Rooster Teeth just revealed that this Saturday’s episode of mecha anime gen:LOCK features a special guest: YouTuber and professional voice actor ProZD.
The actor — whose real name is SungWon Cho — has appeared on Rooster Teeth’s YouTube channel Achievement Hunter a number of times, and was recently confirmed to be attending Rooster Teeth-run RTX 2019 as a featured guest (alongside fellow YouTuber Philip DeFranco). On his YouTube channel, where he primarily posts satirical anime skits, Cho has gathered up 1.8 million subscribers and 466 million lifetime views.
Now, he’s popping up in Rooster Teeth’s newest production. gen:LOCK — which stars big names like Michael B. Jordan, Dakota Fanning, and David Tennant — is set 50 years in the future, and follows a team of mecha pilots who are Earth’s last line of defense against an authoritarian regime. In the fifth episode, The Best Defense, Cho plays Henry Wu, a scientist captured by the regime and forced to help develop weaponized mechs.
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The series’ first episode (below) is free to watch. The rest are exclusive to Rooster Teeth’s streaming service, First.
