Trivia / Digimon Ghost Game

• Acting for Two: Considering the Jet-Black Champion and Gammamon have the same voice actor, any interaction between the two is bound to be Miyuki Sawashiro talking to herself, something that Mutsumi Tamura referred to as the "Sawashiro theater" in an interview before the final two episodes.
• All-Star Cast: The main cast is voiced by famous and renowned voice actors ^note  some of whom have voiced in Digimon before , including Mutsumi Tamura, Miyuki Sawashiro, Yuu Kobayashi, Kazuya Nakai, Akira Ishida and Yu Shimamura.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: As usual with young kids and teens in animation and in this franchise in particular, Hiro and Gammamon are voiced by female voice actresses.
• International Coproduction: A couple episodes feature Key Animation outsourcing to American animation companies Tonari Animation and Studio Yotta^* in their first official anime production after contributing Animesque sequences in DuckTales (2017) and Animaniacs (2020).
• Irony as She Is Cast: Tone-deaf Sirenmon who desperately wants people to listen to her songs is voiced by Nana Mizuki whose long and prolific career is practically the exact opposite of Sirenmon as a renowned singer who's topped the music charts several times.
• Playing Against Type: Rie Kugimiya was famous for voicing Tsunderes, but in Ghost Game she was the voice actor of Digitamamon, now portrayed as a horrific Serial Killer with a penchant for eating humans.
• Reality Subtext: It's rather fitting that Diarbbitmon, the Mega Level of Angoramon makes its debut in the very first episode of 2023, which is the Year of the Rabbit.
• Role Reprise:
  • Wakana Yamazaki originally voiced Archnemon ^note  Arukenimon in the dub in Digimon Adventure 02 and reprises her role in episode 21.
  • Likewise, Toshiyuki Morikawa, who voiced BelialVamdemon in Digimon Adventure 02 (who was a "reincarnation" of the original Vamdemon from Digimon Adventure), returns here to voice the actual vampiric Digimon (rather than his evolution).
  • Aoi Tada, who voiced Terriermon in Digimon Hurricane Landing!! Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals and Digimon Tamers returns as Terriermon Assistant.
• Spoiled by the Merchandise:
  • In promotion for the series, the new Digimon Vital Bracelet (and its anime-tie version, the Digivice V) V-Pet had released DIM Cards^note memory chip cards each containing a single digimon evolutionary tree which are read by the device based on the main three Digimon of Ghost Game, with each one showing all their forms up to Perfect level, well before they appeared in the show.
  • Done again a year later with the Vital Bracelet BE/Digivice VV and its corresponding BE Memory cards revealing GulusGammamon's Perfect Level Regulusmon, the Ultimate Level forms of the main trio, and two Ultimate Levels with an unknown connection for Gammamon, Arcturusmon and Proximamon. It also contains Kuzuhamon, another Digimon who heralds an increasing severity of Digimon attacks like Sealsdramon and Vamdemon way before she makes her debut. It is downplayed though, as the show ends with no reveal for how Arcturusmon or Proximamon would have played a role.
  • The Jellymon DiM card has a special case. A Digimon with a silhouette resembling MarineAngemon shows up in the Story Mode Ultimates section, although without the red star that denotes it as a returning Digimon. Come Episode 60, and it's all but stated that's actually Cthyllamon, which does resemble an Evil Knockoff of MarineAngemon.
• Troubled Production:
  • Due to a hack involving Toei Animation, several episodes of this show had their production delayed.
  • Communication between Bandai and Toei could be extremely last minute, as noted by one of the staff members of the anime. Notably this is why Arcturusmon and Proximamon, who are meant to relate to the final form of the main protagonist's Digimon, didn't show up in the anime, as the anime creators only had the first set of DiM cards to go off of when making the series for most of its majority, so when they were added to the DiM sets, the ending of the show had already been planned and set in stone.
• Word of God: According to the article "The Road to Digimon Producer #5 (Scenario)", Ultimate Digimon encountered are not simply Digimon a level higher than perfect, but are more like actual Physical Gods that reign over the world (hence explaining why the hostile Ultimate Digimon tend to display environment-modifying feats impossible by their lesser brethren). It also explains that partner Digimon evolve into Ultimates because of their thoughts rather than from experience.

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