History Trivia / EightySixEightySix

* TheOtherDarrin: Shin's English voice actor Creator/BillyKametz ceased voice acting in April 2022 due to a serious cancer diagnosis before [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-06-11/voice-actor-billy-kametz-passes-away-at-35/.186576 sadly passing away in June 2022]] which led to Creator/AleksLe being recast as the replacement voice for the final two episodes of the show and possibly any future seasons.
* RelationshipVoiceActor: In the English dub, because of the recasting situation as described above, [[Creator/AleksLe Shin]] and [[Creator/SuzieYeung Lena]] are now [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake Sonon and Yuffie working as partners again.]]
** The same siutation would also mean [[Creator/AleksLe Kazuya]] and [[Creator/SuzieYeung Sumi]] from Manga/RentAGirlfriend joining the Spearhead as Shin and Lena

* TheOtherDarrin: Shin's English voice actor Creator/BillyKametz ceased all voice acting activities in April 2022 due to a serious cancer diagnosis, which led to Creator/AleksLe being recast as the replacement voice for the final two episodes of the show.

* ExecutiveMeddling: In the English release of Volume 7, after Olivia Aegis is [[GenderBenderName revealed to be a man]], he is then addressed as "Olivier" until the end of the volume, presumably as a joke at Lena's expense to make it seem like she'd heard his name wrong. This was purely an invention of the English translation, as there was no change in his name in the original Japanese text. The light novels' English translator, Roman Lempert, revealed on the 86 Discord channel in mid-2021 that this had been a decision made by Yen Press's editorial team which he disagreed with and objected to. Starting with Volume 8, the character's name reverted back to "Olivia" with no mention of "Olivier" anymore.

* HighSchoolAU: ''86 — Eighty-six — Operation High-School'' is a fairly new (2022) manga spin off.

** One longstanding debate among the fandom was finally put to rest thanks to this: during Volume 3's prologue / Episode 16, [[spoiler: as Shin is losing his mind to suicidal despairing madness during the Legion's large scale offensive against Giad, he snaps out of it when he seems to hear Lena's voice.]] Both the light novel and the anime were vague enough that people debated if this was a hallucination, but a [[https://twitter.com/Asakura_Toru/status/1503644785424617474 tweet from her in March 2022]] outright confirmed it was real.

** One longstanding debate among the fandom was finally put to rest thanks to this: during Volume 3's prologue / Episode 16, [[spoiler: as Shin is losing his mind to madness during the Legion's large scale offensive against Giad, he snaps out of it when he seems to hear Lena's voice .]] Both the light novel and the anime were vague enough that people debated if this was a hallucination, but a [[https://twitter.com/Asakura_Toru/status/1503644785424617474 tweet from her in March 2022]] outright confirmed it was real.

** Asato Asato considered [[https://twitter.com/Asakura_Toru/status/1505174652150489092?cxt=HHwWiIDRpeKXuuMpAAAA writing a short story]] for Volume 3 covering the Giadian army's top brass all listening to the mission recorder of Shin's Reginleif [[spoiler: when he meets Lena in the lycoris field after the Morpho's destruction]] but decided that was just too cruel to him, particularly in how Willem would "execute" (read: tease the living hell out of) him over such an intimate conversation.

* WordOfGod: Asato Asato has [[https://86-eighty-six.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Zenry.N/Compilation_of_Asato%27s_Tweets numerous tweets]] on her Twitter account delving deeper into the world of ''86'' as well as dropping tidbits of information regarding the anime, things being cut out of the adaptation, and lots of other small details.

** Asato Asato considered [[https://twitter.com/Asakura_Toru/status/1505174652150489092?cxt=HHwWiIDRpeKXuuMpAAAA writing a short story]] for Volume 3 covering the Giadian army's top brass all listening to the mission recorder of Shin's Reginleif [[spoiler: when he meets Lena in the lycoris field after the Morpho's destruction]] but decided that was just too cruel to him, particularly in how Willem would "execute" (read: tease the living hell out of) him over such a private conversation.

** Asato Asato considered [[https://twitter.com/Asakura_Toru/status/1505174652150489092?cxt=HHwWiIDRpeKXuuMpAAAA writing a short story]] for Volume 3 covering the Giadian army's top brass all listening to the mission recorder of Shin's Reginleif [[spoiler: when he meets Lena in the lycoris field after the Morpho's destruction]] but decided that was just too cruel to him, particularly in how Willem would "execute" (read: tease the living hell out of) him over such {{Glurge}}y lines.

