Scooby-Doo: The Next Mystery

Scooby-Doo: The Next Mystery is a Japanese anime airing on WB Kids in Japan on October 19th, 2020, and America on January 18th, 2021.
==Synopsis==
Having graduated high school, Shaggy decides to take an extended vacation to Japan, mainly to visit his cousin Megumi, with Scooby tagging along. Unfortunately, he and Scooby learn that both Japan is a hodgepodge of monster sightings and that Megumi is a massive mystery lover who formed a Japanese version of Mystery Inc as Shaggy and Scooby have to join along to deal with monsters.
==Characters==
===Main===
*Norville "Shaggy" Rogers (voiced by TBD (Japanese) and Matthew Lillard (English)) - a cowardly and food loving high school graduate who takes an extended vacation to Japan and lives with his teenaged cousin Megumi as he soon learns that monsters are just as occurring in Japan as he reluctantly joins in on Mystery Inc Japan.
*Scooby-Doo (voiced by TBD (Japanese) and Frank Welker (English)) - Shaggy's equally hungry and cowardly pet dog who also has a heart of gold as he joins Shaggy in traveling to Japan as he reluctantly becomes a mystery solver again while really liking Megumi as she gives him numerous flavored Scooby Snacks.
*Megumi Rogers (voiced by TBD (Japanese) and Cristina Vee (English)) - Shaggy's extremely eager and giddy cousin who lives in Japan due to having a Japanese mother as she quite loves mysteries and obsesses over them, forming Mystery Inc Japan with her two best friends and begs Scooby and Shaggy to join them due to seeing them as idols.
*Tomomi Moda (voiced by TBD (Japanese) and Alejandro Saab (English)) - a brash and aggressive but not too smart jock who is Megumi's best friend as he joins the new Mystery Inc as a way to become stronger as he sometimes runs directly into the face of danger, much to Shaggy and Scooby's pure horror.
*Miyako Nishimura (voiced by TBD (Japanese) and Kira Buckland (English)) - an emotionless and somewhat creepy teenager who is obsessive over Japanese folklore as she is Megumi's other best friend and also joins new Mystery Inc to see the monsters as her love for Japanese folklore can be quite useful in figuring out what monsters they are dealing with.
===Supporting===
* Tadashi Nishimura (voiced by TBD (Japanese) and Matthew David Rudd (English)) - Miyako's extremely eccentric and egotistical rich father who owns a super massive gas station chain as he also quite likes nature, having owned a gigantic garden he uses for parties as he sometimes forces his daughter to get out of her obsession with monsters so she can help run the company.
* Sayori Mishima (voiced by TBD (Japanese) and Allegra Clark (English)) - a grouchy employee at Orochi Coffee who quite hates her job and isn't the biggest fan of Shaggy and Scooby, mainly thanks to their massive gluttonous nature, as she is sometimes thrust into mysteries despite her absolutely despising everything in Ayakashi Mura.
* Kento Aakashi (voiced by TBD (Japanese) and Keith Silverstein (English)) - the mayor of Ayakashi Mura who is obsessive over money and popularity as he sees the monsters as a way to get people to head to the town as he isn't a big fan of Mystery Inc revealing what the monsters actually are, although sometimes he needs their help to deal with monsters targeting him.
*Yuji Uotani (voiced by TBD (Japanese) and TBD (English)) - an egotistical businessman who runs numerous businesses as he is often a target of monsters thanks to his businesses often causing problems with the locals.
===Antagonists===
*Gaho Izumo/The Phantom Samurai (voiced by TBD (Japanese) and TBD (English) as Gaho Izumo; and by TBD (Japanese) and TBD (English) as the Phantom Samurai) - a mysterious spectral samurai who believes that Japan has become too reliant on technology and targets the town of Ayakashi Mura, wielding a spectral blade that can cut through anything. He is revealed to be Gaho Izumo, a museum owner who believes that people have been corrupted by technology and became the Phantom Samurai to make people less reliant on it, ironically using tech to make the suit of armor work.
* Kazumi Ōtomo/The Red Oni (voiced by TBD (Japanese) and TBD (English) as TBD; and by TBD (Japanese) and TBD (English) as the Red Oni) - a gigantic and wrathful demonic entity known as an Oni who has decided to target Mayor Kento Aakashi, believing that he is inherently corrupt and evil and is in need of punishment. He is revealed to be Kazuyuki Ōtomo, a political activist who truly believes that Kento is corrupt and misusing his power as she pretends to be the Red Oni to make him resign as mayor so someone just can become the mayor instead of him.
*Handa Shuji/The Ghost of Ryuzo Chikae (voiced by TBD (Japanese) and TBD (English) as Handa Shuji; and by TBD (Japanese) and TBD (English) as the Ghost of Ryuzo Chikae) - the vengeful spirit of famed sumo wrestler Ryuzo Chikae who is haunting recent sumo matches for a mysterious reason, having some sort of motivation to stop the sumo matches from going on. He is revealed to be Handa Shuji, a crazy and insane sumo promoter who learns that people are no longer caring about sumo, believing that pretending to be a ghost sumo wrestler would get people back into sumo wrestling.
*Sakura Katsu/The Kitsune (voiced by TBD (Japanese) and also by Kira Buckland (English) as Sakura Katsu; and by TBD (Japanese) and Christine Marie Cabanos (English) as the Kitsune) - a trickster nine-tailed fox who has been out to cause chaos as she started to cause chaos and havoc all over Tadashi's garden party, complete with a possession. She is revealed to be Sakura Katsu, a maid at the garden party who happens to actually be a jewel thief as she wants to steal from Tadashi so she can become even richer.
*Satoshi Itoigawa/The River Kappa (voiced by TBD (Japanese) and TBD (English) as TBD) - a crazy and insane wandering turtle-like monster who resides in the rivers of Akayashi Mura and have been scaring fishermen recently. It is revealed to be Satoshi Itoigawa, a low-ranking fisherman whose business got bought by Yuji as he wants to ruin Yuji's empire.
== Episodes==
See /Episodes/.
==Trivia==
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