Feelies: The "Europa Edition" on PS4 comes with a small-format art book, and a poster that folds out to A3 size (12" x 17") with all of Squad 7 on one side, and Selvaria Bles on the other.
There were plans to animate an impromptu wedding between Alicia and Welkin in the midst of battle atop the Edelweiss, with sketches of Alicia's thrown-together wedding dress. This was dropped due to time constraints.
The art book reveals that Darcsens were originally intended to be a race of cat people, and that the series in general would have much more fantastic elements, like the Empire possessing lizard cavalry and much greater prevalence of large superweapons. The Edelweiss' original design looked similar to the SV-001 from Metal Slug.
Alicia's first name was supposed to be Alma.
An old base for Faldio had sleek, black hair and glasses, before his look was finalized. Rather than scrap the design entirely, it was folded into the creation of Mica. This could explain why he has a "main character" appearance.
Oscar and Emile Bielert were intended to be main characters who would join Alicia and Welkin during the defense of "Border town" (probably an early version of Bruhl). There are even early design materials of them with more detailed sketches. This idea was recycled in the anime as having Oscar and Emile as part of Squad 7 even though they don't get much spotlight.
The anime has the following trivia:
No Export for You: Sony's Crackle service streamed the series briefly, starting in 2012, but eventually dropped it. Since then, it has never been available on other streaming services like Crunchyroll, and has never had an English-subbed DVD or Blu-Ray release.
, but eventually dropped it. Since then, it has never been available on other streaming services like Crunchyroll, and has never had an English-subbed DVD or Blu-Ray release.