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* [[Reality Ensues]]: A small town in the middle of nowhere with less than a percentage point of its country's population just isn't going to be missed by the world at large, no matter how exotic the cause or affected the former inhabitants are.
* [[Recap Episode]]: A large part of Chapter Four is dedicated to covering the events of ''Your Name'' as Ayaka regains her memories of them in-universe.
* [[Shout Out]]:
** [[Ace Combat|"The other wants the world in every generation, and we shall fell every last one of them."]]
** The constructionmen in Chapter One share surnames with [[Quentin Tarantino]] characters: [[Pulp Fiction|Winnfeld]], [[Kill Bill|Driver, Kiddo]], [[Django Unchained|Candie, Schultz]] and [[Reservoir Dogs|White]].
** Constructionman Schultz reenacts the [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/roll-safe Roll Safe "X can't happen if Y doesn't" gesture.]
** "Being a [[Mass Effect|big, stupid]] ''amadan'' like Bro."
** Uileag is said to have a [[Harry Potter|helping people thing.]]
** [[2001: A Space Odyssey|"It's full of stars..."]]
** [[Command & Conquer|ESTABLISHING BATTLEFIELD CONTROL UPLINK SUCCESSFUL WELCOME BACK]]
** [[BattleTech|BOILERS ONLINE SENSORS ONLINE WEAPONS ONLINE ALL SYSTEMS NOMINAL]]
** Uileag once saved [[Spider-Man|a guy named Peter from a bully named Flash.]]
** Uileag prayed for [[5 Centimeters per Second|one more time, one more chance]] to make things right.
*** Chapter Four also alludes to a letter swept away by the wind.
** [[Crysis (series)|"We don't get to rest just yet..."]]
** [[Persona (video game)|“I am you and you are me.”]]
** [[Furi|"Today's a big day."]]
*** {Look to the sky. Therein lies your answer.}
*** “Time to wake up. ... Shake your head. ... Nod your head. ... It’s time to go. Pull yourself together."
** [[Voices of a Distant Star|{Hello, little star.}]]
** [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (Franchise)|{...the long way down the road to the chemist is just peanuts to space.}]]
** [[Hamlet|{Truly there were more things than dreamed of in our philosophy...}]]
** [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|{...I wasn't in Kansas anymore.}]]
** [[RWBY|{...infinite in distance, unbound by death.}]]
*** {...for it is in passing that we achieve immortality.}
** [[My Hero Academia|{...I am here.}]]
** [[Clear Skies|“It’s hot drop o’clock!”]]
** [[Overwatch|"I've got you in my sights."]]
** The transport plane with callsign Cloudy Sky is a play on [[X-COM (Video Game)|Big Sky]].
*** CLOSE RANGE (allcaps necessary)
*** Two of the researchers are a Dr Shen(g) and a Dr Halen who calls for exercising restraint.
*** The XV-23 EnOsprey has the [[In-Series Nickname]] of "Skyranger".
** Artillery Spotting is also called [[Starcraft|Siege Mode]].
** [[Honor Harrington|The Is did their best. ... Their best was not good enough.]]
** In Chapter Five, Atlanta and O'Bannon are told to [[Pacific Rim (film)|check for a pulse following the experiences of a CDR R Becket.]]
** [[Halo (series)|"Don't hesitate to wake me when you need me.”]]
** [[Team Fortress 2|Any second now. Any second...]]
** When talking about O'Bannon's past in Chapter Six, Albacore does a jig based on Pikotaro's PPAP.
** [[Chinatown|"Forget it, Iowa. It's Quincy."]]
** [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|"Ayayayayayaaaa.exe]] is not responding."
** [[Spec Ops: The Line|"Death toll... too many."]]
** [[Invincible|"What do we have after 500 million?"]]
** [[Project Wingman|"Blood and gold? A broken throne?"]]
** [[Schindler's List|"There will not be generations because of the abyssals."]]
** [[Linkin Park|He was angry. He should be. It wasn't fair.]]
* [[Snow Means Death]]: In Chapter 37, it is snowing as {{spoiler|Ayaka has a premortem conversation with Uileag.}}
* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: In Chapter Four, {{spoiler|Nijimi}} proves that she's not a hallucination by telling Ayaka something only the two of them would have known.
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