History Trivia / AKB0048

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Many of the dub voice actresses in this anime would also appear in the English dub of ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', a few months later.
** For Hippo Team: [[Creator/LuciChristian Nagisa]] would become the co-leader of Hippo Team, Erwin. [[Creator/ShannonEmmerick Sae Miyazawa the 10th]] would play her co-leader, Caesar, while [[Creator/NancyNovotny Haruna "Kojiharu" Kojima the 8th]] is Oryou, the driver, and Yuko Oshima the 9th (Tiffany Terrell) is Saemonza, the gunner.
** For Anglerfish Team: [[Creator/MargaretMcDonald Yuki "Yukirin" Kashiwagi the 6th]] would take command of Anglerfish Team as Miho Nishizumi, while [[Creator/CaitlynnFrench Suzuko]] would play the team's gunner, Hana Isuzu, while Makoto (Molly Searcy) would go on to play the tired, sleepy, but smart driver of Anglerfish Team, Mako.
** For Duck Team: [[Creator/GenevieveSimmons Kanata Shinonome]], the leader of the trainees, plays Duck Team's commander, Noriko Isobe. Her fellow Trainee, [[Creator/CarliMosier Mimori Kishida]], plays Akebi Sasaki, the gunner. [=AKB0048=] Successor [[Creator/CynthiaMartinez Minami Takahashi the 5th]] is the driver, Shinobu Kawanishi.
** For Rabbit Team: Tomomi "Tomochin" Itano the 11th (Creator/AllisonSumrall) commands Rabbit Team as Azusa Sawa. [[Creator/MonicaRial Yuka]] is the driver, Karina, while Sonata (Creator/JulietSimmons) plays Aya Oono, one of the gunners for Rabbit Team.
** [[Creator/ShelleyCaleneBlack Tsubasa Katagiri]] plays Tankery instructor Ami Chouno. She also doubles as Mallard Team's driver, Moyoko Gotou.
** Megumi Wanaguchi (Meaghan Avocado) is Yuzu Koyama, the Student Council's Vice President and driver of Turtle Team (which consisted of the Student Council members).
** [[Creator/EmilyNeves Chieri Sono]] would later Saunders College High's Tankery team leader, Kei, while [[Creator/BrittneyKarbowski Orine Aida]] would play Arisa, Saunders' cheating third-in-command.

* FanNickname: The DES are oftentimes called the Fun Police.

* NoExportForYou: The manga adaptations of the show has not been translated into English, in part because Heart-Gata Operation was serialized in ''Bessatsu Friend'', a manga magazine distributors won't touch with a ten-foot-pole after a plagiarism controversy surrounding ''Manga/EdenNoHana''. The other manga based on the show may have a slight chance of coming to the United States, as one of the other magazines serializing the show-based manga, Nakayoshi, has had many of its titles released in the US.

** For Rabbit Team: Tomomi "Tomochin" Itano the 11th (Allison Sumrall) commands Rabbit Team as Azusa Sawa. [[Creator/MonicaRial Yuka]] is the driver, Karina, while Sonata (Juliet Simmons) plays Aya Oono, one of the gunners for Rabbit Team.

* RealLifeRelative: In the English dub, the sisters Kanata and Sonata are played by real life sisters Juliet and Creator/GenevieveSimmons.

** Notably averted HARD with the anime, in that it was simulcast on Crunchyroll and even got an English dub. Notable, since it's a SerialNumbersFiledOff installment of Macross, a series notorious for being incredibly export unfriendly.[[note]]...to such a degree that the whole fact Harmony Gold had NOTHING to do with either thing is a massive plus.[[/note]]

** Notably averted HARD with the anime, in that it was simulcast on Crunchyroll and even got an English dub. Notable, since it's a SerialNumbersFiledOff installment of Macross, a series notorious for being incredibly export unfriendly.[[Note]]...to such a degree that the whole fact Harmony Gold had NOTHING to do with either thing is a massive plus.[[/note]]

** Notably averted HARD with the anime, in that it was simulcast on Crunchyroll and even got an English dub. Notable, since it's a SerialNumbersFiledOff installment of Macross, a series notorious for being incredibly export unfriendly.

* NoExportForYou: The manga adaptations of the show has not been translated into English, in part because Heart-Gata Operation was serialized in ''Bessatsu Friend'', a manga magazine distributors won't touch with a ten-foot-pole after a plagiarism controversy surrounding ''Manga/EdenNoHana''. The other manga based on the show may have a slight chance of coming to the United States, as one of the other magazines serializing the show-based manga, Nakayoshi, has had many of it's titles released in the US.
** Notably averted HARD with the anime, in that it was simulcast on Crunchyroll and even got an english dub. Notable, since it's a SerialNumbersFiledOff instalment of Macross, a series notorious for being incredibly export unfriendly.

