Trivia / Promare

• All-Star Cast: The English dub cast has the likes of Billy Kametz, Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld, Billy Bob Thompson, Kari Wahlgren, John Eric Bentley, Johnny Yong Bosch, Matthew Mercer, Yuri Lowenthal, Melissa Fahn, Erica Lindbeck, Neil Kaplan, Crispin Freeman, and even Mike Pollock and Steve Blum.
• Awesome, Dear Boy: Aina’s voice actress Ayane Sakura is a fan of Kazuki Nakashima's stage plays, as well as overhearing many praises of the “awesome and fun” projects Studio TRIGGER creates. She admits that she auditioned for Promare not for any specific role, but for whatever role she could get; she didn't care if she was cast as a one-off Mook, and as long as she could participate in a Studio Trigger Imaishi x Nakashima project would be a dream come true for her.
• Celebrity Voice Actor:
  • Amongst the Japanese cast, actors of Galo (Kenichi Matsuyama), Lio (Taichi Saotome), Kray (Masato Sakai), Deus (Arata Furuta), and Vinny (Kendo Kobayashi) are screen actors. The highest of profiles within this circle is Sakai.
  • As in most cases when animated feature films deal with non-professional voice actors, PROMARE's cast were divided into Team Voice Actors and Team Celebrity Voice Actors, and recorded their roles in these two units; with Team Voice Actors taking the lead in finishing their recordings first, then have Team Celebrities mingle themselves within Team VA's recordings.
  • Contrary to the negative impression celebrities bring to the recording room, the screen actors who were cast for this film were hand-picked and referred to Trigger by screenwriter Nakashima himself as a seal of guarantee that these actors “interpret his scripts well,” and are great performers in all of his plays. Voice actress Mayumi Shintani also appraises their performances in all of her interviews.
    Shintani: “Kazuki’s plays holds an unique alacrity with extremely quirky lines. So it doesn’t matter whether you are a voice actor or a stage actor, what really matters is the actor’s ability to handle his script; and these actors got their ‘Kazuki Nakashima License.’...Actors (regardless of discipline) need to hold special abilities that are a bit different from the so-called ‘standard voice-acting techniques’ in order to maneuver a Nakashima character.”
• The Other Darrin: In the English dub, Thyma is voiced by Erica Lindbeck in the main film, while she is voiced by Kimberly Brooks in the side story prequel shorts.
• Production Posse: Director Imaishi and Scriptwriter Nakashima established their troupe consisted of staff and cast who worked with them either since Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, or Kill la Kill. Noted by Nobuyuki Hiyama, the cast assignment for Promare is “literally ‘Team Gurren Lagann’^note Hiyama and Konishi. vs. ‘Team Kill la Kill.’”^note Inada, Yoshino, Shintani, Koshimizu, and Yuzuki.
• Promoted Fanboy:
  • Lead actor Kenichi Matsuyama is an all-out, die-hard Nobuyuki Hiyama, and GaoGaiGar fanboy, and has professed his love of Hiyama in all of his interviews; which branched out beyond anime journalism, and has reached to mainstream cinematic and fashion media. But as mentioned above, Team Voice Actors and Team Celebrity Voice Actors recorded separately. So as much as Matsuyama wanted to meet Hiyama in person, they never met until their PROMARE LIVE INFERNO fan appreciation event 7 months after film release, in which Matsuyama participated low-key as a fan attendee then an actual guest. However, Matsuyama did sent a Love Confession video message to a show where Hiyama and Tetsu Inada were guests to promote the film.
    Matsuyama: (Video Message) “I’m you’re biggest fan, Mr. Hiyama. Ever since the year of Gao Gai Gar, I...(oh) man...LOVE YOU! When it comes to special attacks you’re the one who comes into my mind. For me to be part of a work with you is my greatest honor.”
  • Erica Lindbeck has said that she is a huge fan of Trigger and of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, and she was very happy to have finally been cast in a Trigger anime.
• What Could Have Been:
  • During the initial phase of scenario planning, Nakashima visualized Gueira and Meis way differently than how Character Designer Shigeto Koyama eventually puts out.
  Imaishi: “Like this right? I totally get you.”
  • The Battle of Geekboat art book reveals many aspects of the film's drafts that vary drastically from the final product:
    • Galo and Lio were originally going to be young boys in a corrupt military academy. Lio, the main character at this point in time, would have stumbled upon a small flame creature named Mera that would give him fire powers and encourage him to rebel against the government and his rival, who would eventually become Galo, who had a dragon creature of his own named Dolabra. A lot of this concept ended up retooled, such as repurposing the pink-haired "older sister" character into Aina, separating Lio and Ignis (who would have assisted him), and shrinking Deus' presence.
    • There's art that implies Galo was meant to be the leader of the Mad Burnish at some point, with him drawn with prosthetics, an eyepatch, and even his own motorcycle.

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