Trivia / Aggretsuko

• Acting for Two:
  • In the English dub of the Netflix series, Gina Bowes voices both Tsunoda and Gori.
  • Rina Inoue voices Fenneko, Tsunoda, Puko, and Inui in the original Japanese.
  • By Season 2 several other voice actors take on additional roles, including Komegumi Koiwasaki voicing Shirota's mother in addition to Washimi, and Maki Tsuruta as Retsuko's mother in addition to Gori.
  • In the original Japanese, Sota Arai voices Ton, Komiya, Ookami, Manumaru, Anai, Hyodo, and the Unhinged Fan.
  • The OTMGirls fan trio in Japanese are Metal Voice Retsuko, Haida, and Anai, respectively.
  • In the Latin Spanish dub, César Beltrán voice both Yagyu (being his second voice) and Juzo.
• Channel Hop: From Tokyo Broadcasting System (the shorts) to Netflix (full series).
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer:
  • All variants of the Funko Pop! Retsuko figurine are erroneously referred to as "Aggretsuko."
  • This Metal Injection article identifies Retsuko as a cat. She's a red panda.
• Cross-Dressing Voices:
  • Retsuko's death metal screams are provided by male singers.
  • Played for Laughs with Ton's daughters; they're both voiced by Sota Arai (who also voices Ton), and he gives them the exact same middle-aged male voice as Ton himself. The English dub does the same, with Ton's English voice actor Josh Petersdorf voicing both daughters.
  • Subverted in the Latin Spanish dub in seasons 2 and 3 where both were dubbed by a female voice. But in Season 4, they were dubbed by a male actor (although by a different one than the one who voiced Ton).
  • In the French dub, Kabae is voiced by male voice actor Peppino Capotondi.
• Dark Horse Casting:
  • Most of the Japanese voice cast are newcomers or even non-actors with no previous experience. Retsuko herself is voiced by Rarecho's wife, who had only intended to provide Retsuko's scratch voice but eventually became a Permanent Placeholder. A couple notable exceptions are Sota Arai, who voices Ton, Komiya, Anai, and many other characters, and Yūki Kaji, who voices Seiya the unicorn virtual boyfriend in Season 3.
  • The same goes, though to less of a degree, with the Latin American Spanish dub, with many of the actors mostly coming from TV commercials, radio and/or the odd TV shows directed at young children with the sole exceptions of Retsuko (Desireé Gonzalez), Tsubone (Karla Vega), and Komiya's 1st voice (Hugo Nuñez) voice actors. However, this is subverted starting the fourth season, when many of the amateur voice actors were replaced by veteran ones (see below for the reason), leaving the voice actors from the core cast, in this case, Retsuko, Fenneko, Haida, Washimi and Gori, intact.
• Directed by Cast Member:
  • Rarecho, director of the Netflix series, does Retsuko's death metal voice.
  • The French dub was directed by Xavier Percy, who also voiced Anai.
• Descended Creator: Rarecho, who wrote and directed both the shorts and the Netflix series, provides Retsuko's Metal Scream in the Japanese versions. He also voices Tanaka in Season 3.
• Defictionalization: After the launch of Season 3, Sanrio created an official Youtube Channel for the OTMGirls alongside an official website for the trio.
• Late Export for You: The TBS shorts didn't receive an official international release until 2020 - as unlockable extras in the mobile game The Short-timer Strikes Back.
• No Dub for You: Played straight for the original shorts, but averted with the Netflix series. Oddly enough, Retsuko's Metal Scream remains in Japanese in almost all foreign dubs, except English and Chinese. The official Youtube channel for the OTMGirls remains in Japanese but contains English subtitles.
• Non-Singing Voice:
  • Save the Disney-esque musical numbers, all of Retsuko's metal singing is done by a male actor in every dub.
  • An interesting variation occurs with the OTMGirls in Season 3. In the Japanese version the group members have the same voices when speaking and singing, but the English dub uses translated versions of the songs also performed by their Japanese voices instead of having their English-speaking actors sing them.
  • The same scenario as the OTMGirls takes place in season 4 with Haida's bandmate, Shishido. In Japanese his speaking and singing is performed by Kousuke Miyauchi, while the English dub has Miyauchi singing while his speaking voice is provided by Jamison Boaz (who funnily enough is Retsuko's death metal voice.)
• Otaku O'Clock: Due to the adult setting of the shorts that aired on Japanese television, TBS would usually air them late at night along with other adult-oriented shows.
• The Other Darrin:
  • As a result of several accusations of sexual harassment against Hugo Nuñez, Komiya's voice actor, many of the voice actors in the Latin American Spanish dub were replaced, started with the fourth season:
    • Tsunoda is maybe the character with more voice replacements: She was voiced by Gabriela Ortiz in the first season; Fernanda Martinez in the Christmas special, second and third seasons; and Erika Langarica in the fourth and fifth.
    • Kabae goes from Doris Vargas in the first two seasons to Maria Romo in the third onwards.
    • As result of the death of Osvaldo Trejo due to coronavirus, Ton is replaced with Rubén Moya starting the fourth season.
    • Komiya goes from Hugo Nuñez to Arturo Castañeda, also starting with the fourth season.
    • Tsubone goes from Karla Vega to Isabel Martiñón, also starting with the fourth season.
    • The CEO goes from Eleazar Muñoz to Octavio Rojas, also starting with the fourth season.
    • Yagyu goes from Eduardo Sánchez to César Beltrán in the fourth season.
    • Yoga instructor from Joaquín López to Dan Osorio in the fourth season.
    • Ton's daughters from an unidentified actress to Mauricio Pérez in the fourth season.
    • Hyodo goes from Diego Estada to Dafnis Fernández, also starting with the fourth season.
    • Inui goes fron Dulce Melgarejo to Jessica Ángeles, in the fourth season.
    • Retsuko's mother goes from Adriana Casas to Laura Ayala in the fifth season.
  • In the English dub, Ricco Fajardo replaces the late Billy Kametz as Anai.
• Permanent Placeholder: Rarecho had his wife Kaolip provide the scratch voice for Retsuko in his pitch to Sanrio. The studio loved her so much that they opted not to replace her with a professional voice actress in the series proper.
• Reclusive Artist:
  • Yeti, the show's character designer, almost always appears in interviews wearing some sort of mask (usually a mask of Retsuko). Occasionally, she does meet and greet at some official Aggretsuko events held by Sanrio where she accepts autographs (such as "Aggretsuko Den of Rage" held at "Sanrio Japan Village" located in Los Angeles, Califorina at the Little Tokyo section).
  • Retsuko's Japanese voice actress, Kaolip, doesn't appear in interviews. She's the wife of the series' director and was only cast because the people at Sanrio loved her performance. As such, she doesn't have any other acting credits to her name.
• Rule 34 – Creator Reactions: Ben Diskin, the English voice actor for Haida, was completely dumbfounded by the massive amount of NSFW furry art he found of his character on Twitter, but quickly embraced it.
• Star-Making Role: In the Latin American Spanish dub, this was for Retsuko's voice actress, Desireé Gonzalez, along with her role as Zen-o from Dragon Ball Super and Miko Kubota in Glitch Techs. The same goes for Washimi's voice actress, America Torres, along with her role as Ritsuko Akagi in the Netflix version of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
• What Could Have Been: According to Yeti's sketches, Gori and Washimi's designs were originally going to be more anatomically correct.
• Write What You Know: Many gags are based on embarrassing experiences of various crew members and their friends. Rarecho admitted that the gag of Retsuko accidentally wearing sandals to work was something he had done more than once.

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