Desperately Seeking Ranma/Trivia
Trivia about Desperately Seeking Ranma includes:
- Shout-Outs:
- Right from the start, there is the title, which references the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan.
- In addition to a highly variant version of Sailor Moon, there are shout-outs to a few other Magical Girl series among the inhabitants of Minato.
- Britain has a magical government and subculture that draws heavily on Harry Potter.
- "Yori" mentions to an FBI agent that there are pockets of magic in Louisiana, the coast of Massachusetts, and Arkansas.
- During their off-Earth "vacation", Ranma and Kasumi take Nabiki to a world which looks a lot like Coruscant, although Nabiki compares it to a sunnier, cleaner version of Blade Runner. And while considering what she's seen so far, she thinks of "the things, the people, and the things that are also people".
- There is a brief cameo by several denizens of the Discworld in the wake of the time machine's destruction.
- "Oh my god, it's full of star" as a suggested reaction to one of the after-effects of the time machine's destruction.
- At least one alien from another universe has enjoyed reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and regrets the passing of Douglas Adams.
- At one point, an automotive engineer describes Misaki (who at the time is driving an insanely-powerful race car) using the usual format for the Stig:
- Chiyoko and her Boom Stick may be a parody of Nanoha.
- The Wiki Rule: Has a (fairly rudimentary) Wikia site.
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