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** Japanese: both RealLife Music/AKB48 members and trainees are cast in the anime.
*** Ironically, Mayu Watanabe does not voice Mayu Watanabe MK 3. Instead, she voices Chieri Sono.
** English:
*** This isn't the first [[Anime/{{Clannad}} Nagisa]] that Creator/LuciChristian has played.
**** She also went into space before as [[LightNovel/BodaciousSpacePirates Marika Katou]].
*** [[Creator/BrittneyKarbowski Orine]] and [[Creator/MonicaRial Yukka]] are [[Manga/SoulEater Black Star and Tsubaki]].
*** [[Creator/CaitlynnFrench Suzuko]] is [[LightNovel/BodaciousSpacePirates Chiaki Kurihara]].

** For Duck Team: [[Creator/GenevieveSimmons Kanata Shinonome]], the leader of the trainees, plays Duck Team's commander, Noriko Isobe. Her fellow Trainee, [[Creator/CarliMosier Mimori Kishida]], plays Akebi Sasaki, the gunner. AKB0048 Successor [[Creator/CynthiaMartinez Minami Takahashi the 5th]] is the driver, Shinobu Kawanishi.

* DuelingShows: With the other idol show of the season, ''Franchise/LoveLive''

* RealLifeRelative: In the English dub, the sisters Kanata and Sonata are played by real life sisters Juliet and Genevieve Simmons.

** For Duck Team: Kanata Shinonome (Genevieve Simmons), the leader of the trainees, plays Duck Team's commander, Noriko Isobe. Her fellow Trainee, [[Creator/CarliMosier Mimori Kishida]], plays Akebi Sasaki, the gunner. AKB0048 Successor [[Creator/CynthiaMartinez Minami Takahashi the 5th]] is the driver, Shinobu Kawanishi.

* NoExportForYou: The manga adaptations of the show has not been translated into English, in part because the prequel manga was serialized in ''Bessatsu Friend'', a manga magazine distributors won't touch with a ten-foot-pole after a plagiarism controversy surrounding ''Manga/EdenNoHana''. The other manga based on the show may have a slight chance of coming to the United States, as one of the other magazines serializing the show-based manga, Nakayoshi, has had many of it's titles released in the US.

** [[Creator/EmilyNeves Chieri Sono]] would later Saunders College High's Tankery team leader, Kei, while [[Creator/BrittneyKarbowsk Orine Aida]] would play Arisa, Saunders' cheating third-in-command.

** English: This isn't the first [[Anime/{{Clannad}} Nagisa]] that Luci Christian has played.
*** [[BrittneyKarbowski Orine]] and [[MonicaRial Yukka]] are [[Manga/SoulEater Black Star and Tsubaki]].

* RealLifeRelative: In the English dub, the sisters Kanata and Sonata are played by real life sisters Juliet and Genevieve Simmons.

** [[BrittneyKarbowski Orine]] and [[MonicaRial Yukka]] are [[Manga/SoulEater Black Star and Tsubaki]].

** The English dub is similiar, with songs being in English when the characters are singing in a casual situation, but switches to back to Japanese for the concert parts.

* HeyItsThatVoice: both RealLife Music/AKB48 members and trainees are cast in the anime.

* NonSingingVoice: Done a little oddly. When the characters are singing on their own or in a small group, the voice actresses provide their own singing. Yet during concerts, the songs we hear seem to be straight from the singles and stage albums. Gets particularly jarring in episode 21, where Yuuko is supposed to be singing the last, solo line in Heavy Rotation but the voice sounds nothing her voice actress's singing voice that we hear twice in the episode.

* DuelingShows: With ''Franchise/LoveLive''

* NonSingingVoice: Done a little oddly. When the characters are singing on their own or in a small group, the voice actresses provide their own singing. Yet during concerts, the songs we hear seem to be straight from the singles and stage albums. Gets particularly jarring in episode 21, where Yuuko is supposed to be singing the last, solo line in Heavy Rotation but the voice sounds nothing her voice actress's singing voice that we hear twice in the episode.

* HeyItsThatVoice: both RealLife Music/AKB48 members and trainees are cast in the anime.

* HeyItsThatVoice: both RealLife Music/AKB48 members and trainees and professional Seiyuu are cast in the anime.