Line #35 Trivia/HighSchoolDXD


1	* ActingForTwo:
2	** Ile and Nell are both voiced by Chinatsu Akasaki in Japanese and by Lara Woodhull in English.
3	** Creator/ShizukaIto, Akeno Himejima's voice actress, also voices her mother Shuri in ''[=BorN=]''.
4	** In the English dub of the first season, Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard voices Xuelan and Shiro (Koneko's cat familiar).
5	** In the English dubs of ''[=BorN=]'' and ''Hero'', Grayfia and Ophis are both played by Megan Shipman.
6	** The English dub of ''Hero'' also features Dallas Reid as both Leonardo and Regulus.
7	* AdoredByTheNetwork: Though it would get ScrewedByTheNetwork with the TroubledProduction of ''[=BorN=]'', the anime was one of TNK's most popular anime franchises.
8	* AuthorsSavingThrow:
9	** After concerns that the final episodes ''[=BorN=]'' might have jeopardized the anime's continuity, Ichiei Ishibumi and Kadokawa wisely chose to play damage control. Ishibumi wrote ''EX'' and Kadokawa announced in late 2017 that ''Hero'' would adapt volumes 9 to 10; the animation production studio was switched to Passione. Likewise, as a show that they're serious about playing closer to the source material, the season began with an episode full of retcons that stay closer to the source material.
10	** The hyped up match between [[spoiler:Ddraig and Crom Cruach during the Issei vs Rias match in the Azazel Cup ends up relegated to the background. True Volume 3 begins by actually showing how it went, as the author explains that poor health made him cut corners in the previous volume.]]
11	* BannedInChina: The anime was denied a release in mainland China for excessive sexual content and graphic violence.
12	* CreativeDifferences: Disagreements between Tetsuya Yanagisawa and Ichiei Ishibumi over adapting volumes 5 through 7 for ''[=BorN=]'' led to them going their separate ways after the season was broadcast. Ishibumi also wrote ''EX'' so that the last four episodes of the season became an AlternateContinuity.
13	* CrossdressingVoices: Gasper Vladi was voiced by a woman (Creator/AyaneSakura). So were Millicas Gremory (Ari Ozawa), Leonardo (Airi Otsu) and Misteeta Sabnock (Shizuka Ishigami).
14	* DeletedScene: There are extra scenes in ''New'' that didn't make the broadcast run on AT-X due to time limitations, but were restored for the Blu-ray/DVD releases.
15	* DirectedByCastMember:
16	** The English dub was directed by four different cast members. The first was by Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard, the voice of Shiro and Xuelan; the second by Creator/ChristopherSabat, who voiced Ddraig; the third by Creator/CrisGeorge, Creuserey Asmodeus's English VA; and the fourth by Creator/JadSaxton, Koneko's voice actress.
17	** The German dub was directed by two different cast members. The first two seasons were by Dirk Müller, who also voiced Goro Hyoudou; and the later two by Jeffrey Wipprecht, Issei's voice actor.
18	* DisownedAdaptation: Though Ichiei Ishibumi was impressed with the anime's first two seasons, he disliked the end result of its third season, ''[=BorN=]'', due to Tetsuya Yanagisawa and TNK changing several elements of his stories to fit the TwelveEpisodeAnime timeframe, which also earned scorn from TV critics. He also preferred the later seasons produced by Passione.
19	* ExecutiveMeddling: At one point when writing volume 3, Ishibumi intended to have Issei suck Rias's breasts, but Fujimi Shobo unsurprisingly nixed that idea.
20	* ExiledFromContinuity: The first episode of ''Hero'' doesn't acknowledge the last four episodes of ''[=BorN=]'', which were considered an AlternateContinuity.
21	* ExtremelyLengthyCreation: Ichiei Ishibumi worked on the light novels for 10 years.
22	* FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin:
23	** For the English dub of ''[=BorN=]'', all of Scott Freeman's dialogue as Issei in the flashbacks were redubbed by Josh Grelle due to Freeman's arrest and eventual conviction.
24	** In the German dub of ''Hero'', Marieke Oeffinger re-recorded all of Maria Sumner's dialogue as Raynare in her flashbacks.
25	* FranchiseOwnershipAcquisition: The first 15 light novels were originally published by Fujimi Shobo, while the anime's home media rights were held by Media Factory. The series eventually moved to Kadokawa after it absorbed both companies in October 2013.
