History Trivia / DGrayMan

* DoingItForTheArt: At this point, after years of hiatuses and with a chapter every 3 months, Hoshino is no longer concerned by cancellation (the Jump SQ Crown/Rise mostly publishes one-shots anyway) and can pretty much do whatever she wants with her series. It's very unlikely that the latest volumes would have veered off so much from a traditional shonen formula if the series had stayed weekly.

** Only half of the first anime series was broadcasted in Spain, and none of it was ever released in DVD or tape. According to interviews, the entire series was dubbed, but the second half of it never left the company archives and it is unknown if it will ever do.
** On March 1, 2017, the Japanese home media release of ''Hallow'' was cancelled due to various circumstances, including the issues with production quality and Hoshino's disappointment with how the season turned out. Fortunately, the episodes are available for streaming online.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Aniplex}} was originally going to release ''Hallow'' on Blu-ray and DVD starting in September 2016. Unfortunately, issues with the production quality and Hoshino's disappointment with the season caused the release to be delayed indefinitely at the beginning of that month. By March 2017, Aniplex cancelled the release. No news has come of this since then.

** On March 1, 2017, the Japanese home media release of ''Hallow'' was cancelled due to various circumstances. Fortunately, the episodes are available for streaming online.

** In the Japanese version (first anime):

*** Allen and the 14th Noah are voiced by Creator/SanaeKobayashi, but the voice of the 14th Noah (who appears exclusively in his shadowy form in the first anime) is so distorted that one wouldn't know it unless checking the ending credits of the series.
** In the Japanese version (Hallow):

*** In a similar case to the first anime, the 14th Noah/Nea is voiced by Allen's voice actor Creator/AyumuMurase, both when he possesses Allen and in his actual appearance in the 9th episode inside Allen's inner world.

*** Lavi and the Millennium Earl were both originally voiced by Creator/JasonLiebrecht. When he was injured due to a motorcycle accident, Creator/ToddHaberkorn temporarily filled in for Earl during his appearances in episodes 27-39 while also playing Allen and Creator/ChrisPatton filled in for Lavi.

** In the 2016 series, all the characters in the Japanese version have new voices. For example, Allen, voiced in the first series by Creator/SanaeKobayashi, is now voiced by Creator/AyumuMurase.

** Hallow's dub has Creator/IanSinclair taking over for Creator/TravisWillingham as Kanda due to the latter being mostly in union-only projects after moving to Los Angeles. Froi will also need replacing should he appear, as his original actor Jerry Russell died a few years before Funimation picked up the rest of the series.

* BonusMaterial: Starting from the 52th episode onwards, the first anime had a section of omakes after the end of the episode known as "D.Gray-theater", that depicts the characters of the series (who appear in a SuperDeformed style) in short, generally comedic segments. Curiously enough, the style is taken from the own "chibi" art of Hoshino in the omakes of the manga.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Aniplex}} was originally going to release ''Hallow'' on Blu-ray and DVD starting in September 2016. Unfortunately, issues with the production quality and Hoshino's disappointment with the season caused the release to be delayed indefinitely at the beginning of that month. By March 2017, Aniplex cancelled the release. No news has come of it since then.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Aniplex}} was originally going to release ''Hallow'' on Blu-ray and DVD starting in September 2016. Unfortunately, issues with the production quality and Hoshino's disappointment with the season caused the release to be delayed indefinitely at the beginning of that month. By March 2017, Aniplex cancelled the release.

** On March 1, 2017, the Japanese home media release of ''Hallow'' was cancelled due to various circumstances. Fortunately, the episodes are available for streaming online and Funimation released them on Blu-ray and DVD in North America.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Aniplex}} was originally going to release ''Hallow'' on Blu-ray and DVD starting in September 2016. Unfortunately, issues with the production quality and Hoshino's disappointment with the season caused the release to be delayed indefinitely at the beginning of that month. By March 2017, Aniplex cancelled the release. Fortunately, Funimation released the series on Blu-ray and DVD in North America.

