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Japanese works tend to be very fond of these.

 

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** Furthermore, not only is [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Slaking_Kong this] episode named after it, but the climax [[Incredibly Lame Pun|apes]] ''[[King Kong]]'', right down to Swellow knocking it off a spire.

*** I'm suprised that no one's done a crossover with either of those two with a character in Pokémon.

* In DP, there's an episode where James strikes the [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Gendo Pose]]. And it's [[Crowning Moment of Funny|a riot]].

** ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'': Onizuka fights a group of punks harassing his students with Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken, the series' signature [[Spam Attack]]. He also draws Ken's seven-point scars on his chest with magic marker and screams about a woman named Yuria, Ken's fiancee.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SplSDPwVbzc I just saved] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&src_vid=SplSDPwVbzc&v=RU1zIWaKDFE&annotation_id=annotation_564433 you a lot] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH7tmMVCQRI&feature=related of time].

** ''[[Puni Puni Poemy]]'': The alien that Nabeshin fights uses Jotaro Kujo's Star Platnium Stand to deflect Nabeshin's attack, complete with ORAORAORAORA. Nabeshin [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this by noting that "it's kind of Stand-ish...".

** It's even funnier in the second series when the narrator, voiced by [[Norio Wakamoto]], says ZA WARUDO for a commercial break, because he did the voice of Dio for the CD Drama.

** Asuma Sarutobi of ''[[Naruto]]'' also uses some of Jotaro's lines. [[Actor Allusion|Same VA? Yeah.]]

** In one episode of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', Kamina uses Dio's battlecry of "MUDAHMUDAHMUDAHMUDAH!". In another, Kittan uses Jotaro's "ORAORAORAORA!".

* Frieza's third form in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' is a shout out to the titular monster of the ''[[Alien]]'' movies.

* Shiratori Yuri was cast as Kiryuu Nanami in ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', who was obsessed over by a boy named Tsuwabuki. She was later cast as ghost-girl Aisaka Sayo in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', who (in the anime) died trying to protect her little sister's tsuwabuki garden.

** The OVA featured a Yukkuri, of all things.

* A scene in ''[[Popotan]]'' features Mii [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoRXZ4Ynh74 imitating the famous MGM Lion]... and in the process [[Tastes Like Diabetes|giving you diabetes]].

* ''[[FLCL]]'' itself had an episode with a ridiculous number of references to, among other things, ''[[Lupin III]]'', ''[[Trigun]]'', ''[[The Matrix]]'', ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', ''[[South Park]]'', ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' (an especially clever one in that particular case, recreating the Spike vs. Vicious standoff in the cathedral substituting Haruko with a pair of scissors for Vicious and his katana), and several earlier [[Studio Gainax]] works.

* The Japanese title of ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'', ''Kidou Senkan Nadeshiko'' (''Mobile Battleship Nadesico''), is a play on ''[[Uchuu Senkan Yamato]]'' (''Space Battleship Yamato''), ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam|Kidou Senshi Gundam]]'' (''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]''), ''and'' the term "[[Yamato Nadeshiko]]".

** When Naru is listing off all of Keitaro's horrible qualities, one of the (many) weapons that pierces him is a lightsaber.

** The daring escape on Seta's plane above Molmol, above the two airships scratching each other, duplicate perfectly the scene from ''The Empire Strike Back'' where the ''Millennium Falcon'' escape Imperial Star Destroyers, two of them colliding sideways -- up to the angle of view and the enemy planes/TIE fighters pursuing.

*** All the more [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] when Daitokuji-sensei announces Rei's attendance in her debut, because he was voiced by [[Kappei Yamaguchi]], the voice for Ranma.

** A one-shot character named Alice appears in the second season who seems to be a walking shout out to ''[[Rozen Maiden]]''.

'''Stein:''' Jaden? Jaden? Jaden? ... }}

* The anime ''[[Hand Maid Mai]]'' does a shoutout to its predecessor ''[[Hand Maid May]]'' by having the drunken Hideo Ozu stumbling past Kazuya Saotome's place, reverently showing the ladder between apartments that was so much a part of the show. Not so reverently, Hideo then urinates on the landlady's fence.

* ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]''; in the manga, Nobue is a high school freshman of 16, while in the anime, she is 20 and in university. In her opening self-description in the anime, while breaking the [[Fourth Wall]], Nobue says she is just a typical 16 year old high school student, then admits that its a lie, and that she is actually 20 and in university. Ana's dog Frusciante and Matsuri's ferret John are named after John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, a band Ana likes.

