Line #0 Trivia/InazumaEleven


1	* ActingForTwo: Several characters are voiced by the same person as somebody else. Some of them end up interacting. Examples include:
2	** Creator/JunkoTakeuchi voices both Endou Mamoru and his great grandson from the future, Endou Kanon, who traveled to past to help his great grandfather. Naturally, they interact a lot in the movie.
3	** Creator/MamoruMiyano voices the Fubuki brothers, Shirou and Atsuya. This overlaps with TalkingToThemself when Shirou speaks to the SplitPersonality of his twin, but in the ''Ares'' timeline they get to speak to each other as different individuals, since Atsuya is alive. In fact, in many languages they're voiced by the same person.
4	** Creator/YuukiKaji plays both Kozoumaru and Fudou. Kozoumaru gets to speak to him in episode 10 of ''Ares'', when he calls him (and Sakuma) out on the fact that Teikoku uses dirty tricks to win the matches. He also plays Ichinose.
5	** Megumi Tano plays both Kabeyama and Sakuma. This would be more of a case of "talking at the same time", but they create a technique named Deep Jungle (together with Kazemaru)in the [[{{Crossover}} Inazuma Eleven vs Danball Senki]] movie. They don't interact too much otherwise, despite both being members of Inazuma Japan in season 3, being so far the only main characters voiced by the same person in the Japanese dub.
6	** Ayahi Takagaki is both Kurama and Aoyama.
7	** Creator/HiroyukiYoshino plays Kidou, Hayami, and Wondeba. They're [[TeenGenius wildly]] [[{{Dismotivation}} different]] [[LargeHam people]].
8	** The English dub of the anime has a few examples.
9	*** Richard Magarey voices best friends Kabeyama and Kurimatsu.
10	*** Michael Pizzuto voices Hiroto, Midorikawa and Kira Seijirou. Hiroto interacts with both of them, the former due to being his best friend and the latter his adoptive father.
11	*** David Lee [=McKinney=] voices a lot of characters, including Gouenji and Aphrodi, who get a fair share of interactions during the time [[GuestStarPartyMember Aphrodi joined Raimon in season 2]].
12	* AscendedFanon: Many fans theorized that Kariya is the adopted son of Hiroto and Midorikawa. Years later, an ''Inaxuma Eleven SD'' comic confirms they are Kariya's legal guardians.
13	* CreatorsFavorite: Goujin is Akihiro Hino's favourite character from Inakuni Raimon. His favourite character overall is apparently Kurimatsu.
14	* CrossDressingVoices: A lot of the boys are voiced by female voice actors, seeing as most of the cast are cute kids.
15	* TheDanza: Kimura Yosuke, the cameraman from ''Orion'', is voiced by Creator/RyoheiKimura.
16	* DevelopmentGag: There is a game-exclusive team named Dummy Emperors which includes all the members that became the Dark Emperors in the second game/season, plus Ootani Tsukushi and Tamano Gorou, who were originally planned to be part of the latter team.
17	* DevelopmentHell: ''Inazuma Eleven Victory Road'', which originally started out as a game version of ''Inazuma Eleven Ares'', has been in development since the ''Ares'' anime was running but had to go through many development problems before Level-5 decided to redevelop the game from scratch.
18	* DubNameChange:
19	** Apparently, the reason why the characters have English names in Europe (despite them explicitly saying they're Japanese) is because the European publisher of the anime wanted to repeat the (insane) success that ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' got during the early 90s. Guess how were the characters of that series named in Europe.
20	** Averted in the Mexican Spanish dub, albeit Mamoru Endo was renamed with ''Satoru'' Endo, since ''Mamoru'' sounds like a offensive slang in Spanish.
21	* DummiedOut:
22	** The EU version of the first game has been upgraded with the 3D models and other enhancements of the second Japanese game, including techniques obtainable only via Action Replay (the x99 All items code), normally from the second game.
23	** Playable ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' characters. They could be challenged only in the JPN version of the first game; but their data is present on the cartridge in the first two games, even the EU version (albeit buggy, but playable after hacking).
24	* MeaningfulReleaseDate: In ''Orion no Kokuin'', the episode where Aphrodi joins Inazuma Japan was released on May 17, which is also the date of his birthday.
