Line #18 Trivia/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater


1	* AnimeFirst: An original anime project. While it does have a related manga, it was published two years after the anime aired and is a good deal more comedic.
2	* CastTheRunnerUp: Margaret Cassidy originally auditioned for the title role in the ADV dub, but Charles Campbell and Lowell Bartholomee cast her as Marie instead.
3	* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Nadia, Jean, and Marie were voiced by actual kids in the ADV dub.
4	* CreatorsPest: Anno wrote Nadia's personality wanting to show the worst side of a teenage girl in love. His desire turned out GoneHorriblyRight, as reportedly the rest of the Gainax staff hated her character.
5	* CrossDressingVoices: In the original Japanese version, Jean is voiced by Creator/NorikoHidaka.
6	* TheDanza: In the first Italian dub, Nadia's voiced by Nadia Biondini.
7	* DuelingDubs: The first eight episodes were dubbed by Creator/StreamlinePictures. When ADV got the license, they redubbed those episodes before covering the rest of the series.
8	* FakeNationality: Both English dubs feature American actors using accents to reflect their character's nationality. This includes Ardwight Chamberlain in the Streamline version and Creator/NathanParsons in the ADV version as the French-accented Jean Rocque Raltique, [=Melanie MacQueen=] and Sarah Richardson as the [[FakeBrit English-accented]] Grandis, and Creator/EdieMirman in the Streamline version and Jennifer Stuart in the ADV version as the English-accented Electra. The Streamline dub also has Creator/WendeeLee voicing Nadia with a French accent, while the ADV dub has Ev Lunning Jr. voicing Nemo with an Indian accent.
9	* FollowTheLeader:
10	** In 2001, Disney released ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', a movie with so many similarities to the ''Nadia'' anime that, according to the Japanese side, there were talks about the possibility to sue for plagiarism.
11	** 2002 anime movie ''Anime/SecretOfCeruleanSand'' has basically the plot of ''Nadia'' moved to a desertic world. Interestingly, it is a Korean/Japanese coproduction, echoing the original anime and its infamous Korean-made filler.
12	** Creator/IsabelAllende of all people seems to have channelled ''Nadia'' in her 2002-2005 young adult trilogy ''Literature/MemoriesOfTheEagleAndTheJaguar'', which features a bespectacled western teen nerd teaming up with an exotic girl named Nadia who can speak with animals and discovering ancient civilizations with lost supernatural amulets.
13	** The 2005 animated series ''Moby Dick and the Secret of Mu'' is even less subtle, featuring a brown-haired boy and his exotic dark-skinned female friend searching the supernatural stones of an ancient civilization lost in the sea (Mu in this case), all connected to a futuristic version of other classic of sea literature (''Literature/MobyDick'' in this case), which casually features a sapient white whale similar to the whole found in ''Nadia''.
14	* TheOtherDarrin:
15	** In Japanese, Ayerton Grenavan was voiced in episodes 3 and 15 by Creator/KoichiYamadera but for some reason was replaced by the late Creator/KoujiTsujitani when he joins the group towards the end of the series.
16	** In ADV's dub, the Nautilus pilot was voiced originally voiced by Dan Bisbee, but when the crew returned at the end Brian Yannish took over the part.
17	* PopStarComposer: Yukihiro Takahashi, from Sadistic Mika Band and Music/YellowMagicOrchestra, was one of the composers for the show's songs.
18	* RealLifeRelative: Creator/AkioOtsuka voices Nemo in the TV series and his late father Creator/ChikaoOtsuka voices the film's BigBad Giger.
19	* RecycledSoundtrack: The most epic battle scores in ''Nadia'' would be later used in the score of ''[[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Evangelion 3.0]]''; both animations were directed by Hideaki Anno and scored by Shiro Sagisu, who added a full orchestral arrangement, electric guitars and chorus lines in English to the originals. Case in point, "[[https://youtu.be/1IPC62ugiSI Almighty Battleship New Nautilus]]" from ''Nadia'', to "[[https://youtu.be/SkMMPNa0RuE The Anthem]]" from ''3.0''.
20	* ReferencedBy:
21	** ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', by virtue of ProductionPosse, contains various references to ''Nadia''. This extends to ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', as in ''3.0'', a shot of Misato glaring at the camera while Ritsuko looks at her from behind mirrors a shot of Captain Nemo and Electra doing the same thing.
22	** ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'': In one episode, a [[ShowWithinAShow fictional manga]] titled ''[[Manga/OnePiece Two Piece]]'' depicting a girl highly resembling Nadia [[Anime/FutureBoyConan holding a giant shark]] is shown.
23	* ScrewedByTheLawyers: In 2001, the French TV network Game One, decided to air an uncut version of the anime by using reinserting scenes from the Japanese Laserdisc into the [[{{Bowdlerization}} bowdlwerized]] master tapes from AB[[note]]The restored scenes weren't dubbed however[[/note]]. However, this went against the contract, and was not allowed to be released. Luckily in 2013, Dybex rereleased the complete series uncut in France.
