Nyaruko: Crawling with Love/Trivia

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Mahiro: "I don't need a thousand-faced little sister!"

      • The three-lobed red single eye in darkness with bat wings is a form of Nyarlathotep described in The Haunter in the Dark... and a description of Nyarko's Henshin Hero form's helmet.
      • Nyarko's brother, Nyar-o, has a pharaoh-like costume. Another usual trait of Nyarlathotep is being associated with Ancient Egypt (thus the -hotep suffix).
      • Related to the above, Nyar-o's Full Force Form resembles yet another known avatar of Nyarlathotep - The Bloody Tongue - which is encountered in the Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game) adventure module Masks of Nyarlathotep.
      • Nyar-o randomly crying out "Tezcatlipoca!". In the Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game) RPG, the Aztec deity was also one of the Crawling Chaos' thousand masks.
      • Nyarko's police car is called... the Nephren-Car. Nephren-ka, otherwise known as the Black Pharaoh is, depending on the source (Robert Bloch's Mythos stories or Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)), a corrupt Egyptian ruler using the name of Nyarlathothep, his worshipper, or actually is the Black Pharaoh, another of the thousand masks of the Crawling Chaos.
    • Cuko having a crush on Nyarko is likely a reference to "The Dweller in Darkness" by August Derleth. Nyarlathotep and Cthugha appear in the story one being used to fight off the other.
    • Shantak-kun being weak against Nightgaunts. In "The Dream Quest Of Unknown Kadath", Shantaks fear the Nightgaunts. They are the servants of Nodens, hunter of Nyarlathotep's servants. Nodens himself plays a minor role in the tale.
    • The superhero show in episode 1 mentions "Star Vampire Crusaders!" in Gratuitous English. Star Vampires are another mythos species.
    • R'lyeh, the unspeakable, maddening pelagic house of Cthulhu... turns out to be an Amusement Park. The "taxi" taking the heroes to R'lyeh is Dagon, the male leader of the Deep Ones - worshipers of Cthulhu in the Lovecraft tales.
    • The "BLT" sandwich from the first episode turns out to be made of Byakhee, Lloigor and Tsathoggua. Unlike the first two, the latter is not a species, but an individual Great Old One. This may or may not be an error. She might be referring erroneously to the whole species by that name, as most of the individual mythos gods are members of wider species in this series, but generally with an added suffix, not given in this case, to differentiate them from the individual being. But being Nyarlathotep, wanting a specific Great Old One for a sandwich ingredient isn't out of the question either.
    • YOU FOOL, CUUKO IS DEAD! from the fifth episode, is the last sentence in The Statement of Randolph Carter (well, the original says "Warren", not Cuuko).
    • Cthulhu Inc. being rivals to the CCE, Hasta's father's company. This is an allusion to Hastur's and Cthulhu's own sibling relationship.
    • Hasta previous employment as a "librarian at the Celaeno Library". In The Trail of Cthulhu, Library of Celaeno is an repository of elder lore on another planet. Byakhee, the servants of Hastur, infest the place and can take travelers there.
    • Episode 7: "The rats in the walls!"
  • Shout-Out: This anime is like a geek test. Indeed, a blog was specifically set up to catalogue most of the references found per episode. Some of the more obvious Shout Outs in the series can be seen below.
    • The series loves to reference other (yes, there are more) "Moe Mythos" series. In Episode 1, a little figurine on the anime store is the version of Nyarlathotep from the manga Igyou tachi ni yoru to sekai ha.... The cover of the "recalled Eroge" is from Maumi Shoujo R'lyeh ruru light novels. And two girls in Mahiro's class are characters from R'lyeh High School, which shares the same illustrator with this series, Koin.
    • "SAN" is an attribute in the classic Tabletop RPG Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game) by Chaosium. You can even see a glimpse of a character sheet and the trademark percentile dice of the Chaosium RPG systems in the first episode, and a Storyteller screen in the ED. The roll shown is accurate as well, illustrating either a legitimate failed SAN roll (with the amount of lost sanity not shown), or the roll for said amount. Incidentally, a d100 like the one shown would be appropriate for seeing Nyarlathotep in one of its monstrous forms.
    • At the sight of Nyarko giving a brutal beatdown on a Nightgaunt, Mahiro looks away, crouches and covers his ears while repeatedly telling himself "I hear nothing...", in the same way as Mio Akiyama.
    • There are more than a few shout outs to Kamen Rider. Nyarko is a big fan of the series and she drops poses and references to the franchise non-stop. You could make a whole subpage devoted just to these references.
    • When Nyarko sends out Shantak-kun poke-ball, she copies Ash Ketchum, minus the hat spinning.
    • In an episode of the first anime series, Cuuko mentions the line "swans look calm but are actually kicking furiously under the water" while a Fender bass guitar floats on the background, a reference to K-On!'s first season ED song lyrics.
    • Nyarko cries names of various Sunrise's Humongous Mecha whenever being attacked by Mahiro (mobile suits' models in first episode, heavy mecha in second). Cuko pulls out CQC Type 100 (Hyaku-shiki) in her first appearance and her telepathic laser drones resemble first generation funnels.
      • The third episode exclamations (Pazuzu, Nalagiri and Tezcatlipoca) are from Shin Megami Tensei (Nyarlathotep is a character there, too).
      • Fourth episode has only one yelp (Eroba!), this one from Fist of the North Star
      • Fifth episode has another single yelp, this time from Kinnikuman (Hell Missionaries)
    • The last (broadcast) episode of the first anime has Nyarko assure Mahiro that everything would be alright as they would erase everyone's memories once they were done. Then she takes out the neuralyzer.
