History MythologyGag / AnimeAndManga

** {{Char Clone}}s. No Gundam without Char clones. Except for the first show, ''Z'', and ''Char's Counterattack'' where there's no Char clone as it's the real thing (albeit, in ''Z'', he goes by the name Quattro Bajeena (sometimes mistranslated as Quattro Vagina).

** In the ''Lost Colors'' VisualNovel, there's a scene where Nunnally fantasizes about being a super-heroine with her own Knightmare Frame; what she describes is the Mark Nemo, the machine she pilots in the AlternateUniverse manga ''Nightmare of Nunnally'', complete with a picture of it in the background. ''Lost Colors'' also contains a nod to the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS RPG by showing primary villains Castor and Pollux on a computer screen.

** [[UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast Dreamcast]] is poor (a poke at Sega's financial hardships at the time of the console's release), plays the maracas (''VideoGame/SambaDeAmigo''), and can connect to the internet at will, albeit on a dial-up connection (the Dreamcast was the first console with built-in internet connectivity).
** UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn is a ButtMonkey who is perpetually finding herself in misfortune, a poke at the real Sega Saturn's troubled history.
** [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Mega Drive]] is depicted as an unpopular bookworm, a poke at the system doing poorly in Japan.
** Other Sega Hard Girls are mentioned in the SchoolFestival episode, including UsefulNotes/GameGear, a truant who leaves school by third period and spends all her time watching TV (the real Game Gear's notoriously short battery lifespan and TV-Tuner add-on); [[Platform/SegaMasterSystem Master System]], a musician who previously studied in South America, where she was very popular ([[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff the Master System's massive popularity in the South American market]] and the FM Sound Unit), and "[[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Jennie]]", an American exchange student ([[MarketBasedTitle the Mega Drive was renamed to "Genesis" in North America]]).

** Other Sega Hard Girls are mentioned in the SchoolFestival episode, including UsefulNotes/GameGear, a truant who leaves school by third period and spends all her time watching TV (the real Game Gear's notoriously short battery lifespan and TV-Tuner add-on); [[UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem Master System]], a musician who previously studied in South America, where she was very popular ([[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff the Master System's massive popularity in the South American market]] and the FM Sound Unit), and "[[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Jennie]]", an American exchange student ([[MarketBasedTitle the Mega Drive was renamed to "Genesis" in North America]]).

** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'' casts the ever-heroic Creator/TohruFuruya, the man behind Amuro Ray himself, as Ribbons Almark, [[spoiler:the main antagonist. Throw in the fact that he also piloted 0 Gundam which is basically RX-78 with a different shield and a GN Drive. Late in the series the 0 Gundam is upgraded, which includes being painted in the classic Gundam tricolor, and Ribbons appropriates it when his state-of-the-art Reborns Gundam is crippled.]] TheMovie takes it a step further by revealing that Ribbons' genetic template was a man named E.A. Ray (Ensign Amuro Ray).

* ''Manga/YuGiOh'':

** The same character, given the dub name Hobson, shows up in two, mutually exclusive scenes. In the manga, he runs Death-T2, in an arc that was never part of the anime. In the anime, he serves as the butler to the Kaiba family in a filler episode.
** Towards the end of the Dark Signer arc in ''5D's'', Aki and Misty have their duel in a theme park named 'Monster World', which shares its name with the RPG that Yugi and his friends played with Ryou in the 6th and 7th volumes of the original manga.
** Before the Ceremonial Battle starts, Yugi and the Pharaoh need to separate. The magic that does so first shows Yugi with two shadows, calling back to an iconic moment in the opening credits.
** The plans for Siegfried's blueprints to his Duel Monsters holographic projectors resemble the Battle Boxes that were used in the manga version of the Duelist Kingdom arc.

** In ''Anime/MyOtome0Sifr'', Lena adopts the alias "Lena Yumemiya" while traveling, [[spoiler:which is appropriate considering that she's Arika's mother]]. A cat called "Nina", whom Arika and Erstin found and returned to the Nina lookalike from ''[=My-HiME=]'' in the ''Mai-Otome'' picture drama, appears midway through Episode 1.

** Him is inspired to turn the girls into five-year-olds after overhearing Mojo muse that the heroines would probably be easier to defeat if they were little girls. ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls R-i-i-i-i-i-ght...]]''
** This show is full of stuff like this. During the episodes featuring Dynamo, it malfunctions and instead of traveling through time, it travels to other dimensions. One of the ones they visit is the original Powerpuff girls.

* In ''Anime/ElCazadorDeLaBruja'', Ellis picks up a fork and says it's a weapon. In Creator/BeeTrain's previous GirlsWithGuns series, ''Anime/{{Noir}}'', [[spoiler:Kirika killed Chloe with a fork]].
** A more subtle nod would be the red shoes. In ''Noir'', Kirika usually wears a pair of red/pink shoes. In ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'' (the second installment of the GWG trilogy), Vanessa buys a pair of red shoes for Margaret, which somehow triggers the latter's [[IdentityAmnesia repressed memories]], kicking off the main plot. In ''El Cazador'', a pair of red shoes appears in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it camera shot inside Illis Gonzalez' home. Now, the real kicker is that all three of them (Kirika, Margaret, and Illis) are voiced by Creator/HoukoKuwashima, so there's no way it wasn't on purpose.

* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' contains many nods to the game it was [[{{spinoff}} spun off from]], ''VisualNovel/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever'', and this AlternateUniverse also retains the voice of Midorikawa Hikaru for Kyouya. Other specific examples include mentions of Shiro's old bodyguard job and Miyuki practicing the Mikami-ryuu and Fuwa-ryuu sword styles. Also, in the one time we see Lindy Harlaown using magic in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', we see her sporting a pair of fairy wings. This was a reference to the [[TheAnimeOfTheGame original]] ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha'' that served as an {{omake}} to ''VisualNovel/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever''. There, Lindy played the role of Nanoha's FairyCompanion.
** In fact, so many are the nods that several fans take the stance that the only aspects of the original game that were changed are those directly contradicted by ''Nanoha'' (such as [[SparedByTheAdaptation Shiro being alive]]), with almost everything else remaining unchanged.

** The manga makes a ShoutOut to a gag from the ''[=My-HiME=]'' manga: Haruka is eating from a cup of ramen labeled "E-Cup". In the ''Hime'' manga, Mikoto grabs Mai's chest and notes that she's an E-cup. In both cases, the text format is exactly the same.
*** Shizuru also notes that Mai is an E or F cup in the sound drama "Lingerie Rhapsody".

** Also, the panel where [[spoiler:Zoro decapitates a dragon]] is almost identical to the one where [[spoiler:Ryuma did the same]] in ''One Piece Wanted''.

** In [=DP094=], "Doc Brock", a Zapdos makes a quick cameo. In ''Pokémon Platinum'', Zapdos can be found roaming Sinnoh in the post-Elite Four storyline. Notably, this was the first episode to air in Japan after the release of ''Platinum''.
*** Repeated in [=DP142=], "Where No Togepi Has Gone Before", where the evil [[KillerRabbit Togepi]] knows Extrasensory. In Japan, this was the last episode to air before the release of ''Pokémon [=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=]''. In those games, guess which move Togepi can use for the first time?

* In ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'': The {{transformation sequence}}s contain iconic elements and choreography from those of the 90s anime, but in {{CGI}} and from the girls' [=POVs=]. Sailor Moon's pose and all the Inners' S2 poses during the InTheNameOfTheMoon speeches are also taken from the 90s anime, but this time with more elaborate backdrops.

* ''Literature/StudentCouncilsDiscretion'' managed a brilliant one in the final episode via ShoutOut. Ken says he wants to establish his own {{eroge}} VisualNovel company, after which we pan to the logo of Creator/KeyVisualArts, along with him saying that it's based on the first kanji of his name. He then mentions two other companies, one of which is [[Creator/{{Aquaplus}} Leaf]], until we get the clincher to the entire Mythology Gag:

** Here, Ken is referring to the anime adaptation of ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}'', a Creator/KeyVisualArts {{eroge}} that was animated by Creator/KyotoAnimation. Its OP theme in the AnimeOfTheGame, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COOnkOE5Fto "Tori no Uta"]], is affectionately referred to by Creator/KeyVisualArts fans as [[FanNickname "the national anthem."]]

** One episode had a duelist that looked virtually identical to Katsuya Jonouchi with the same voice as him. The dub took a visual gag and made it much less subtle by naming him "Jesse Wheeler" and saying he was Joey's cousin--the original version didn't name the duelist and no mention of Joey was made.
*** Jonouchi ''did'' mention having an annoying cousin that walks in every now and then.
** And the same character, given the dub name Hobson, shows up in two, mutually exclusive scenes. In the manga, he runs Death-T2, in an arc that was never part of the anime. In the anime, he serves as the butler to the Kaiba family in a filler episode.

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* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Brotherhood'': A blink-and-you'll-miss-it example to [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the first anime]]. The third opening shows [[spoiler:Fuhrer King Bradley aka Wrath]] right as the word "Pride" is sung in GratuitousEnglish. Take a guess who he was in the first anime.

** ''The Sacred Star of Milos'''s art style resembles [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime]] way more than it does the ''Brotherhood'' it shares a continuity with. Edward's facial structure is even back to its more slender shape and Winry looks like a mixture of the styles (2003 design but the full colored eyes of ''Brotherhood'' and the manga).

* In the anime adaptation of ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', Nyarko's explanation of why she's on Earth gets [[FastForwardGag fast-forwarded]] and [[AsYouKnow summarized]] by Mahiro. If you slow the audio down, it's a direct quote from the original light novel series where she [[MotorMouth goes on a long-winded, multi-page ramble]] which indirectly reveals that her boss is Azathoth, the god-above-gods in the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.

* ''LightNovel/StudentCouncilsDiscretion'' managed a brilliant one in the final episode via ShoutOut. Ken says he wants to establish his own {{eroge}} VisualNovel company, after which we pan to the logo of Creator/KeyVisualArts, along with him saying that it's based on the first kanji of his name. He then mentions two other companies, one of which is [[Creator/{{Aquaplus}} Leaf]], until we get the clincher to the entire Mythology Gag: