History YMMV / Drifters

* {{Woolseyism}}: In the original audio, Yoichi is voiced by Creator/MitsukiSaiga, a woman, and has a clearly feminine voice, leading Toyohisa to initially assume that he's either a woman or Nobunaga's attendant, Mori Ranmaru. In English, he's voiced by Justin Briner, who, while not having a deep voice, still has a masculine enough tone not to be confused for a woman. As such, the dialogue in the aforementioned scene instead alludes to how Toyohisa would think that Nobunaga would prefer having Ranmaru considering their relationship, to which Nobunaga says, "Would have made these cold nights a lot warmer," alluding to the rumors of their potentially intimate relationship.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** In the 2012 anime adaption of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Creator/TomokazuSugita plays Joseph Joestar, who at one point [[DisguisedInDrag dresses in drag]] to try and sneak past a group of Nazis. Then ''Drifters'' comes along and he plays Count Saint-Germain, who not only is a cross-dresser, but works for an oppressive country that was literally made by Adolf Hitler.
** The anime adaptation of ''Drifters'' aired in the fall of 2016... right alongside ''[[Manga/StrikeWitches Brave Witches]]'', meaning we got an anime featuring a DistaffCounterpart of Kanno Naoshi two days before an anime featuring the ''actual'' Kanno Naoshi.
** In ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'', Creator/RobertMcCollum portrayed Masamune Date, who ended the show's first season by defeating Nobunaga Oda, who [=McCollum=] plays in this series.

* CompleteMonster: [[StarterVillain Aram]] is a knight of [[TheEmpire the Orte Empire]], in charge of patrolling its lands where he would oppress the elves there, take their women to be made {{sex slave}}s, and kill any wandering Drifters. Burning elf villages for not paying their taxes, he personally kills the village elder who tries to stand up to him, before ordering his men to kill off all the elves in the village, [[WouldHurtAChild children included]].

** The anime adaptation of ''Drifters'' aired during the {{Fall 2016|Anime}} season... right alongside ''[[Manga/StrikeWitches Brave Witches]]'', meaning we got an anime featuring a DistaffCounterpart of Kanno Naoshi two days before an anime featuring the ''actual'' Kanno Naoshi.

** The anime adaptation of ''Drifters'' aired during the Fall 2016 season... right alongside ''[[Manga/StrikeWitches Brave Witches]]'', meaning we got an anime featuring a DistaffCounterpart of Kanno Naoshi two days before an anime featuring the ''actual'' Kanno Naoshi.

* AwesomeMusic: The anime's OP, "Gospel of the Throttle" by Minutes Til Midnight.

* {{Squick}}: "The arrowheads are full of shit!"

* EarWorm: The opening for the Anime, "Gospel of the Throttle REMIX Ver." is very catchy, especially the chorus. "Na na nana na na, na na nana na."
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFWjmJ7KXxY Chakra Destiny]]. This was used in the various Drifters anime trailers.

* MemeticMutation: "Speak Japanese." [[labelnote:explanation]]One of the lines uttered by Shimazu during his fight with an Orte Empire knight in the second episode, this line is used to counter English dubbing in anime.[[/labelnote]]