Fate/Reach Out is rather fond of its Shout-Outs.
- Shirou's biological parents worked for the Harwey Enterprises.
- At first, Chie complains about the "It's Up to Us" attitude of Yosuke and Shirou towards the murder case, remarking that "this isn't some anime like Kenichi".
- Once Nanako got more comfortable with Shirou's presence, she started watching what she really wanted on TV.Shirou: [thinking] …My Little Pony?
- Yosuke calling Shadow Chie a "banana head".
- Later Chie completes the joke by referring to her Shadow as a "dominatrix banana-head".
- Persona Pixie's "Hey! Listen!"
- She also vocally imitates the Item Get! fanfare from the The Wind Waker when Shirou ranks up the Magician Social link for the first time. Why? Just because.
- "Nami" drops the line "The light! IT BURNS!"
- There is another reference to The Simpsons in chapter 26:
- Yosuke wonders if Structural Analysis is "like having a scouter to read power levels off the scale".
- One time, Shirou compared Personas to "the ball-monster collecting franchise".
- Chie's use of Tomoe's magic is to release it as a BUFU-KEN!.
- Before the fight against Shadow Yukiko, she uses her powers to morph Shirou, Yosuke and Chie's clothes into something more princely: Zero (sans mask), Suzaku (pre-R2) and Cornelia's outfit and dress uniforms, respectively.
- In chapter 21, Shirou asked a just recently patched up Yosuke whether he could still fight. His answer?Yosuke: Who the hell do you think I am?
- Taiga called herself an "unassuming muggle" in chapter 26.
- After seeing the healing effect of the Fox's magical leaves for the first time in chapter 27, which is something of a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment even in canon, Chie drops the line "Well, that was a thing"
◊. - Shirou starts off his You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech to Teddie with "Silly old bear..."
- Rise's Dungeon in the TV World strongly reminded her of Perfect Blue, down to getting kidnapped soon after her retirement and thrown into a closed-off brothel.
- Chie assures Yosuke that no, he can't just get five second massive pecs with magic.
- Rise mistook the round and blue Teddie for some sort of future cat the first time she saw him.
- The Persona Valkyrie has "Ho-jo-to-ho!" as her Battle Cry/Kiai just like the Valkyries in Wagner's Die Walküre.
- Teddie and the fox ended up channelling Libera Me From Hell during Shadow Rise's Boss Fight.
- Shadow Rise taunts Shirou with "consider that nerve touched" when she picked up on his Survivor Guilt.
- When Shirou mentions that he used Structural Analysis to find out the girls' three sizes, Rise remarks that she half-expected Shirou to "make their clothes explode".
- Marie misremembers Adachi and Dojima's names as Akechi and Niijima.
- Shadow Kanji goes "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" while showing off the effects of Heat Riser.
- When talking about the Velvet Room, Marie sings chorus line of Eiffel 65's Blue (Da Ba Dee)
- Mitsuo's dungeon is called Moon Voidainia in this story.
- When fighting Shadow Teddie, Taiga calls her Persona a Stand.
