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!...

We're a little over a month out from the premiere of Terminator Zero , which starts streaming via Netflix around the world on August 29, 2024. We've already learned about the English cast, so now it's time to turn our attention to the voice actors in the Japanese version. The Terminator Zero Japanese cast includes: Terminator voiced by Yasuhiro Mamiya (Magma in Dr. Stone ) Malcolm voiced by Yuya Uchida (Aka in Wonder Egg Priority ) Eiko voiced by Toa Yukinari (Claudia Peer in Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt ) Kokoro voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki (Chise Hatori in The Ancient Magus' Bride ) Misaki voiced by Saori Hayami (Maria Campbell in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! ) Kenta voiced by Hiro Shimono (Connie Springer in Attack on Titan ) Hiro voiced by Shizuka Ishigami (Hugo in The Duke of Death and His Maid ) Reika voiced by Miyuki Sato (Emperor Antoku in The Heike Story...

The late Kentaro Miura dazzled fantasy fans around the world when he launched his greatest work, the dark fantasy epic Berserk. Running from 1989 to the present day, Berserk has become a seinen manga icon in many ways, from its unparalleled illustrations and hard-hitting plot twists to its cast of richly realized, highly compelling characters. Each story arc in Berserk explores the main characters in ever-greater depths while also introducing new characters to add to the fun.

Anyone new to Berserk is going to meet a variety of characters with their own hopes, dreams, fears, scars, and triumphs, and it's a good idea to keep all those characters straight as the story of Berserk grows ever more complex. While the Black Swordsman story arc mainly focused on protagonist Guts and his elf friend Puck, arcs like the Golden Age and Falcon of the Millennium Empire are packed with cool characters, who...