American voice performer Marc Diraison has spent decades in anime dubbing, taking on ADR direction and script-writing duties as well as character roles, with credits stretching back to the early 1980s. His work brought him into JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's English-language cast.
Diraison contributed to the English-language voice cast of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, adding to a dubbing resume built across studios like Bang Zoom! Entertainment and NYAV Post. His broader body of work spans lead and supporting parts alike, most famously as Guts in the Berserk anime adaptations, a role defined by a gravelly, hard-worn delivery.
Diraison's screen work stretches back to 1982, and beyond acting he has directed ADR sessions and written scripts for English-language releases. He is also recognized for two very different genre parts: the proud, doomed mage Tokiomi Tohsaka in Fate/Zero, and the villainous game architect Akihiko Kayaba, whom he voices in Sword Art Online.

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Marc Diraison is most famously known as Guts in the Berserk anime adaptations, a role defined by a gravelly, hard-worn delivery. The performance stands as the signature credit across his decades-long dubbing career.
Marc Diraison's screen work stretches back to 1982 and continues through the present, spanning more than four decades of anime dubbing. That makes him one of the longer tenured performers working in English-language anime localization today.
Diraison contributed to the English-language voice cast of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, adding to a dubbing resume built across studios like Bang Zoom! Entertainment and NYAV Post. The specific character he plays is not publicly documented.
Beyond acting, Marc Diraison has directed ADR sessions and written scripts for English-language anime releases. That behind-the-scenes work runs alongside his on-screen performances.
Marc Diraison voices the proud, doomed mage Tokiomi Tohsaka in Fate/Zero and the villainous game architect Akihiko Kayaba in Sword Art Online. Both roles reflect a different side of his range across major anime franchises.
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