Glitch Techs

Glitch Techs is an American-Australian animated series created by Yonathan Ashad and Moses Mbungu. The series premiered on September 29, 2001.

Synopsis
Glitch Techs centers on teens Hector "(High) Five" Nieves and Miko "Me-K.O." Kubota in the city of Bailley, where a group of people is secretly dealing with glitches that cause video game characters to manifest as energy beings into the real world that operate based on the coding of their affected games and thus create havoc. To stop such Glitches, these Glitch Techs, working at a local game store as a front, must use their gamer logic with their equipment to counter and win. After capturing and/or destroying the Glitches, they must also fix any damage and erase any memories in order to prevent further panic. Now, after unexpectedly becoming the newest Glitch Techs, High Five and Miko will have to use their skills as gamers to help out.

Dream Team

 * Phil LaMarr as Hector "High Five" Nieves/Hi-5, one of the two main characters. An avid gamer with confidence issues who grows with Miko's friendship. Hector learned his gaming and computer skills from his father, Emilio, and continues to call him in prison weekly.
 * Ricky D'Shon Collins voices a young Five
 * Lauren Tom as Miko Kubota/Me-K.O./ミK.O., one of the two main characters. A gamer with energy to spare, she brings Five and herself into the Glitch Techs after remembering a Glitch event. She has bested Five in numerous online co-op games, and is also the only known person that is somehow impervious to the Glitch Tech's memory resetting.

Mitch Squad

 * Neil Ross as Mitch Williams, a.k.a. MitchFTW, the number one Hinobi gamer in the city of Bailley. He is Five's and Miko's inhospitable and egotistical senior Glitch Tech who tends to abuse his authority, but does have a good side to him. He is later revealed to be the youngest of a four-sibling video game stream-team who gave up his gaming career to focus on his job at Hinobi.
 * Ogie Banks as Haneesh, one of the senior Glitch Techs. He is a proficient hacker and skilled Raid player.
 * Kimberly Brooks as Zahra, one of the senior Glitch Techs. She is a skilled support type specialist, aloof, and willing to casually give an honest answer. In the episode "BUDS," she is implied to have a crush on Five.
 * Cam Clarke as Nix, a senior Glitch Tech who mentors and is partner to Bergy during the 'Castle Crawl' mission. He works publicly at the Joystick Junior Arcade to monitor the location, as it is a hotbed for frequent Glitch activity; often failing to spread his cool nickname "Scorekeeper."

Bailley HQ Techs

 * Patrick Warburton as Phil Altiere, the Glitch supervisor and trainer for the Bailley branch of Hinobi. Having an exhausted but calm demeanor when at peace, he has the experience needed to guide his trainees. In "BITT Prime", Phil ends up finding a secret file hidden in BITT. He subsequently finds it was made by his younger self, containing a recording that reveals Hinobi Corporate has repeatedly wiped his memory due to unknown circumstances, and other information that apparently could be helpful in the future. His last name is revealed in the same episode.
 * Ulises Tobar as BITT, the Binary Intelligence Tech Trainer, which serves as Phil's robotic assistant, personal data drive, and information provider for Five and Miko. In the episode "BITT Prime", BITT is discovered to store very important information about Phil's past.
 * Tobar also voices Miko and Five's pet Glitches Ally and Alpha, as well as other computers and glitches. In season two he voices Jimmy Alcorn, the owner of the Joystick Junior Arcade where Glitches frequently appear.
 * Joshua Seth as Bergy, another noob of Glitch Techs and a fast friend to Hi-5 and Me-K.O. after they join him on an XP Quest. He is often around for comedic relief and the butt of most everyone's jokes.
 * Alanna Ubach as Emma, a specialist in training companion pets for Glitch Techs. She views companion pet Glitches as living things, and teaches Miko and Five to reassess how they treat their companion pets.

Dabney Glitch Techs

 * Maggie Roswell as Joan Fishback, the supervisor for the Hinobi branch from Bailley's neighboring town Dabney. She and Phil have a friendly rivalry with each other.
 * Tom Kenny as Nameless, a senior Glitch Tech who leads his own squad and hides his face behind a helmet.
 * April Winchell as Simi, a Glitch Tech originally from the Bailley store who transfers to Dabney.
 * Pat Fraley as Wes, a Glitch Tech and Ray's twin brother.
 * Edie McClurg as Ray, a Glitch Tech and Wes' twin sister.

