Trivia / Genshiken

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• Ascended Fanon: "Nyaako" is now the official name for that cat smile girl.
• Directed by Cast Member: Bill Timoney (Harunobu Madarame) served as the ADR director for the English dub.
• Never Trust a Title: Genshiken: Second Season is actually the third televised season, after Genshiken 2. The Japanese title actually literally translates as "Second Generation", which is more apt (dealing as it does with the "generation gap" between the old- and new guard of Otaku).
• The Other Darrin: In Second Generation, everyone was recast. For example, Kanji Sasahara, who was voiced by Takanori Ohyama in the first two seasons, is now voiced by Tatsuya Kobashi.
• Playing Against Type: You would expect Akira Ishida and/or Jun Fukuyama to voice a bishonen in this series... but it happens that both got casted unexpectedly for Kuchiki in the original anime and Nidaime, respectively.
• Portmanteau Series Nickname: "Genshiken" and "Kujiun".
• Studio Hop: Genshiken was initially produced by Palm Studio before switching to Ajiado for the OVA, ARMS Corporation for Genshiken 2 and Production I.G for Second Generation.
• Technology Marches On: In one chapter, Madarame looks up a PC catalog and marvels at the 200 GB sizes of American hard-drives. The chapter was released in 2002, so that sort of size was high end at the time.
  • An omake page set during Kuchiki's graduation trip has him explaining to the newbies that only a little while back, he was using a four megapixel camera and smartphones barely existed.

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