Line #1 Trivia/YuGiOhZexal


1	* ActingForTwo: In the original Japanese, Creator/ShoumaYamamoto voiced both Yamikawa and V. This happens quite often in the English dub, where much of the cast cover multiple roles:
2	** Creator/MarcThompson: Voices Astral, Dark Mist, Girag, Alito, Mr.Heartland and the Door.
3	** Creator/SeanSchemmel: Voices Bronk Stone, Bronk's Mother, Orbital 7, Kaze, and Kazuma Tsukumo.
4	** BillyBobThompson: Voices two of the Barian Emperors - Vector and Misael/Mizar.
5	** Michael Smith: Voices both Quattro and Vetrix, where the two argue a lot in the show.
6	* AmateurCast: At the time of ''ZEXAL'''s premier, Creator/TasukuHatanaka was a newcomer to voice acting, with Yuma Tsukumo being his debut and first major role. He would eventually go on to make a name for himself in the voice acting industry.
7	* AnimeFirst: Unlike ''[[Anime/YuGiOhGX GX]]'' and ''[[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds 5D's]]'', this is [[AvertedTrope averted]] for this series, as the manga made it out before the anime.
8	* CastingGag: The dueling criminals Scorch and Chills who force the heroes into their first ever Tag Duel were voiced by Eric Stuart and Sam Riegal respectively who as of ''GX'' onwards are the current voices of the Paradox Brothers.
9	* {{Defictionalization}}: [[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Orbital_7_(card) Orbital]] [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Photon_Orbital 7]], [[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Lillybot_(card) Lillybot]], and [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Princess_Cologne_(card) Cologne]] all have their own cards.
10	* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Shark's Poseidon Wave card was changed to Zeus Breath following the Sendai Earthquake.
11	* DuelingShows: With ''Anime/CardfightVanguard'', which started airing earlier the same year.
12	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Not for the English dub, but for the Japanese version. It's the first Yu-Gi-Oh! Series to never see any release of its original Japanese version on Crunchyroll and VRV, unusual given Zexal's popularity in Japan.
13	* MemeAcknowledgement: After Series/KamenRiderSaber got the name “Ryouga Shindai” (an AlternativeCharacterReading of Ryouga Kamishiro) trending, both Creator/ToshikiMasuda and Creator/MegumiHan commented on the sudden uptick in attention on Twitter.
14	* ScheduleSlip: Dub only- reruns begin after Episode 8.
15	* ShrugOfGod: The director of ''ZEXAL'' repeatedly dodges questions on just about everything.
16	* StarMakingRole: Yuma Tsukumo was Creator/TasukuHatanaka's first major voice acting role.
17	* StudioHop: Due to Creator/FourKidsEntertainment's litigation with TV Tokyo and NAS and its subsequent bankruptcy, this would be the last ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' season in which 4Kids would be involved in, as Konami took over for ''ZEXAL II''.
18	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
19	** An alternate dub was created by ADK. [[http://youtu.be/3xPs0pM-Pq4 Watch an excerpt here]] (warning, the audio is out of sync)
20	** ADK created this dub when the rights to ''ZEXAL'' were in jeopardy, against the court's warnings. ADK took 26 episodes and gave it a huge makeover, with a new soundtrack composed to picture, reanimating some sequences, and getting big-name voice actors such as Creator/JohnnyYongBosch as Yuma, Creator/CassandraLeeMorris as Tori, Creator/SamRiegel as Kite, and Creator/VicMignogna as Shark. The new dub even kept in Yuma's kattobingu catchphrase. It's very unlikely that these episodes will ever see the light of day since ADK failed to secure the rights for ''ZEXAL'' in the United States.
21	** Kyoji Yagumo was initally supposed to be the FinalBoss in the manga, but E'Rah was created after the artist got tired of drawing Yagumo.
22	** There's a cut plotline involving a character named Alco, who was meant to duel Kaito for a card known as "The Closed Eight". Alco is know as The Barian Observer, and is not affiliated with the other Seven Emperors. The next episode would have Kaito try to pass the card to Yuma, only to be intercepted by Mizael much like in canon. There's no info on what "The Closed Eight" is, what it was supposed to do, or what Alco's reasoning for his actions are. Presumably, he and the card were cut so as to streamline the plots regarding Kaito and Mizael's rivalry and the birth of the 100th number.
23	** Deleted summaries for episodes 121-125 indicate that Vector would have originally bested Shark in their flashback duel, causing Shark to challenge Vector in the present. This would awaken Shark's Barian powers earlier than in canon, and eventually led to a situation where Yuma was separated from Astral again.

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