Check out our video interview with voice actress Macy Anne Johnson (Smile Down the Runway), who voices Ordinary Person / Swindler in the Funimation dub of Akudama Drive, an intense and lively cyber…
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Akudama Drive comes in like a robot boxer: moving fast, swinging hard, and covered in LED lights.
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