History Trivia / RurouniKenshin

** Seta Soujirou is voiced by Creator/NorikoHidaka, who's more famous for her StarMakingRole as Minami Asakura in ''Manga/Touch1981'' as well as [[{{Tsundere}} Akane Tendou]] from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Noriko Takaya from ''Anime/{{Gunbuster}}'' and Erica Fontaine in ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' among others. [[Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater Though this wouldn't]] be [[Manga/HunterXHunter her first time]] playing [[Manga/AkazukinChacha a male character]].

** Seta Soujirou is voiced by Creator/NorikoHidaka, who's more famous for her StarMakingRole as Minami Asakura in ''Manga/Touch1981'' as well as ''[[{{Tsundere}} Akane Tendou]] from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Noriko Takaya from ''Aniime/{{Gunbuster}}'' and Erica Fontaine in ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' among others. [[Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater Though this wouldn't]] be [[Manga/HunterXHunter her first time]] playing [[Manga/AkazukinChacha a male character]].

** Seta Soujirou is voiced by Creator/NorikoHidaka, whose most famous role at the time was [[{{Tsundere}} Akane Tendou]] from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''.

* ApprovalOfGod: As noted on the main page, Watsuki approved of ''Samurai X'' as the series' Western title, being a huge ComicBook/XMen fan and having based most of his characters on them.

*** Creator/HowardWang voicing Kenshin instead of Creator/RichardCansino.
*** Creator/RisaMei voicing Kaoru instead of Creator/DorothyEliasFahn.
*** Darius Johnson voicing Sanosuke instead of Creator/LexLang.
*** Creator/BenBalmaceda voicing Aoshi intead of Terence Stone.
*** Creator/BillButts voicing Saito instead of Creator/KirkThornton.
*** Creator/YongYea voicing Jin'e instead of Dave Mallow.

* UncreditedRole: The English actors for the 2023 anime weren't credited at all until Creator/HowardWang, Creator/RisaMei, Bill Butts, and Creator/YongYea announced themselves as part of the cast as Kenshin, Kaoru, Saito, and Jine respectively. They also stated that they gave their salaries to charity as condemnation for the mangaka's crimes.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** As noted above, Tatsuya Fujiwara portrayed Okita Soji in NHK's ''Shinsengumi!'', [[BastardUnderstudy whose character became the sort-of protege]] of [[BadBoss the uncouth and violent]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serizawa_Kamo Serizawa Kamo]], who Shishio was supposedly based on. In portraying Shishio, he is in a way following through.
** Conversely, Nijiro Murakami portrays Okita in ''The Beginning''. A separate film that came out in late 2021, ''Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai'' (an adaptation of Shiba Ryotaro's ''Moeyo Ken''--the novel serving as TropeCodifier for most popular tropes on UsefulNotes/TheShinsengumi) also features Murakami--this time in the role of Okada Izo, who was an assassin in the same vein as Battosai (which Takeru Sato himself portrayed before becoming the lead of the film series).
** Takeru Sato (Kenshin) and Tao Tsuchiya (Misao) were both part of ''Ryomaden'', but only really shared screentime in the Kyoto arc films, mostly as accidental accomplices turned allies. They would later team up in the 2017 dramatic film ''The Eight-Year Engagement'' as lovers.
** The 2021 final duology of sequels (''The Final'' and ''The Beginning'') would cast Kasumi Arimura as Tomoe, Kenshin's [[spoiler:[[TheLostLenore first wife who]] [[KillTheOnesYouLove died by his own hands]]]]. Just 2 years later, she would portray the Lady Sena in ''What Will You Do, Ieyasu'', the 2023 {{Creator/NHK}} Taiga Drama--who just happened to be UsefulNotes/TokugawaIeyasu's first wife [[spoiler:who he had to execute for political reasons]].

