40 Fun Facts About A3!

Which three words does the title A3! stand for, also the name of the anime's first opening song?

Act! Addict! Actors! is the phrase behind the title, and the anime's opening of that name is sung by the four troupe leaders' voice actors as the unit A3ders!.

In A3!, which job does the player take on to rescue the failing Mankai Company?

Director is the job, and it comes with a deadline: the company has to be turned around within a single year or it shuts for good.

Which burden threatens to close Mankai Company at the start of A3! unless it is cleared in a year?

A huge debt piled up after the company's founder vanished, and in the anime it is yakuza loan sharks who turn up at the theater to collect.

Each Mankai Company actor in A3! has a personal motif of which kind, fitting the company's name?

A flower is each actor's motif, such as the violet for Masumi Usui, and the company's name echoes mankai, the Japanese word for full bloom.

Which sweet is almost the only food that sleepy Hisoka Mikage of A3!'s Winter Troupe will eat?

Marshmallows are nearly all the picky Hisoka will eat, and his voice actor Junta Terashima once warned the character that they are high in calories.

Stone-faced Winter Troupe latecomer Guy insists in A3! that he is which kind of being?

An android is what Guy calls himself, claiming he was built at a royal research institute, though he keeps mishearing people in a very human way.

Which detail about Winter Troupe's Azuma Yukishiro does A3! keep secret, even from his voice actor?

His age appears only as question marks on his official profile, and voice actor Tetsuya Kakihara said the number was kept secret from him as well.

What kind of animal is Kamekichi, the foul-mouthed mascot of Mankai Company in A3!?

A parrot, even though his name is written with the Japanese character for turtle, and the bird is said to enjoy a drink.

Spring Troupe's debut play in A3!, also an anime episode title, renames which Shakespeare tragedy?

Romeo and Juliet becomes Romeo and Julius for the all-male troupe, and the anime's second episode borrows the play's title.

Which gentle actor, returning to the stage after giving up his dream, leads A3!'s Winter Troupe?

Tsumugi Tsukioka leads the troupe, and off stage he works as a private tutor and tends plants, a hobby he picked up from his grandmother.

Which A3! actor walked away from being a rival company's top star to join Mankai Company?

Tasuku Takato gave up his place at the top of a famous rival and joined the Winter Troupe, whose leader is a childhood friend he acted beside through university.

Hisoka Mikage joins A3!'s Winter Troupe after being found collapsed outside the theater with what?

Amnesia has wiped his past when he arrives at Mankai Company, yet he proves a skilled performer who is remarkably light on his feet.

What is the profession of Homare Arisugawa, the eccentric Shakespeare reader in A3!'s Winter Troupe?

Poet is his trade, and he is liable to burst into passionate verse in front of anyone the moment inspiration strikes.

Guy first comes to Mankai Company in A3! as the former attendant of which Spring Troupe member?

Citron, the Spring Troupe's mysterious exchange student, is the master Guy once served, and Guy crossed the sea from their distant homeland.

Each A3! troupe has a house style; which kind of play is the Winter Troupe's specialty?

Serious drama played with quiet feeling is the Winter Troupe's line, and its ending theme in the anime carries the fitting title Thawing.

Mankai Company's Winter Troupe meets rival God Troupe in which kind of contest to end the A3! anime?

An act-off between the two companies fills the final episode, Once More, with Feeling, with everything on the line for Mankai Company.

In the A3! anime episode Responsibility and Commitment, what traps two Winter Troupe actors?

A time loop makes the two childhood friends wake to the same day again and again until they work out how to break free.

Which voice actor, also Kyojuro Rengoku in Demon Slayer, plays the Winter Troupe's Guy in A3!?

Satoshi Hino voices Guy, a late arrival who does not appear until the eighth act of the game's main story.

Which English dub veteran, the voice of Vegeta in Dragon Ball Z, plays Juza Hyodo in A3!?

Christopher Sabat voices the feared Autumn Troupe delinquent, whose soft secret is a habit of mail-ordering sweets that he hides even from his family.

Which voice actress, known as Eureka in Eureka Seven, plays Izumi Tachibana in the A3! anime?

Kaori Nazuka plays Izumi, and the anime was where the game's silent player character first received a voice of her own.