Hinobi Corporate

 * Katey Sagal as Inspector 7, "Bookworm" Barbara. A former Glitch Tech from Phil's time, she inspects his store to ensure it operates within desired ranges. Covertly, she is to monitor Miko primarily due to her immunity to memory reset, and Five as well being her friend.
 * Fred Tatasciore as the Tech Specialist, a Hinobi agent mainly assigned to Perma-Ban players who abuse Hinobi products that routinely cause glitches.

Five's family

 * Dorian Harewood as Papi, Five's grandfather and owner of a Taco food truck.
 * Harewood also voices Emilio Nieves, Papi's son and Five's father. Emilio went to prison for white hat hacking, but still makes weekly video calls to Five.
 * Rita Moreno as Abuela, Five's grandmother and Emilio's mother.

Miko's Family

 * Lauren Tom as Mayumi Kubota, Miko's mother.
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Hugh Kubota, Miko's father.
 * Lara Jill Miller as Nica Kubota, Miko's big sister. Once a gamer who taught Miko how to play video games, now a social self conscious high schooler, but still enjoys mobile app games.
 * Miller also voices the Glitch Tech gauntlets in the series.
 * Nika Futterman as Lexi Kubota, Miko's little sister. A sports perfectionist and overachiever who knows about Miko's Glitch Tech activities, saving recordings since Miko's start, but promises her secrets safe with her since blackmail is against their "sibling code".

Mitch's Family

 * Wendee Lee as Audrey "Aud" Williams, Mitch's older sister and a member of the aggro pro-streamer team, "The Furious Four".
 * Kevin Schon as Ruf Williams, Mitch's older brother and a member of the aggro pro-streamer team, "The Furious Four".
 * Quinton Flynn as Speck Williams, Mitch's older brother and a member of the aggro pro-streamer team, "The Furious Four".

Bailley Residents

 * Yeardley Smith as Sabrina, a little girl who occasionally witnesses the Glitch Techs.
 * Anndi McAfee as Nancy McGillicutty, Lexi's rival in Karate.
 * Candi Milo as Lupita, one of the kids who watches Five play games during his breaks from his grandparents' food truck.
 * Danny Tamberelli as Casino, an old friend of Five's whom the latter separated from for a few years, but then reunited in "Smashozaurs".
 * Adam Wylie voices a young Casino
 * Cree Summer as Geraldine Lawson, an old friend of Five's father, Emilio Nieves, and the owner of a retro-gaming store, Game Kingdom.
 * Danny Cooksey as Mike Simms, a new kid in town with gamer skills on par with or rivaled against Miko's. After a rough first meeting and a competitive dance off that almost got out of hand, Mike decided to become friends with Miko. Ridley also mentioned to have had a grudge against him.
 * Bog Bergen as Ryu Simms, Mike's older brother.
 * Teresa Ganzel as Blake, a drive-thru attendant at Mama Miyamoto's Spaghetti in a Bucket. She is implied to be attracted to Bergy.
 * Cathy Cavadini as Ridley, a hacker/modder who discovered Hinobi Glitches by experimenting on her personal console and modifies them to be docile pets. She is shown to have extensive trust issues and has panic episodes at the slightest feeling of "betrayal" from others. While initially a good acquaintance to Miko on their initial meeting, Ridley came to distrust her thinking she just wanted her to be "normal" like everyone else around her. She eventually does befriend Miko and Five, however, and even manages to gain Mitch's respect, who spares her from having her memory wiped.

Production
Glitch Techs is produced by Bear Bones Productions in the United States, with animation services provided by Sunwoo Entertainment and assistance from Bear Bones' Australian division. The series was announced on May 25, 1996. On January 12, 1999, it was reported that production on the series was stalled and crew members were being laid off. However, Mbungu later said that Glitch Techs had not been cancelled.

In late 2000, it was confirmed that the series had would premiere in 2001.

Home media releases
Paramount Home Entertainment was given the rights to release the series on DVD.