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[[Hey, It's That Voice!]] Examples of [[Actor Allusion]]s in [[anime]] and [[manga]] include:
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* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', Kurama already bears some resemblance to [[Rurouni Kenshin|Himura Kenshin]], but for a couple episodes of the Tournament arc, they went out of their way to make it explicit by giving him a cross-shaped scar. [[Megumi Ogata]] voiced Kenshin in the Drama CDs.▼
== General ==
* The anime adaptation of ''[[Lucky Star]]'' is, arguably, half-built on such heavy references. The most emblematic, however, is from episode sixteen -- when Konata Izumi cosplays at her cafe as [[Haruhi Suzumiya]]. Both characters are played by [[Aya Hirano]], who effortlessly slips back and forth into her Haruhi voice to take orders in the cafe. (In the English dub version [[Wendee Lee]] tries this but can't seem to sound like she did back in 2007, this same thing happened with [[Michelle Ruff]] as Nagato, although she sounds like herself again in the preview, the only character to sound like himself was [[Crispin Freeman]]'s Kyon, probably due to the fact the dubbing was lazy in volume 4, compared to the other volumes.)▼
* There is a "seiyuu connection" tag on the [[Danbooru]] imageboard devoted to [[Actor Allusion]] pictures. Specific examples are welcome at [[Actor Allusion/Fan Works]].▼
** Konata is later (in episode twenty-four) bribed with a ticket for a handshake with the voice actress for Haruhi, thus resulting in Aya Hirano as Konata enthusing about [[Celebrity Paradox|meeting Aya Hirano]] "in person" for her work on ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi|The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''.▼
** It's also a common on [[4chan]] to make a "Same VA thread" where you post a picture of one character they play, and a quote from another role they played, often trying to find the most different pair of characters as possible. Really good ones can derail the rest of the thread.▼
** Konata had previously attended a concert (''Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekisou'') with Aya Hirano (technically voicing herself with a ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' [[Image Song]] recording) as one of the stars.▼
** Something Awful did a whole [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/wrong-role-actor.php Photoshop Phriday] for it.▼
** In episode twenty-three, Konata buys a character [[Image Song]] for ''[[Galaxy Angel Rune]]'''s Kahlua, who is voiced by (you guessed it) Aya Hirano, due to feeling "somehow connected" to it. She then convinces Kagami to buy a ''[[Powerpuff Girls Z]]'' album, where Kagami's voice actress [[Emiri Katou]] voices Hyper Blossom.▼
** [[Nico Nico Douga]] is rife of MADs or fake ED themes containing allusions to seiyuu's other works. For example, the Code Geass version of the 1st Durarara ending had Shinra's place taken by Lelouch, and both were voiced by [[Jun Fukuyama]].▼
** A few scenes in episode seven consist of Konata using ultra-polite Japanese and the phrase "A girl should be elegant", traits of another character once played by Aya Hirano: Lumiere from ''[[Kiddy Grade]]''.▼
** Even earlier, more obscure Hirano roles aren't immune: Konata's musings about "that show where a guy's pets come back to life as girls" are a reference to ''[[Angel Tales]]'', where Hirano played Momo The Monkey.▼
== ''[[Lucky Star]]'' ==
*** This was already there in the manga--should it count?▼
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** Manga volume 5 contains a bonus strip in which Konata (and Hiyori) see Aya Hirano in the coffee shop they're at, eating a chocolate coronet.▼
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** And there's a wonderful in-joke in episode 12, where at Comiket, characters played by [[Tomokazu Sugita|Tomokazu]] "[[Suzumiya Haruhi|Kyon]]" [[Tomokazu Sugita|Sugita]] and [[Tomokazu Seki|Tomokazu]] "[[Full Metal Panic!|Sousuke]]" [[Tomokazu Seki|Seki]] manage to fight a [[Mundane Made Awesome]] battle to sell a customer unsold merchandise... of their own respective characters. ([[That Other Wiki]] claims that the two VAs have a rivalry, of sorts. That would explain the battle.)▼
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** [[Daisuke Ono]] as himself and Akira Kogami in ''[[Lucky Star]]'' episode 20 [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] their previous roles in the [[Kyo Ani]] adaptation of ''[[AIR]]'': Ono Daisuke as Yukito Kunisaki/{{spoiler|the crow Sora}} and Hiromi Konno as Potato, Kano Kirishima's dog.▼
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{{quote|'''Akira''': You're not a crow today.