* FanNickname:
** Due his [[{{Jerkass}} harsh personality]], and, especially, for his... curious choice of mustache, Lvellie is often called [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] by the fans.
** After it was revealed that the name of the 14th Noah is [[spoiler: Nea]], fans started to refer as him as [[spoiler: Nea Walker, using the surname of his brother Mana.]] Eventually, it was revealed that his true full name (as well as [[spoiler: Mana's one]]) is [[spoiler: Nea D. Campbell.]]

*** In a similar case to the first anime, the 14th Noah/Nea is voiced by Allen's voice actor Creator/AyumuMurase), both when he possesses Allen and in his actual appearance in the 9th episode inside Allen's inner world.

** In the Japanese version:
*** Creator/ShizukaIto voiced both Lenalee and Lero in the first anime. It eventually became TalkingToHimself too when both characters interacted in the Noah's Ark arc.
*** In ''Hallow'', Yutaka Aoyama voiced both the Millennium Earl and Mana. [[spoiler: It might be related to the latest manga reveal though.]]

*** Allen's younger self and Lenalee are voiced by Creator/LuciChristian, who also plays Lenalee.

** Creator/ShizukaIto is mostly known for voicing sexy and seductive women who are often MsFanservice incarnated, but one of the characters she voices in the anime is Lero... who is a [[AnimateInanimateObject talking umbrella]] and the biggest ChewToy of the series.

** In the first anime, Creator/ShizukaIto voiced both Lenalee and Lero. It eventually became TalkingToHimself too when both characters interacted in the Noah's Ark arc.

** In ''Hallow'' Yutaka Aoyama voiced both the Millennium Earl and Mana. [[spoiler: It might be related to the latest manga reveal though.]]

** Lavi and the Millennium Earl were both originally voiced by Creator/JasonLiebrecht. When he was injured due to a motorcycle accident, Creator/ToddHaberkorn temporarily filled in for Earl during his appearances in episodes 27-39 while also playing Allen and Creator/ChrisPatton filled in for Lavi.
** Then there is the fact that in ''Hallow'' Yutaka Aoyama is voicing both the Millennium Earl and Mana. [[spoiler: It might be related to the latest manga reveal though.]]
* CrossDressingVoices: Allen's Japanese voice actor in the first series is Creator/SanaeKobayashi. In English, it's only played straight with Young Allen, who, in the flashbacks, is voiced by Creator/LuciChristian, who also plays Lenalee. It is averted in the present, where Allen is played by Creator/ToddHaberkorn.
** {{Averted}} now in the Japanese version of ''Hallow'', since Allen is now voiced by Creator/AyumuMurase.
** Played straight in the Spanish dub, where Allen is voiced by a female voice actress, just like in the Japanese version. It is also applied in French and Korean dubs.
** Also Averted. Aside from the English dub, Allen Walker is also voiced by a male voice actor in Filipino and German dubs, whereas Jefferson Utanes and Leonhard Mahlich voiced him in respective language versions.
* DisownedAdaptation: A DoubleSubversion with the anime. In a 2016 interview for ''Hallow'', Katsura Hoshino felt that the first anime was too different from the manga for her liking, due to TMS Entertainment changing several elements of her original stories. Eight years later, TMS offered to make ''Hallow'', but Hoshino turned it down because she didn't want a repeat of the first anime. Although she got involved as a supervisor, Hoshino later admitted on Instagram that she was disappointed with the changes made to her characters as well as a promotional poster which depicts Allen and Kanda in suggestive poses resembling two people post-coitus.

** In the 2016 series, all the characters in the Japanese version have new voices.

** Creator/ShizukaIto is mostly known for voicing sexy and seductive women who are often MsFanservice incarnated, but one of the characters she voices in the anime is Lero... who is a [[AnimateInanimateObject talking umbrella]] and the biggest ChewToy of the series. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with her performance as Lenalee, as she more or less fills the kind of characters that Ito usually voices.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Eventually {{subverted|Trope}}. Funimation began arranging plans to release the second half of the 2006 series in North America after releasing the first 51 episodes. However, the release was locked away in 2011 thanks to Dentsu asking Funimation for more money than the company was willing to afford. In June 2016, [=Funimation=] announced that it had licensed ''Hallow'' as part of the 2016 Summer Simulcast season, as well as the second half of the 2006 series a week later.

* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/ShizukaIto is mostly known for voicing sexy and seductive women who are often MsFanservice incarnated, but one of the characters she voices in the anime is Lero... who is a [[AnimateInanimateObject talking umbrella]] and the biggest ChewToy of the series. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with her performance as Lenalee, as she more or less fills the kind of characters that Ito usually voices.

* DisownedAdaptation: A DoubleSubversion with the anime. In a 2016 interview for ''Hallow'', Katsura Hoshino felt that the first anime was so different from her manga, due to TMS Entertainment changing several elements of her original stories. Eight years later, TMS offered to make ''Hallow'', but Hoshino turned it down because she didn't want a repeat of the first anime. Although she got involved as a supervisor, Hoshino later admitted on Instagram that she was disappointed with the changes made to her characters as well as a promotional poster which depicts Allen and Kanda in suggestive poses resembling two people post-coitus.

** Played straight in the Spanish dub, where Allen is voiced by a female voice actress, just like in the Japaenese version.

* DisownedAdaptation: A DoubleSubversion with the anime. In a 2016 interview for ''Hallow'', Katsura Hoshino felt that the first anime was so different from her manga, due to TMS Entertainment changing several elements of her original stories. Eight years later, TMS offered to make ''Hallow'', but given her thoughts on how they handled the series, Hoshino unsurprisingly declined at first. Although she got involved as a supervisor, Hoshino later admitted on Instagram that she was disappointed with the changes made to her characters as well as a promotional poster which depicts Allen and Kanda in suggestive poses resembling two people post-coitus.

* Creator/AkiraToriyama is generally quite positive regarding most adaptations of ''Manga/DragonBall'', but has certain aspects he dislikes:

** The English dub has several.

* IKnewIt: The Earl [[spoiler:has horns]]. Doubly so for those who read ''Zone'', the oneshot that provided the inspiration for the entire series. Also that he [[spoiler:is not his true form.]]
** On a meta example, there were fans that guessed that ''Hallow'' would be part of Creator/Funimation's summer simulcast season, despite not releasing the second half of the 2006 series on home video for five years until the legal issues between Funimation and Dentsu were sorted out. Turns out they were right.
*** There were also people thinking that licensing ''Hallow'' for simulcast would lead to Funimation licensing the second half of the 2006 series. On June 30, 2016, the company announced just that; the second half of the 2006 series would eventually be released to home video starting October 10, 2017.

* {{Uncanceled}}: The first anime series got a sequel almost a decade after the original ended.

* DisownedAdaptation: A DoubleSubversion with the anime. In a 2016 interview for ''Hallow'', Katsura Hoshino felt that the first anime was so different from her manga, due to TMS Entertainment changing several elements of her original stories. TMS approached Hoshino to produce ''Hallow'' and release it with the manga after its hiatus, but given her feelings on the first anime, she unsurprisingly refused. TMS would eventually convince Hoshino to reconsider, thus, she served as a supervisor for ''Hallow'' to make sure it stayed much closer to the spirit of her manga than the previous adaptation did. Unfortunately, Hoshino admitted her disappointment with ''Hallow'''s arbitrary and poorly designed changes, culminating in her outrage at discovering a piece of promotional art depicting Allen and Kanda extremely out of character[[note]]The image depicts them in very suggestive poses next to each other, resembling two people post-coitus.[[/note]] and the cancellation of any ''Hallow'' product releases, including the Blu-rays.

** Then there is the fact that in ''Hallow'' Yutaka Aoyama is voicing two characters. It might be related to the latest manga reveal though.

** In the 2016 series, most of the Japanese cast have new voices.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: The English dub has several.
** [[Creator/ToddHaberkorn Allen]] and [[Creator/CheramiLeigh Road]] are also [[Manga/SoulEater Death the Kid and Patty Thompson]], [[Manga/DaimidalerTheSoundRobot Shouma and Kiriko]], [[Manga/FairyTail Natsu and Lucy]], and, in a darker example, [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Sugou[=/=]Oberon and Asuna]].
** [[Creator/ToddHaberkorn Allen]] and [[Creator/LuciChristian Lenalee]] are the teen and kid versions of [[Manga/FairyTail Natsu]], respectively.
** [[Creator/ToddHaberkorn Allen]] and [[Creator/TravisWillingham Yu Kanda]] (in the first 51 episodes) are [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Male Morgan and Lon'qu and Brady]].

