Trivia / Nichijou

• Acclaimed Flop: The anime wasn't very financially successful in Japan, and it is Kyoto Animation's fifth lowest-selling anime. However, it was well-received by critics and it garnered a sizeable fanbase in North America and Europe. It also more than doubled its original sales with re-releases. In its native country, it did become a veritable fountain of memes and was appreciated years later.
• Actor Allusion: In the anime, Shinonome Institute's resident talking cat Sakamoto is played by Minoru Shiraishi, who, among other things (including another Formally-Named Pet), played himself as the host of Lucky Star's "Lucky Channel" segment. In that show, his co-host Akira (played by Hiromi Konno) sends him off on a suicide mission and replaces him with Daisuke Ono. In this show, guess who plays the crow that the Professor (played by Hiromi Konno) decides would be better to have the talking scarf than Sakamoto?
  • Another one in the same scene — the fact that Ono plays a crow alludes to his role in AIR.
• Directed by Cast Member: Jad Saxton directed the English dub, in addition to voicing Hakase.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The anime was licensed in English early on, but spent a good while in limbo for US fans. Crunchyroll hosted it for streaming, but the rights expired. Bandai was originally going to release the show on video, but cancelled it due to financial troubles. For a time, the only way to enjoy the series legally with an English translation was buying from Madman Entertainment, an Australian company which licensed the series for english for Australia and New Zealand on streaming and DVD. Funimation licensed the anime for North America in November 2016, released it sub-only on February 7, 2017, and with an English dub in July 2019. Both eventually become (once again) available on Crunchyroll.
• Late Export for You: The manga was released on 2006. Vertical has started to release volumes of the manga in 2016, puns and all intact.
• No Dub for You: The anime had multiple sub-only releases in English until Funimation made a dub in 2019, eight years after the Japanese release.
• Real Song Theme Tune: In its second season, the series started using a different Japanese pop standard for its ending theme every episode.
  • A portion of the FIFA Anthem was played during the "10-yen Soccer" segment.
• Referenced by...:
  • The Living Tombstone's My Ordinary Life samples Koigokoro wa Dangan mo Yawarakakusuru.
  • Japanese idol, Youtuber and Gunpla/modeling expert Umi Shinonome took her stage name from Shinonome Labs, being a big fan of the anime.
• Stunt Casting: The anime adaptation has formed a habit of having a well-known voice actor speak as one of the important objects that appears in the episode.
  • Episode 1: Reiko Katsura and Cherami Leigh as Nano's little toe.
  • Episode 2: Masako Ikeda and Casey Casper as the cake in Nano's head.
  • Episode 3: Hiroshi Masuoka and Greg Ayres as a Voodoo doll.
  • Episode 4: Noriko Ohara and Linda Young as an apartment building.
  • Episode 5: Rikiya Koyama and Justin Cook as an onomatopoeia.
  • Episode 6: Fumihiko Tachiki and Christopher Bevins as the 10-Yen soccer coins.
  • Episode 7: Norio Wakamoto and Phil Parsons as the wooden cubes (Wakamoto was also a soldier at the start of the episode).
  • Episode 8: Tomokazu Seki and Ricco Fajardo as a double-yolked egg.
  • Episode 9: Aya Hirano and Carli Mosier as the shogi King tile and the angel from Helvetica Standard.
  • Episode 10: Masako Nozawa and Colleen Clinkenbeard as an origami frilled-neck lizard.
  • Episode 11: Fuyumi Shiraishi and Jamie Marchi as balls made of mud and steel.
  • Episode 12: Satomi Koorogi and Kate Bristol as a bottle of cider.
  • Episode 13: Megumi Ogata and Anastasia Muñoz as a string of international flags.
  • Episode 14: Shigeru Chiba and Chuck Huber as a soccer ball.
  • Episode 15: Yoshiko Sakakibara and Linda Leonard as a can of oil.
  • Episode 16: TARAKO and Kristin Sutton as a plus-screw.
  • Episode 17: Kazuya Nakai and Christopher Sabat as the Three of Spades.
  • Episode 18: Rikako Aikawa and Luci Christian as a sweet grande white chocolate mocha frappuchino, ordered with a short single-shot caramel sauce, hazelnut syrup, chocolate chip, extra whip espresso.
  • Episode 19: Yūji Mitsuya and Kent Williams as Yuuko's clay bust of herself.
  • Episode 20: Mami Koyama and Stephanie Young as manga manuscript paper.
  • Episode 21: Sumi Shimamoto and Bryn Apprill as a "Lovers' Umbrella".
  • Episode 22: Shibata Hidekatsu and R. Bruce Elliott as melon bread.
  • Episode 23: Yui Horie and Lauren Landa as the high school graduation photo of Sakurai-sensei.
  • Episode 24: Ichirō Nagai and John Swasey as a vending machine.
  • Episode 25: Keiko Yokozawa and Kira Vincent-Davis as Nano's wind-up key.

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