'''Daisuke''': You're not a dog today.
'''Akira:''' Picco picco. }}
== Other Works ==
▲* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', Kurama already bears some resemblance to [[Rurouni Kenshin|Himura Kenshin]], but for a couple episodes of the Tournament arc, they went out of their way to make it explicit by giving him a cross-shaped scar. [[Megumi Ogata]] voiced Kenshin in the Drama CDs.
* Episode 5 of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' contains one during a rather elaborate [[Shout-Out]] to Episode 48 of ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'': In FY, during the fight between Tamahome and Suboshi, Suboshi ends up getting [[Hoist by His Own Petard|killed by his own weapon]] when he finds himself pinned down by the ghosts of Tamahome's brothers and sisters (whom Suboshi had killed) and unable to get out of the way. In ''Pokemon'', just as Satoshi (Ash) is about to order Pikachu to deliver the finishing blow to Takeshi's (Brock's) Onix, he imagines himself being held back from giving the order by Takeshi's many younger siblings (though it turns out they really ''are'' holding Satoshi back). What makes this an [[Actor Allusion]] is that in the Japanese version of their respective shows, Takeshi and Suboshi are both voiced by seiyuu [[Yuji Ueda]].
** The dub gets to pull this when Maylene is introduced. Jessie comments that it's "A meeting of old and new!", likely referencing that Maylene's voice actress was Jessie's 4Kids VA -- [[Rachael Lillis]]. A Hoenn episode also had a very sneaky one for the same actress, titled "A Different Kind of Misty". Guess who voiced one of the characters of the day?
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* Of all things, the [[4Kids! Entertainment|4Kids]] dub of ''[[One Piece]]'' manages to get one in during the Drum Island arc. Dr. Kureha insists to be called Dr. K, a reference to the main villain of ''Cubix: Robots For Everyone''. Both were voiced by the late [[Maddie Blaustein]].
* In episode 20 of ''[[Digimon Savers]]'', the dub has Marcus (voiced by [[Quinton Flynn]]) say that [[Kingdom Hearts|"I've got it memorized"]].
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* ''[[Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo]]'' has a character (sentient AI, same thing) voiced by [[Jun Fukuyama]] pulling everything from his time as [[Code Geass|Lelouch]] to create a madman in a robot body. The manga practically confirms this as he says "if I was human, I'd look like this" with a shot of Lelouch.
* ''[[Mao-chan|Earth Defender Mao Chan]]'' includes a character (Kagome Mishima) who looks identical to Ken Akamatsu's previous and better-known series ''[[Love Hina]]'''s Naru Narusegawa; another character (Sylvia) is voiced by Naru's VA [[Horie Yui]]. At one point, the characters visit a hot springs resort which is clearly the one from ''Love Hina'' - they even describe it as "the hot-springs which magically makes people get in to Tokyo U!" It's inhabited by another character looking identical to Naru, and when Kagome introduces herself to the Naru-alike and asks her name, Sylvia says "No! Don't answer that!" In the English dub, Naru and Kagome have the same English voice-actress.
* In the [[Gag Dub]] of ''[[Crayon Shin-chan]]'' Hiro and Mitzi have a [[Mundane Made Awesome|faux-epic]] newspaper-sword fight and Hiro calls one of his attacks "Sword of the Darkness Flame", which was an attack of Hiei from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', both voiced by Chuck Huber.
* ''[[Darker than Black]]'' has one with April which is a combination of this, [[Captain Ersatz]], and [[Expy]]. The character's Japanese voice actress dubs a lot of Halle Berry's roles, including that of Storm in ''[[X-Men]]''. The character in the anime is a black woman with weather-control powers.
