Moldiver/Trivia

Trivia about Moldiver includes:

Hey, It's That Voice!:
- In the English dub, David Hayter as Hiroshi.
- Most of the named characters have now-famous Japanese voices (and many of them were famous when Moldiver was made):
  - Mirai Ozora is Yukana (C.C. in Code Geass, Tessa Testarossa in Full Metal Panic, Reinforce Zwei in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, Cure White in Futari wa Pretty Cure, ...) This is Retroactive Recognition; Mirai was her debut role.
  - Hiroshi Ozora is Toshiyuki Morikawa (Sephiroth in Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, Naraku in Inuyasha, the titular Tekkaman Blade, Griffith in Berserk ...)
  - Nozomu Ozora is Rica Matsumoto (Satoshi/Ash in Pokémon, Jim Hawking in Outlaw Star, Wasimo in Wasimo, Futaba Aoi in You're Under Arrest, ...)
  - Kaoru Mizaki is Kiyoyuki Yanada (Takenori Akagi in Slam Dunk, Megatron in Transformers Armada)
  - Mao Shirase is Akiko Hiramatsu (Nene Romanova in the original Bubblegum Crisis, Vento of the Front in A Certain Magical Index II, Aki Hinata in Sgt. Frog, Miyuki Kobayakawa in You're Under Arrest, ...)
  - Amy Lean is Nariko Fujieda
  - Professor Amagi is Jouji Yanami (the narrator in most seasons of Dragon Ball, Babadi in DBZ, Professor Gennosuke Yumi in Mazinger Z)
  - Brooke is the eternally-17-year-old Kikuko Inoue (Belldandy in Ah! My Goddess, Lust in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Shuko in Angelic Layer, Grace O'Connor in Macross Frontier, ...)
  - Elizabeth is Yumiko Shibata (Shunrei in Saint Seiya)
  - Isabelle is Emi Shinohara (Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter in Sailor Moon, Kaho in Cardcaptor Sakura, Youko Mizuno in Maria Watches Over Us, B-ko in Project A-ko, ...)
  - Jennifer is Yuri Amano (Ifurita in El-Hazard: The Magnificent World, Yuriko Star in Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Kiyone in Tenchi Universe, Rain Mikamura in Mobile Fighter G Gundam, ...)
  - Nastassja is Kaoru Shimamura (Ran/Lan in Devil Lady)
  - Sayuri is Izumi Kikuchi
  - Vivian is Kumiko Nishihara (Pirotess in Record of Lodoss War, Shiori in Revolutionary Girl Utena, Diana in Sailor Moon, Iris in Sakura Taisen, ...)
Shout-Out: Moldiver has a Cameo in episode 8 of Tenchi Universe... as a TV show, not a guest character.
Shout-Out Theme Naming: Machinegal's Dolls all bear the names of famous American and Japanese models and actresses: Nastassja (Kinski), Vivian (Leigh), Brooke (Shields), and Elizabeth (Taylor), just to name four.

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