Trivia / Gamers! (2015)

• Actor Allusion: Hisako Kanemoto's Star-Making Role as the eponymous Squid Girl gets a few references:
  • In the OP, an R-Type parody shows a tiny squid blasting away at Karen Tendo's giant head. Its body uses the same two shades of blue as Squid Girl's hair.
  • In episode 12, there's a shot where Tendo is dressed up as the character.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Various sites and wikis sometimes give the characters birthdays that have never actually been confirmed in any official media and in fact contradict the source material. For example, some sources give Karen and Chiaki’s birthdays as August 12 and October 25 respectively, despite the fact that Chiaki’s birthday happens in Volume 5 (which explicitly takes place over the month of September) with Karen’s birthday happening in the next volume during the autumn after (most likely in October since Volume 7 mostly takes place over November).
• Creator's Favorite: English dub scriptwriter Patrick Seitz has expressed the opinion that “Aguri is best girl, hands down.”
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Keita Amano is voiced by Megumi Han in the Japanese version.
  • Averted in English dub. Brandon McInnis provides the voice of Keita Amano.
• No Export for You:
  • Inverted in a meta sense. The show only has Bland-Name Product placement for PS4 and 3DS while the third major competitor in the market, Microsoft's Xbox line of consoles, is entirely absent. This is likely because of Xbox's lack of sales due to its unpopularity in Japan.
  • As for reality, the original light novels and the manga have never been licensed in English (though they have been published in German). A fan translation was completed on June 8, 2021.
• The Other Darrin: Karen Tendō was initially voiced by Risa Taneda for a 2015 commercial, but Hisako Kanemoto voices her instead for the anime.
• Sleeper Hit: Climbed as high as #4 on Crunchyroll's most-viewed shows for summer 2017, a place usually reserved for long-running Shōnen series.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants:
  • In the novels’ afterwords, Sekina Aoi admits that he is uncertain of what direction the plot will go in while writing the books, and mentions that for some of them the guiding principle is figuring out what would happen that would justify the title of a given volume.
  • Speaking of which, the afterwords themselves are often stream of consciousness writing as Aoi usually states that he struggles to think up enough to say to meet the page quota.
• Write What You Know: Unsurprisingly, the characters’ interest and knowledge of video games is a direct reflection of the author’s, a fact made apparent in his afterwords.

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