* NoExportForYou:
** This was originally the case with the second half of the 2006 series, due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers legal issues with Dentsu]]. It would take ''five years'' for said legal issues to be sorted out before Funimation was finally able to license episodes 52-103.

* DoingItForTheArt: At this point, after years of hiatuses and with a chapter every 3 months, Hoshino is no longer concerned by cancellation (the Jump SQ Crown mostly publishes one-shots anyway) and can pretty much do whatever she wants with her series. It's very unlikely that the latest volumes would have veered off so much from a traditional shonen formula if the series had stayed weekly.

* ActingForTwo: Lavi and the Millennium Earl were both originally voiced by Creator/JasonLiebrecht. When he was injured due to a motorcycle accident, Creator/ToddHaberkorn temporarily filled in for Earl during his appearances in episodes 27-39 while also playing Allen and Creator/ChrisPatton filled in for Lavi.

* NoExportForYou: This was originally the case with the second half of the 2006 series, due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers legal issues with Dentsu]]. It would take ''five years'' for said legal issues to be sorted out before Funimation was finally able to license episodes 52-103.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Aniplex}} was originally going to release ''Hallow'' on Blu-ray and DVD starting in September 2016. Unfortunately, issues with the production quality caused the release to be delayed indefinitely at the beginning of that month. By March 2017, Aniplex cancelled the release. Fortunately, Funimation released the series on Blu-ray and DVD in North America.

* DisownedAdaptation: A DoubleSubversion with the anime. In a 2016 interview for ''Hallow'', Katsura Hoshino felt that the first anime was so different from her manga, due to TMS Entertainment changing several elements of her original stories. TMS approached Hoshino to produce ''Hallow'' and release it with the manga after its hiatus, but given her feelings on the first anime, she unsurprisingly refused. TMS would eventually convince Hoshino to reconsider, thus, she served as a supervisor for ''Hallow'' to make sure it stayed much closer to the spirit of her manga than the previous adaptation did. Unfortunately, Hoshino was unimpressed with ''Hallow'''s arbitrary and poorly designed changes, culminating in her outrage at discovering a piece of promotional art depicted Allen and Kanda extremely out of character[[note]]The image depicts them in very suggestive poses next to each other, resembling two people post-coitus.[[/note]] and the cancellation of any ''Hallow'' product releases.

* DisownedAdaptation: A DoubleSubversion. In a 2016 interview for ''Hallow'', Katsura Hoshino felt that the first anime was so different from her manga, due to TMS Entertainment changing several elements of her original stories. TMS approached Hoshino to produce ''Hallow'' and release it with the manga after its hiatus, but given her feelings on the first anime, she unsurprisingly refused. TMS would eventually convince Hoshino to reconsider, thus, she served as a supervisor for ''Hallow'' to make sure it stayed much closer to the spirit of her manga than the previous adaptation did. However, Hoshino found some of the changes in ''Hallow'' to be arbitrary and poorly designed, culminating in her outrage at discovering a piece of promotional art depicted Allen and Kanda extremely out of character[[note]]The image depicts them in very suggestive poses next to each other, resembling two people post-coitus.[[/note]] and the cancellation of any ''Hallow'' product releases.

* DisownedAdaptation: In a 2016 interview for ''Hallow'', Katsura Hoshino felt that the first anime was so different from her manga, due to TMS Entertainment changing several elements of her original stories. TMS approached Hoshino to produce ''Hallow'' and release it with the manga after its hiatus, but given her feelings on the first anime, she unsurprisingly refused. TMS would eventually convince Hoshino to reconsider, thus, she served as a supervisor for ''Hallow'' to make sure it stayed much closer to the spirit of her manga than the previous adaptation did. Unfortunately, this changed after Hoshino found some of the changes in ''Hallow'' to be arbitrary and poorly designed, culminating in her outrage at discovering a piece of promotional art depicted Allen and Kanda extremely out of character[[note]]The image depicts them in very suggestive poses next to each other, resembling two people post-coitus.[[/note]] and the cancellation of any ''Hallow'' product releases.