26	* HostilityOnTheSet: When ''[=BorN=]'' was in development, Ichiei Ishibumi and Tetsuya Yanagisawa were at odds with each other over the season's plotlines, since the season adapted volumes 5 through 7. Yanagisawa rearranged the plotline to fit the TwelveEpisodeAnime format and added an improvised ending. Once the season ended its run, Passione was brought in to animate the next season, ''Hero''.
27	* IgnoredExpert: A meta example. Ichiei Ishibumi and Takao Yoshioka offered notes to Tetsuya Yanagisawa about the problems with changing the plot elements of ''[=BorN=]'' - and none of their suggestions were heeded.
28	* LateExportForYou:
29	** The light novels' North American release began in 2020, two years after the last volume was published in Japan.
30	** The anime adaptation of ''[=DxD=]'' was initially refused classification in New Zealand, on the count that it "encourages and legitimizes the pursuit of young persons as viable adult sexual partners", until it was reclassified R16 (restricted to 16-year-olds and above only) in 2022.
31	* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: ''[=BorN=]'' was originally going to be a straightforward adaptation of volumes 5 through 7. The concept, however, was dropped when Tetsuya Yanagisawa decided to substantially rearrange the volumes' plot elements to fit the TwelveEpisodeAnime timeframe instead.
32	* NetworkToTheRescue: After the TroubledProduction of the anime's third season, ''[=BorN=]'', Passione saved it with ''Hero'', picking up from where TNK left off.
33	* NoExportForYou: The licensed games for the 3DS and PS Vita have only been exclusive to Japan.
34	* TheOriginalDarrin: In the English dub:
35	** Although Stephen Sanders voiced Motohama for the simulcast of ''Hero'', Ruben Tadeo Garcia reprised the role for the Blu-ray/DVD release.
36	** After being replaced by Creator/StephanieYoung for the episode 11 simulcast, Creator/LydiaMackay returned to reprise her role for the DVD/Blu-ray releases.
37	* TheOtherDarrin:
38	** A few of the English cast members were replaced starting with the final Tetsuya Yanagisawa/Takao Yoshioka/Junji Goto/TNK season:
39	*** Due to Scott Freeman's arrest for child pornography in late 2014, Creator/JoshGrelle voices Issei, cementing him as the ''de facto'' voice actor for the character.
40	*** Creator/BrynApprill replaced Teri Rogers as Akeno due to the latter working as a librarian at the time and was unavailable to dub her lines. The dub lampshades this in a very ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' like way in the second episode, courtesy of Venelana.
41	*** Megan Shipman voices Grayfia, replacing Krishna Smitha, who has since been involved in mostly union-only projects after moving to Los Angeles.
42	*** Chloe Daniels wasn't able to record ''Hero'' due to her moving to New York City. As such, Creator/LeahClark provides Asia Argento's voice for ''Hero''.
43	*** Christopher Wehkamp replaced Alex Organ as Sirzechs Lucifer for ''Hero'' because the latter became more involved in Dallas-based theater work.
44	** Due to Mari Shiraishi's retirement in January 2017, Creator/MikakoTakahashi became the ''de facto'' voice for Venelana in ''Hero''.
45	** In the German dub:
46	*** Ravel was originally voiced by Sarah Alles in the first season. Starting with ''[=BorN=]'', the character has been voiced by Alice Bauer.
47	*** Amelie Plaas-Link first voiced Serafall Leviathan in ''New''. Since ''[=BorN=]'', she has been voiced by Marieke Oeffinger, who also took over for Maria Sumner as Raynare in ''Hero''.
48	*** By the time ''Hero'' premiered in Germany, Koneko Toujou's voice actress on all of her previous appearances, Elke Appelt, was unavailable. As a result, in this season, she was voiced by Heike Beeck.
49	* PlayingAgainstType:
50	** In the dub, the cultured and flirty Devil Rias Gremory is voiced by the [[{{Lust}} lustful]] and [[SirSwearsALot foul-mouthed]] FallenAngel [[Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt Panty Anarchy]].
51	** Again with the dub, the perverted nice guy Issei Hyoudou is voiced by [[WebComic/HetaliaAxisPowers United Kingdom]], the fake [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman British gentleman]]. At least, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor for the first]] [[TheOtherDarrin two seasons]].
