Livejournal user torikai has posted on details of the Japanese voice cast over on the Transformers Animated LJ community.

Optimus Prime will be voiced by Hiroki Takahashi (Beast Wars II Starscream/Hellscream, Mantis, Autolauncher and Car Robots Guildo and Build Hurricane.
Bumblebee will be voiced by Daisuke Kishio (Chad in Super Link [Kicker to Western viewers]
Sari will be voiced by Satomi Akesaka
Megatron will be voiced by Norio Wakamoto (Flame Convoy in Galaxy Force)

It's also worth noting that JAM Project will be performing the opening themesong.­

Derrick Wyatt has posted yet another comment over on his message board regarding Transformers Animated series 3 as well as what influences the Transformers Animated staff.  You can find a quote below.

"My influences are some of the things mentioned above, mixed with a heavy dose of 80's cartoons (Mighty Orbots and others), Hanna Barbera, 2000AD comics, anything Gainax does, Robert Valley and Jamie Hewlett, the list goes on and on. For the design of the new TFA series, I wanted to get back to basics with the Transformers, while splicing in some of that Orbots and ABC Warriors look and feel. It's also been my scheme all along to get new toys made of my old favorite Transformers.

TriBlurr, I think your Beachcomber is pretty close to what we did. I kept his face Smurfy-blue, and colored him all blue from the waste down, so he looks like he's wearing pants and no shoes. Get a job, Beachcomber, you worthless slacker!

The twins jet modes might have a little old school sci-fi tv inspiration in them, yes.

Wow, the Sailor Moon fans are out in force! Sailor Moon probably influenced at least every female crew member that works on Transformers Animated. I'm not sure how much of that ends up in the show. Do you have a specific example of what you think it was influential in?

Blackout is the ANIMATED Blackout. Spittor does have a bot mode. Into space. No hints on Sari."

Impossibletoys.com have announced their latest fan project, a toy for Sari from Transformers Animated labelled Project TFA-01 S.A.R.I., to be released in a few months.

The toy is said to be in sale with the regular Transformers Animated toys, so it will probably be similar to the fan made Spike and Sparkplug toys.

TFW2005's Dubai resident Magmatron has posted a brief summary and images from the latest Transformers Animated episode to air. The episode was number 24 entitled S.U.V. - Society of Ultimate Villainy. The episode saw the return of many Human super- villains as well as the Transformers Animated debut for Swindle.

Here is a cleaned up version of Magmatrons summary. Look away if you do not wish to read any spoilers

The episode starts with the Autobots chasing Nanosec. As Bumblebee closes in to catch the high-speed villain, he is suddenly frozen by a mysterious blast. His saviour turns out to be a new human super-villain, a woman with the ability to freeze time. The pair team up along with The Angry Archer and Professor Princess working for a mysterious contractor. The contractor, who will only speak to them from inside a car, wants the group to build a machine that fires a time-stopping wave. After they complete the task, the contractor, who turns out to be none other than the Decepticon Swindle, double crosses them and steals the device.

Swindle uses the machine to freeze the Autobots and strikes a deal with Megatron to sell him the device. The super-villains, who are now angry at Swindle, team-up with Sari to revive Bumblebee. The group work together to defeat Swindle only for the Humans to then double-cross Bumblebee and steal back the machine. During the fracus, Swindle knocks the machine away from the Humans and straight into the possession of Bumblebee who uses it to defeat both Swindle and the super-villains.

The toy images areas for Transformers Animated Blackarchnia and Ratchet, at TransformersAnimated.com, have been updated with some new images showing the back of the packaging of both of these toys as well as a close up of the bubble.

In additional to this, the cartoon image area of the following characters have been updated with images from Episode 11: Lost and Found.

1. Blitzwing
2. Bumblebee
3. Captain Fanzone
4. Lugnut
5. Optimus Prime
6. Police SWAT Officer
7. Ratchet
8. Sari Sumdac
9. Starscream