* TroubledProduction: The anime was originally meant to debut in Fall 2020 but was delayed to Spring 2021. When the second half of the season aired in Fall 2021, the cracks in the production started developing rapidly. When Episode 17 concluded, it was announced that Episode 18 was delayed a week unexpectedly, with a special commentary episode featuring Shouya Chiba, Creator/SeiichiroYamashita, and Creator/MisakiKuno taking its space in its originally scheduled air date of November 13th. At the end of ''that'' episode, another unexpected delay was suddenly announced for Episode 19, with a recap episode taking its place on November 27th. And with December 11th already having been scheduled for a preplanned break due to [[https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2020/1211_002.html Japan Day 2021]], the show had 3 episodes in a row released on a biweekly schedule. This leaves the final 2 episodes unable to air, a similar situation that happened to ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer''. The final two episodes were scheduled to air on March 12th and 19th in 2022.

* TroubledProduction: The anime was originally meant to debut in Fall 2020 but was delayed to Spring 2021. When the second half of the season aired in Fall 2021, the cracks in the production started developing rapidly. When Episode 17 concluded, it was announced that Episode 18 was delayed a week unexpectedly, with a special commentary episode featuring Shouya Chiba, Creator/SeiichiroYamashita, and Creator/MisakiKuno taking its space in its originally scheduled air date of November 13th. At the end of ''that'' episode, another unexpected delay was suddenly announced for Episode 19, with a recap episode taking its place on November 27th. And with December 11th already having been scheduled for a preplanned break due to [[https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2020/1211_002.html Japan Day 2021]], the show had 3 episodes in a row released on a biweekly schedule. This leaves the final 2 episodes unable to air, a similar situation to what happened to ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer''. It's therefore expected the final two episodes will air at the end of March in 2022.

* TroubledProduction: The anime was originally meant to debut in Fall 2020 but was delayed to Spring 2021. When the second half of the season aired in Fall 2021, the cracks in the production started developing rapidly. When Episode 17 concluded, it was announced that Episode 18 was delayed a week unexpectedly, with a special commentary episode featuring Shouya Chiba, Creator/SeiichiroYamashita, and Creator/MisakiKuno taking its space in its originally scheduled air date of November 13th. At the end of ''that'' episode, another unexpected delay was suddenly announced for Episode 19, with a recap episode taking its place on November 27th. And with December 11th already having been scheduled for a preplanned break due to [[https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2020/1211_002.html Japan Day 2021]], the show had 3 episodes in a row released on a biweekly schedule.

* TroubledProduction: The anime was originally meant to debut in Fall 2020 but was delayed to Spring 2021. When the second half of the season aired in Fall 2021, the cracks in the production started developing rapidly. When Episode 17 concluded, it was announced that Episode 18 was delayed a week unexpectedly, with a special commentary episode featuring Shouya Chiba, Creator/SeiichiroYamashita, and Creator/MisakiKuno taking its space in its originally scheduled air date of November 13th. At the end of ''that'' episode, another unexpected delay was suddenly announced for Episode 19, with a recap episode taking its place on November 27th. And with December 11th already having been scheduled for a preplanned break due to [[https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2020/1211_002.html Japan Day 2021]], the show had 3 episodes in a row released on a biweekly schedule.

* TroubledProduction: The anime was originally meant to debut in Fall 2020 but was delayed to Spring 2021. When the second half of the season aired in Fall 2021, the cracks in the production started developing rapidly. When Episode 17 concluded, it was announced that Episode 18 was delayed a week unexpectedly, with a special commentary episode taking its space in its originally scheduled air date of November 13th. At the end of ''that'' episode, another delay was announced for Episode 19, with a recap episode taking its place on November 27th. And with December 11th already having been scheduled for a preplanned break, the show had 3 episodes in a row released on a biweekly schedule.

** A [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NBxYDUCoV6KMhVHsTblsAc5fYf4bQVqre1fGCFQUkCk/edit 2019 interview with Dengeki Magazine]] covering up to Volume 6 revealed some early concepts for the story that didn't come to fruition:
*** The story was originally meant to be a medieval fantasy where a fortress city protected by walls would be guarded by ChildSoldiers called Knights. Upon reaching adulthood, they would leave the walls but it was just a ploy to reduce the resource burden on the other people within, a plot reminiscent of ''Literature/LogansRun.''
*** Then the story was changed to become the sci-fi setting it currently is, but humanity was on the move from an [[GreyGoo enormous cloud of nanomachines that engulfs the world]] and constantly searching for additional living space. The Legion would have originally been the HiveMind of this nanomachine cloud, not multi-legged weapons. Asato Asato likened these concepts to being like ''Manga/BlackBullet'', while her editor found it more like ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''.

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