Trivia / Baccano!

• Acclaimed Flop: The anime was widely praised by critics and is especially well-loved in the United States, but in Japan it did poorly in ratings and DVD sales.
• All-Star Cast: The English dub of the anime in particular has many mainstays of Funimation dubs as well as several noteworthy names that would gain more fame in later years of anime dubbing.
  • The primary Ensemble Cast features Caitlin Glass, J. Michael Tatum, Brina Palencia, Todd Haberkorn, Maxey Whitehead, Joel McDonald, Jerry Jewell, Monica Rial, and Jason Liebrecht.
  • The supporting cast also has the likes of Colleen Clinkenbeard, Jad Saxton, Eric Vale, Trina Nishimura, Leah Clark, Chuck Huber, Cherami Leigh, Ian Sinclair, Justin Cook, and Chris Patton.
• Fake Nationality: The anime's English dub has this in spades. Specifically with the immortals from the Advena Avis.
• Late Export for You: For a long time, the only options to read the original light novels were either knowing Japanese or Chinese. It wasn't until 2015 that Yen Press announced they had the English rights to publish them.
• The Other Darrin: Only applied to the anime's English dub, where Isaac and Miria were voiced by Sam Riegel and Jennie Kwan respectively in their Durarara!! cameos, since both anime licenses were managed by different companies at the time Durarara!! was dubbed^note (From 2015 onwards, Aniplex of America manages both Narita's series and both she and Tatum have worked in LA-based dubs after Durarara!!).
• Playing Against Type: Quite a few of the more famous Japanese voice actors in the anime adaptation go completely against the grain of their usual playing type. Particular cases are Tomokazu Sugita and Masakazu Morita, who forgo their usual Deadpan Snarker and upbeat Hero roles in favor of batshit insanity as Graham and Claire.
  • On the other hand, you also have J. Michael Tatum playing the upbeat and idiotic Isaac instead of his usual roles as The Stoic and/or The Smart Guy (sometimes with glasses).
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: Ambiguously Bi Graham is voiced by the gay Chris Patton in the dub.
• Star-Making Role: For Joel McDonald, Ian Sinclair and Maxey Whitehead in which Jacuzzi, Dallas and Czeslaw happened to be their first major roles. The former two would eventually solidify their careers with Space☆Dandy (in the case of Joel, he would also gain further fame in Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt) and the latter would go on to play Al in Fulllmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. To some extent, Bryan Massey as Ladd also counts.
• What Could Have Been: Several scenes and hooks in the anime adaptation, such as Adele in a brief cameo in episode one and Dallas' body already recovered by Lamia before Eve could find him show that the anime would potentially adapt The Slash arc, but the anime did very poorly in Japan and never received a second season.

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