* The seventeenth episode of the the third ''[[The Slayers|Slayers]]'' season features Kerel, a character based visually off ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'''s Kaworu Nagisa, also having the same seiyuu (who also voices Xellos).

** The ''[[Slayers]]'' manga ''Knight of Aqualord'' has Lina crossing a desert on a large flightless bird which very strongly resembles a [[Final Fantasy|Chocobo]].

** [[Sorcerer Hunters|"Call me queen!"]]

** There are several ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' shout outs, including Gourry being given Usagi's hairstyle in the first season's crossdressing episode and a "magic doctor" in the second season who looks like a slightly older Chibi-Usa.

** Another anime-only card, "[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Cut_Jewel Cut Jewel]", has art which bears a striking resemblance to Sasuke Uchiha cutting a gemm.

* ''Pucca'' has a sequence during a costume party where the band dresses up like Devo.

* An episode of ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'' has Nagisa overhear two girls in her school talk about Pretty Cure, [[Face Fault|facefaulting]] whenever they insult Cure Black (unknowingly, to her face). This recalls an earlier ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' short film, "Make Up! Sailor Senshi", where Usagi overhears two girls in an open-air cafe talk about the Sailor Senshi and gets offended when they call her a crybaby. [[Toei Animation]] hasn't forgotten their [[Magical Girl]] roots after all.

** You want unlikely? They actually reference ''[[Top Gun]]'' in an episode... [http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/4229/vlcsnap468313ky7.jpg Visual proof.]

** In the English translation of the manga (but not in the original), Rei says that she likes to watch [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] on TV.

** Also, the final image of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'s'' closing titles is a flower lying in a puddle. Now look at the final image of the ''Wolf's Rain'' '''opening''' titles. Different puddle, different flower, but even so...

* ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' is loaded with Shout Outs:

** There are several references to the film ''Streets Of Fire'', including a ten-minute [[Homage]] to that film in the form of Priss and the Replicants' stage performance at the beginning of the first episode, which allegedly duplicates move-for-move the first of the movie's performances by "Ellen Aim and the Attackers". Both have a character named Raven; and ''BGC'' has a character named "Madigan", while actress Amy Madigan was a featured player in ''Streets Of Fire''.

** A map of Megatokyo which appears in episode 3 is heavily annotated in English with the names of actors and characters from the film ''[[Top Gun]]''.

** An ADP duty roster in episode 8 lists a number of 1980s Marvel Comics artists as officers.

** The HUD of an ADP officer briefly flashes "Budweiser King of Beers" and "St. Louis, Mo" in episode 1.

** Speaking of Naruto and Dragonball, there is ''no way in hell'' Kishi didn't have the Kamemeha Wave in mind when he drew [http://www.mangareader.net/93-56935-1/naruto/chapter-507.html this picture] of Kisame.

*** Kishi ''loves'' shouting out to Dragonball. The Four Tailed beast for example, is a giant monkey similar to the Oozaru... And it's name is Son Goku.

** Hohenheim's name alludes to the real-life alchemist Paracelcus, who was born Bombastus von Hohenheim before adopting his pseudonym.

** What about the ''[[Indiana Jones]]''-style Giant Rolling Ball of Doom in the 5th laboratory episode of the first series?

* ''Bougen Honey'', an h-manga, features a character named Alice Hartman, an American exchange student whom the story implies is the granddaughter of ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'s'' Sgt. Hartman. Her grandfather is explicitly stated to be a Marine sergeant whom she picked up some Japanese from; ''incredibly profane'' Japanese in the form of stereotypical [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]-speak.

* Juri Kato is one of Lain's friends in ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]''. In ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', Leomon's partner is called Juri Kato. The reason: Chiaki Konaka, director of ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'', was the head writer of ''[[Digimon Tamers]]''

* In ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', the gang goes to a forest near a lake one day. Kyo remembers the rumors of a violent bear in the forest that attacks travelers. Its name? Jason. Yuki can only conjure the image of a bear in a hockey mask.

** Thrice. A character mentions "feeling like I was Gevanni", one of the SPK members.

* In ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'', the license plate of Rally's [[Cool Car]] reads BRD-529, which is a reference to ''[[The Blues Brothers]]''.

