- Acting for Two:
- Many characters are voiced by Kyle Carrozza.
- In addition to Vambre, Grey DeLisle also voices the Mysterious Hooded Woman, Princess Zange, and various female background characters.
- Creator Backlash:
- In light of Kyle Carrozza's criminal offences, many of the staff who worked on the show have publicly distanced themselves from it, openly criticising Carrozza's attitude and showrunning ability, along with removing any traces of it from their showreels and portfolios.
- According to Carrozza, his biggest regret on the series was the overly-fast pacing on the show since he was inexperienced as a television director at the time and he had to learn about timing through trial and error when he boarded the micro-shorts and original online shorts and he had to juggle with so many responsibilities and simultaneously producing many content for both the series and original shorts at once. He believed that these factors, alongside the show's inconsistent scheduling, was one of the many factors of the show lacking a strong audience and for the show to end. His timing direction improved during the second season, hence the slower pace in the episodes, and feels that fans of the show should start watching the show from the second season instead of the first and the shorts.
- Creator Couple: Creator/actor Kyle Carrozza was married to Lindsay Smith, who worked as a character designer and actor on the show.
- Descended Creator:
- The show's creator, Kyle Carrozza, voices several characters in the show, including Prohyas, Grup, and the announcer.
- Luke Ski, a writer/storyboard artist of the show, voices various characters, such as Skullivan, Nyando, etc.
- Supervising director Ken Mitchroney voices Mr. Pachydermus.
- Executive Meddling: According to Carrozza, the "Adventure Academy" shorts was not his idea at first and he was forced to simultaneously produce it alongside the TV series. He believed that the shorts should've been produced after he finished making the first season, and at least have a secondary writer/co-runner to handle those shorts while Carrozza focuses on the series and only gives his final approval for the shorts afterwards.
- Fake Brit:
- Grey DeLisle fully applies a British accent for Vambre, even saying "Zed" instead of "Z". Also applies in universe as Prohyas stated in one short that Vambre sometimes talks in her sleep without the accent, and it's implied that she picked it up from reading Veronica Victorious books.
- Speaking of Veronica Victorious, her voice is provided by Paget Brewster.
- Line to God: Creator Kyle Carrozza and frequent writer Luke Ski hosted a podcast about the production of the show, as well as discussing other cartoons. It is no longer online due to Kyle’s arrest mentioned below.
- No Budget: According to Carrozza, budget restraints were the reason why he and DeLisle voice a good majority of the characters. Carrozza's music career and ability to produce songs impressed the executives due to the cost-efficiency of having him score all of the shorts before Andy Paley, Jake Posner and Mike Bolger were brought on board for the TV series.
- The Other Darrin: Morbidia was voiced by Candi Milo in her first appearance and by Mary Faber afterward.
- Screwed by the Network:
- The series was well-known (arguably most known) as an apparent victim of Cartoon Network's infamous obsession with airing as many Teen Titans Go! reruns as humanly possible. It was the only current CN show that had to wait six months in 2017 to get full-length new episodes. It and Clarence (2014) were also the only shows that got minimal reruns within that period. While Magimobile collect-a-thons still occurred regularly on the weekends, no actual episodes of Mighty Magiswords would be shown at that point (at most, the occasional 5-minute short.)
- It wasn't until the "Cartoon Network Collect-A-Thon" that happened in July that new episodes of the series were aired, but even then, they were interspersed among the entire lineup with no advertisement of when they would be airing; the "Collect-A-Thon" likely happened more as an excuse to test the interactive viewing game than out of any desire to highlight "Mighty Magiswords", supported by the fact the show was removed from the line-up for the rest of 2017 after "The Saga of Robopiggeh" aired.
- After nine months off the air, it returned to TV in April 2018 with "Bad Heir Day", with the remaining five episodes of the season getting burned off at a graveyard timeslot of 6:15 AM, a time nobody in its target audience would reasonably be awake. It was directly followed by the second season, still at 6:15 AM weekdays; advertising and reruns were also both non-existent. At this point, you would be forgiven for not knowing the show was still on air. Only half of the second season would air before it got pulled the rest of 2018.
- Almost a full 12 months later, the show randomly returned to burn off the remaining episodes in May 2019; granted at a slightly better timeslot of 11:30 AM where kids would actually be awake, but not much since they would still most likely be in school. It doesn't help the full season had been sitting on the app for almost a year prior. While assumptions are ill-advised, it's hard not to think CN geniuenly forgot they still had episodes left to air. The show did not get renewed for a 3rd season, though to be fair, the showrunners were able to give it a proper finale, so CN must have given them some advance warning. note No on-air promotion was given. The only promotion it was given was from the show's creator, Kyle A. Carrozza, on social media.
- The UK's treatment of the show was awful. It premiered in the country in April, which is pretty late for a foreign debut of a CN show (for comparison, We Bare Bears premiered just a month after the US). Even then, new episodes only premiered on weekends at 8:30AM with no presence on the weekdays. Then in August, its only timeslot was 7:15PM, only running for 15 minutes at a time. Then, in the middle of the month, the show was pulled from the schedule for no clear reason, and didn't air for another seven months before finally returning for new episodes on March 30, 2018.
