Trivia / Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth

• Casting Gag: Orochimaru is voiced here by Vic Mignogna instead of Steve Blum due to the show's non-union status. Before Season 2 of the main series aired in the U.S., Vic was in serious consideration to play the villainous Sannin until the studio realized that location issues made it impossible. He was still acting out of Houston, Texas at the time, so it would've cost him more to go back and forth between there and Los Angeles than the gig would've made.
• God-Created Canon Foreigner: Sort of. Hanabi appears in Chapter 34, but she had never appeared post-timeskip in the original series prior, creating a problem of sorts. This was solved by Masashi Kishimoto himself creating a post-timeskip design◊ for her, Lampshade Hanging included. The design was reused in an anime filler made to go along with The Last: Naruto the Movie, which features an older Hanabi with a different age.
• No Export for You: Barely avoided. Despite being a spin-off of a manga that, for a time, was the #1 manga in the USA, it took nearly two years after the anime's original run for the English dub of this series to be announced and aired stateside.
• The Other Darrin: The English dub is non-union (in contrast to the main series dub), so several characters had a voice actor change. The most prominent examples would be Skip Stellrecht being replaced by Matthew Mercer as Might Guy while Kathryn Feller would replace Maile Flanagan as Naruto Uzumaki. This marks the only piece of dubbed Naruto media that Maile hasn't been involved in period.
• Recursive Adaptation: Mild example. A special chapter for Saikyo Jump was based on Episode 5A from the anime. This means that it was a manga chapter based on an episode of an anime adapted from a manga...
• What Could Have Been: A second game titled Naruto SD: Rock Lee's Ninja Battle Fest! was planned for release for the Wii U, but was canceled for unknown reasons.

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