Trivia / Earwig and the Witch

• Creator's Oddball: The film is a computer animated Made-for-TV film by Studio Ghibli, a studio widely known for their theatrical traditionally animated films.
• Channel Hop: While Studio Ghibli's films are usually coproduced by Nippon TV and air exclusively there, Earwig and the Witch was instead coproduced by and aired on NHK.
  • The film's DVD and Blu-ray release in Japan was handled by Pony Canyon themselves instead of being released through Disney (who does distribute their home video releases through Pony Canyon). This is despite the film still carrying the same Ghibli ga Ippai COLLECTION branding used by Disney's Ghibli DVD and Blu-ray releases in Japan, with the same type of artwork used by Disney's releases, and the film being included in a Studio Ghibli box set distributed by Disney.
  • The film is distributed by the then-newly formed Elysian Film Group in the UK for cinema and home video instead of Studio Ghibli's regular distributor StudioCanal. That said, StudioCanal still handles the digital distribution.
• Magnum Opus Dissonance: Hayao Miyazaki was generally positive to the film, even allegedly finding the film to be as good as the works of Pixar. Needless to say, critics and audiences did not agree one bit, with the film quickly becoming Ghibli's lowest rated film since 2006's Tales from Earthsea.
• Release Date Change: The film was planned to be theatrically released in Japan on April 29th 2021, however it was delayed to August 27th 2021 instead, thanks to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Short Run in Peru: The extended theatrical release of the film first premiered in North America in February 2021 before getting released in Japan six months later. Said extended cut would also see a Blu-ray release in North America even before Japanese the theatrical run. Various other European territories already received the film on Blu-ray when the film finally released theatrically in Japan. The film would also take until December to come out on DVD and Blu-ray in Japan, when the film was already out on Blu-ray for months in other countries.
• What Could Have Been: Hayao Miyazaki originally wanted to direct the film and was even the one that proposed the film, however Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki persuaded him to continue working on The Boy and the Heron, handing the director duties to his son instead.

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