Trivia / Grenadier

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• Acting for Two:
  • Besides voicing the anime's Canon Foreigner Tenshi, Chieko Honda and Dorothy Elias-Fahn serve as the respective Japanese and English voices of Setsuna Onmidoh.
  • Noa Nagai voices Koto and Ai.
• Copiously Credited Creator: Wendee Lee is the English dub's ADR director, Rushuna Tendo's voice actress as well as the ADR scriptwriter.
• DVD Commentary: In a real rarity for anime, every episode has a commentary hosted by Mikako Takahashi (Rushuna) and Kazuya Nakai (Yajiro). Some episodes have guest commentators, like Yuki Matsuoka (Mikan), Nobuyuki Hiyama (Teppa), and the director Hiroshi Kōjina for the final episode.
• Follow the Leader: A blonde, pacifistic outlaw with ridiculously good gun skills; a group of assassins whose main purpose is to torture the main character with their inevitable deaths; and a mysterious, completely nihilistic antagonist, much like Trigun.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The anime hasn't seen a Japanese home media release since 2005.
• Late Export for You: Tokyopop began releasing the manga in 2006, three years after its Japanese premiere.
• No Dub for You: The only languages the anime is dubbed in are English, European Spanish and German.
• The Other Darrin: Kasumi had three different actresses playing her over the course of only twelve episodes! First was Julie Ann Taylor (already the voice of Mikan) in her first appearance/cameo in episode 3, then Kate Higgins in episodes 7 and 8, and finally Megan Hollingshead for episodes 10-13, the final episodes of the series.
• Overtook the Manga: Even though the anime differs with the manga plot (changing some characters' motives and personalities taking into consideration how long this anime was going to be), the manga still kept being published for a little while a few months after the anime ended.
• Recast as a Regular: In the English dub:
  • Julie Ann Taylor voiced Kasumi in episode 3 and would later go on to voice Mikan starting with episode 5.
  • Nago's voice actor, Bob Papenbrook, later voiced Ganzo Tenma.
• Release Date Change: Media Blasters was originally set to release the anime series on Blu-ray in North America on December 28, 2021. It was eventually moved to January 18, 2022.
• Studio Hop: At first, the manga's North American release was handled by Tokyopop, before switching to Viz Media in 2015.

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