History Trivia / AggressiveRetsuko

* ActingForTwo:
** In the English dub of the Netflix series, Creator/GinaBowes voices both Tsunoda and Gori.
** Rina Inoue voices both Fenneko and Tsunoda in the original Japanese. By Season 2 several other voice actors take on additional roles, including Komegumi Koiwasaki voicing Shirota's mother in addition to Washimi, Maki Tsuruta as Retsuko's mother in addition to Gori, and Sota Arai as Anai in addition to Ton.
* ChannelHop: From Creator/TokyoBroadcastingSystem (the shorts) to Creator/{{Netflix}} (full series).
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: All variants of the Toys/FunkoPop Retsuko figurine are erroneously referred to as "Aggretsuko."
* CrossDressingVoices: Retsuko's death metal screams are provided by male singers.
** PlayedForLaughs with Ton's wife and daughters who are clearly voiced by the same actor.
* DarkHorseCasting:
** The entire Japanese voice cast are newcomers or even non-actors with no previous experience. Retsuko herself is voiced by Rarecho's wife, who had only intended to provide Retsuko's scratch voice but eventually became a PermanentPlaceholder.
** The same goes, through in less degree, with the Latin American Spanish dub, with the sole exceptions of Retsuko (Desiree Gonzalez), Tsubone (Karla Vega), and Komiya's (Hugo Nuñez) voice actors.
* DirectedByCastMember: Rarecho, director of the Netflix series, does Retsuko's death metal voice.
* DescendedCreator: Rarecho, who wrote and directed both the shorts and the Netflix series, provides Retsuko's MetalScream in the Japanese versions.
* NoDubForYou: Played straight for the original shorts, but averted with the Netflix series. Oddly enough, Retsuko's MetalScream remains in Japanese in almost all foreign dubs, except English and Chinese.
* NoExportForYou: The TBS shorts.
* NonSingingVoice: Save the Disney-esque musical numbers, all of Retsuko's metal singing is done by a male actor in all of the dubs.
* OtakuOClock: Due to the adult setting of the shorts that aired on Japanese television, TBS would usually air them late at night along with other adult-oriented shows.
* PermanentPlaceholder: Rarecho had his wife Kaolip provide the scratch voice for Retsuko in his pitch to Sanrio. The studio loved her so much that they opted not to replace her with a professional voice actress in the series proper.
* ReclusiveArtist:
** Yeti, the show's character designer, almost always appears in interviews wearing some sort of mask.
** Retsuko's Japanese voice actress, Kaolip, doesn't appear in interviews either. She's the wife of the series' director and was only cast because the people at Sanrio loved her performance. As such, she doesn't have any other acting credits to her name.
* RelationshipVoiceActor:
** In the English dub, Creator/EricaMendez and Creator/BenDiskin (the voices for Retsuko and Haida) also voice Diane and Ban from ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins''.
** Mendez and Diskin are also Eleanor and Rokurou from ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria''.
** Creator/EricaMendez and Billy Kametz (Retsuko and Anai in the English dub) voice Naofumi Iwatani and Raphtalia in LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero
** [[Creator/EricaMendez Retsuko]], [[Creator/BenDiskin Haida]], [[Creator/BillyKametz Anai]], [[Creator/TaraPlatt Washimi]], [[Creator/AllegraClark Puko]], [[Creator/GriffinBurns Tadano]], [[Creator/LucienDodge Ookami]], and Fenneko(Katelyn Gault) voice Bernadetta, Caspar and Lorenz, Ferdinand von Aegir, Edelgard, Dorothea, Cyril, Felix, and Ladislava respectively in VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses. The former three, except Lorenz, even belong to the same house/faction and and their characters are subordinate to Platt's.
* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: Ben Diskin, the English voice actor for Haida, was [[{{Understatement}} completely dumbfounded]] by the massive amount of NSFW furry art he found of his character on Twitter, but quickly embraced it, eventually joking that he'd "have to work 'vore me, daddy' into an outtake at some point." And then one fan responded to this by creating an animation of Haida ''eating Retsuko'' in a vore fashion and ''linking Diskin to it''! BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, indeed! [[note]]Diskin's taken the rest of the furry fandom quite in stride; one of his screen-names on Twitter was "Haida's Humansona" and is quite personable at furry conventions.[[/note]]
* StarMakingRole: In the Latin American Spanish dub, this was for Retsuko's voice actress, Desiree Gonzalez, along with Zen-o from ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''. The same goes for Washimi's voice actress, America Torres, along with Ritsuko Akagi in the Netflix version of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
* TalkingToHerself:
** In the Netflix series, Rina Inoue voices both Fenneko and Tsunoda, who do speak to each other.
** Sota Aori provides the voices of Director Ton and his lackey Komiya. In Season 2 he's also voicing Anai.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to Yeti's sketches, Gori and Washimi's designs were originally going to be more anatomically correct.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Many gags are based on embarrassing experiences of various crew members and their friends. Rarecho admitted that the gag of Retsuko accidentally wearing sandals to work was something he had done more than once.
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* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: Ben Diskin, the English voice actor for Haida, was [[{{Understatement}} completely dumbfounded]] by the massive amount of NSFW furry art he found of his character on Twitter, but quickly embraced it, eventually joking that he'd "have to work 'vore me, daddy' into an outtake at some point." And then one fan responded to this by creating an animation of Haida ''eating Retsuko'' in a vore fashion and ''linking Diskin to it''! BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, indeed! [[note]]Diskin's taken the rest of the furry fandom quite in stride; his current screen-name on Twitter is "Haida's Humansona" and is quite personable at furry conventions.[[/note]]

