Trivia / Strike Witches

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• Acting for Two:
  • In the Japanese version:
    • Hozumi Gouda is the narrator for the Strike Witches series, as well as Ichiro Miyafuji's voice actor.
    • Sakura Nogawa voices Erica Hartmann as well as her twin sister Ursula; this is carried over to the foreign dubs.
  • In the English dub:
    • The late Jerry Russell voiced Yoshika's grandfather in the first season and some minor characters in Strike Witches 2.
    • Todd Haberkorn voiced Meyer as well as some background characters.
    • Monica Rial voices both Christiane Barkhorn and Aleksandra Pokryshkin.
    • Caitlin Glass voices Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen and some minor characters in Road to Berlin.
• Alan Smithee:
  • Colleen Clinkenbeard went under a pseudonym for the first season's English dub, but was later credited by her real name for Hanna-Justine Marseille.
  • Jessica Foster, Sanya's English voice actress, was initially credited as "Jennifer Forrester" for the first two seasons as well as the film. Beginning with 501st Joint Fighter Wing Take Off!, she was credited by her real name.
• Cash-Cow Franchise: Strike Witches more or less completely saved GONZO financially (to some extent; they still went through bankruptcy in 2009). Furthermore, it's probably going to be the only GONZO animation besides Saki to receive any consistent memetic fanbase.
• Creator Backlash: Colleen Clinkenbeard voiced a role in the English dub's first season, but you wouldn't know it from the credits because she was so ashamed of the show that she insisted on using an alias. Apparently, she wasn't the only one.
• Directed by Cast Member: In the English dub:
  • Scott Sager directed the first two seasons and voiced some one-off characters for the first season.
  • Jad Saxton is Perrine's voice actress as well as the ADR Director for 501st Joint Fighter Wing Take Off! and Road to Berlin.
• Late Export for You: The series would receive an official Blu-ray release in Germany complete with a dub for the first time in late 2021, 13 years after the first season originally aired and 11 years after the English dub.
• No Dub for You: The only languages the series is currently dubbed in are English and German ^note  coincidentally the only languages aside from Japanese to also have physical releases of it , everywhere else is subtitles only.
• No Export for You: Funimation has licensed everything ^note  with the exception of Luminous Witches which is licensed by Sentai Filmworks except for Operation Victory Arrow which remains unlicensed in the English speaking world.
• The Original Darrin:
  • In the English dub of 501st Joint Fighter Wing Take Off!, Jamie Marchi was replaced by Katelyn Barr as Charlotte E. Yeager for her appearance in the sixth episode. Marchi reprised her role for the home media release.
  • After being replaced by Yusaku Yara for the Brave Witches spinoff, Hozumi Gouda returns as the narrator for Road to Berlin.
• The Other Darrin: Due to Saeko Chiba's maternity leave, Saori Seto replaced her as Mio Sakamoto from Strike Witches 2 onwards.
• Real-Life Relative: In the English dub, Caitlin Glass voiced Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen. Her younger sister Rachel Glass appeared in 501st Joint Fighter Wing Take Off! as one of the additional voices.
• Role Reprise:
  • In 501st Joint Fighter Wing Take Off!:
    • Both Shizuka Itō (Hanna-Justina Marseille) and Arise Sato (Michiko Yamakawa) reprise their roles five years after their last appearance in 2014's Operation Victory Arrow.
    • Aya Uchida returns as Shizuka Hattori seven years after Strike Witches: The Movie.
    • In the English dub, Colleen Clinkenbeard reprises her role as Hanna-Justina Marseille from Strike Witches 2, as well as Cristina Valenzuela as Shizuka Hattori from Strike Witches: The Movie.
  • For Road to Berlin:
    • This show marks the first time Satoshi Hino and Anthony Bowling have respectively voiced Keisuke Hijikata in Japanese and English since Strike Witches 2.
    • Hozumi Gouda reprises his role of the narrator for the first time since Operation Victory Arrow six years earlier.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: Due to copyright concerns regarding the usage of "Lili Marleen" in the first season episode "I Won't Forget You", the North American home media releases as well as the Crunchyroll/Funimation streams replace it with "Negai no Tomoshibi"^note Lamp of a Wish, also sung by Rie Tanaka.
• Screwed by the Network: Kadokawa had Funimation limit the North American home video release to DVD only in 2010. It was not until two years later that Funimation finally released it on Blu-Ray and DVD.
• What Could Have Been: After the success of the first season, GONZO announced in April 2009 that they would produce Strike Witches 2. However, the production eventually switched to AIC due to GONZO's near-bankruptcy.
• Written by Cast Member: In the English dub:
  • Eric Vale voiced some one-off characters in addition to serving as the first season's head writer.
  • John Burgmeier is Dr. Ichiro Miyafuji's voice actor and the second season's head writer.
  • Chuck Huber was one of the ADR scriptwriters in addition to voicing some one-off characters for the first two seasons.
  • Besides voicing Charlotte E. Yeager, Jamie Marchi was the ADR writer for the second season.
• You Sound Familiar: From the dub of Strike Witches: The Movie for Road to Berlin, Rachel Robinson (Heinrike Prinzessin zu Sayn-Wittgenstein) reprises her role as Gundula Rall from Brave Witches.

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