Trivia / Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki

• Actor-Shared Background: Faye Mata, Hinami's English voice actress, was a professional fighting game player prior to her voice acting career.
• Approval of God: Yuuki Yaku, the author of Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, is very involved with his audience and receptive of fan content across the world. Most notably, when a fan used the iceberg tiers meme to explain the depth of the series to new viewers, Yaku not only voiced his approval, he later translated the entire meme into Japanese.
• Schedule Slip: Volume 11 was originally scheduled to release on March 17, 2023. However, at the end of February 2023, the publisher, Gagaga Bunko, announced it would be delayed, with Yuuki Yaku himself apologizing saying he needed more time. After the original release date came and went, Amazon Japan and other online retailers listed the rescheduled release date for two months later on May 18, 2023, but those pages were later taken down in that same month. It was likely the delay had to do with Yaku being revealed at Anime Japan 2023 as having been tapped to write the script for the anime series Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night. It would take until October 2023 for the publisher's website to list Volume 11's new release date as January 18, 2024, exactly two years after Volume 10's release and the longest publishing gap in the series.
• Self-Adaptation: The light novels' author himself was the screenwriter for both first season OVA episodes and the second season's fifth and tenth episodes.
• Sleeper Hit: The anime adaptation was initially received very lukewarmly and was quickly overshadowed by other highly-anticipated rom-coms such as Horimiya and the second season of The Quintessential Quintuplets. As the season went on, however, it managed to garner a small but dedicated fanbase. The main character in particular, Tomozaki, saw an upwards trend in popularity, even reaching the number one spot in Anime Trending's weekly character rankings. And then to everyone's shock, a full year after it aired, a continuation of the anime was announced in January 2022. This was especially surprising in that this was after the author, Yuuki Yaku, had publicly lamented that the series' Blu-rays had sold quite poorly.
• Star-Making Role: The role of Minami "Mimimi" Nanami for Ikumi Hasegawa. Prior to this, her anime voice acting roles were mostly as background extras or in eroge using the alias "Kyouko Akabane."
• Stunt Casting: 2nd Stage has an anime-original character named Mao Kamimae who plays an important role in the season's second arc, but Kamimae's role in the story ends up taking over all the screentime that was originally fulfilled in the light novels by Mika Akiyama, a character already present from the first season, and ends up leaving Akiyama with no plot importance. Kamimae is voiced by Kana Ichinose, who (having just voiced the main character of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury the previous year and was also voicing one of the major characters of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End in the same season as 2nd Stage) is a much bigger star than Akiyama's actress Natsumi Hioka.