Shout Out / Digimon Adventure: (2020)

Anime and Manga

• All of three forms of Devimon in the show are references to Akira Fudo from Go Nagai's Devilman, but this is not the only reference.
  • As Angemon's design is officially based on Kakugo from Apocalypse Zero, NeoDevimon is based on Harara, the Big Bad and his brother.
  • DoneDevimon's design is based on Venom and Spawn. In-between having More Teeth than the Osmond Family, a slobbering elongated tongue, high-collared cape, and blank eyes, it shows.
• Also to Neon Genesis Evangelion.
  • The entire battle in episode 24 is a giant reference to Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, complete with a heroic monster going berserk, luminous (and angelic) new powers being unlocked, an ally being rescued from the opponent's belly, and a similar choreography and animation.
  • The way Millenniumon is summoned also has a lot of vibes from The End of Evangelion, featuring a ritual performed by a cult that sounds a lot like SEELE and involves a lot of floating, high-altitude Body Horror, ultimately summoning a lifeform from ancient times that will destroy the world, similar to their attempted Third Impact. As an extra wink, the ritual is performed by Sephirotmon, a Digimon based on a Kabbalistic concept that is also featured in the very scene from Evangelion this series is aping.

• In Episode #31, Wargreymon finishes off Gokumon by shoving a palm sized Gaia Force onto Gokumon's chest, basically a Gaia Force Rasengan. Considering Taichi's new voice actress also voices Boruto, the shout out was probably intentional.

• In Episode #37's dub, Mimi tells Gogmamon off for his conduct with his forced labor before declaring that "In the name of Tachikawa, I will corporately punish you!". Mimi then says "I Choose You" to Tai and Greymon so they can beat Gogmamon up for her.

• Episode #44, featuring Petaldramon, is a homage to Studio Ghibli films, receiving the title of "The Walking something" (Howl's Moving Castle), showcasing a theme about nature and the forest being destroyed by a black contamination (Princess Mononoke) and featuring a young brunette contacting a mighty nature creature and being at one point magically healed by its shining tentacles (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind).
  • One scene in episode 12 pays tribute to an iconic scene from Castle in the Sky. See the comparison here.

• Episode #46, Sephirotmon's first appearance, is an amusingly unsubtle Berserk reference. As in the Eclipse, the characters are trapped in a void where they are attacked by countless dark enemies, while another character, previously associated to the light and whom the other heroes had to rescue from the enemy's hands, is contaminated by darkness and turned into a winged demon, with its corruptor boasting that he will abandon all his friends to their deaths. The scene of the tainted Angemon partially transformed to Neo Devimon is a very direct homage to Femto emerging from his coccoon in Berserk, with one of his lines even name dropping the "wings of darkness" of the same character.

• In Episode #50, while his attack was already a homage to the Spirit Bomb, Wargreymon's Gaia Force becomes more so when it gets powered up by everyone in the digital world. Furthermore, Holydramon and Goddramon happen to resemble Shenron and Porunga.

• During the soccer-themed episode, Agumon utters the famous line "The ball is your friend!" from Captain Tsubasa.
• How did Mimi and Palmon learn how to allow the latter to reach her Ultimate stage, Rosemon? By learning how to be strong, kind, and beautiful.
• As if BanchoMamemon's attire and abilities weren't evocative enough of Jotaro Kujo, this anime has him he chants the "ORA ORA ORA" while attacking with his bats in Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs fashion.
• Abbadomon heavily resembles Father's true form with Pride's tentacles.

Literature

• Leomon's role in the series, leading a cloak-and-dagger resistance in a desert against invaders in floating machines that carry a vital resource, echoes the plot of Frank Herbert's Dune.

• Episode 40 contains a reference to the Laputa chapter from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, featuring a floating city that peppers the lands under it with strange objects.

• In episode #41, Oppossumon's Mon-Mon Park is a mishmash of Stephen King novel plots: being a nightmare amusement park as in Joyland and surrounded by a mysterious mist as in The Mist. The antagonists are also a decomposite of Pennywise from It, Oppossumon being a clown-esque villain who uses balloons while preying on children, notably the older brother of one of his victims, for Waru Monzaemon to feed on.

• This series introduces Entmon, a Digimon resembling a rotten wood dragon whose name comes from the Ents of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Film

• The fights against Groundramon and Volcdramon are extended references to the Pacific Rim film franchise, featuring kaiju-like beasts which feature bioluminiscent lines on their bodies, can absorb (and redirect) energy, and are defeated by being shot with an Arm Cannon. Volcdramon's deep, metallic roar even resembles the one made famous by the soundtrack of the first Pacific Rim movie.

• Machinedramon, both the incomplete form Agumon assumed and the complete version that the Vademon had created, uses its tail to shoot several lasers through it, continuous blasts which can function like sabers. This application is very reminiscent of Shin Godzilla
• Crossmon's roar in episode 30 sounds a lot like another bird-like Kaiju.
• Garbagemon's episode features a devastated world with remnants of intelligent technology and a blob monster born from it, which the heroes unsuccessfully try to beat by freezing it before switching to a more complex plain. Overall, a tribute to Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
• In the preview of Episode 56, the narrator quotes "in the forest nobody can hear you scream".

Video Games

• Episode 51 shows the tree of knowledge being attacked by Burpmon, who looks like Kirby in that it's a round, pink creature with a cartoonishly simple face that gains more power through eating. It also has an inhaling attack similar to Kirby's.
• Shorly after her Sailor Moon speech above, Mimi commands Tai and Agumon with "I choose you, #72!".
• Garudamon fires off her Wing Blade attack similarly to how Guile fires his Sonic Boom.

Other

• In Episode 45, the motorcycle Digimon Machmon goes berserk during a race and ends up flying and crashing, with Koshiro commenting "he flew!". Oddly, this whole sequence seems to be evoking step-by-step a legendary meme of the Spanish-speaking Internet, "Y voló" ("and he flew"), a 2009 video interview to a Paraguayan drunkard that got involved in a motorcycle crash when its similarly wasted driver got angry and sped up recklessly.

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