** A certain massacre is played out very similarly to the infamous police station annihilation scene in ''[[The Terminator]]'', complete with similar shots. Later on someone explicitly refers to the person responsible as "a real live Terminator".

** And chapter 222 has pages ripped directly from the first volume of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', used as a source of inspiration for one character.

*** The Kazu vs Aeon Clock match is one giant JJBA tribute. Aeon's style involves "freezing time", complete with some of Dio's lines (Toki wo Tomare!), and Kazu contemplating defeating him using a steamroller.

** Ohm of the Sleeping Forest has a special move called "[[Bubblegum Crisis]]".

** By coincidence, the joke is preserved in the dub, since [[Stephanie Sheh]], Mikuru's dub VA, also does Anya.

** If one listens closely, the ambient hum of a Sutherland's cockpit was lifted straight from the OS startup sound of ''[[Gasaraki]]'''s Tactical Armor.

** The manga has a major one to ''[[Castlevania]]'' when the magic-cancelling whip "Belmont" is introduced, complete with a shot of Simon Belmont. The anime's version of Moka's father is also a dead ringer for ''Order of Ecclesia'''s version of Dracula.

** In the same scene, Renge says "La la!" and the twins ask, "LaLa? Like the manga magazine?" Refering to the magazine where Ouran was first serialized.

** There's also a visual shoutout to ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' in episode 16. Hikaru holds up a toy to show Haruhi, and it looks a lot like Ed. It coincidentially becomes an [[Actor Allusion]] in the dub.

** The OVA has some self-deprecating humor, as Bones makes both series. A manga two [[Cosplay Otaku Girl]] characters are reading is drawn like ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' but with the [[Bishonen|Bishonenness]] exaggerated and presented as ridiculous.

** Amber looks almost ''exactly'' like C.C. of ''[[Code Geass]]'', although their personalities are very different.

* Chapter 13 of the ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'' manga has a shout-out, at least in the English translation by Viz. Soichiro (the dog) falls asleep on a raft on the beach, which gets caught by a wave and washed out to sea. Kyoko Otonashi, Shun Mitaka, and Yusaku Godai are in a boat and hear him barking, so they retrieve him from the raft and bring him back to shore in their boat. Mitaka {{spoiler|has a phobia of dogs}}, so he's acting like he's feeling sick by the time he gets back to shore. Except for Godai, none of the Ikkoku residents {{spoiler|know about Mitaka's phobia}}, so they wonder why Mitaka is acting that way. Godai teases Mitaka by saying something which the English translation renders as: "Maybe it's 'a salty dog' that makes you a whiter shade of pale!" The band [[Procol Harum]] has a song titled "A Salty Dog" (also an album) and another titled "A Whiter Shade of Pale". What's more, the original title of the chapter, "ソルティー・ドッグ" ("sorutii doggu"), became "A Salty Dog", making it into a shout-out also.

** Also, when Mitaka (who is a tennis coach) {{spoiler|gets a dog to help him get rid of his phobia}} later on, he names it "McEnroe".

** In episode 411 of the anime, a brown-haired [[Gurren Lagann|Yoko]] can be seen briefly glancing over at a nearby commotion.

** During the Thriller Park arc, one of Hogback's underlings is a [[Eyeshield 21|devil-like bat with the number 21]]

* In ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'':

** Episode one shows a crossword puzzle on screen [[Unreadably Fast Text|for a few seconds.]] If you [http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4714/hidamariep1crosswordpuztq3.jpg solve it], the answers are the names of a bunch of other popular anime.

### ''[[Da Capo]]''

### ''[[Utawarerumono]]''

### ''[[Miyuki]]''

### ''[[Popotan]]''

*** And Miyako won that puzzle.

** In episode one, you can see that Yuno has [http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/1089/shoutoutuf7.jpg six volumes] of ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'' manga.

** And then there are of course all those [[Cosplay]] outfits as worn by Yoshinoya-sensei. Her statement that she is "forever 17" is also a reference to seiyuu [[Kikuko Inoue]].

* ''[[Muteki Kanban Musume]]'' begins each episode with a parody of the MGM "roaring lion" [[Vanity Plate]], with main character Miki Onimaru in place of the lion.

** Speaking of ''Index'', it doesn't really shy away from referencing. Straight in the first episode/volume is Misaka asking Touma "Geez... what were you doing? Pretending to be a Samaritanian, protecting delinquents... are you a [[Great Teacher Onizuka|certain hot-blooded teacher]]?"

