Trivia / Gungrave

• Directed by Cast Member: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Rafael Rivera was the ADR director, as well as the voice of Brandon Heat/Beyond the Grave, who also doubles as the narrator.
• No Dub for You: The first game's worldwide release included the original Japanese-language audio.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Zell Condorbrave was voiced by Banjo Ginga in Overdose but is voiced by Akio Ōtsuka come his return in G.O.R.E.. It is likely that Ginga was replaced on account of having contracted COVID during the game's production, though he recovered later.
  • Balladbird Lee was voiced by Masaya Onosaka in the first game and by Takehito Koyasu in the anime.
  • Kumi Sakuma voiced Mika in the anime. After Tomoko Kawakami's 2008 death, Sakuma took over the character full-time beginning with Gungrave VR.
• Role Reprise:
  • With the exception of Beyond the Grave (who was The Voiceless in the first game) and Balladbird Lee, all of the game's voice actors reprised their roles for the anime.
  • In G.O.R.E., Tomokazu Seki, Fumihiko Tachiki and Kumi Sakuma reprise their respective roles of Beyond the Grave, Mika Asagi and Bunji Kugashira 13 years after their last appearance in VR.
• Schedule Slip: G.O.R.E. was initially slated for a 2019 release before being delayed to 2020 and then subsequently again to 2022.
• Sequel Gap: Thirteen years passed between Overdose and VR, the latter of which is more of a filler game and prologue for G.O.R.E, the "true" sequel, which was released in 2022, altogether making a eighteen year gap between "main" installments.
• Studio Hop: The first game was developed by Red Entertainment. Then, Ikusabune took over development for Overdose. For VR and G.O.R.E, development was instead handled by Iggymob.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Sherry was set to appear as a boss (named "Nekurora" / "Necrola") in the first game but didn't make the cut. She would have been a mutant boss similar to Big Daddy with Frickin' Laser Beams and a Mind Rape special attack.
  • Grave's design is based on the unused concept for Gazelle the Peacemaker, a character who would have been introduced in the unreleased game Trigun: The Planet Gunsmoke as a new member of the Gung-Ho Guns. The game itself was created from the remnants of the cancelled title.

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