History Trivia / KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts

** The show's artsyle is also a result of this. The animators were originally ''against'' Sechrist's street art aesthetic, deeming it too difficult to put into motion. There were plans to switch to a more "anime" appearance to appease Creator/StudioMir before the same executive that greenlit the show demanded that the original art be kept.
** Benson's reveal of his sexual orientation. Dreamworks executives had no issue with one of the main protagonists being openly LGBT, but their only caveat was that he had to ''explicitly'' say "I'm gay."

* Benson's reveal of his sexual orientation. Dreamworks executives had no issue with one of the main protagonists being openly LGBT, but their only caveat was that he had to ''explicitly'' say "I'm gay." [[TropesAreNotBad The crew had zero issue with this]].

** In the original webcomic, Benson was a muscular, older white man who wielded a large sword.

* WholePlotReference: Human child emerges from an [[UndergroundCity Apocalypse Bunker]], has adventures in RuinsOfTheModernAge populated with, amoung other things, [[AnthropomorphicTransformation anthropomorphic animal]] {{mutants}}. Is this Kipo or ComicBook/{{Kamandi}}?

** The show's artsyle is also a result of this. The animators were originally ''against'' Sechrist's street art aesthetic, deeming it to difficult to put into motion. There were plans to switch to a more "anime" appearance to appease Creator/StudioMir before the same executive that greenlit the show demanded that the original art be kept.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Kipo [[spoiler:was originally a normal human. Her having mutant powers]] was a request from executives who believed Kipo needed something special. Her odd skin colour is a holdover from the comics, where [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation many characters had crazy skin tones]], kept in order to foreshadow the eventual twist.

** In the original webcomic, Benson was a muscular, older white man who wielded a large sword.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Kipo [[spoiler:was originally a normal human. Her having mutant powers]] was a request from executives who believed Kipo needed something special. Her odd skin colour is a holdover from the comics, where many characters had crazy skin tones, kept in order to foreshadow the eventual twist.

* TheCastShowOff: Pretty much everyone in the cast does their own singing.

* CelebrityVoiceActor: Sterling K. Brown, Dan Stevens, Joan Jett, and GZA are included in the cast.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Kipo [[spoiler:was originally a normal human. Her having mutant powers]] was a request from executives who believed Kipo needed something special. Her odd skin colour is a holdover from when Sechrist intended for several characters to have crazy skin tones, kept in order to foreshadow the eventual twist.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The short-lived 2015 ''Kipo'' webcomic. The website was taken down in early 2019, before the first teaser trailer for the show was released. Some of the pages (specifically pages 2 through 12, and 14) are still available to view on the creator's Website/DeviantArt page, but you'll need to fire up the Wayback Machine if you want the rest.

** In the original Webcomic Benson was a very muscular older man who wielded a really big sword

* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Played with. Wolf is implied to be not much older than eleven, but her voice actress, Sydney Mikayla, was sixteen when the show premiered.

** [[https://www.deviantart.com/radsechrist/art/Kipo-poster-583811503 This concept poster]] depicts Wolf with another different design.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The short-lived 2015 ''Kipo'' webcomic. The website was taken down in early 2019, before the first teaser trailer for the show was released. Some of the pages (specifically pages 2 through 12, and 14) are still available to view on the creator's Website/DeviantArt page, but you'll want to fire up the Wayback Machine if you want the rest.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The short-lived 2015 ''Kipo'' webcomic. The website was taken down in early 2019, before the first teaser trailer for the show was released. Some of the pages, (specifically pages 2 through 12, and 14), are still available to view on the creator's Website/DeviantArt page, but you'll want to fire up the Wayback Machine if you want the rest.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The website for the original 2015 ''Kipo'' webcomic was taken down in early 2019, while only the twelve of the comic's thirty-two pages (specifically pages 2 through 12, and 14) are still available to view on the creator's Website/DeviantArt page.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The website for the original 2015 ''Kipo'' webcomic was taken down in early 2019, while only the first ten of the thirty-two pages made are still available to view on the creator's Website/DeviantArt page.

** [[https://www.deviantart.com/radsechrist/art/Kipo-poster-583811503 This concept poster]] depicts Wolf with a different design.

** [[https://www.deviantart.com/radsechrist/art/Mandu1-451653485 Mandu]] was originally the name of the character that would become Wolf. Wolf was also conceptualized as white or Asian.

** [[https://www.deviantart.com/radsechrist/art/Mandu1-451653485 Mandu]] was originally the name of the character that would become Wolf.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Dreamworks considered telling ''Kipo'' as a feature film, but it was decided it would have been better suited for a television series due to its potential for worldbuilding.