Marc Diraison

Marc Diraison
Occupations	Voice actor ADR director script writer
Years active	1982–present

Marc Diraison is an American voice actor, ADR director and script writer who has worked for Bang Zoom! Entertainment, NYAV Post, 4Kids Entertainment and DuArt Film and Video. He is best known as the English voice of Guts in Berserk animated adaptations, specifically the 1997 anime adaptation and the 2012 movie trilogy. He has also portrayed Akihiko Kayaba in Sword Art Online and Tokiomi Tohsaka in Fate/Zero.

Filmography

Anime

List of voice performances and production work in anime television series and OVAs

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2001	Knight Hunters: Weiß Kreuz	Yoji Kudo	Second voice
2002–03	Berserk	Guts
2003	Samurai Deeper Kyo	Saizo Kirigakure
	Space Pirate Mito	Karsoon
	Sadamitsu the Destroyer	Vice Principal
2004	ShootFighter Tekken	Yoshiki Takaishi	OVA
	Giant Robo	Kenji Murasame	OVA, NYAV Post dub
	Domain of Murder	Kyusaku Kogure	OVA
	Gokusen	Goro Sawatari
2004–07	One Piece	Roronoa Zoro	4Kids Entertainment dub
2004	Shura no Toki: Age of Chaos	Ryoma Sakamoto
	F-Zero: Falcon Densetsu	Antonio Guster, Young Silver Neelson
	Shrine of the Morning Mist	Michimune Ayatachi, Masashi Kusugi
2005	Shadow Star Narutaru	Ono	Episode 5
	Gin Rei	Kenji Murasame	ADR voice director, OVA
	Ah! My Goddess	Toshiyuki Aoshima [1]	ADR voice director
	Midori Days	Masami Kyomoto
	Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart	Shirakawa
	Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters	Young Solomon Muto	Episode 199
2006	Yu-Gi-Oh! GX	Chancellor Frost	Episode 24
	Pokémon	Tyson		[2]
	GaoGaiGar: The King of Braves	Leo Shishioh
	Ninja Nonsense		ADR voice director
2007	Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy	Toshiyuki Aoshima
	Phoenix	Uraji
2008	Freedom	David	OVA
	Dinosaur King	Gabbro
2008–10	Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds	Kalin Kessler
2009	Kurokami: The Animation	Hiyō, Additional Voices	ADR voice director (with Michael Sinterniklaas) ADR script writer (with Jay Snyder)
2009	Let's Go Tamagotchi!	Bikertchi, Sunnytchi	ADR voice director (with Michael Sinterniklaas) ADR script writer
2010	Pokémon	Riley, Clayton, Ingo
2010–14	Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn	Meran	Production staff, OVAs
2011	Bakuman	Nobuhiro Mashiro, Kim Song-Yu
2013	Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne	Captain
	Fate/Zero	Tokiomi Tohsaka		[3]
	Zetman	Sweeper, Takayuki Hige, Narrator	ADR script writer
2013–2019	Sword Art Online	Akihiko Kayaba
2013–14	Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic	Ithnan, Cassim's Father
2013	Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan - Demon Capital	Kidomaru
2014	Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet	Kugel
	Coppelion	Gojiro Kajii, Heiji Tanizaki
2015	Magi: The Kingdom of Magic	Ithnan
2015, 2019	Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin	Zeon Zum Deikun	OVAs and TV
2015	Aldnoah.Zero	Wolf Areash
	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure	George Joestar I, others		[3]
	The Seven Deadly Sins	Ruin
2016	Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans	Iznario Fareed
	One-Punch Man	Bearded Worker, Pig God, Subterranean 4	Subterranean in Episode 1, Pig God in Episode 10
2017–19	Hunter × Hunter	Ging Freecss	2011 series
2018–19	Beyblade Burst Turbo	Taiga Akabane		[3]
2018	Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World	Wilhelm van Astrea		[4]
2023	Berserk: Memorial Edition	Guts		[5]

Animation

List of voice performances and production work in animation

Year	Title	Role	Crew Role, Notes	Ref.
2005–09	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Silver Sentry, Raptarr, Ruffington, Turtle Titan II
2005–07	Winx Club	Helia	4Kids version
2006	Kappa Mikey	Dr. Igor	Episode: "Big Trouble in Little Tokyo"
2007–09	Chaotic	Codemaster Crellan
2008–09	Three Delivery		Voice director (with Michael Sinterniklaas)
2009–12	Huntik: Secrets & Seekers	Rassimov (Season 2), Clements, Suit Member	Voice director (with Michael Sinterniklaas (season 1) and Stephanie Sheh)	[6]
2018	Treehouse Detectives	Moose, Great Horned Owl, Commodore Barry, Lucille's Dad		[3]
2021	The JayShow Movie	Oyaji Robo-sama

Films

List of voice performances and production work in direct-to-video, television films and feature films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2003	The Weathering Continent	Bois
2010	Animals United	Cook, the Reporter
2012	Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King	Guts	Production coordinator	[3]
2013	Berserk: The Golden Age Arc II - The Battle for Doldrey	Guts
2014	Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent	Guts
	Welcome to the Space Show	Pochi Rickman	ADR voice director (with Stephanie Sheh)	[7]
	Patema Inverted	Teacher	ADR script writer
2015	009 Re:Cyborg	Cyborg 002/JetLink
2016	Miss Hokusai	Hatsugoro/Totoya Hokkei
	Your Name	Taki's Father		[8]
2017	A Silent Voice	Mr. Takeuchi		[9]
	Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale	Akihiko Kayaba	Reprisal	[10]
	Birdboy: The Forgotten Children	Mouse Father

Video games

List of voice performances in video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2006	One Piece: Pirates' Carnival	Roronoa Zoro
2017	Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links	Kalin Kassler	Reprisal	[3]
	Fire Emblem Heroes	Conrad
	Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia			[11]
2019	Shenmue III	Hong Dejing		[3]

References

1. "Ah! My Goddess" . Retrieved June 18, 2016.
2. Pokémon: Advanced Battle. Episode 397. 4Kids Entertainment.
3. "Marc Diraison (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors (A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information). Retrieved February 27, 2021.
4. "Funimation Announces Re:Zero Anime's English Dub Cast". Anime News Network. March 4, 2018. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
5. "Berserk: The Golden Age Arc". www.crunchyroll.com. January 13, 2023.
6. "A Seeker Is Born". Huntik. Season 1. Episode 1.
7. "Dub Cast for Welcome to the Space Show Announced". Anime News Network. April 7, 2012. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
8. "Your Name English Dub Cast, Trailer Unveiled". Anime News Network. November 14, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
9. Sheh, Stephanie (December 24, 2017). "It's Marc Diraison. The original Guts from Berserk". @stephaniesheh. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
10. "Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale English Dub Screenings Begin April 22 in U.S." Anime News Network. March 14, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
11. "Here are the Voice Actors of Fire Emblem Echoes' Cast". Twinfinite. Retrieved June 10, 2019.

External links

• Marc Diraison at Anime News Network 's encyclopedia
• Marc Diraison at IMDb  
• Marc Diraison at Behind The Voice Actors