History Trivia / AttackerYou

* ForeignDubAsBasis: The French and European Spanish dubs of ''Anime/AttackerYou'' are based on the Italian dub. Since the Italian dub has a lot of {{Call Back}}s to the Italian dub of ''Anime/AttackNumberOne'', these references were lost on French and Spanish audiences.
* HeAlsoDid: Watching the opening and the first episode, you'd never guess this was a Knack Productions series. The poor animation quality of some later episodes, though, betrays the show's roots as a production of the same studio that gave the world ''Anime/ChargemanKen'' a decade earlier (though it never gets quite to that show's level of bad).

** The series shares a character designer (Kiyomu Fukuda) with ''Attack on Tomorrow'', a 1977 Creator/NipponAnimation volleyball show also heavily inspired by (and made by many of the same staff as) ''Attack No. 1''. Like its "sister" shows, ''Attack on Tomorrow'' was dubbed and broadcast in Europe.

** It also shares a screenwriter (Hideki Sonoda) and a voice actress (You's seiyuu, Yuko Kobayashi) with ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' (Kobayashi voiced Shigeru, aka Gary Oak).

* RoleReprise: You and Sho in the Italian dub. In the 2008 sequel they are still played by their original voice actors of the 1984 series. Averted with all the other characters.

** A number of the staffers from this series would later work on ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''. This includes You's seiyuu, Yuko Kobayashi, who would go on to voice Shigeru (Gary Oak), and Hideki Sonoda, a prolific screenwriter on both shows. It also shares a character designer (Kiyomu Fukuda) with 1977's ''Attack on Tomorrow'', another volleyball show heavily inspired by ''Attack Number One''.

** ''Attacker You!'' was also the first anime job for composer and producer Shiro Sagisu, who would later become well known for his work with Creator/HideakiAnno and Creator/{{Gainax}} on ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' among others.

* HeAlsoDid: A number of the staffers from this series would later work on ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''. This includes You's seiyuu, Yuko Kobayashi, who would go on to voice Shigeru (Gary Oak), and Hideki Sonoda, a prolific screenwriter on both shows. It also shares a character designer (Kiyomu Fukuda) with 1977's ''Attack on Tomorrow'', another volleyball show heavily inspired by ''Attack Number One''.

* TheOtherDarrin: '''EVERYONE''' in the 2008 sequel.
* RoleReprisal: You and Sho in the Italian dub. In the 2008 sequel they are still played by their original voice actors of the 1984 series. Averted with all the other characters.

* FollowTheLeader: The series owes a lot to ''Manga/AttackNumberOne''. In Europe, it was even packaged as a canon sequel to the earlier show, despite no other connection between them in Japanese aside from thematic similarities.

* HeAlsoDid: A number of the staffers from this series would later work on ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''. This includes You's seiyuu, Yuko Kobayashi, who would go on to voice Shigeru (Gary Oak), and Hideki Sonoda, a prolific screenwriter on both shows.

* HeAlsoDid: A number of the staffers from this series would later work on ''Anime/{{Pokémon}}''. This includes You's seiyuu, Yuko Kobayashi, who would go on to voice Shigeru (Gary Oak), and Hideki Sonoda, a prolific screenwriter on both shows.

* FollowTheLeader: The series owes a lot to ''Manga/AttackNumberOne''.

* RoleReprisal: You and Sho in the Italian dub. In the 2008 sequel they are still played by their original voice actors of the 1984 series. Averted with all the other characters.
* TheOtherDarrin: '''EVERYONE''' in the 2008 sequel.

* TheOtherDarrin: '''EVERYONE''' in the 2008 sequel

* FollowTheLeader: The series owes a lot to ''Manga/AttackNumberOne''.