Hakuōki: Dawn of the Shinsengumi

Hakuōki: Dawn of the Shinsengumi
Original Title	薄桜鬼 黎明録 (Hakuōki Reimeiroku)
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio	Sentai Filmworks
Voice Director	Christopher Ayres
Translation & Adaptation	Christopher Ayres Javier Lopez (Translation)
ADR Production
Recorded	2013
Dub Country	United States
Original Country	Japan
Episodes	12
Year	2012
Chronology
Predecessor	Hakuōki: Record of the Jade Blood
Successor	Hakuōki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom: Wild Dance of Kyoto

Hakuōki: Dawn of the Shinsengumi is a 2012 anime series based on the Hakuoki otome game series.

Sentai Filmworks produced an English Dub of the season and released it for DVD and Blu-ray on October 1, 2013. This is the 3rd Season in the Hakuōki series.

Synopsis The year is 1863 and as Japan's long-festering wounds of political discord erupt into violent waves of street clashes and murder, the Tokugawa Shogunate sends a new force of masterless samurai called the Roshigumi to the aid of the Aizu forces in Kyoto. However, the new "police" are anything but a cohesive force and assassination has already split them into two opposing factions. The stronger is led by the brutal Serizawa Kamo, and the lesser by the more honorable but less assertive Kondo Isami. It is into this pack of wolves that Ryunosuke Ibuki is dragged by the rabid Serizawa. Forced to be a virtual slave by blood debt, he hates the samurai and everything they stand for. But as he sees how the other half of the samurai live, he begins to believe that there may still be a chance, for both himself and Japan, if only Kondo will step up and take down the mad dog Serizawa!

Cast

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
Main Characters
	Ryūnosuke Ibuki	Tomokazu Seki	Adam Gibbs
	Toshizō Hijikata	Shinichirō Miki	Andrew Love
	Kamo Serizawa	Jōji Nakata	Brett Weaver
	Sōji Okita	Shōtarō Morikubo	Blake Shepard
		Naomi Iida (young)	Kalin Coates (young)
	Hajime Saitō	Kōsuke Toriumi	Leraldo Anzaldua
	Heisuke Tōdō	Hiroyuki Yoshino	Greg Ayres
	Sanosuke Harada	Kōji Yusa	Illich Guardiola
Secondary Characters
	Keisuke Sannan	Nobuo Tobita	David Matranga
	Isami Kondō	Tōru Ōkawa	David Wald
	Shinpachi Nagakura	Tomohiro Tsuboi	Kalob Martinez
	Kōdō Yukimura	Ryūgo Saitō	Mark X. Laskowski
	Nishiki Niimi	Kensuke Tamura	John Swasey
Recurring Characters
	Genzaburō Inoue	Norio Kobayashi	Kurt Bauer
	Kai Shimada	Takeshi Ōba	George Manley
	Susumu Yamazaki	Takayuki Suzuki	Connor Leach
	Jūsuke Hirama	Yōji Ueda	Mike Yager
	Kosuzu	Yōko Nishino	Margaret McDonald
	Oume	Saya Shinomiya	Molly Searcy

Episodic Characters

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Ep(s).
	Ryūnosuke's Mother	Chihiro Aikawa	Beth Lazarou	1
	Yūbō	Reiko Fujita	¿?	2
	Yoshio Tonōchi	Kazuya Murakami	Christopher Ayres	3-4
	Aizu Official	¿?	Brent Marshall	5, 10-11
	Kawashima	¿?	John Daugherty	6
	Iesato	Shinsaku Kōchi	Christopher Ayres
	Aijirō Sasaki	Kazunori Nomiya	¿?	8-9
	Aguri	Amika Takahashi	¿?	9
	Oshika	Naomi Iida	¿?
	Kotora	Akari Higuchi	¿?
	Saeki	Hiroyuki Tsunakawa	¿?
	Chikage Kazama	Kenjirō Tsuda	Corey Hartzog	10
	Geiko	Maki Kobayashi	¿?	11
	Chizuru Yukimura	Hōko Kuwashima	Brittney Karbowski	12

Additional Voices

• Ricardo Contreras
• Alissa Simmons
• Genevieve Simmons
• Juliet Simmons
• Tiffany Terrell

Transmission via Streaming

Company	Date	Category	Format	Content	Country
	2017	Anime	Digital	12 Episodes	United States
	March 27, 2024

Video Releases

Distributor	Year	Format	Contents	Region	Country
Sentai Filmworks	2013		Season 3: The Complete	1 NTSC	United States
			4 Discs
			Season 3: The Complete	A DVB-T
			2 Discs

See Also

• Hakuōki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom
• Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom: Warrior Spirit of the Blue Sky
• Hakuōki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom: Wild Dance of Kyoto
• Hakuōki: Record of the Jade Blood

External Links

• Hakuōki: Dawn of the Shinsengumi at the Internet Movie Database.
• Hakuōki: Dawn of the Shinsengumi (anime) on the Anime News Network's encyclopedia.
• Hakuōki: Dawn of the Shinsengumi on Behind The Voice Actors.