Trivia / Akazukin Chacha

• Acting for Two: Sorges, Yordas, and Haideyans are all voiced by the same person, Yūji Mitsuya, and so this leads to many instances of Yuji talking to himself any time they interact. It’s especially noticeable with the latter two since they’re always together.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: Riiya is voiced by Shingo Katori from the Boy Band SMAP, who were also the original performers of the opening theme, "Kimi Iro Omoi."
• Children Voicing Children: Shingo Katori was 16 years old when he started voicing Riiya in the anime.
• Colbert Bump: Beyond Birthday, the Villain Protagonist of Another Note, admits he was a big fan of Akazukin Chacha when he was younger. He spends an entire paragraph gushing over it when taking note of manga found in a victim's home and purposely even left a clue in one of the books. As a result, lots of readers of that novel, upon finding out that the series is indeed real, decided to check it out for themselves.
• Crossdressing Voices: Shiine is voiced by a woman in Japanese (Noriko Hidaka), English, and Korean (Lee Seonho).
• Follow the Leader:
  • In the manga, which came out a year before Sailor Moon, Chacha is a fairly standard Cute Witch. In the anime, which came out two years after Sailor Moon, she's been given a blinged-out Transformation Trinket and a sparkly Stock Footage-tastic Transformation Sequence that briefly turns her into a textbook Magical Girl Warrior so she can take down the Monster of the Week.
  • The show was also made by the same studio behind the production of Nurse Angel Ririka SOS (though that show came a year later), so the transformations look pretty similar.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Looking for the English dub that aired on Cartoon Network in Southeast Asia? Good luck as no home media releases of that dub have surfaced, & this dub seems to have never aired anywhere else.
• No Export for You: Neither the manga nor the anime was released in North America or Europe.
• The Other Darrin:
  • In the PC-FX game, while everyone else reprised their roles, Shingo Katori didn't reprise his role as Riiya and was replaced by Yoshinobu Kaneko who had voiced some bit characters in the show prior to this.
  • In the Philippines, there are two versions of the Filipino dub of the anime. The 1998 version uses pure Tagalog in its dialogue but the 2007 version (the existing dub found on the internet) uses Taglish. As a result, both versions have different voice actors.
• Star-Making Role: The anime adaptation turned Chacha's voice actress Masami Suzuki into a household name.

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