Trivia

According toMitsurô Kubo,the appearance of Viktor Nikiforov is based on actor and directorJohn Cameron Mitchell.

Mitsurô Kuboand directorSayo Yamamotospent 4 years planning for and creating the basis of the show.

The first character thatMitsurô Kubothought of was Yuri Plisetsky.

Mitsurô Kubocreated around 900 pages of draft scripts in manga form.

This show used more key animators than any other anime series during the fall 2016 season: an average of 48.5 key animators per episode, five more thanFlip Flappers (2016),which had the second-highest number of key animators.