*** In episode 20, Yoshikawa is having doubts that Accelerator can save Last Order in time. His response is to throw the phone away and remark "[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Ore ga dare da to omotte yagaru?!]]"

** The show also features various homages/Shout Outs at its own movies. Starting with the Majors attempt to open the tank in episode 2, she also shoots somebody from outside the window with optical camouflage, mirroring one of the earliest scenes in the original movie. Lastly, we have another homage to the second ''GITS'' movie ''Innocence'' in the movie ''Solid State Society'' (which plays after the anime), which mirrors the scene when Batou is mowing down the white puppets while the Major is doing her hacking. Only in this scene, it were white soldiers. Batou even says "Isn't this the way we've always done it?"

** Not to mention the ''2nd Gig'' episode that was a homage to ''[[Taxi Driver]]''.

* The Korean manhwa ''Rebirth'' contained a scene where [[Light Is Not Good|the God of Light Kalutika]] is addressing the [[Star Wars|Galactic Senate]]. It's supposed to be a council of gods, but the artist didn't bother to change very much (the council's leader looks ''exactly'' like Queen Amidala, though her costume is from a different scene).

* The ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]: Beautiful Dreamer'' film has a scene from the school festival in planning that's chock full of Shout Outs as a number of people cosplay as other series popular at the time, such as a guy dressed as [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]] waiting in line at the school's infirmary.

** Episode 121 starts with Princess Kurama's crows using a database of every male in the universe in an attempt to find her perfect mate. One of the candidates displayed for a split second is a [[Known Space|Pierson's Puppeteer]].

* The entirety of ''[[Jinki Extend]]'' is one big shout out to other [[Mecha]] anime. See the article for more details.

* ''[[Saint Young Men]]'' has numerous references to the life and works of Buddha and Jesus.

** ''Densha Otoko'' is mentioned.

* Aside from the always prominent Char clones, ''[[Gundam]]'' contains shout outs which can be heard on Jupiter and beyond.

** ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'' has so obvious Ramba Ral and Tri-Star shoutouts, and thats ignoring the new ZAFT suits are called Zakus and Goufs.

** Casting [[Tohru Furuya]] for 00's Ribbons is probably the best part of the 30 year anniversary. {{spoiler|Of course the fact he turns out to be the main villain, the first to pilot a Gundam and him [[Gundam Jacking]] the 0, which is pretty much a more stylish RX-78 maskes it so awesome one might just fall over from shock.}}

*** Might be unintentional but the second season's first episode has [http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3533/3285442921_95f3b65a18.jpg the Exia with half it's face torn off]. It looks eerily like a [[Terminator]] with that glowing red eye.

* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''

** There are whole websites dedicated to index the numerous references you can find in ''Cowboy Bebop''.

** The joke is funnier when you realize that [[Yui Horie]] voiced both Hanyuu and Maria.

** Two episodes later Kanon arms himself with Rena's trademark billhook cleaver while investigation the mansion's boiler room. Not that it does him any good...

** And also, there's that time when Beatrice gets a bit pissed at her butler. Her response to his smart remarks: [[Shakugan no Shana|Urusai! Urusai! Urusai!]]

** One of the boats that travel to the island is named the "Hanyuu Maru"

** EP7 of the VN acknowledges the fact that the anime changed the song Jessica sang. Will is talking to Jessica, and tells her that he liked the songs she sang. "Both the 'pettan, pettan' song, and the 'dokkyun, dokkyun' song"

** Possibly the best thing that could happen to a fan translation group happened to [http://witch-hunt.com/ Witch Hunt] when a group in episode 4 was nameda after them. This was even confirmed by the author in a [http://witch-hunt.com/letter.html letter] he sent to them telling them of how happy he is with their work (which is well deserved).

** In the Japanese version of the ''Hellsing'' OVA , Jan shouts "Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right!... We're the only ones with invincible mode." instead.

* The ''[[Battle Athletes]] Victory'' series has a pair of athletes recite the Konami Code to break the concentration of their opponents in a three-legged race.

** Other shououts to Totoro in ''Ponyo'': They have a magnet on the fridge that looks like Totoro's little white friend, and at one point Lisa sings a line from the theme song of that movie.

*** Before the opening theme of the first episode: Forest.com, Keisato, Kai!, followed by the black butler, Lucky Star, Evolution, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu (the second season, too, nonetheless), the costumes, and Lucky Star again. This time way too blunt. WAY TOO BLUNT. This makes 12 blatant shout outs for 2 minutes and 20 seconds.

