History Trivia / LiveALive

* HeAlsoDid: Many of the character designers from each of the chapters are or were famous mangakas on their own right:

** Kazuhiko Shibamoto, who did Near Future chapter, was the character designer of ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' and also the creator behind the character Anime Tenchou, who had appeared in many anime, like ''Manga/LuckyStar''.

* AllStarCast: The Japanese voice cast includes names like Creator/MegumiOgata, Creator/YuuichiNakamura, Creator/KenjiAkabane, Creator/TomokazuSeki, Creator/ReinaUeda, Creator/HideoIshikawa, and Creator/HiroShimono and industry legends like Creator/HiroyaIshimaru, Creator/YuuMizushima, Creator/RyoHorikawa, Creator/AkioOhtsuka, Creator/ToshioFurukawa, and Creator/NorioWakamoto. The in-game theme song "Go! Go! Steel Titan!" will also have Hironobu Kageyama, member of Music/JAMProject, doing the performance.

* DescendedCreator: Producer, and original director, Takashi Tokita voices one of the mariachis in the remake.

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* Kazuhiko Shimamoto released a [[https://twitter.com/simakazu/status/1210089502737199105 doujin]] in 2019 for Comiket 97 retelling the Near Future chapter.

* NoDubForYou: A weird example of this exists in the Prehistory chapter in the remake, as it's the only chapter in the game that has Japanese voice actors exclusively. This isn't that big a deal considering the entire chapter is just grunts and gibberish, but it does lead to a strange case in the ending of the chapter [[spoiler:where Pogo shouts "Aiiieeeee!" in what's very obviously a SexyDiscretionShot. "Ai" is the Japanese word for "Love", with the implication being that "love" was the very first word Pogo ever said. However, since there was no English voice-over for this chapter, the implication is LostInTranslation and it instead comes across to English players as just more gibberish, [[TheImmodestOrgasm this time of pleasure]]. However, this doesn't lead to a DubInducedPlotHole as the original's usage of "Love" if Pogo's the Final Chapter protagonist led to Oersted being reminded he lacked love. The remake changes this where he instead hugs Oersted.]]

* NoDubForYou: A weird example of this exists in the Prehistory chapter in the remake, as it's the only chapter in the game that has Japanese voice actors exclusively. This isn't that big a deal considering the entire chapter is just grunts and gibberish, but it does lead to a strange case in the ending of the chapter [[spoiler:where Pogo shouts "Aiiieeeee!" in what's very obviously a SexyDiscretionShot. "Ai" is the Japanese word for "Love", with the implication being that "love" was the very first word Pogo ever said. However, since there was no English voice-over for this chapter, the implication is LostInTranslation and it instead comes across to English players as just more gibberish, [[TheImmodestOrgasm this time of pleasure]].]]

* ActingForTwo: Creator/TomokazuSugita plays a character in ''every'' time period. Creator/HiroShimono, Creator/HochuOtsuka, and Creator/HirokiYasumoto play several of Masaru's opponents in addition to characters in the other chapters.

* ActingForTwo: Creator/TomokazuSugita plays a character in ''every'' time period. Hiro Shimono, Hochu Ohtsuka, and Hiroki Yasumoto play several of Masaru's opponents in addition to characters in the other chapters.

* InspirationForTheWork: Director Takashi Tokita decided to make the remake after working on ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler''. The game's "HD-2D" style was a major factor in making that decision.

** There were plans to localize the original game for an SNES release, but the poor sales in Japan dissuaded Square from following through with that.

* LateExportForYou: This game didn't leave Japan until its [[VideoGameRemake remake]] got released on the Nintendo Switch in 2022, nearly '''30''' years after its original release.

* PromotedFanboy: Creator/KenjiAkabane (Akira) and Creator/TomohisaHashizume (Oboromaru) actually played the original on the Super Famicom when they were kids.

* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: A belated example. The lyrics for "Go! Go! Steel Titan!" were part of a Famitsu fan contest during the original release. 28 years later, those same lyrics were used for the remake's vocal version.

* AllStarCast: The Japanese voice cast includes names like Creator/MegumiOgata, Creator/YuuichiNakamura, Creator/KenjiAkabane, Creator/TomokazuSeki, Creator/ReinaUeda, Creator/HideoIshikawa, and Creator/HiroShimono and industry legends like Creator/HiroyaIshimaru, Creator/YuuMizushima, Creator/RyoHorikawa, Creator/AkioOhtsuka, Creator/ToshioFurukawa, and Creator/NorioWakamoto. The in game theme song "Go! Go! Buriki Daioh!" will also have Hironobu Kageyama, member of Music/JAMProject, doing the performance.

* NewbieBoom: With the announcement of the game's remake coming out on the Switch later this year, many more people outside of Japan aside from a rare few prior began to acknowledge the game's existence.

** The various chapters were originally supposed to have escalating difficulty. This was dropped to preserve the non-linear option.

* AcclaimedFlop: While the initial Super Famicom release reviewed well, Square considered it a failure due to low sales. It didn't stop them from attempting a second chance to rerelease the game as a remaster for the Switch.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', another game directed by Takashi Tokita, shares many similarities with ''Live A Live'', namely where characters from disparate time periods come together to defeat a greater enemy whose presence spans many of these periods. Both also have a medieval period, a prehistoric period, and a period featuring robots.

* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: Odds are, most American fans of this game were more likely to have first heard about the game from ''{{LetsPlay/WhoIsThisGit}}'s'' videos on them rather than experiencing the game themselves due to how highly obscure the game was at the time.

* PlayingAgainstType: While Shizuma Hodoshima is mostly known as [[CelebrityVoiceActor a stage actor]], he used to voice someone from a Creator/SquareEnix property (even dating back before the merging and when he got the role): Definitive KnightInShiningArmor [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Cecil Harvey]]. Here, he's assigned to do Straybow, who [[spoiler:is actually a really jealous friend of a KnightInShiningArmor that lets his envy get the best of him and doom the timeline by accidentally creating Odio.]] Very much a far cry from the heroic Cecil.

* AllStarCast: The Japanese voice cast includes names like Creator/MegumiOgata, Creator/YuuichiNakamura, Creator/KenjiAkabane, Creator/TomokazuSeki, Creator/ReinaUeda, Creator/HideoIshikawa, and Creator/HiroShimono and industry legends like Creator/HiroyaIshimaru, Creator/YuuMizushima, Creator/RyoHorikawa, Creator/AkioOhtsuka, Creator/ToshioFurukawa, and Creator/NorioWakamoto.

* AllStarCast: The Japanese voice cast includes names like Creator/MegumiOgata, Creator/YuuichiNakamura, Creator/KenjiAkabane, Creator/TomokazuSeki, Creator/ReinaUeda and Creator/HiroShimono and industry legends like Creator/HiroyaIshimaru, Creator/YuuMizushima, Creator/RyoHorikawa, Creator/AkioOhtsuka, and Creator/NorioWakamoto.