Trivia / Saint Seiya Omega

• Acting for Two:
  • Satsuki Yukino voices Yuna and the younger Koga.
  • Eiji Takemoto voices Mirfak and Titan.
  • Yukana voices both Paradox and her twin sister Integra. She spends a good portion of episodes 75 and 84 switching between the two characters.
  • Shigeru Nakahara voices Kiki and Sho.
• The Original Darrin:
  • Masakazu Morita, who has been voicing Seiya since the Hades Saga: Inferno and Elysium OVAs, was replaced by Tōru Furuya, who previously voiced Seiya in the Heaven Chapter – Overture film eight years earlier.
  • Mami Koyama also returns to voice Shaina for the first time since the Heaven Chapter – Overture film, after being replaced by Yuka Komatsu for the Hades Saga: Inferno and Elysium OVAs.
• The Other Darrin:
  • A significant amount of characters are not reprised by the actors who voiced them in their appearances in the previous Saint Seiya series, OVAs and films. For example:
    • Shoko Nakagawa is darrining Keiko Han and Fumiko Orikasa as Saori/Athena.
    • The late Kiyoyuki Yanada replaced Yuji Mikimoto and Kohei Fukuhara as Geki.
    • Takeshi Kusao voices Jabu instead of Kosuke Meguro and Hideo Ishikawa.
    • Tetsu Inada voices Ban instead of Hirohiko Kakegawa and Naoki Imamura.
    • Hiroshi Kamiya is replacing Ryō Horikawa and Yuta Kazuya as Andromeda Shun.
    • Shigeru Nakahara darrin'd Hiroko Emori and Umeka Shoji as Kiki (well he's an adult now so it's understandable)
    • Mamoru Miyano replaced Hiroaki Miura and Koichi Hashimoto as Cygnus Hyoga.
    • Tomokazu Sugita replaced Hideyuki Hori and Katsuyuki Konishi as Phoenix Ikki.
    • Ken Narita replaces the late Hirotaka Suzuoki and not-late Takahiro Sakurai as Dragon Shiryu.
    • Konami Yoshida becomes the fourth voice actress to play Shunrei, after being previously voiced by Yumiko Shibata for the TV series, Eriko Sato for the Hades Saga: Sanctuary OVA and Ai Bando for the Hades Saga: Elysion OVA.
  • In the Latin American Spanish dub of the second season, Juan Alfonso Carralero decided not to reprise his role as Taurus Harbingir, so Carralero was replaced by Alfonso Obregón Inclán.
• The Other Marty: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Yamil Atala originally voiced Pegasus Seiya during the first episode's production, but he was replaced by his classic VA Jesús Barrero after the latter settled his budgetary disagreements. Atala would later be cast as Libra Genbu and Marine Ushio.
• Playing Against Type: Hikaru Midorikawa (Koga), as he tends to play cool, collected characters.
• Recast as a Regular: Satsuki Yukino voiced Seika in the Hades Saga: Elysion OVA before playing Yuna in Omega.
• Recycled Script: The whole first season was heavily based on the Sanctuary arc of the original series, to the point of being called just a rehash. Bronze Saint tournament, journey overlapping with battle against the Silver Saints, and then another "climb the Twelve Temples" arc. Many new characters are very similar to old ones, too.
• Real-Life Relative: In the Latin American Spanish dub, real-life brothers Luis Fernando and Alejandro Orozco play Max Brilliant Methone and Soul Killer Cyllene, respectively.
• Role Reprise:
  • In the Japanese release:
    • Shigeru Nakahara and Hōchū Ōtsuka respectively voiced Sho and Ushio in the Saint Seiya TV series and reprised those roles in Omega 25 years later.
    • Tōru Furuya and Mami Koyama respectively return to voice Seiya and Shaina eight years after last voicing them in the Heaven Chapter – Overture film.
    • Yukitoshi Hori reprises his role as Tatsumi 10 years after last voicing him in the Hades Saga: Sanctuary OVA.
    • Masaya Onosaka returns to voice Ichi 6 years after his last appearance in the Hades Saga: Elysion OVA.
  • Many of the Latin American Spanish dubbers from the original series got to keep their roles as well. Some of the few exceptions include Jesse Conde voicing Dohko after the passing of his original VA Eduardo Borja, but even that's a reprise from the Hades Saga's T.V. Dub.
• Romance on the Set: Gerardo Alonso and Jahel Morga, the Latin American Spanish voice actors for Wolf Haruto and Aquila Yuna, married in October 2013, two months after dubbing the first season of Omega.
• What Could Have Been:
  • In the Latin American Spanish dub, Yamil Atala originally replaced the late Jesús Barrero as Pegasus Seiya due to the latter's disagreement with the budget and Atala even recorded some of his lines as Seiya for the first episode. However, this ended up being a case of The Other Marty when Barrero amicably settled his budget dispute and reprised his role, re-dubbing Atala's dialogue from the first episodes. As a bonus, Atala stayed in the cast and went on to voice both Libra Genbu and Marine Ushio.
  • Also from the Latin American Spanish dub: Mireya Mendoza (Relena from Gundam Wing, Shizune from Naruto, Penny from The Big Bang Theory, etc) was at first contacted to play Saori/Athena, a role she also played in the TV dub of the Hades OVAs, but she told the casting people to contact Saori's classic VA María Fernanda Morales and offer her the role, which Mendoza would only take if Morales was unavaliable. They did, and Morales accepted to voice Saori again.
• You Sound Familiar:
  • Katsuyuki Konishi, who took over for Hideyuki Hori as Phoenix Ikki starting with the Hades Saga: Inferno OVAs, voices Soma in Omega.
  • Jabu is voiced by Takeshi Kusao, who replaced the late Kōji Totani as Shura.
  • Eiji Takemoto previously voiced Valentine in the Hades Saga OVAs before voicing Mirfak and Titan here.

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