Fate/Zero Abridged: Voice Actors (Major and Minor Roles) Required

Fate/Zero Abridged: Voice Actors (Major and Minor Roles) Required

Project Overview

We have now reached the deadline! Thank you to everyone who auditioned, we hope to get back to you all shortly.

This is a casting call for an Abridged version of Fate/Zero, a 2007 anime adapted from a light novel by Gen Urobuchi. The final product is intended to be thirteen episodes of approximately ten to fifteen minutes in length.

Familiarity with the series is absolutely not required: I have every intention of making this series accessible to people who haven't watched the series, and characters may stray somewhat from their incarnations in the series anyway.

So, what we're gunning for with this Abridged series is something tonally in the vein of Sword Art Online Abridged or Project Mouthwash's many excellent abridged shows -- that is to say, broadly comedic, but with an ability to switch to a more dramatic style, and to use humour to enhance dramatic moments. Each episode is usually abridging two episodes of the source material (sometimes a little less).

Currently, scripts are written up to episode seven (abridging up to episode thirteen of the source material), with a second edit+annotations due on them to get them up to scratch. Most roles are provisionally cast, but there are several major roles and a bunch of minor roles that still need filling.

We're hoping (although that may change) to have a fairly quick turnover and release schedule for these: The plan right now is to record these seven episodes and start work on the remaining six before starting to release anything, and to release on a monthly or (if we're being blue-sky-thinker ultra-optimists here) fortnightly schedule.

While I'd very much like to offer payment (and will if the series takes off, but I think it'd be rather presumptuous to promise that), I can't at this time. What I will offer is: References regarding the voice work done for anyone who needs or wants them, voice work in return for anyone who wants it, writing and editing work (I'm a published writer currently doing a Masters in scriptwriting) for anyone who wants it, and graphic design work. My hope is also that at the completion of the series I can at least offer a small fee to everyone involved, regardless of whether it takes off or not.

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  • Deadline reached!

    Thank you to everyone who auditioned! We got a wonderful range and variety of people auditioning for these roles, far more than we even imagined, and it's been a joy and a pleasure listening to all of your work. We plan on getting back to people within the next few days, although depending on how schedules pan out it could take a day or two longer (but it shouldn't). Thank you all once again!
Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Maiya Hisau
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: Contralto

Maiya isn't as large a commitment as Kirei, but she's still a considerable one, having lines in four of the current seven scripts (although she tends not to have very many lines in any of them). In addition, whoever's voicing Maiya may also have to put in some time to recording pained grunts/noises of exertion, since there is an episode that involves her being stabbed.


The character is a former child soldier, now grown up to be an assassin and mercenary, and a fairly consummate professional about it. In terms of voice, she's an adult woman, but her voice can be low or high, with any kind of accent -- key for her voice is that she should be very deadpan, delivering even absurd lines in an almost preternaturally calm, even somewhat icy way. 






  • "He also said it's icy cold even in summer; it doesn't have electricity, plumbing, or foundations; the walls are full of rats, alive and dead; and it's haunted by a ghost called Baron Bloodmonger, because it's built on a Native American burial ground."

  • "I believe him. Thousands would not."

  • Free choice! Feel free to say something you think would fit the character and shows off your voice.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Kirei Kotomine
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: deleted50706

Of all the characters on this audition list, Kirei has by far the most lines, appearing in every episode written thus far, and thus represents the biggest commitment by a significant margin. We're hoping for a relatively quick turnaround for episodes, so an ability to carve out time to record and send over lines is a must.


The character is a priest (and assassin) of the Catholic Church, an overt and obvious villain who barely hides his desire to murder his mentor and everyone else around him, and something of a schemer. His voice is quite deep, relaxed, and nonchalant, and a sonorous quality would definitely be a plus. He can switch between chilled out relaxedness and deep gravitas on a moment's notice.

  • "Rin, my child, if the church had a problem with magic, we would've drawn the line at the wine-transmuting zombie who walked on water. Clearly we did not do this."

  • "A hitman, you say? I don't suppose he takes jobs to take out distinguished, wealthy fire mages in red jackets, does he. Maybe also their wives and daughters."

  • Free choice! Feel free to say something you feel fits the character, or that shows off your voice.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Aoi Tohsaka
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: Kyoumo

A relatively small, low commitment role, as the character appears in only two scenes at the moment.

The serene, cheerful, if somewhat distant mother of two children, Abridged Aoi is characterised by a cheerful acceptance of all the strange things that are happening around her. She sounds perpetually warm, cheery, and calm, and perhaps even a little vacant.

  • "Well, you know what they say, 'girls should be three things: Classy, fabulous, and full of insects.'"

  • "Girls do not dress for boys. Girls dress for themselves, legions of stinging locusts, and each other."

  • Free choice! Say something you think would fit the character, or which shows off your voice.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Rin Tohsaka
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: Kyoumo

A minor role, appearing at present in one scene, although with another due in the future.


A young girl raised in an aristocratic household. Her voice is that of a high-pitched, imperious, canny child.

  • "I'm not an orphan."

  • "And the church doesn't have a problem with the whole magic thing?"

  • Free choice! Say something you that reflects the character, or that you feel shows off your voice.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Sakura Matou
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: LOCorticotropic

A minor role, turning up in one scene at present, although with another scene planned for the future.


The second child of the Tohsaka family, who has been adopted out to the much more vicious and sinister Matous.  Sakura is a young girl of a somewhat cold, and slightly bratty nature at present, but there's an undercurrent of affection when speaking to her uncle.

  • "Grandpa says that you'll be summoning a Heroic Spirit tonight. For the Grail War. Sucks to be you, I guess."

  • "And you're looking old, Uncle Kariya. Super gross times."

  • Free choice! Say something that reflects the character, or that you feel shows off your voice.

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