** [[Creator/EricaMendez Retsuko]], [[Creator/BenDiskin Haida]], [[Creator/BillyKametz Anai]], [[Creator/TaraPlatt Washimi]], [[Creator/AllegraClark Puko]], [[Creator/GriffinBurns Tadano]], [[Creator/LucienDodge Ookami]], and Fenneko(Katelyn Gault) voice Bernadetta, Caspar and Lorenz, Ferdinand von Aegir, Edelgard, Dorothea, Cyril, Felix, and Ladislava respectively in VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses. They even belong to the same house/faction and and the former three's characters, except Lorenz, are subordinate to Platt's.

** Erica Mendez, Ben Diskin, and Creator/TaraPlatt voice Bernadetta, Caspar, and Edelgard respectively in VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses. They even belong to the same house/faction and and the former two's characters are subordinate to Platt's.

* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: All variants of the Toys/FunkoPop Retsuko figurine are erroneously referred to as "Aggretsuko."

** Erica Mendez and Creator/TaraPlatt voice Bernadetta and Edelgard respectively in VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses. They both even belong to the same house/faction and Mendez' character is subordinate to Platt's.

** Creator/EricaMendez and Billy Kametz (Retsuko and Anai in the english dub) voice Naofumi Iwatani and Raphtalia in LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero

* ReclusiveArtist

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Many gags are based on embarrassing experiences of various crew members and their friends. Rarecho admitted that the gag of Retsuko accidentally wearing sandals to work was something he had done more than once.

** In the Latin American Spanish dub, Vanessa Olea voices both Fenneko and, bizarrely enough, the ''yoga instructor'', which doesn't sound like a female in this dub ''at all''.

* CantUnHearIt: As soon as someone tells you that the Voice Actor for Ton in the English dub of the Netflix series is Josh Petersdorf, well, good luck trying to get [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} Roadhog]] (and possibly [[VideoGame/{{Paladins}} Terminus]]) out of your head. Yes, the guy who plays a literal pig-man in Aggretsuko plays a man with a pig motif in Overwatch. What are the chances?

** The entire Japanese voice cast are newcomers or even non-actors with no previous experience. Retsuko herself is voiced by Rarecho's wife.

* CrossDressingVoices: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]. Retsuko is voiced by women in her normal speaking voice, but her death metal screams are provided by male singers.