Which Japanese studio, also behind the idol game I-Chu, developed the theater game A3!?

Liber Entertainment made the game, and the studio takes its name from Liber, a Roman god associated with the harvest.

Which company, publisher of the Ikemen Series otome games, released the English version of A3!?

Cybird launched the English version in October 2019 and promised to leave the original voice cast and music untouched.

On which fictional street of small theaters does Mankai Company stand in A3!?

Veludo Way, billed as the Theater Heartland, runs through the town of Veludo, where the player arrives while searching for a missing father.

Which high schooler is the revived Mankai Company's first recruit in A3! and Spring Troupe leader?

Sakuya Sakuma has adored the theater since he was small and makes up for his inexperience with sheer effort, practising favourite lines down by the riverbank.

Elite yakuza Sakyo Furuichi takes on which job for Mankai Company after joining A3!'s Autumn Troupe?

Accountant suits the sharp-minded enforcer, who first turned up meaning to close the theater and somehow knows its history better than its manager.

Which Autumn Troupe member first enters Mankai Company in A3! as a spy for rival God Troupe?

Taichi Nanao was promised a leading role by his old company in return for sabotaging Mankai, but guilt wins out and he confesses.

Azami Izumida runs away from his yakuza-boss father in A3! to chase which dream career?

Makeup artist is the ambition that sparked a furious row with his father, and the teenage runaway ends up in the Autumn Troupe.

Which Summer Troupe leader in A3! is a former child star whose parents are both screen idols?

Tenma Sumeragi made his name in films and joins Mankai Company to take on live theater, though his pride has left him with very few friends.

Misumi Ikaruga of A3!'s Summer Troupe is obsessed with collecting objects of which shape?

Triangles fill his every thought, and fittingly the two characters of his given name, Misumi, also spell the Japanese word for the shape.

Tomoru Akazawa took over the voice of which A3! character he was already playing in the stage plays?

Kazunari Miyoshi changed voices in December 2020, and the anime's final episode aired with Akazawa's newly recorded lines.

Which studio, known for Shirobako, animated the A3! anime together with Studio 3Hz?

P.A. Works shared the job with Studio 3Hz, and the first season was pulled after three episodes, then rebroadcast from the beginning in April 2020.

Which company acquired the A3! anime for regions outside Asia and streamed it as it aired in Japan?

Funimation simulcast the series and went on to release an English dub, with Monica Rial voicing the troupes' guiding heroine, Izumi.

Which Japanese record label publishes the music of A3!, including the troupes' theme songs?

Pony Canyon issues the franchise's music, and the game's first opening single topped Oricon's daily CD chart less than a month after launch.

Which Japanese singer-songwriter wrote and arranged the opening themes of the A3! game and anime?

Masayoshi Ōishi, known for his work on Ace of Diamond and Overlord, belongs to a music team that also includes Hige Driver and Yuyoyuppe.

Gentle giant Omi Fushimi, the Autumn Troupe's star cook in A3!, belongs to which university club?

Photography is his club, a calm pursuit for someone who was feared in high school as the toughest delinquent in his home town.

Which illustrator's original A3! character designs were adapted for the anime by Mariko Komatsu?

Ryō Fujiwara drew the game's cast, and a second designer, Nozomi Nagatomo, took over the adapting duties for the Autumn and Winter half of the anime.

Which calming hobby does Winter Troupe's Azuma Yukishiro list in A3!, favouring Islamic patterns?

Colouring books for grown-ups suit a man whose calm never cracks, even in an emergency, and who never skips his beauty routine.

Which voice actor, also Yuri Katsuki in Yuri on Ice, plays Winter Troupe's Homare Arisugawa in A3!?

Toshiyuki Toyonaga began his own career as a child actor on television and the stage, a fitting past for the voice of a theater troupe member.

Polished office worker Itaru Chigasaki secretly pours most of his salary into which hobby in A3!?

Gaming swallows his pay through in-app purchases, and online he plays and streams under the handle Taruchi.

What pushed the A3! Season Autumn & Winter anime back from a planned July start to October?

COVID-19 disrupted the schedule, and the second half of the anime finally ran from October 13 to December 29, 2020.