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There is also a two-volume [[Manga]] version, which is ''even weirder.'' The [[Broad Strokes|basic plot is pretty much the same,]] although different worlds are visited, the ones that ''are'' in the show are different, and there's a character not shown in the anime (with the exception of a "blink and you'll miss her" scene in the twelfth episode.)
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* [[Accent Adaptation]]: The official dub translates Osakan dialect as Texan and Kouhei's Tokyo dialect as Brooklyn.
'''Sasshi''': ''"Not pad, POT of gold!"''
'''Arumi''': ''"He's stealing the punchline!" *Smacks her dad with her [[Paper Fan of Doom]]*'' }}
* [[Kamehame Hadoken]]: Sasshi tries to fire one off in the Hong Kong Shopping Arcade episode. He ends up burning his hands in the process and drops it. He tries it again, but it took so long to summon that during the 2ndsecond time, they cut the scene and say "The rest has been abridged" then shows him firing at his opponent.
* [[Kansai Regional Accent]]
* [[Long Title]]: ''"Private E-1 Sasshi of Squad 7, Corps 6 of Division 5 General Headquarters, Auxiliary to the 4th Battalion, Under the command of the 3rd Regiment, Under the 2nd Division of the 1st Army, reporting for duty, Ma'am!"''
* [[Shojo]]: In one world, Sasshi tries to give Arumi everything she would ever want to be happy. She doesn't want any of it.
* [[Shorttank]]: Arumi
* [[Shout-Out]]: Many, though it'd be more appropriate to say they're parodying more than simply just referencing them.
** The most obvious being to ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' -- music from the series is used for a mecha combat scene, and Sasshi's sister is a [[Rei Ayanami Expy]]. Throughout the Battlefield episode, Sasshi's facial features resembles Shinji.
** ''[[Sister Princess]]''
** Episode 2 is a shout out to [[Eastern RPG|JRPG's]] in general, but ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' in particular. Slimes, dead characters being represented by coffins, and needing to go back to town and pay to have them revived are just the tip of the iceberg.
** Episode 3 follows Science Fiction in general, including shoutouts to ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', ''[[Star Wars]]'' and numerous [[Giant Mecha]] series.
** Episode 4 includes a [[Ranma ½|Panda who puts Sasshi through a training montage]], [[Fist of the North Star|Sasshi getting extremely muscular with constellation-shaped scars on his chest]], [[Dragonball Z|Sasshi going Super Saiyan]], arcade fighting games, and [[Bruce Lee]] in general.
** Episode 6 is a general shout out to [[Film Noir]] style Hard-boiled Detective and Mobster movies.
** Episode 11 is a shout out to war movies in general, including ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'', ''[[Patton]]'', and others.
** Episode 12 has dozens of references to American horror, science fiction, and adventure movies, including, but certainly not limited to: ''[[Terminator]], ''[[North by Northwest]]'', ''[[The Shining]]'', ''[[Speed Racer (film)|Speed Racer]]'', ''[[Knight Rider]]'', ''[[Twister]]'', ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'', ''[[Indiana Jones]]'', ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]'', ''[[RoboCop]]'', ''[[Die Hard]]'', ''[[The Exorcist]]'', ''[[Barbarella]]'', ''[[Titanic]]'', ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'', ''[[Escape from New York]]'', ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]'', ''[[Air Force One]]'', and ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.
** There's also a brief scene where Grandpa Masa says [[Monty Python|he always wanted to be a lumberjack...]] In the same episode, there's also references to [[Monty Python|war wounds.]]
** There's one for the American short cartoon ''The First Bad Man'' during the dinosaur episode, where Mune Mune's dinosaur is slowly chipped away and reduced in size from a dinosaur to a small lizard every time they duck behind a rock.
*** Also in dino world: Sasshi briefly turns into an old man with white hair, white beard, and a cane after impressing Arumi with his knowledge of dinosaurs. No, it isn't Colonel Sanders.
** In the Fairy Tale episode, Sasshi creates a mini, teddy bear headed creature with little angel wings, entrusted to be guardian of a certain magical girl. At first he looks yellow. ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', anybody?
** Don't forget about "the legendary sniper [[Golgo 13|Regolgo.]]"
** Arumi also apparently spends episode 9 and the start of episode 10 hanging out at the school from ''[[The Drifting Classroom]]''.
* [[Shrines and Temples]]: The Abeno shrine is an important location to the plot.
* [[Snot Bubble]]
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: In episode 12 they enter the arcade proper and hear the show's ending theme playing as muzak.
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: Repeatedly.
* [[Truth in Television]]: The redevelopment of the Abeno area of Osaka has caused many older commercial districts to be gutted or demolished completely. A case in point is Abeno Ginza shopping arcade, which was torn down at the [[Turn of the Millennium]] and replaced by a [http://qs-mall.jp/ trendy shopping mall], complete with a Krispy Kreme Doughnuts shop and the Osaka branch of Shibuya 109. Poor Sasshi...
* [[Twelve-Episode Anime]]: Actually thirteen, but who's counting?
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: During a bombing run in episode 11, Sasshi looks through his scope at the target, then looks up and blinks in disbelief at the fact that the barber shop they're about to bomb is called ''"Pearl Barber"''.
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