25	* NoExportForYou: Europe already received the anime series, the first 5 games, and the ''Strikers'' spin-off. It's been so successful that they are ''very'' likely going to release game 6. North America, on the other hand, got the first game and the first season, and is still waiting for everything else.
26	*** America now has the second and third seasons... As Amazon Prime exclusives, and we have season one of Aries... But we still have none of the movies, as for the three seasons of Inazuma Entire GO, we just got the songs. What really hurts about this is that according to the other wiki at least one season of GO was completely dubbed into English and Aries has a sequel series. Orion it might not be dubbed at all but still.
27	** Seems to be the case with European Galaxy, after news came out that Level-5 was sued for having Galaxy in the name. While the case ends this year, whether Level-5 chooses to release it remains uncertain.
28	* OfficialFanSubmittedContent:
29	** Kamezaki Kappa's design was the winner of an official contest of fan-submitted designs for the third game.
30	** On the last episode of Go's first season a girl with a rainbow theme and a boy with a metalic theme were featured with their own hissatsu. The characters and the hissatsu were the winning submissions of a contest where a fan-character and a fan-hissatsu would be animated in the series.
31	** Then you get [[spoiler: Mecha Endou]] who appeared in ''Chrono Stone'' during the match between El Dorado Team 2 against Giru, one of the hissatsus he has (Penguin the Hand) and his Keshin (Eichi no Ou Bunguou) are also based on a fan-submitted content.
32	* TheOtherDarrin:
33	** In the Japanese version, Haruna is voiced by Kakazu Yumi in the first game, while in the other games and in the anime, she is voiced by Sasaki Hinako. The same applies to Shourin if you replace them with Etsuko Kozakura and Masako Jo, respectively.
34	** Hibiki is voiced by Shuuichirou Moriyama in the first game and Creator/KinryuuArimoto for the rest of the original series, as well as the ''GO'' series. In the ''Ares'' series, Arimoto is replaced by Tetsuo Kanao, due to him being diagnosed with cancer and retired from dubbing (and as of February 2019, dead).
35	** A curious case happened the Italian dub. In the anime, which was released one year before the games, Gouenji has been recast from Creator/DavideGarbolino to Creator/LeonardoGraziano from the second arc onwards. In the videogames, however, the opposite happened: Graziano voiced him in the first game while Garbolino took the role from the second onwards (and reprised the role in the anime too from ''Go'' onwards).
36	* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/BrycePapenbrook is often cast into energetic young boys, and Endou fits the description. Instead, he voiced [[TheStoic Gouenji]] in the US release of the first game.
37	* PlayingWithCharacterType: Being voiced by Creator/AoiYuuki, and looking like your typical moeblob loli, you probably didn't expect that Kinako is actually [[spoiler: Fei's mother]].
38	* SameVoiceTheirEntireLife: Endou Mamoru kept his voice actress even into adulthood in ''Go''. Incidentally, he's voiced by Creator/JunkoTakeuchi, who is best known for voicing Naruto (who also kept his voice into adulthood). This applies to other male characters voiced by female voice actresses, like Kabeyama (voiced by Megumi Tano) and Toramaru (voiced by Creator/RieKugimiya).
39	* ScrewedByTheNetwork:
40	** It's bad enough Nintendo put an embargo on Inazuma Eleven's UK release (Never mind the fact it was LOCALISED THERE) such that the game was unavailable in the UK until the anime aired. But Creator/DisneyXD really didn't give a rats ass about the series, punting it on at 8:30am in the morning (albeit in the summer but still) and then pulling it off air after only the first season. If not for how they treated ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' when they were [[Creator/ToonDisney Jetix]], this would be considered one of the most egregious examples of screwing a show over by any UK Television company.
41	** Even more JustForFun/{{Egregious}} in Latin America. ZAZ (all Latin America)[[note]]the channel died on July 2014.[[/note]], [=VivaSports=] (México)[[note]]is private[[/note]] and ETC TV (Chile)[[note]]and stays there. The series is [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff very popular]] there too[[/note]] are the only ones consistently airing the series with a decent schedule, also in Brazil [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff where the series is a huge success]]. But what about other countries's networks in the region? ''Every one of them screwed the series'', airing it at ''5:30 A.M'' in Ecuador and Perú, eventually pulling it off air; inconsistent airings and schedules in [=CityTV=] in Colombia, also pulling it off air in favor of a block with only {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} shows[[note]]but they will never put off air ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', (however in Peru it even got 'worse' for the 'anime in general')[[/note]].