52	*** For the third season, Issei gets ''two'' Playing Against Types: [[Creator/JoshGrelle he is voiced by]] the fearful UnluckyEverydude [[Manga/FutureDiary Yukiteru Amano]], as well as [[Literature/InfiniteStratos Ichika Orimura]], the one guy in an all-girls academy who has an UnwantedHarem [[CluelessChickMagnet and is all the oblivious about it]].
53	** Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka must be playing a NiceGuy [[TheHero hero]] right? Nope, he's the villainous Freed Sellzen.
54	** Creator/AaronDismuke tends to voice characters that are [[NiceGuy nice guys]] or [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold jerks with a heart of gold]]. Here, he voices [[HateSink Diodora Astaroth]], who doesn’t fall into either category.
55	* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Creator/ScottFreeman originally voiced Issei Hyoudou in the dub of the first two seasons. When he was arrested and convicted for possession of child pornography in 2015, Creator/JoshGrelle replaced him from the third season onwards.
56	* RomanceOnTheSet: Issei's voice actor Creator/YuukiKaji eventually married Koneko's actress Creator/AyanaTaketatsu on June 23, 2019. This is very notable as the two of them don't appear in many other works together. ''[=DxD=]'' is the most prominent show that features both them as main characters. (Though they have both played Pipimi at different points in ''Anime/PopTeamEpic'', as well as playing [[VideoGame/UnderNightInBirth Seth]] and [[VideoGame/Persona4Arena Labrys]] in ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCrossTagBattle''.) The only other time that they've worked together on, ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'', their characters were barely related with one another.
57	* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: Ishibumi himself seems to support ''[=D×D=]'' erotica, even jokingly stating that he's gotten enough red-lights material from his fans to write boatloads of hentai doujins, or even make actual sex scenes with Issei and his haremettes if it wasn't for the ExecutiveMeddling.
58	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: When Tetsuya Yanagisawa, Ichiei Ishibumi and Takao Yoshikawa were coming up with a plot for ''[=BorN=]'', Yanagisawa did an about face and changed the storylines from Volumes 5 through 7 substantially to fit the twelve episode timeframe, which made the reception [[FromBadToWorse sink even further]]. This eventually led to Ishibumi and Yanagisawa mutually going their separate ways.
59	* SleeperHit: Of the Winter 2012 anime season. No one expected that the series would even sell 10,000 DVD [=/=] Blu-ray copies in the first week! [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail Hoo, boy, were they wrong]].
60	* SpoiledByTheCastList: The first indication the public received from Le Fay Pendragon's appearance in ''Hero'' was Minami Shinoda's announcement that she would voice the character.
61	* StudioHop: The anime's first three seasons were produced by {{Creator/TNK}} and directed by Tetsuya Yanagisawa. The fourth season, ''Hero'', was produced by Passione and directed by Yoshifumi Sueda.
62	* TroubledProduction: Oh, boy, where do we even begin with ''[=BorN=]''? Creator Ichiei Ishibumi, director Tetsuya Yanagisawa and writer Takao Yoshioka hit walls trying to work in adapting volumes 5 through 7 of the light novels. Yanagisawa came up with a different story that substantially revised the volumes' plot elements and added an improvised ending that was later contradicted with ''Hero''. Ishibumi and Yoshioka disagreed with Yanagisawa over the latter having the final say. After the season was finished, Yanagisawa and Ishibumi went their separate ways. In 2018, the anime was eventually resurrected for a fourth season, ''Hero'', with Yoshifumi Sueda taking over as director and Passione picking up from where TNK left off.
63	* UncreditedRole: Although Creator/ShizukaIto is credited as the voice of Akeno, she isn't credited for playing her mother, Shuri.
64	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
65	** Fascinatingly enough, Rias wasn't originally supposed to have been as buxom as she is, only being slightly more endowed than the average Japanese girl. Miyama-Zero's concept art for changed Ishibumi's mind.
66	** Supposedly, one of Issei's power-ups was to ''suck Rias' breasts''. Unfortunately, Fujimi Shobo scuttled the idea, so Ishibumi resorted to something else.
67	** Ishibumi has said that he almost wanted to make Kiba as the main character instead of Issei. However, that didn't come into fruition.
68	** Ishibumi considered resurrecting Freed with the Holy Grail, and bonding his soul to an evil dragon. He eventually decided to let him stay dead.
69	** ''[=BorN=]'' was originally going to last longer, given the extent of the light novel volumes it would cover (volumes 5 through 7). However, TNK and Tetsuya Yanagisawa suddenly decided to ''substantially'' rearrange the plot to fit the TwelveEpisodeAnime timeframe and added an improvised ending. After going his separate ways with Yanagisawa and TNK, Ishibumi decided to clean house concerning the anime, which would lead to ''Hero'' being broadcast three years later and thus retconning the last four episodes of ''[=BorN=]''.
70	** Azazel was meant to be one of the major villains of the series, before being retooled into an EccentricMentor for the Occult Research Club around volume 3 and 4. This explains why he seemed like the ManBehindTheMan to Raynere, the StarterVillain of the series, but also why Raynere's villainous actions do not make sense as motivation for earning Azazael's favor under his current characterization.
71	* WordOfGod: Series creator Ichiei Ishibumi, who contributes to his Twitter feed and light novel afterwords to explain some important aspects of the series like character histories and has answers to questions regarding character names.
72	* WriterRevolt: After going his separate ways with TNK following the TroubledProduction of ''[=BorN=]'', Ichiei Ishibumi wrote ''EX'' for the Blu-ray release to turn the season's last four episodes into an AlternateContinuity. The first episode of ''Hero'' effectively retcons the last four episodes of ''[=BorN=]''.
73	* WrittenByCastMember:
74	** Creator/JamieMarchi, Rias's English voice actor, wrote most of the scripts for the dub, at least for the first three seasons and the first two episodes of ''Hero''.
75	** In the English dub of ''Hero'', Creator/KristenMcGuire is Coriana Andrealphus's voice actress and also the season's primary scriptwriter from episode 2 onwards.
76	* YouSoundFamiliar:
77	** Harumi Sakurai, who voiced Isabella in the anime's first season, would later go on to voice Katerea Leviathan in the final episodes of ''New''.
78	** In the English dub:
79	*** Creator/MonicaRial voiced Susan in the first season. Starting with ''[=BorN=]'', Rial also voiced Venelana.
80	*** Besides voicing Riser, Creator/ChristopherCoreySmith also appeared as Horii in episode 8.
81	*** Creator/StephanieYoung, who voiced Shuri Himejima in ''[=BorN=]'', appeared as Kuroka for the episode 11 simulcast.
82	*** Creator/CaitlinGlass voiced Li in the first season and Lady Phenex in ''Hero''.
83	*** Creator/MorganGarrett voiced Yubelluna in the first season and provided additional voices for ''[=BorN=]'', being credited as "Mandy Lane". She also provided additional voices for ''Hero'' under her real name.
84	*** Creator/AnastasiaMunoz voiced Kalawarner in the first season and Lirenkus's mother in ''Hero''.
85	** In the German dub:
86	*** Gabriele Schramm-Philipp voiced Kalawarner (Raynare's henchwoman) in the first season and Katerea Leviathan in the last two episodes of ''New''.
87	*** Gasper is voiced by Sarah Alles, who previously voiced Ravel in the first season.
88	*** Heike Beeck first appeared as Viser in the third episode and Yubelluna towards the end of the first season. She would eventually succeed Elke Appelt as Koneko from ''Hero'' onwards.
89	*** Peggy Pollow voiced Le Fay Pendragon in the fourth episode of ''Hero'' and would later voice Misteeta Sabnock six episodes later.
90	*** Besides playing Bikou, Christian Zeiger voiced Millicas Gremory for his appearances in ''[=BorN=]'' and ''Hero''.
91	*** Uwe Jellinek voiced Dohnaseek in the anime's first season, Valper Galilei in ''New'', and Baraqiel in ''[=BorN=]''.
92	*** Anja Rybiczka first appeared as Susan for the first season. She would later go on to have a major role as Rossweisse from ''[=BorN=]'' onwards.
93	*** In addition to voicing Venelana, Silvia Mißbach had a minor role as Diodora's Queen.
94	*** Julia Blankenburg, Murayama's regular voice actress, also appeared as Misla Bael in ''Hero''.

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