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* Besides being expies of various [[Batman]] characters, some of the cast of ''[[The Big O]]'' also mirror ''[[Lupin III]]'' characters. Perhaps because the ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' cast are also expies of ''[[Lupin III]]'' characters, in the English dub of ''[[The Big O]]'', [[Steve Blum]] voices Roger and [[Wendee Lee]] voices Angel, and they have a similar dynamic as in their roles in Bebop as Spike and Faye.
* ''[[Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi]]''{{'}}s Grandpa Masa was voiced by Takeshi Aono, who also did [[Michael Palin]]'s roles in the Japanese dub of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. Something to keep in mind in Episode 12, when Grandpa goes "lumberjack"!
* [[Yosuga no Sora]] does this with a [[Relationship Voice Actor]]. [[Hiro Shimono|Haruka]] and Sora ride a bicycle as their transportation in town. In ''[[Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two.]]'', [[The Danza|Hiro]] and Miyako also ride a bicycle as their transportation.
▲* There is a "seiyuu connection" tag on the [[Danbooru]] imageboard devoted to [[Actor Allusion]] pictures.
▲** It's also a common on 4chan to make a "Same VA thread" where you post a picture of one character they play, and a quote from another role they played, often trying to find the most different pair of characters as possible. Really good ones can derail the rest of the thread.
▲** Something Awful did a whole [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/wrong-role-actor.php Photoshop Phriday] for it.
▲** [[Nico Nico Douga]] is rife of MADs or fake ED themes containing allusions to seiyuu's other works. For example, the Code Geass version of the 1st Durarara ending had Shinra's place taken by Lelouch, and both were voiced by [[Jun Fukuyama]].
* In one episode of [[Full Metal Panic!]]'s second season, Kaname muses that she'd like to install a device in Sousuke's brain that would let her zap him whenever he did something embarassing. Kaname's voice actress, [[Satsuki Yukino]], also voiced Kagome from [[Inuyasha]], who did much the same to the titular character via his [[Restraining Bolt]] necklace. The allusion is [[Lampshaded]] when Kyouko protests that Sousuke isn't a dog.
** The next-to-last scene of Ep. 12 of [[Full Metal Panic Fumoffu]] contains the following exchange, occurring when the screen is dark: "Hey Luci, good job, that was fun, huh?" "Um, yeah, but you're not done yet. You still have another line, Chris Patton!" "Oh, wait. There's still more?" "Hello... Turn the page, goofball!" (references to Luci Christian, who plays Kaname Chidori, and Chris Patton, who plays Sousuke Sagara).
* In ''[[Infinite Stratos]]'', [[Kouki Uchiyama|Ichika's]] duel against Rin has him posing and charging similar to Gundam Unicorn, a reference to the VA's role as Barnagher Links.
* In ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'', Miyako cuts an apple into the vague shape of an animal head while Yuno is sleeping, but when Yuno brings it up to her, she claims it must have come from an alternate dimension. Yuno jokingly suggests that a fairy crafted it. [[Kaori Mizuhashi]], Miyako's ''seiyuu'', has voiced at least three fairies: [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Navi]], [[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass|Ciela]], and, in the anime world, [[A Little Snow Fairy Sugar|Pepper]].
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** [[Tomokazu Sugita]]: [[Talking to Himself|Gintoki and Switch]]
*** In an earlier episode he states that favorite [[Bleach|Vizard is Kensei]].
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** [[Hiroyuki Yoshino]]: Take-chin and Bossun
** [[Ryoko Shiraishi]]: [[Overly Long Name|Jugem-monkey]] and Himeko. She (as Himeko) even lampshades it.
* In ''[[
* In one episode in the first season of ''[[A Certain Scientific Railgun]]'', an offhand comment is made about how much Uiharu-san likes rice. A few months later, in the second season of ''[[K-On!]]'' Yui-chan sings about liking rice. Both characters were played by [[Aki Toyosaki]].
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