Trivia

According to Mitsurô Kubo, the appearance of Viktor Nikiforov is based on actor and director John Cameron Mitchell.

Mitsurô Kubo and director Sayo Yamamoto spent 4 years planning for and creating the basis of the show.

The first character that Mitsurô Kubo thought of was Yuri Plisetsky.

Mitsurô Kubo created 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 than Flip Flappers (2016), which had the second-highest number of key animators.