24	* TroubledProduction: Aside from the unexpected decision to extend the show from 26 to 39 episodes (hence the Korean-animated filler arc), there were other problems plaguing the show's production progress. Anno reportedly disliked the original script for the show and decided to rewrite it from scratch. Furthermore, any "suggestions" from NHK on how to "improve" the show were instantly disregarded, hence the DarkerAndEdgier tone for most of the canonical episodes. Because of Anno's demand for perfectionism, many episodes ran late, with Anno, already an infamous workaholic, spending more than ''eighteen hours'' per day on the show! At one point, after episode 20 was broadcast, it took an entire month for audiences to see the subsequent one. The budget for the show also caused Gainax to lose more than ¥800 million (half a million dollars!) in finances, as they were also denied any of the rights. Perhaps because of this, Gainax and NHK never worked together again, while Anno fell into [[CreatorBreakdown the heavy bout of depression]] that led to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
25	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
26	** The series was actually conceived by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki back in TheEighties and it would be a sequel to ''Anime/FutureBoyConan'' potentially titled ''Future Boy Conan 2: Around the Underwater World'' (''Mirai Shonen Konan 2: Kaitei Sekai Isshu''). However, Toho and NHK rejected his pitch when it was offered to them, so Miyazaki went to recycle its script in his movie ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'', which can still be noted in its premise and aesthetics: blue skies, ancient civilizations, flying machines, a brave boy and his more mystic female friend from said civilization who carries a blue magic gemstone, a small clan of thieves led by a woman who eventually become allies, and a paramilitary order of villains whose leader is also related to it.
27	** NHK eventually offered Gainax the project. Anno liked the story, but considered the script to be "terrible" (he and Miyazaki are famous VitriolicBestBuds about each other's styles, and to make things worse, other writers had also meddled themselves on the text) and rewrote it almost completely. He and the other Gainax heads added several other ideas that weren't in Miyazaki's story, like the space battleships and the Red Noah.
28	** According to director Higuchi, King was originally conceived as an alien animal disguised as an Earthly lion, which was the reason behind all his intelligence and weird behavior. He was supposed to show his true form at the end of the series, but the idea had been abandoned by then.
29	** When the series went out of schedule, Anno wanted to put it on a long hiatus and return later with all the work finished. However, the producers insisted they could not stop the broadcast, forcing him to resort to {{Filler}}, put Higuchi on command while he was working on the next part, and subcontract Korean animation companies to help with the animation. The result was the much maligned Island arc 13 episodes, which were an extra pain for Anno due to their low quality. (Ironically, they would be forced to put the show on several hiatuses anyway, including an entire month after episode 20.)
30	** Another consequence of the extended episode order was Electra's betrayal. Originally it wouldn't have happened, with Nadia and her friends simply being separated from the Nautilus crew at the end of episode 21 and then reunited in the intended episode 23 (which ended up being episode 36). But instead, episode 22 was dedicated to Electra's FaceHeelTurn and minimally animated (especially noticeable during her backstory monologue). Because of this, it is extremely odd when Nemo and Electra resurface in episode 36 and there is never a single reference made to Electra's prior treason from there to the end of the series.
31	** The movie was going to be directed by Anno, but he was unable due to all the burnout caused by his work in the series. Even then, the project was going to be produced by Gainax anyway, but they ran out of budget in midst of creating the story and character designs, so the studio was forced to opt out and delegate ''everything'' on Group TAC. This is the reason why the movie re-uses so much footage and feels so out of touch with the series' plot and character development.
32	** ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' was initially conceived as a StealthSequel to ''Nadia'', but NHK held the rights of the latter and the connection between the two stories had to be removed from the plans. Some of the original relationship remains in the 1993 ''Good Luck Nadia'' CD drama, in which Nadia's granddaughter Nadia Ito talks with a friend named Ritsuko in Tokyo-2 in 2005, as well as the "Classified Information" given in the videogame ''VideoGame/NeonGenesisEvangelion2'', which contains an EasterEgg in the form of a mysterious structure in the sea bottom spot where the ''Nautilus'' crew scuttled their last ship in the anime.
33	** After Creator/StreamlinePictures dubbed the first eight episodes, co-founder Carl Macek intended to sell them for television broadcast and use the network's money to dub the entire series. However, these plans fell through. Streamline made another attempt years later to produce a dub of the remaining episodes, but [[Creator/OrionPictures Orion Home Video]], Streamline's distributor, declined these plans.
34	** [[https://ask.fm/Clarknova/answers/155624335849 There was actually an attempt]] to get the show to appear on Creator/{{Toonami}} during the block's time as a part of Cartoon Network, with Jason [=DeMarco=] himself leading the effort to get it on the block, and while it was licensed by ADV Films, it wound up being one that got away.
35	** In the original ADV DVD release's interviews, Sarah Richardson said Grandis was intended to have an Italian accent (given the character's nationality) in the Monster Island dub. However, she admitted that her audition sounded too stereotypical (she characterized it as sounding like someone working at a pizza parlor). They ultimately changed the character's accent to a more posh upper-class dialect.
36	* WriteWhoYouKnow: Anno based Nadia's personality on bad experiences with women he had in his teen years, and also included some elements of his own younger self in her to spice it up.
37	* The series makes its debut in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' as part of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsX''.

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