* UncreditedRole: The English actors for the 2023 anime weren't credited at all until Creator/HowardWang, Creator/RisaMei, Bill Butts, and Creator/YongYea announce themselves as part of the cast as Kenshin, Kaoru, Saito, and Jine respectively. They also stated that they gave their salaries to charity as condemnation for the Mangaka's crimes.

* NoExportForYou: The Hokkaido arc ceased publication in the US Shonen Jump magazine after Watsuki got charged with possessing child porn, and an official release by VIZ is highly unlikely, and a user [[https://www.reddit.com/r/rurounikenshin/comments/bdxypu/will_the_rurouni_kenshin_hokkaido_arc_manga/el2m1h7?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share confirmed this stating that they will not translate the chapters]].

** In English dub of the 2023 series, none of the original cast came back despite it being dubbed at the same recording studio [[note]] though Creator/SteveStaley, who voiced Sagara Souzou in the BZ dub of the 1996 series is directing it [[/note]], examples include:

* UncreditedRole: The English actors for the 2023 anime weren't credited at all until Creator/HowardWang, Creator/RisaMei, Bill Butts, and Creator/YongYea announce themselves as part of the cast as Kenshin, Kaoru, Saito, and Jine respectively. They also give their salaries to charity as condemnation for the Mangaka's crimes.

* DirectedByCastMember: Creator/YujiMitsuya was the voice director for the 1996 anime and was the narrator for the movie.

* DirectedByCastMember: Sorta, Creator/SteveStaley who voiced Sagara Souzou in Bang Zoom dub of the 1996 series is the voice director for the English dub of the 2023 series.

** In English, the 1996 TV series and OVA's dubs were dubbed in completely different areas (LA vs. Austin, Texas), so naturally they use completely different casts. Back in 2000, no North American company could afford ''all'' of Kenshin[[labelnote:*]] (except maybe Creator/{{Viz|Media}}, but they were too busy working on ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' at the time)[[/labelnote]], so Sony split the license into two: Creator/MediaBlasters got the TV series and restored the Japanese title, while Creator/{{ADV|Films}} got the OVA's and kept the "Samurai X" title[[labelnote:*]] (amusingly, when ADV did a rerelease years later, they included reversible DVD covers – one side with their "Samurai X" logo and the other with Viz's "Kenshin" logo – so fans could choose which side they wanted to display)[[/labelnote]].

*** CreatorYungYea voicing Jin'e instead of Creator/DaveMallow.

* UncreditedRole: The English actors for the 2023 anime aren't credited at all until Creator/HowardWang, Creator/RisaMei, Bill Butts, and Creator/YongYea announce themselves as part of the cast as Kenshin, Kaoru, Saito, and Jine respectively. They also give their salaries to charity as condemnation for the Mangaka's crimes.

* UncreditedRole: The English actors for the 2023 anime aren't credited at all.

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Due to the controversy surrounding author Nobuhiro Watsuki, Aniplex of America has both opted and gone to great lengths to not credit the voice cast of the 2023 series' English dub despite it being a union production, so as to protect their integrity and public image from the extremely volatile backlash they would face on social media.

*** Kamatari was filled in for Episode 54 by Creator/LaraCody instead of his main actress, Melodee Spevack.

*** For the same flashback mentioned above, Shikijo's one line was performed by Lorge instead of his original actor Creator/DeanWein.

** The TV series was dubbed twice for different markets. While several voice actors show up in both dubs, Creator/RichardCansino (Kenshin) is the only one who plays the same role in both.

* UnspecifiedRoleCredit: The English actors are credited, but the roles they play aren't given with them.

* UnspecifiedRoleCredit:
** The English actors are credited, but the roles they play aren't given with them.
** The English actors for the 2023 anime aren't credited at all.

* UnspecifiedRoleCredit: The English actors are credited, but the roles they play aren't given with them.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Viewers of ''Film/RurouniKenshinTheLegendEnds'' might find it hilarious that Ito Hirobumi, [[NominalHero the slimy]] SupportingLeader of the Meiji Government, would later become [[MemeticMutation memetic]] as ''Advertising/LongLongMan''.