Trivia / Day Break Illusion

• Actor Allusion: Eri Kitamura should start a blue-haired magical girl club.^note And REALLY should stay away from any kind of magical girl system involving despair in the enemies...
• Anime First: It's really more of a multimedia project; first there was a Light Novel serialized in a magazine, then a manga adaptation was released in an online magazine two weeks later, and the anime finally aired a week after that.
• Bonus Episode: Has a bonus 14th episode serves as a prequel, showing more of the bond between Akari and Fuyuna, and how Luna got started as a magical girl.
• Conclusion in Another Medium: A Web Serial Novel titled Gen'ei ni Mau Hakugin (The Silver That Dances in the Illusion) will serve as an epilogue to the series, and it focuses on Silvia Leonhart, wielder of the Justice card.
• Stillborn Franchise: It's pretty clear that whoever was behind this anime thought it would be a lot more popular than it actually was.
  • The original creators are trying to continue the series via Web Serial Novel. Reading the translation of the new official website suggests they had big plans for this series.
• What Could Have Been: The series was originally entitled Genei no Messiah - Blood of Fortune (Messiah of Illusions), and it was going to be produced by Studio Anima (which created an ONA for Cat Shit One). However, only Akari's image song was released before production came to a halt. Early character designs were included with the first Japanese BD/DVD, which shows a Cat Girl form for Schrödinger (and without different-colored eyes), Laplace with the form of a Catholic priest, and different designs for the Tendo sisters.

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