Trivia / The Boy and the Beast

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• Anime First: Yen Press released a four volume manga adaptation.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: In the original Japanese version, Kyuta is voiced by Aoi Miyazaki as a child and Shōta Sometani as an adult, Kumatetsu is voiced by jidaigeki and film actor Kōji Yakusho and Kaede is voiced by model and actress Suzu Hirose.
• Children Voicing Children: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Iván Bastidas and José Luis Piedra, who voice Ren/Kyuta and Ichirohiko's younger selves, were children at the time of recording.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Ren/Kyuta, Ichirohiko and Jirohiko's younger selves are all voiced by females in the Japanese and English releases.
• Dawson Casting: In the Latin American Spanish dub, the nine-year-old Ren/Kyuta was voiced by 15-year-old Iván Bastidas and the younger Ichirohiko was voiced by 13-year-old José Luis Piedra.
• In Memoriam: The Latin American Spanish dub of the film is dedicated to the memory of Maria Dolores Uribe, Takamasa Sakurai, Jesús Barrero and Koji Wada.
• International Coproduction: The film is a Japanese-French co-production with Gaumont, making this the first of Mamoru Hosoda's films to be coproduced with France.
• Real-Life Relative: Kid Jirohiko's Latin American VA Cecilia Gómez is the stepdaughter of Jorge Roig Jr., who is the Latin American VA for Hyakushubo. Gómez's daughter, Abril, provided additional voices in the dub.
• Screwed by the Network: According to an early article about the film, as well as the end of the pre-show video for the Fathom Events release of fellow Funimation-distributed film Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F', The Boy and the Beast was supposed to get a nationwide release in early 2016. However, said release never wound up happening as planned and it was only released in a handful of theaters.

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