Nyaruko: Crawling with Love/Trivia: Difference between revisions

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* [[Actor Allusion]]

*** Additionally, during the [[Working]] segment, [[Eri Kitamura]]'s role as Yachiyo is referred to with the comment about the beautiful waitress with a katana.

** The only difference between Cthugha and [[Hayate no Gotoku|Isumi Saginomiya]] are the lines themselves, they have the [[Miyu Matsuki|same delivery.]]

** There's a moment early in the second season's first episode when Mahiro tells the three aliens -- yes, including the one voiced by [[Rie Kugimiya]]: "[[Shakugan no Shana|Urusai urusai urusai!!!]]"

* [[Colbert Bump]]: The day the anime hit the airwaves sales of the collected works of HP Lovecraft surged in Japan.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: From the Drama CDs and anime.

** [[Kana Asumi]] (Nyarko)

** 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]]'' 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.

** 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.

*** 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]]''

** 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 [[Men in Black|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 [[To Aru Majutsu no Index|Imagine Breaker]]

** Nyarko wants to know if Cuko's grandfather was a [[The Big O|negotiator in the City of Amnesia]].

*** 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 [[Monty Python|blasphemous hand grenade?]]

** 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]]

** 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 [[Back to The Future|Delorean]] that leaves fire tracks when reaching warp-speed.

** Nyarko's car can use a ''[[Super Robot Wars]]''-style MAP attack.

** 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.

*** It should be noted that ''gattai'' [[Double Entendre|can mean just that.]]

** 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 [[Detective Conan|Ran Mori]] school of thinking: karate kicks can solve anything!

** Mahiro's mom breaks out her [[Dynasty Warriors|Musou attacks]] in episode 6.

** Also in episode 6, Cuuko [[Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko|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).

** Episode 8 has a heap of them in the Dating Sim:

*** This is immediately followed by Nyarko in a [[Playboy Bunny]] getup attempting to play the Lovecraftian version of "God Knows".

*** The restaurant scene is taken straight from [[Working]], complete with Nyarko in a Poplar-esque ponytail.

*** The [[Gay Option]] ending from ''True Love 95'' gets brought up as a possible route by Yoriko, who tells her son that even Yoichi, his [[Bromantic Foil]], might confess to having feelings for him, just like how Kazuhiko Miyoshi, the foil in that game, did the same towards the end of the game if the player was unable to choose a girl for Daisuke.

*** Nyarko, Hasta and Cuuko strike a pose very similar to Keima from [[The World God Only Knows]], complete with glasses

**** [[Sousei no Aquarion|For ten thousand years and two thousand more Hastur has wanted to combine.]]

**** Tamao [[Kamen Rider 555|Seriously fell in love 555 seconds ago.]]

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