History Trivia / Felidae

* InternationalCoproduction: The animation for the film was split between companies in Denmark, Canada, Ireland, South Korea and Taiwan[[note]]Dagda Film Limited in Dublin and Azadart in Toronto were the leads. Assisted by Creator/NatterjackAnimation in Vancouver; A.Film, Animationsstudio Ludewig, TFC Trickompany Filmproduktion and Mediasoft in Hamburg; Creator/HahnShinCorporation in Seoul, and an uncredited Creator/WangFilmProductions[[/note]]

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: As detailed below, the entire series was dropped by the publisher due to some controversial statements, even being delisted from amazon. This is notable bad for the English version of Salve Roma!, which was only available digitally.

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: The English dub actors were uncredited, which made people make guesses to the actors' names. Subverted, as they weren't actually celebrity voice actors but rather talented yet very obscure voice actors from London (Jeff Harding as Francis, Graham Parker as Bluebeard, Tamsin Hollo as Felicity…).

* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Selectively breeding domestic creatures to create something similar to their wild ancestors is a real practice called breeding-back. Its scope, however, is somewhat limited - Tamaskan dogs, for example, bear about as strong a resemblance to wolves as can be gained without actually introducing wolves into the breeding program, yet behaviorally and temperamentally they are still more like dogs than wolves (which is exactly what Tamaskan breeders want anyway, so it works out).
** Recreating a wildcat type would likely be incredibly easy, as domestic cats are closer in both behavior and appearance to their ancestors than dogs are, and a cat who has had little to no human contact will tend to act quite wild anyway. There are even arguments that cats are not truly domesticated, and should instead be considered semi-domestic wild animals.

* BadExportForYou: ''Salve Roma!'' had an... unfortunate transition into English. Whoever was doing the translating/editing, which linguistically proficient, did not account for how sentences flow in English. This results in sentences that should have been separate being mashed together, and vice versa. Dialog also quite curiously used greater- and less-than marks (these things: < >) instead of quotation marks. This is something seen in webcomics' speech bubbles to signify that a character is in fact speaking a different language from the rest of the cast, so that might have been the aim here, but all the characters are speaking the same language. Plus in the case of literature it just looks bizarre.

* BadExportForYou: ''Salve Roma!" had an... unfortunate transition into English. Whoever was doing the translating/editing, which linguistically proficient, did not account for how sentences flow in English. This results in sentences that should have been separate being mashed together, and vice versa. Dialog also quite curiously used greater- and less-than marks (these things: < >) instead of quotation marks. This is something seen in webcomics' speech bubbles to signify that a character is in fact speaking a different language from the rest of the cast, so that might have been the aim here, but all the characters are speaking the same language. Plus in the case of literature it just looks bizarre.

** Initially, apart from the first 2 books, the Felidae series had not been translated and released in the U.S. and the English editions of those two were out of print for a long time. Now they are available in e-book form, along with the fifth book, ''Salve Roma!'', which has been translated. So perhaps the other installments will eventually be released in English as well.

* NoExportForYou: The movie falls under this trope too, aside from brief releases in Australia and Russia. A DVD release for the UK and North America was reportedly planned, but eventually cancelled.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Selectively breeding domestic creatures to create something similar to their wild ancestors is a real practice called breeding-back. Its scope, however, is somewhat limited - Tamaskan dogs, for example, bear about as strong a resemblance to wolves as can be gained without actually introducing wolves into the breeding program, yet behaviorally and temperamentally they are still more like dogs than wolves (which is exactly what Tamaskan breeders want anyway, so it works out).

* InternationalCoproduction: The animation for the film was split between companies in Denmark, Canada, Ireland, South Korea and Taiwan[[note]]Dagda Film Limited in Dublin and Azadart in Toronto were the leads. Assisted by Creator/NatterjackAnimation in Vancouver; A.Film, Animationsstudio Ludewig, TFC Trickompany Filmproduktion and Mediasoft in Hamburg; Creator/HahnShinCorporation in Seoul, and an uncredited Creator/WangFilmProductions[[/note]]
* NoExportForYou: Initially, apart from the first 2 books, the Felidae series had not been translated and released in the U.S. and the English editions of those two were out of print for a long time. Now they are available in e-book form, along with the fifth book, ''Salve Roma!'', which has been translated. So perhaps the other installments will eventually be released in English as well.

** The movie falls under this trope too, aside from brief releases in Australia and Russia. A DVD release for the UK and North America was reportedly planned, but eventually cancelled.

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: The English dub actors were uncredited, which made people make guesses to the actors' names. Subverted, as they weren't actually celebrity voice actors but rather London talent. (Jeff Harding as Francis, Graham Parker as Bluebeard, Tamsin Hollo as Felicity…)

* RiddleForTheAges: There seems to be no explanation for how or why the film got a [[AllStarCast star-studded]] English dub, despite never seeing the light of day in any English-speaking territories beyond a very brief release in Australia. The film was rated by the BBFC, indicating that it saw some form of release in the UK, but information is spotty.

* DawsonCasting: Andrea Libman was 29 at the time of her role as Pepeline in the English dub.