- The show would eventually have a burn-off of the rest of the first season (starting from "Squideo Games", minus the two-parters) at the end of the year at 10pm, a time not many people in its target demographic would still be awake.
- HBO Max removed the show from their service in August 2022, and CN removed all related videos and tweets from their official YouTube and social media platforms (though they were later reinstated). It was also taken off of Hulu.
- The series was well-known (arguably most known) as an apparent victim of Cartoon Network's infamous obsession with airing as many Teen Titans Go! reruns as humanly possible. It was the only current CN show that had to wait six months in 2017 to get full-length new episodes. It and Clarence (2014) were also the only shows that got minimal reruns within that period. While Magimobile collect-a-thons still occurred regularly on the weekends, no actual episodes of Mighty Magiswords would be shown at that point (at most, the occasional 5-minute short.)
- Working Title: It went under two different names before Mighty Magiswords. Those titles were Warriors for Hire and Dungeons and Dayjobs. They would eventually become the names of a season 2 short and a full-length episode respectively.
- What Could Have Been:
- Carrozza created the characters in 1996, inspired by JRPG video games and anime he saw at the time. They were initially fish-out-of-water type characters that came from another universe in a "large cast" comedy idea he had. When he started pitching cartoons to animation studios around 2005-2006, he rediscovered the characters and pitched to both Cartoon Network and another unidentified animation studio called "Legendary Warriors for Hire" that had the ensemble cast be a Teen Titans-esque group, since the show was airing and popular around the time. Around 2007-08, he pitched a more adult-version of the idea called Dungeons and Dayjobs to Mondo Media. In both ideas, Phil and Princess Zange worked with Prohyas and Vambre as a team of Warriors for Hire, Vambre was the only serious member and Prohyas was "Prohias", a ladies-man stuck up wizard. For the "Legendary Warriors" pitch, Vambre wore pants.
- Manfish was originally designed for the Boss Design contest for Mega Man 6, but was not chosen from the entries in Nintendo Power.
- This animatic shows
that the theme song was originally 30 seconds, but about 6 seconds were shaved off. - According to Kyle Carrozza, Egoraptor was approached for character design on the show when the series got the greenlit but he declined and instead offered voice-over. However, Kyle wasn't aware of Hanson's SAG membership until he informed him that he is a member, which led him to be cast.
- Also according to Carrozza, although he wanted some of his friends who are part of The Fump to do voices for the show, since almost none of them are union actors, it couldn't materialize.
- The primary reason the series was Flash animated to begin with was due to the low budget and because Cartoon Network's in-house Flash animation team was reworked, which allowed Carrozza to hire his friends to animate for the show. Although he was offered to move past Flash animation and have the series' done traditionally overseas, he still chose Flash for two reasons: using Flash would allow the team access to unlimited assets of the series to make additional content and revisions for their overseas studio, and although he envisioned his animation to be executed similarly to The Ren & Stimpy Show (specifically the works by Carbunkle Cartoons) and Animaniacs (specifically the works of TMS Entertainment and Startoons), he knew realistically it wouldn't be an option due to cost-efficiency and using a traditional overseas studio would stiffen the animation and the complex designs of the Magiswords would make revisions very time-consuming.
- Carrozza also revealed that there were potential commercial tie-ins early on in the series' development which never came to fruition, although Carrozza did design prototype Magiswords for each sponsor. The sponsors included Gogurt, McDonald's, Nintendo (specifically Splatoon and Super Mario Maker), Skylanders, Hot Wheels, Nerf, Spin Master Air Hogs and Lego.
- Write Who You Know: Vambre and Princess Zange were named after two classmates Carrozza had in high school named Amber and Angie respectively.
- Witchy Simone was based off of Kyle Carrozza's friend Simone Felter.
- Professor Cyrus was based on Kyle Carrozza's uncle Uncle Cyrus.
- The recurring character Matt, owner of Not a Broccoli Stand, is a caricature of Matt Peek, owner of the now-defunct Not a Burger Stand restaurant in Burbank. Peek was initially going to voice the character but since he wasn't a union actor and didn't have time to join, creator Carrozza settled on having the character voiced by a different actor in each episode he appears in.
- Fitz, an incidental kid character who only appeared in the episodes "Action Comedy" and "Unconventional Dolphinism", was a Shout-Out to animator Eddie Fitzgerald.
- Witchy Simone
- Word of God: Carrozza revealed some potential information about the series had the show gotten a third season, as well as other non-known information. Most of the information was on his social media (e.g. X, Facebook) before they were private and deleted.
- The Warriors' designs would have been slightly updated where Prohyas has a bit more of a Rubberhouse 1930s' esque feel and Vambre having a more anime-ish feel, as Carrozza stated that he was more happy with how he drew their designs that way.
- Prohyas would've identified himself as non-binary had he understood the concept and instead just states that he's "manly".
- Noville would have confessed her feelings to Vambre, but Vambre would be open to him about her asexuality as well as her to desire to venture outside of Lyvsheria to find her true sef-purpose while Prohyas wishes to stay instead.
- Morbidia was raised by single witch mom, Siouxie Steinberg, and Gateaux was raised by his parents, the Gato family, whom were a long lineage of cat witches. He also met Morbidia in Adventure Academy.
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