Trivia / Tsukiuta

• Actor Allusion: It hadn't been announced at the time, but in one of the higawari scenes in Tsukino Empire, Isono Dai (Akino) alludes to Kurita Manabu (Rokka) being cast as Procellarum's You, and congratulates him. At the time, Mabu's smile was just adorable, but knowing what we know now, and having seen him as You, it's Heartwarming in Hindsight.
• All-Star Cast: Part of the original concept - Vocaloid producers writing for popular seiyuu instead of software.
• Harpo Does Something Funny: Several scenes in every stage play have jokes that change in every performance that seem to be this - and that's aside from the "Charisma"/ Mutsuki-kun segments, which are pure improv.
• Life Imitates Art: Part of Arata's character is the motif that the Cherry Blossoms don't last, but that their fall makes them more beautiful, and the Mono no Aware surrounding this. In 2017, he was the first character to have a cast change in the stage play, and in 2018, he was the first character to have a second voice actor. Both cast changes also occurred at the fourth entry in their series. Arata represents the fourth month.
• Long-Runner Cast Turnover: With 12 stage plays over 6 years, the series has become this. Haru, Arata, and Iku have all had 3 actors so far.
  • The Original Darrin: Shuuto Washio, the original You in plays 1-8, returned from 11-present. In 9 and 10, You was played by Manabu Kurita, who played You's brother Tooru in Kurenai Enishi.
• Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": The second season of the anime series was announced on October 6th, 2020 in Latin America by a new streaming company called AnimeOnegai, even though the first season didn't broadcast there (you can blame Funimation for that, or maybe they didn't get the license for Spanish-speaking countries in first place).
• Meme Acknowledgement: Several of the stage actors' blog/twitter jokes and personal catchphrases have made it into the series are running jokes. Examples include Ryu Kiyama's "Ganbaryu" (And Shuuto Washio's "Ganbarimashuuto"), and Kazumi Doi's "Maguro".
• The Other Darrin: Because of the long-running stage series, the actors change from time to time. Typically, the change is welcomed or at least accepted, but there are times when it takes much longer for the roles to settle in, depending on the fanbase and the character.
• Pop-Star Composer: Popular Vocaloid producers, at least. Part of the original concept.
• Production Posse: How many members of the stage cast have appeared in the Identity V stage play series from the same producer? There's Agata Goki (Fan Wujiu, Six Gravity's Mutsuki Hajime); Suzuki Yota (Victor Grantz, Six Gravity's Kisaragi Koi); Igarashi Keisuke (Joseph Desaulniers, Hokekyo-kun (Yayoi Haru's bird)); Hirai Yuki (Aesop Carl, Procellarum's Fuzuki Kai and SQS's original character Romeo); Tanaka Toshihiko (Freddy Riley, Quell's Izumi Shuu); Seto Keita (Mike Morton, SolidS' Okui Tsubasa); Tachibana Ryou (Lucky Guy, Growth's Sakuraba Ryota); Tanaka Kouhei (Kevin Ayuso, Rock Down's Amaha Reiji); Ishikawa Ryutaro (Kreacher Pierson, the teacher in Alivestage's School Revolution); Hino Arata (Hastur, Alivestage's Izanagi); Isono Dai (Andrew Kreiss, Tsukino Empire's Akino); and last but not least, Chiba Mizuki (Eli Clark), who sings the theme songs for Identity V, is the voice actor for Mikaze Roa. In addition to all of these actors, SQS choreographer J.U.N. also does the choreography for Identity V.
  • Movista has also produced an original series called Kuro to Shiro of which, out of 16 cast members, 7 have been in both Tsukipro and Identity V, and only one was in neither. And guess who sings the theme song...
• Recast as a Regular:
  • Manabu Kurita (Tooru, You's brother, in Kurenai Enishi) as You in 9-10 and the first Machine Elements.
  • Yuuki Hirai (Romeo in ''ROMEO in the Darkness'') as Kai in 9-present. Noteworthy in that he was also announced for lead roles in Identity V and Kuro to Shiro, Movista's first two non-Tsukipro productions, within a month of being announced for Kai, all in about 3 months after Romeo.
  • Kouhei Tanaka (Shiki's brother Keito in SQS episode 5) as Reiji in Rock Down.

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