Trivia / Berserk: The Golden Age Arc

• Celebrity Voice Actor:
  • In the Japanese version, Guts is voiced by Hiroaki Iwanaga, who was already known for his work as a model as well as acting in popular toku shows.
  • The English dub features Jesse Corti (who is best known as the voice of Lefou in Beauty and the Beast) as Julius.
• Children Voicing Children: In the English dub, the younger Guts and Adonis are both played by an actual young boy (in this case, Colin DePaula).
• The Other Darrin:
  • The original Japanese version replaced the voice cast from the 1997-98 TV anime:
    • Guts - Nobutoshi Canna was replaced by Hiroaki Iwanaga; Young Guts changed from Orine Fukushima to Jun Inoue.
    • Casca - Yuko Miyamura was replaced by anime neophyte Toa Yukinari
    • Griffith - Toshiyuki Morikawa was replaced by Takahiro Sakurai; Young Griffith was changed from Minami Takayama to Ayako Takeuchi.
    • Rickert - Akiko Yajima was replaced by Minako Kotobuki
    • Judeau - Akira Ishida was replaced by Yūki Kaji
    • Pippin - Masuo Amada was replaced by Takahiro Fujiwara
    • Corkus - Tomohiro Nishimura was replaced by Yoshirou Matsumoto
    • Gaston - Masahito Kawanago was replaced by Kazuki Yao
    • Zodd - Kenji Utsumi was replaced by Kenta Miyake
    • Charlotte - Yuri Shiratori was replaced by Aki Toyosaki
    • Adon - Tesshō Genda was replaced by Rikiya Koyama
    • The King of Midland - Tamio Ohki was replaced by Nobuyuki Katsube
    • Void - Unshō Ishizuka was replaced by Shinji Ogawa
    • Slan - Atsuko Tanaka was replaced by Miyuki Sawashiro
    • Conrad - The late Toku Nishio was replaced by Rikiya Koyama
    • Carnefice - Yutaka Aoyama was replaced by Chafurin.
    • Julius - Ryuji Mizuno was replaced by Rikiya Koyama
    • Gambino - Norio Wakamoto was replaced by Yasunobu Iwata
    • Erica - Yuki Masuda was replaced by Ayana Taketatsu
    • Laban - Tōru Ōkawa was replaced with Hochu Ohtsuka
    • Anna - Kumiko Kizuki was replaced by Ayako Takeuchi
    • Hassan - Fumio Matsuoka was replaced with the late Hiroshi Arikawa, who passed a year before the film's release.
    • Adonis - Mayumi Asano was replaced by Maki Mizuma
    • Bazuso - Ikuya Sawaki was replaced by Kendo Kobayashi
    • Gennon - Shoji Oki was replaced by Kazuki Yao
    • Boscogn - Ikuya Sawaki was replaced with Takayuki Sugo
    • Gien - Fumihiko Tachiki was replaced with Shingo Egami
    • Hail - Masaharu Sato was replaced with Ryuji Aigase
    • Dante - Yasuyuki Kase was replaced with Ryota Igarashi
    • Errol - Eiji Sekiguchi was replaced with Masayuki Tanaka
    • Riguel - Hideki Ogihara was replaced with Kento Fujinuma
  • Because of the fact that nearly a decade had passed since the original English dub was recorded and many of the original VAs had left the business, some of the secondary roles needed to be recast:
    • Pippin and Hail - Jeff Ward was replaced by Patrick Seitz and Jamison Boaz respectively.
    • Corkus - Mark Sebastian was replaced by Doug Erholtz
    • The King of Midland - Jeff Swarthout was replaced by Christopher Corey Smith
    • Charlotte - They got Rachael Lillis back for Movie 1 but apparently not for 2 or 3; G.K. Bowes replaced her.
    • Julius - Dick Bunting was replaced by Jesse Corti
    • Gambino - Robert Krakovski was replaced by Dave B. Mitchell
    • Young Guts - Maria Dente was replaced by Colin DePaula (interestingly, Dente is still credited under additional voices)
    • Young Griffith - Veronica Taylor was replaced by Barbara Goodson
    • Slan - Suzanne Gilad was replaced by Cindy Robinson
    • Ubik and Carnefice - Greg Miller was replaced by Liam O'Brien in both roles.
    • Laban - Sean Elias-Reyes was replaced by Marc Thompson
    • Anna - Tara Sands was replaced with Lisa Ortiz
    • Hassan and Riguel - Richard Springle and Bradford Scobie were replaced with Michael Sorich in both parts.
    • Adonis - Kathryn Kapinski was replaced with Colin DePaula
    • Bazuso - Patrick Tansor was replaced with Dave B. Mitchell
    • Gennon - Fred Velde was replaced with Steve Kramer
    • Boscogn - Richard Springle was replaced with T.J. Storm
    • Gien and Dante - Michael Sinterniklaas was replaced with Sean Schemmel in both roles.
    • Errol - Sean Schemmel was replaced with Patrick Seitz
• Role Reprise: Returning from the English dub of the TV series are Marc Diraison as Guts, Carrie Keranen as Casca, Kevin T. Collins as Griffith, Christopher Kromer as Judeau, Michelle Newman as Rickert, Sean Schemmel as Gaston, and Conrad, Jon Avner as Void and Mike Pollock as Adon Coborlwitz.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The trilogy was supposed to be followed by more movies that would continue the story past the Golden Age Arc (Eiko Tanaka expressed interest in doing Lost Children next), but apparently, these plans were shelved. There were also some scenes that they weren't able to execute in the way they had hoped, such as Guts' fight with Boscogn where they'd wanted to show Zodd throwing Guts his sword, but had to settle for Guts distracting Boscogn using a banner.
  • There were plans to add Wyald and the Black Dog Knights into the story, and possibly the Bakiraka, but they were cut due to budget concerns.

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