** How did it shout out to DBE? Was it a [[Take That]]?

* [[Gundam Seed|Mwu La Flaga]], gundam names sometimes don't make sense at first, until you realize that Koyasu's VA voiced Simon Harvard, the pilot of the [[Tech Romancer|Rafaga]].

** There is the Soul Brothers gang, two of the members are nicknamed [[Grand Theft Auto|Claude and Tommy]].

* ''[[Bleach]]'' has a number of these:

** Anime episode #5. While referring to his leech bomb-throwing hollows, the hollow Shrieker says "Say hello to my little friends", a reference to [[Al Pacino]]'s line in ''[[Scarface]]''.

** Pretty much everything about Mashiro is a huge ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' reference.

** And in the recent fillers, Muramasa's [[Code Geass|Geass-pakutou]]. Seriously. It's got the Geass symbol ''on the guard''.

** [[Camp Gay|Charlotte Cuuhlhourne's]] release is a reference to ''[[Sailor Moon]]''.

*** Or to the [[Magical Girl]] genre, in general.

*** Bleach has a surprising amount of shout outs to Dragon Ball. Yammamoto looks very similar to max power Roshi in many scenes. The scene where Ulquiorra and Yammi arrive in karakura town is obviously based on Vegeta and Nappa's entrance (in fact, that whole mini saga itself was very similar to the Saiyan Saga). Lets not forget that unreleased Ulquiorra's cero is basically a green version of Freeza's death beam.

** Another Shout out is to ''[[True Tears]]'' the anime the "Moe Game" Sato worked on is based off of. Why would I say this? Well the game was named "True Words" and the main character on the cover looked almost identical to [[True Tears|Noe.]]

* In the ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' manga, after Boss gets his [[Clothing Damage|uniform shredded]] by the Gamia-Qs, he exclaims that this is turning into a Shameless School. ''Shameless School'' is, of course Go Nagai's first work.

** Strangely, it also seemed to have gotten one in ''[[Summer Wars]]''.

* ''[[Bondage Queen Kate]]'' is set on a distant desert world called ''[[Dune]]''. Creatures called "Sand worms" are among the indigenous species present on the planet.

** Additionally, when leading an assault on the Ulfan headquarters, bookish Lieutenant Smith suddenly sports a [[Rambo|heavy machine gun while wearing a long red bandanna]].

* Not to be left behind, ''[[B Gata H Kei]]'' has a few of its own:

** Naw, it was a cargo robot..... [[Dragon Ball Abridged|AND THE CARGO WAS PEOPLE!!]]

** Mosquito uses an attack called [[The Police|Police Stinger]]

** A [[Monster of the Week]] had an attack called [[Nine Inch Nails]]

** Kilik's Soul Resonance is called [[Aphex Twin]]

** There is a character named [[The Pixies|Kim Diehl]].

** ''La Verite''

*** The Comiket booth episode in episode 5 has to be seen to be believed, especially if you've seen ''[[Mahoromatic]]''.

* Fans of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' know (or at least should know) that the female pilots follow [[Theme Naming]] after naval vessels. While Asuka's family name Soryu isn't a ship's name, her middle name Langley is the same as ''two'' US Navy carriers. [http://www.macross2.net/m3/macrosszero/asuka.htm Guess what the UN carrier in Macross Zero is called.]

** Soryu is a ship name, a fairly famous one. The Soryu was one of the Japanese carriers sunk at Midway.

* The various Huckebeins from diverse anime are named after the German [[WW 2]] plane [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Ta_183 Focke-Wulf Ta 183 "Huckebein"], which itself was probably named after [[Wilhelm Busch|Hans Huckebein, the unlucky raven]].

* [[Jewelpet Sunshine]] once parodied ''[[Flashdance]]'' by having Garnet dance to What A Feeling for a competition. And the entire sequence was almost the same!

"But he's Mr. Pink, right? That means it's okay for a girl to be him." }}

** In the anime the scene where Chi is introduced is changed to be more like how Haruhi is introduced in ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''

* Just about every episode of ''[[Carnival Phantasm]]'' features [[Chew Toy|Lancer]] [[They Killed Kenny Again|dying]]. Just about every one of Lancer's deaths is followed by [[South Park|"Oh my God, they killed Lancer!" "You bastards!"]]

 

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