42	* RemadeForTheExport: The first DS game came out in Europe in 2011, wich was a very late release considering the third game was released since 2010 in japan. To make up for it, the game was remade from the ground up with the improved engine and graphics of Inazuma Eleven 2, and while the EU version loses the occasional secret match with professor Layton, it does have a couple new additions, most notably additional post-game matches. As a side effect, many data from Inazuma Eleven 2, including all techniques were left unused but fully usable.This version still didn't make it to America, that had to wait 2014 to get a digital-only 3DS port, that was closer to the original japanease game restores Professor Layton, but lost everything added to the european DS version.
43	** Still due to how late the series was released in europe, instead of getting Inazuma Eleven 3 on the DS like in japan, the games were moved to the 3DS in 2013 instead. The fact that the trilogy was already remade for the 3DS with Inazuma Eleven 1-2-3: Endo Mamoru's Legend helped, [[NoExportForYou but still no american release of either the second or the third games.]]
44	* ThrowItIn: Kurumada's "shupoh!" was an ad-lib the first time.
45	* {{Typecasting}}: Creator/JunkoTakeuchi, famous for voicing goofy HotBlooded protagonists voices main character Endou, who is exactly the same.
46	* VoicedDifferentlyInTheDub: Most of the boys are voiced by men in the English dub, so they end up sounding different from the original version. A notable example is Kurimatsu, whose raspy chipmunk-like voice is absent in the dub. Instead, he sounds like a normal teenager.
47	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
48	** Gouenji Shuuya's first name was originally Harusuke and one of the original plans was to have the members named after seasons. In the end, only the managers fit into the TemporalThemeNaming.
49	** [[FragileSpeedster Kazemaru]] and [[StoneWall Kabeyama]] were originally supposed to be called with the other's surname, which is {{ironic\|name}} to say the least. This is the reason why their names were switched and [[MeaningfulName fit much better]].
50	** Tamano Gorou and Ootani Tsukushi were originally planned to be members of the Dark Emperors before they were changed with Sugimori and Nishigaki. There is, however, a game-exclusive team named Dummy Emperors, which includes them.
51	** Hikaru was originally planned for Teikoku instead of Raimon, as the first concept art of him has him wearing the Teikoku uniform.
52	** Okuiri, along with Hattori, were planned to be defenders while Mansaku was planned as a midfielder as shown in early game pictures before Ares' anime release.
53	** In the earliest stages of development, Mansaku's last name was Bansaku, while Michinari Tatsumi's first name was Tatsuya.
54	** Nosaka's initial design [[https://inazuma-eleven.wikia.com/wiki/File:Nosaka_Initial_Design.jpg looks vastly different from his final design]]. Hino also mentioned in an interview that his eyes had to be designed several times because they had too much emotion.
55	** ''Inazuma Eleven Eiyuutachi no Victory Road'':
56	*** It was originally supposed to be released in 2018, but it was delayed multiple times till 2023. The full game will be released in 2024.
57	*** Instead of following the story of the ''Ares'' and ''Orion'' anime, it now follows a new storyline with a new protagonist. This caused its name to change from ''Ares no Tenbin'' to its current title.
58	*** The protagonist was originally supposed to go to Raimon, where he would have joined Endou's team as a manager. In the final game, the school is going to be different, from its name (Nagumohara) to its location (Nagasaki, Kyushu).
59	*** The time of the game's story was originally intended to be during the first game. In the final game, the story will be set 25 years after the first game (15 years after the first GO game), with no previous characters appearing.
60	* WorkingTitle: The ''Inazuma Eleven Ares no Tenbin'' game, first announced in 2016, was renamed to ''Inazuma Eleven Eiyuutachi no Great Road'' at the end of September 2019 before Level 5 decided to [[DevelopmentHell develop an entirely different game]]. In 2022, the "Great Road" part of the title was changed to "Victory Road". The anime still keeps its original title, though.

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