Trivia / Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple

• Acting for Two: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Mildred Barrera voices both Kaname Kugatachi (Freya) and Ma Renka, and Adriana Casas voices Honoka Shirahama and Chihiro Takashima.
• Cancellation: Shun Matsuena confirmed in an interview that the manga's abrupt ending was due to Shonen Sunday's editor at the time, Takenori Ichihara's decision to axe some of the then currently serialized manga to make way for new talent and Kenichi was one of the series that got axed by Ichihara. Matsuena even admitted he was unhappy with this decision.
• Character Outlives Actor: Tomoko Kawakami, Miu's original voice actress, was hospitalized with ovarian cancer in 2008 and succumbed to its complications three years later. Rie Kugimiya took over as Miu for the OVA releases.
• Creator Cameo: On page 17 of chapter 16, the Author Avatar can be found next to Shigure in the roof tiles.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The physical release was hard to find for a while, as Funimation's license expired in 2018. However, Discotek Media rescued the series and released it on Blu-ray in 2021. And it is currently streaming on Amazon Prime courtesy of TMS themselves. Likewise Discotek also announced they've rescued the OVA series which never got a stateside release with a brand new English dub.
• Late Export for You: The OVA series wasn't released by Funimation before their license expired, but Discotek is currently set to release them (with a dub featuring most of Funi's cast to boot) in the future.
• No Export for You: The manga has never been officially licensed in North America and the PS2 game from Capcom was never released anywhere outside of Japan.
• The Other Darrin: Due to the unfortunate passing of Tomoko Kawakami in June 2011, Rie Kugimiya voiced Miu in the OVA.
  • Likewise, Hayato's original actor, Hiroshi Arikawa, died in October of the same year, so Yuzuru Fujimoto replaced him ^note  though Fujimoto himself would later die in 2019 .
  • Kyōko Ono was voiced by Kaoru Shimamura in the series but Shimamura died in 2013 of breast cancer. Touko Aoyama replaced her for Ono's appearance in OVA 5.
  • Two of the Valkyries, Chisato Ayazaki and Yoko Igarashi, were voiced by Michiko Neya and Manabi Mizuno respectively in the series but were replaced with Tomo Muranaka and Yayoi Sugaya for their brief appearance in the eighth OVA, likely as a cost-saving measure.
  • For the English version, young Kenichi was voiced by his main actor, Jessie James Grelle, in a flashback showcasing him defending Honoka from bullies. For the later flashbacks detailing his past with Miu and Ryūto, Leah Clark voiced young Kenichi.
  • Tanimoto had a change in the dub going from Jason Liebrecht to Eric Vale after the former's motorcycle accident left him out of the voiceover game for a year.
  • As expected, the many controversies surrounding Vic Mignogna meant that he wasn't brought back as Kensei for Discotek/Sound Cadence's dub of the OVAs, with the role now being played by Daniel J. Edwards.
• Real-Life Relative: In the Mexican Spanish dub, two of José Luis Orozco's children appear in minor roles. Alejandro Orozco was the voice of Koga and Luis Fernando Orozco provided additional voices.
• Saved By The Network: After Funimation's license expired, Amazon picked it up for legal streaming.
• Star-Making Role: For Jessie James Grelle, who voiced Kenichi in the English dub.
• Studio Hop: The 2012 OVA series was animated by Brains Base rather than TMS and mostly has a different staff, though Hideyuki Motohashi who was an animation supervisor on the TV series returned as the character designer and Masahiro Shoji of Fizz Sound Creation returned to do sound effects.

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