Ming-Na Wen and Daniel Dae Kim Cast in MECH CADETS Animated Series for Netflix
This August, fans of the BOOM! Studios comic series Mech Cadet Yu will be able to check out the 3D animated series adaptation, Mech Cadets, on Netflix. The teams recently announced the voice cast and it's pretty awesome. Brandon Soo Hoo (Teen Titans: The Judas Contract) will star as Stanford Yu, Daniel Dae Kim (Raya and the Last Dragon) will play General Aiden Park, Ming-Na Wen (The Mandalorian) will be Stanford’s mom Dolly, and Debra Wilson (MADtv) will play Chief Max. Here’s a quick rundown of the characters.
Brandon Soo Hoo stars as Stanford Yu, a scrappy teenage underdog working as a janitor at Sky Corps who dreams of being a Robo Pilot.
Daniel Dae Kim plays General Aiden Park, the battle-hardened leader of Sky Corps Academy and the Mech Cadet program. As a father of one of the cadets and a General he expects nothing short of perfection from his daughter and his soldiers.
Ming-Na Wen plays Dolly Yu, Stanford’s loving, if a bit overprotective, mother and the calm head of the janitorial team at Sky Corps.
Debra Wilson plays Chief Max, a former Robo pilot, head of Engineering at Sky Corps, and mentor to the trainees.
Additional cast members will include Aparna Brielle as Ava Patel, Victoria Grace as Olivia Park, Josh Sundquist as Frank Olivetti, Anairis Quinones as Maya Sanchez, and James Yaegashi as Captain Tanaka.
Mech Cadets is based on the comic series Mech Cadet Yu created by Greg Pak (World War Hulk) and Takeshi Miyazawa (Runaways). The series comes from Japanese animation studio Polygon Pictures Inc. and will have 10 episodes. Aaron Lam (Ash Vs. The Evil Dead) is head writer and executive producer for Mech Cadets with Tohru Patrick Awa (The Super Mario Bros. Movie) serving as supervising director. You can read volumes 1-3 of Mech Cadet Yu at your favorite local comic shop or wherever you like to buy comics.
The series is set fifty years in the future, after a terrifying alien species attacked our planet, and follows teenager Stanford Yu who works as a janitor at the Sky Corps Military Academy. But he’s only dreamed of one thing his entire life -- to pilot a Robo Mech, giant robots from outer-space who came to our aid. When he finally gets his shot, Stanford and his classmates must put aside all personal differences and work together as a team in order to defend humanity against a new alien invasion.