* StarMakingRole: In the Latin American Spanish dub, this was for Retsuko's voice actress, Desiree Gonzalez, along with Zen-o from ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''.

** The original Japanese voice cast is completely voiced by basically newcomers with almost no previous experience in voice casting.

* ReclusiveArtist: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4J7git0_n4 Yeti]].
** There's also Retsuko's Japanese voice actress, a person known only as "Kaolip" who doesn't seem to have any other voice credits under that name.

** Sota Aori provides the voices of Director Ton and his lackey Komiya. In Season 2 he's also voicing Anai.

* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: Ben Diskin, the English voice actor for Haida, was [[{{Understatement}} completely dumbfounded]] by the massive amount of NSFW furry art he found of his character on Twitter, but quickly embraced it, eventually joking that he'd "have to work 'vore me, daddy' into an outtake at some point." And then one fan responded to this by creating an animation of Haida ''eating Retsuko'' in a vore fashion and ''linking Diskin to it''! BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, indeed! [[note]]Surprisingly, Diskin's taken the rest of the furry fandom quite in stride; his current screen-name on Twitter is "Haida's Humansona" and is quite personable at furry conventions[[/note]].

* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: Ben Diskin, the English voice actor for Haida, was [[{{Understatement}} completely dumbfounded]] by the massive amount of NSFW furry art he found of his character on Twitter, but quickly embraced it, eventually joking that he'd "have to work 'vore me, daddy' into an outtake at some point." And then one fan responded to this by creating an animation of Haida ''eating Retsuko'' in a vore fashion and ''linking Diskin to it''! BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, indeed!

** The same goes with the, through in less degree, with the Latin American Spanish dub, with the sole exceptions of Retsuko (Desiree Gonzalez), Tsubone (Karla Vega), and Komiya's (Hugo Nuñez) voice actors.

* NoDubForYou: Played straight for the original shorts, but averted with the Netflix series. Oddly enough, Retsuko's MetalScream remains in Japanese in almost all foreign dubs, except English.

** The same goes with the, through in less degree, with the Latin American Spanish dub, with the sole exceptions of Retsuko (Desiree Gonzalez) and Komiya's (Hugo Nuñez) voice actors.

** In the Mexican Spanish dub, Vanessa Olea voices both Fenneko and, bizarrely enough, the ''yoga instructor'', which doesn't sound like a female in this dub ''at all''.

* NonSingingVoice: Save the Disney-esque musical number in episode 9, all of Retsuko's metal singing is done by a male actor in all of the dubs.

** Sota Aori provides the voices of Director Ton and his lackey Komiya.

* DirectedByCastMember: Rarecho is the director of the Netflix series... and voices Retsuko's death metal voice.

* TheOtherDarrin: Since Retsuko's voice actress can't do her MetalScream, her heavy metal voice is voiced by a male actor, as stated above. Averted in Episode 9, in which Retsuko DOES sing, but in her natural voice. This applies to both dubs.

* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: More of "Rule 34 - Voice Actor Reactions". Ben Diskin (English voice actor for Haida) discovered this rule on Twitter and suffice to say, he was [[{{Understatement}} completely dumbfounded]]. Although he did, later on, accept it as it is. This got ''more'' interesting when a fan linked him a Twitter animation of Haida ''eating Retsuko'' in a vore fashion.

* CastingGag:
** In the Mexican Spanish dub, it's not the first time we hear Desiree Gonzalez (Retsuko), [[Anime/DragonBallSuper voicing a character (Zen-O)]] with one hell of DissonantSerenity.
** In the English dub, Creator/EricaMendez as the titular protagonist [[Anime/KillLaKill had a valid excuse for screaming the whole time in the last show when she had to do this]].
** Also in the English dub, Hog Honcho / Director Ton's voice actor also voices [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} a hog-like character]].
** The English voice actor for Resauke also voiced a certain [[Anime/OnePunchMan dull, often emotionless superhero]].