    • Cuko used to play make-believe Saint Seiya in space kindergarten and Nyarko liked to break up make-believe games, earning the nickname of Imagine Breaker
    • Nyarko pulls off an Exterminating Last Bullet.
    • Let's head for the Grand Line!
    • Do you remember our love?. Also, a "superdimensional circus" is better known in this wiki as the Macross Missile Massacre.
    • Nyarko wants to know if Cuko's grandfather was a negotiator in the City of Amnesia.
    • In episode 2 of the anime series, "There's only one reason for your defeat. One simple answer. You... You made me angry., followed with "MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA" and ended with "Yare yare da ze". For those who don't know the first one, that's what Jotaro said when he defeats Dio.
    • In Haiyoru! Nyaruani, there are portraits of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth on the living room walls.
      • In Another Crawling Chaos, R'lyeh has a "Arkham Haunted House". Arkham House was the publishing company operated by Derleth and Donald Wandrei, founded to print Lovecraft's anthologies.
    • A blasphemous hand grenade?
    • In episode 3, Cuko quotes the law of Equivalent Exchange.
    • Also in episode 3, after killing a bunch of Ghouls and Nightgaunts with a chainsaw, Nyarko says, "Once again, I have cut a useless object."
    • Also in episode 3, Nyarko asks Mahiro if he wants her to call him "Nii-nii". That term is frequently used by Miya Tachibana, who, like Nyarko, is voiced by Kana Asumi.
    • Nyarko goes on to make a gununu face when confronted with DK-do 10 year premium anniversary cake. Also from Ichigo Mashimaro, Cuuko's face-plant is a trademark of that series resident twintails, Miu.
    • The vignette that appears in the first episode of the second anime while Nyarko says "Earth, what a terrifying child you are!" is from Glass Mask.
    • The line Nyarko uses to introduce herself to the classroom is from the OP of Braiger (and the music from the Monster Hunter videogame).
    • R'lyehland's mascot, Insmouthboy, looks a lot like another fish-boy, Ponyo
    • The "trapezohedrons are unbreakable" from episode three is both yet another reference to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ("Diamonds are unbreakable") and the "shining trapezohedron" from Lovecraft's The Haunter in the Dark.
    • The dog chasing Hasta in episode 4 looks like Marron from To LOVE-Ru, which, like this series, is produced by XEBEC.
    • In the first episode, replace the miso soup bowl with a beer can and you get a perfect reference to Neon Genesis Evangelion Misato Katsuragi's Beergasm moment. Also, Luhi makes the Ikari Gendo pose right down to the Scary Shiny Glasses.
    • Luhi Siston drives a Delorean that leaves fire tracks when reaching warp-speed.
    • Nyarko's car can use a Super Robot Wars-style MAP attack.
    • In the seventh novel, Shantak-kun turns into a little girl with help from Cuuko. Nyarko's reaction is to claim that There's no way my pet can be this young a girl.
    • In episode five Hasta says he wants to "combine" with Mahiro. At the end of the preview for the next episode, Mahiro asks why Nyarko hasn't made a "combine" robot joke this time: Nyarko answers that "it was a little too adult". Of course, there's a Humongous Mecha series where mecha "combining" has a Does This Remind You of Anything? quality, Sousei no Aquarion. Hasta also has an unusually sharp sense of smell, just like Aquarion's Apollo, and he makes an absurdly long-reach love promise with Mahiro, too.
    • When Mahiro learns that Hasta had to perform CPR on him and thus has stolen his first kiss, he mutters "No count, no count!" in Gratuitous English, just like Kaoru did in Amagami SS when she accidentally kissed Junichi. That would make it the second Kaoru reference in the series, if you count Nyarko using her belly-exposing stance in episode three.
    • Nyarko follows the Ran Mori school of thinking: karate kicks can solve anything!
    • The Nephren-car can negotiate even Red Canyon and Fire Field! Good thing if you're playing F-Zero.
    • Hasta's father is president of CCE - Carcosa Computer Entertainment. Carcosa is the city associated with Hastur in The King in Yellow, the company full name is Shout-Out to SCE - Sony Computer Entertainment.
    • After giving a Panty Shot to Mahiro (and only him) Nyarko turns and does Machiko's catchphrase "how shameless" and pose (but fully clothed) from Maicchingu Machiko Sensei.
    • Mahiro's mom breaks out her Musou attacks in episode 6.
    • Also in episode 6, Cuuko falls from the sky while wrapped in a futon. She says she was "cordless bungee-jumping," which may be a pun on the series title ("denpa" = wireless radio wave/signal).
    • In Episode 7 Nyarko makes a direct reference to Daitarn 3, then after Mahiro bluntly tells her he doesn't like her, she goes totally pale, then the following Eyecatch shows her slumped on a stool, mimicking the famous scene in Ashita no Joe where the titular Joe Yabuki dies on the spot after his final fight.
    • Episode 8 has a heap of them in the Dating Sim:
    • Episode 9 features Dagomon.
    • The opening of the second anime season's first episode is alleged by Nyarko to be a video report she's putting together for her superiors, but it's based on the opening credits animation from Bewitched: Nyarko flies around on a broom, then she's shown cooking, Mahiro kisses her cheek and she vanishes, a cat jumps into his arms and turns into Nyarko ... and just about then Mahiro interrupts to protest how thoroughly false all this is.
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