Line #2 Trivia/MahouSentaiMagiranger


1	* ActorSharedBackground: Hikaru's actor Yosuke Ichikawa had an actual teaching license and would help Nai and Mea's actresses with their homework. He later ended up retiring from the entertainment industry to become a high school teacher; cue jokes from all directions (including himself) about the magic teacher becoming an actual teacher. By a twist of fate, one of his students (whom he also served as handball club advisor for) ended up being a certain person named Yuu Inaba, who would later become known among toku fans as [[Series/KamenRiderDrive Gou Shijima]].
2	** Houka's appearance in ''Hero Mama League'' was done in light of its three leading actresses, including Houka's actress Ayumi Beppu, being married with children. Houka's child being a girl also reflects Beppu's own daughter.
3	* BonusEpisode: ''Mahou Sentai Magiranger Special DVD: Great Presentation! The Super Magic of the Gold Grip Phone'' was released with an issue of TV Magazine.
4	* TheCastShowOff: Yuuki Ito, the actor for Makito, knows and can speak English. Demonstrated in episode 37 where he directed a tourist to a train station in grammatically correct English.
5	* CastingGag: Creator/HiroshiTsuchida, who voiced Ninja Kirikage, previously portrayed [[Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger NinjaBlue Saizou]] years earlier.
6	* [[CaliforniaDoubling New Zealand Doubling]]: The series takes place in a fictional ward in Tokyo, but during production Toei staff saw pictures of the New Zealand scenery from ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' filming and decided to film the series (or at least parts of it) there, both because they felt the scenery was suitable for the fantasy atmosphere and to facilitate filming for [[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce its corresponding sister series]]. This has the odd side effect of having extras hanging around crowd scenes who distinctly do ''not'' look Japanese; AllThereInTheManual info gives a HandWave that a lot of foreigners live in the area.
7	* FollowTheLeader: While the series takes numerous inspirations from different famous Western fantasy works, its most obvious source of influence is ''Literature/HarryPotter'', which had reached its first major explosion in popularity at the time.
8	* FriendshipOnTheSet: As they were acting as a family, the actors stated they really did get as close as family members while the series was produced and would even visit each other on off-hours; after the series ended, while not to the same degree as that of [[Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger their predecessor]], the group continued to keep in contact even despite Asami Kai (Urara) and Yosuke Ichikawa (Hikaru) retiring from the industry. They also had a particularly good rapport with the ''Dekaranger'' cast, especially Umeko's actress Mika Kikuchi, to at least a degree that's allegedly not particularly common for cross-series casts.
9	* PlayingAgainstType: This is one of the very few toku roles where Creator/MachikoSoga does not play a villain and in fact, plays one of the BigGood in the setting.
10	* RealitySubtext: According to [[http://community.livejournal.com/magiranger/25135.html this interview]], Houka's actress wanted to be [=MagiRed=], while Kai's actor never expected to be chosen for the part. Puts the two-parter where they [[FreakyFridayFlip switch bodies]] into a whole new light, doesn't it?
11	** ''Hero Mama League'' was based on the fact its three starring actresses, including Houka's actress Ayumi Beppu, had become mothers themselves.
12	* ReferencedBy: Kai's actor Atsushi Hashimoto appears in episode 4 of Toei's ''The High School Heroes'' miniseries, playing a teacher who's also the MonsterOfTheWeek. One of his attacks is "Sunshine Attack"... which, visually speaking, [[ActorAllusion is basically just Red Fire]].
13	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
14	** Before it was decided that the series would be about ThePowerOfFamily, there was a tentative idea to have the Red be a prince of a magical world and the other four be his attendants. This kind of idea would later show up in series like ''[[Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger Shinkenger]]'' and ''[[Series/AvataroSentaiDonbrothers Donbrothers]]''.
15	** According to [[http://community.livejournal.com/magiranger/25135.html this interview]], Ayumi Beppu, who played Houka, tried out for the role of [=MagiRed=], and Hiroya Matsumoto, who played Tsubasa, supported her in this. Thus, we would have gotten the first female red Ranger [[Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger four years]] earlier. Atsushi Hashimoto, on his part, went into the audition realizing it was a SiblingTeam and, due to him being young enough to be the kid brother, he thought he would wind up being Magi Green, as he thought Red as a leading figure would be better suited for an older brother type of character (funnily enough, the older brother turned out to be Green).
16	*** Beppu REALLY wanted the part of Red, to the point where she even suggested she could do try it with her cross dressing and playing a male character Takarazuka style but Toei didn't think the young boy demographic would be comfortable with that. To throw her a bone however they did write an episode where Houka and Kai change bodies so Beppu could try that out.
17	** There was a plan for Tsubasa to be established as a talented dancer (very much TheCastShowOff due to his actor Matsumoto's own dancing skills), but this ultimately did not manifest in the show.
18	** Meibi Yamanouchi was originally considered to play Yamazaki before eventually being cast as Lunagel; the ShipTease between Lunagel and Kai could be taken as a bit of a glimpse into what that would have been like.
19	** There was a scrapped idea about Hikaru being the heir to a Magitopian train company, hence explaining his use of Travelion, but it ended up unused due to there being no good place for it.
20	** Furthermore, there were many different mech configurations, like [=SeraphKaiser=], a fusion of Wolzard and Unigolon, that never made it into the show.

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