Trivia / Punishing: Gray Raven

• Ascended Fanon: When Punishing's story was fan translated, the name of the villain group was usually rendered as "the Ascendants", a Woolseyism for "升格者" (lit. "upgraded/promoted/ascended one"), which Kuro Games would put down as "Promoter". When the global version arrived, Kuro Games decided to adopt "Ascendant" as the official term.
• Darkhorse Casting: While the English dub was composed of well-known voice actors like Brianna Knickerbocker, Alan Lee, Sarah Anne Williams, Dawn M. Bennett, and Chris Hackney, a majority of the English voice cast was also composed of new names and rising actors like Sura Siu, Kelsey Jaffer, Caleb Yen, Corey Wilder, Judy Alice Lee, Liana Bedwi, Sam Slade, Brett Calo, Patrick Guia, Melody Peng, Brittany Cox and Heather Gonzalez.
• Late Export for You: Released in China in 2019, in Japan and Taiwan in 2020 and globally in 2021. That means the Global version is also two years late in terms of playable characters and story content.
• Orphaned Reference: The memory Cottie, who is exclusive to the global version of the game, replaces one named Adolf while retaining the exact same stats. Cottie's in-game profile and dialogue lines remain unchanged, however, and her interactions implying that she recognizes the player only make sense if she was Adolf, the female main character of Twintail Battlefield.
• The Original Darrin: Kana Hanazawa returns to reprise her role as the titular Black★Rock Shooter in the August 2023 Blazing Simulacrum crossover event for Punishing: Gray Raven, as she is the character's first Japanese voice actress since the 2009 and 2012 Black★Rock Shooter anime adaptations. This is despite the next Alternate Continuity counterparts of B★RS being played by other actors such as Maaya Sakamoto (in Black★Rock Shooter: THE GAME) and Yui Ishikawa (in Black★★Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall).
• The Other Darrin: In 2021, Liv's first Japanese voice actor, Ai Kayano, fell afoul of China's internet community when she visited an area infamous for a shrine that commemorated its World War II soldiers. Kuro Games decided to remove Liv's old lines voiced by Kayano and have Miku Itō take over as VA, coincedentally in time for the character's newest playable class at the time.