Trivia / Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress

• All-Star Cast: Or rather, All Star Production Team. The writer of Code Geass, the director of Death Note, Highschool of the Dead and Guilty Crown, the production studio of Attack on Titan and Seraph of the End, and that's not even getting into the music team: Hiroyuki Sawano, EGOIST, and Aimer. As well as Haruhiko Mikimoto, character designer extraordinaire: we owe him all those cute girls.
  • Interestingly enough, pretty much everyone involved with Kabaneri also played identical roles in the production of Guilty Crown. They were even animated by the same studio (that is, if you consider shows animated by Production IG's subsidiary studios to be IG productions as well).
• Anime First: An original anime project; a manga adaptation began less than a month after the anime first aired.
• Banned in China: The series was denied a television broadcast in China due to excessive violence.
• Channel Hop:
  • While the original series was exclusively streamed worldwide by Amazon, Netflix picked up the exclusive worldwide streaming rights for the sequel film Battle of Unato (the latter is only streaming on both Amazon and Netflix in Japan and Latin America notably)
  • Crunchyroll added the original series to their service on November 1, 2019 meaning that Amazon's worldwide exclusivity deal has expired for the show but still means both the series and Battle of Unato are split up on different sites.
• Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": The Battle of Unato sequel film is the first animated production of the franchise dubbed in Latin American Spanish, as the TV series wasn't shown there during his run in Amazon Prime Video, much less dubbed.
• No Export for You:
  • In a sense. Every video of the OP, ED or insert songs in the show on Youtube has been taken down with various copyright claims, with the only unclaimed videos being either fan covers of the songs, or being available in non-US regions.
  • In terms of legal streaming, at the time of Kabaneri's airing, Amazon Video's reach only applied to the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Austria and India. Leaving other countries like Australia unable to watch the show legally while it was simulcasting.
  • The Japan-only mobile gacha game Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress -Revolt- Beginning Tracks (Kōtetsujō no Kabaneri -Ran- Hajimaru Michiato (甲鉄城のカバネリ -乱-)) released in December 2018, could easily be seen as a sort of Season 2 as its story takes place two years after the original TV events and Unato. The servers were later shut down in February 2021.
• The Other Darrin: The English dub for Battle of Unato retained almost all the English cast of Season 1 save for Elijah Ungvary as Suzuki, who is replaced by Jake Green (likely a result of the switch in recording studios from Studiopolis to SDI Media)
• Production Posse:
  • Alongside Death Note to name a few examples, this is Mamoru Miyano's fourth collaboration with Tetsuro Araki.
  • Alongside Guilty Crown and Attack on Titan, this is Tetsuro Araki's third collaboration with Hiroyuki Sawano and Yūki Kaji. Art director Shunichiro Yoshihara and director of photography Kazuhiro Yamada also return from the latter^* Yamada also returning from High School Of The Dead.
  • Alongside Guilty Crown, this is Egoist's second collaboration with Tetsuro Araki.
  • Alongside Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, this is Aimer's second collaboration with Hiroyuki Sawano.
• Real-Life Relative: In the film's Latin American Spanish dub, Arturo Castañeda voices Ikoma while his older sister Carla voiced Ayame Yomogawa.
• Romance on the Set: Ikoma's and Mumei's voice actors (Tasuku Hatanaka and Sayaka Senbongi) got married.
• Uncredited Role: Minor example with the movie, as Studio Bihou and Asahi Production are credited for working on the ending animation but not the movie proper, which only credit the studios' respective staff.
• What Could Have Been: The second BD set included a booklet that showed a very different look for Biba looking younger and wearing much lighter colors.