Trivia / Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles

• Celebrity Voice Actor: While he is also a voice actor by his own right, Gen in the Latin American Spanish dub is voiced by the Mexican movie and TV actor José Roberto Pisano Domínguez, aka "Pisano".
• He Also Did:
  • Series co-director Alfred Gimeno also directed Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors, and several episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures, Teacher's Pet, and Animaniacs.
  • Series co-director Derek Lee Thompson also worked on the The Boys: Diabolical episode Laser Baby's Day Out.
  • Series art director, Khang Le worked on Motorcity, Big Hero 6: The Series, Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and Anime/Promare and other animated properties in various capacities, either as background designer, layout artist, character designer or art director.
  • Visdev artist Tom Perkins has made monster and other character designs throughout the 90s up til now, such as Men in Black: The Series, Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, Ben 10'. He’s a big kaiju fan so you can guess three times what he designed for Samurai Rabbit.
  • Supervising Producer Ben Jones might be familiar to many as an artist and producer on previous projects, such as SWAT Kats, Teen Titans (2003), El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, Ben 10: Alien Force and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) (director and storyboard artist) and many DC projects as producer, such as the DC Nation shorts, DC Super Hero Girls 2019 and Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• Role Reprise: Miyamoto Usagi is voiced by Yuki Matsuzaki, who played him in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012).
• Self-Adaptation: Creator Stan Sakai serves as an executive producer of the series. This meant that he got to go over every script, design, storyboard and any other piece of work before it went into production.
• The concept of the series and especially the build up to the season 1 finale and season 2 are based on Stan Sakai's stand-alone Usagi book, Usagi Yojimbo: Senso. Episode 8 of season 2, "Eggs!" even references this in the title because the martians in the book land in egg-shaped ships and are called eggs at first. The Makkine are partly inspired by the 1984 anime anthology Robot Carnival which the art crew used as research inspiration. (You can listen to this trivia in the Comic Book Couples Counseling podcast episode where they interview Stan, art director Khang Le and showrunners Candie and Doug Langdale - on CBCC: [1] or youtube: [2] )