Line #31 Trivia/Hamtaro


1	* CrossDressingVoices:
2	** Hamtaro, Oxnard, Panda, Snoozer, Cappy, Maxwell, Howdy, and Jingle are are all voiced by women in the Japanese version. Not all the foreign dubs followed this, although Hamtaro and Cappy play this trope straight in most languages.
3	** In the Latin Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, and Norwegian dubs, Oxnard is voiced by a male.
4	** In the English, European Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, and both Portuguese dubs, Maxwell is voiced by a male.
5	** In the English, Latin Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Finnish, and both Portuguese dubs, Howdy is voiced by a male.
6	** In the English, French, Polish, both Spanish dubs, and both Portuguese dubs, Jingle is voiced by a male.
7	** In the European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, European Spanish, Latin Spanish (first voice) and Finnish dubs, Panda is voiced by a male.
8	** In the Latin Spanish, Polish, and both Portuguese dubs, Snoozer is voiced by a male.
9	** Boss averts this trope in most languages. So does Dexter, though he's voiced by a woman in the Taiwanese Mandarin dub.
10	** Stan averts this in both the Japanese and English dubs. However in the French, Italian, and all the Spanish dubs, he's voiced by a woman (in the French one, he and his twin sister share the same voice actress).
11	* TheDanza: In the Latin Spanish dub, Kana (Oxnard's owner, who is renamed Karla) is voiced by Karla Falcon.
12	* FandomLifeCycle: The series started at Stage 1, then went straight to Stage 3 during it's days on [=Toonami=]. It's currently at Stage 6(b) as of this writing.
13	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The series has been off the air for ages, and many of the episodes were not released on DVD. And then those [=DVDs=] are no longer manufactured pretty hard to track down new (Amazon has a few new condition copies of the volumes scattered around the marketplace, but good luck finding all of the volumes in new condition). Also applies to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-xW2q6ntSo Second season theme song]] which was [[ScrewedByTheNetwork only aired a few times in the series' entire run]]. And let's not get started about the episodes that have not been exported out of Japan in the first place...
14	* KidsMealToy: To promote "Ham-Ham Halloween", Burger King released eight Ham-Ham toys with matching Halloween costumes: Hamtaro ([[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frankenstein's monster]]), Bijou (witch), Boss (alien), Oxnard (spider), Penelope ({{bedsheet ghost}}), Cappy (jack o' lantern), Panda (skeleton) and Elder Ham (werewolf).
15	* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: ''Ham-Ham Games'' featured Prince Bo, the Rainbow Girls, Lapis, Lazuli, and characters from the third movie, which never aired in the US.
16	* MissingEpisode:
17	** In the English dub, an episode explaining Setsubun was skipped because it was too foreign of a concept to translate. However, the German, French, and Italian dubs did translate this episode.
18	** There are, in actual fact, at least 196 episodes left untranslated into English.
19	** The obscure 1999 OVA adaptation "Tottoko Hamutaro Anime Dechu!" was lost in Japan for 18 years. This version wouldn't resurface until it got [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPJjA0FnnuY uploaded to Youtube on July 20, 2017.]]
20	* NoExportForYou:
21	** The later seasons of the TV series (aside from the first Halloween episode) and the spinoff TV series in its entirety. Also, all the movies and half of the [=OVAs=], of which some were tie-ins with the games.
22	** The first Game Boy Color game and the first DS game. Also, the fourth game, ''Rainbow Rescue'', received a release in Europe and Japan, but not in the US. Though a bootleg version exists with a US product code on the title.
23	** The Sega Pico titles. Expected, given that it pretty much died an early death outside Japan.
24	** The official kiddie ride by Banpresto is Japan-only and never exported. Expected, given that it came out when Cartoon Network was almost done screwing up the show elsewhere. And well, as a general rule, Japanese kiddie rides are almost never exported in the first place, although parallel imports in other Asian countries have been recorded.
25	** Introducing [[http://itunes.apple.com/jp/app//id486780475&mt=8 TwitHamtaro]]([[http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fjp%2Fapp%2F%2Fid486780475%26mt%3D8 translation]]), yet another Twitter app for the [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iPhone]], [[JustForFun/RecycledINSPACE with a Hamtaro skin!]] Want it? Sorry, it's only available on the Japanese iTunes Store, and thus only to those lucky enough to have a Japanese address and credit card!
26	** Several box sets were only released in Europe, such as the season 2 and season 3 sets.
27	* TheMerch: While a ton of Hamtaro merchandise was sold in the West during the early 2000s, Hamtaro has tons more in Japan, and there are even Hamtaro themed rides in the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park in Japan!
28	* TheOtherDarrin:
29	** On the official English website, there was a page where you would know about each Ham-Ham. However, while some Ham-Hams had the same voice actor and actress, the majority of Ham-Hams, such as Hamtaro, Sandy, Penelope, and Dexter all had different voices provided by unknown voice actors.
30	** Wake Up Snoozer! (the PC game based on the show) is one example of that, too.
31	** Also, in the first 104 episodes of the dub, Noel Fisher voiced Stan, while in the specials after that Michael Coleman took over.
32	** One of Mimi's older brothers is voiced by Matt Smith (not ''that'' Creator/MattSmith) in "Midnight Celebration" and Seren Pendleton Knoll in "The Very Best Present".
33	* OutOfOrder: Cartoon Network aired the first season in one-hour blocks, the second episode being a much later one from the season. It's most noticeable with Stan's appearances in the later airings despite him not being referenced until "Let's Dance, Sandy!".
34	* PetFadStarter: The anime made many people want hamsters, and in some countries it was a true boom. It faded some years after, however.
35	* PlayingAgainstType: You know the awesome Creator/ScottMcNeil? Try to imagine him as a shy teacher who has a crippling fear of chickens. Yeah, he's Mr. Yoshi in the show.
36	* ReferencedBy: ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': In Chapter 66, Kusuri discovers a sunflower seed in the hotpot, causing someone to ask if Hamtaro brought it.
37	* ScrewedByTheNetwork:
38	** The second opening theme song only aired a few times (counting reruns) in the US, by accident. Yeah, Cartoon Network hated it for some reason.
39	** Additionally, the second season was aired once-a-day every weekday, effectively burning out all but the show's most loyal fans. Afterwards, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes they didn't air it in repeats]].
40	* ShortRunInPeru: "Ham-Ham Halloween" aired in English-speaking countries ten days before its Japan airdate.
41	* TechnologyMarchesOn: The plot of "Jingle, the Wanderer" involved a Floppy Disk.
42	* WriterRevolt: Hamtaro's placement on Toonami lead to a number of jokes by Williams Street.

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