Trivia / Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet

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• Acting for Two:
  • In the original Japanese version:
    • Grace and Saaya are both voiced by Ai Kayano.
    • Ryokichi Takahashi voices Marrochi and a fleet member in episode 15.
    • Harumi Sakurai voiced a fleet announcer in episode 1, a salvager in episode 2 and Eida Matsumoto in episode 9.
  • In the English dub:
    • Grace and Bebel are both voiced by Michelle Ruff.
    • Doug Stone, who voiced Flange, also appeared as Kemen, one of Lukkage's crewmates.
    • Julie Ann Taylor, Bellows' voice actress, also had a minor role as Eida Matsumoto in episode 9.
    • Caitlin Chang voices Palinury in episode 3 and would later go on to voice Mayta.
    • Janice Kawaye, Melty's voice actress, had a minor role as a pilot in episode 1.
    • Karen Strassman (Striker) voiced Paraem in episode 3.
    • Tony Oliver (Worm) voiced a fisher in episode 5 and a member of Pinion's mess in episode 9.
    • Crown's regular voice actor, Kyle Hebert, also appeared as Matsumoto and Marocchi.
• All-Star Cast: The main cast includes Kaito Ishikawa, Tomokazu Sugita, Hisako Kanemoto, Sayaka Ohara, Shizuka Itō, Katsuyuki Konishi, Yuki Ono and Ayumi Fujimura, among others. Just goes to show this anime really wanted to be taken seriously.
• Anime First: While the manga was released a couple of months prior to the airing of the first episode, work began on the anime itself in 2010.
• Contest Winner Cameo: Pixiv held a contest for one. The selected characters appear near the very end of the anime, part of the crowd that listen to Bevel's lecture on the history of humanity and Hideauze.
• Directed by Cast Member: Besides voicing Worm in the English dub, Tony Oliver was the ADR director.
• Late Export for You: The Far Beyond the Voyage OVAs began streaming exclusively on Crunchyroll in North and South America, Australasia and South Africa on January 15, 2020, five years after the second episode was released in Japan.
• Production Posse: For director Kazuya Murata and composer Taro Iwashiro, this is their second collaboration after Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos.
• Science Marches On: When Chamber brings up a planetary map of the solar system, it also includes Pluto, which is classified as a Dwarf Planet today and not a planet proper. The same holds true when, in the files Ledo look at in Episode 9, a newscaster shows a planetary map that includes Pluto and Halley's Comet alongside the regular planets.
• Star-Making Role: For Kaito Ishikawa, who voiced Ledo.
• What Could Have Been: There were plans for an anime sequel but due to "various circumstances", it was scrapped and the sequel became an upcoming Light Novel.

Various Trivia

• Super Robot Wars: The series made its first appearance in in the Super Robot Wars Z 3: Tengoku-hen. Incidentally, not only did the staff of Gargantia apparently want it to appear in the series, but the staff of SRW were planning on including it even before it finished airing.

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