Trivia / Blue Dragon

• Acting for Two: In the English version:
  • Steve Staley voices Jiro and Raging Kesu.
  • Hineto and the Lago Village chief are voiced by Joey D'Auria.
  • Fred Tatasciore voices Szabo and the Caches Town elder.
  • Jibral and Turbulent Mai are both voiced by Sam Riegel.
  • Sura-sura and Kabura are voiced by Melissa Fahn.
  • Jiro and Marumaro's mothers are voiced by Ellyn Stern.
  • Michael McConnohie voices Yasato, as well as Jiro and Marumaro's fathers.
  • Jeelala, the King Ghost and Heat-Wave Sai are voiced by Richard Epcar.
  • Michelle Ruff voices both anime Kluke and her Shadow.
• Creator Couple: In the English version, Richard Epcar voices Heat-Wave Sai, the King Ghost and Jeelala, and his wife Ellyn Stern voices Jiro and Marumaro's mothers.
• Crossdressing Voices: In the Japanese and English versions, the male Shu is respectively voiced by the female Marina Inoue and Mona Marshall.
• Descended Creator: Character designer Akira Toriyama voices Toripo in the game.
• Directed by Cast Member: In the English version, Richard Epcar was the ADR Director as well as the voice actor for Heat-Wave Sai, the King Ghost and Jeelala.
• Multi-Disc Work: The game was split into 3 discs. The second disc started after the victory feast celebrating the destruction of Nene's flying fortress, while the third disc started after rescuing Kluke and waking up in Devour Village.
• No Export for You: Canada has never gotten a legal online stream of the anime.
• The Other Darrin:
  • In the Japanese version of the anime, the characters appearing there are not voiced by the actors that played them in the video game.
  • In the anime's English dub, everyone besides Cindy Robinson (Zola) was recast.
• Role Reprise: Cindy Robinson, Zola's voice actress from the video game, reprises her role for the anime's English dub.
• Significant Double Casting: In the Japanese and English versions, Deathroy and his true form, Destroy are both played by Yuji Ueda and Will Matthews, respectively.
• Vaporware: There were plans for a Blue Dragon 2, being a true sequel to the first game... back during the mid-to-late Turn of the Millennium.
• You Sound Familiar:
  • Daisuke Namikawa was the Japanese voice of Jibral in the video game and Jiro in the anime.
  • In the anime's English dub, Killer Bat is voiced by Richard Epcar, who previously voiced Heat-Wave Sai, the King Ghost and Jeelala in the video game.

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