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Thanks to both Amahara and Passione liking their references, this series has plenty of shoutouts in both the manga and the anime:


  • The opening and closing theme both clearly draw heavy inspiration from Village People.
  • When Stunk, Zel and Crim are about to go for the first time together to a brothel in episode 1, a Dragon Quest-esque music plays in the background.
  • When Meidri hits Stunk with an Offhand Backhand while rejecting his attempt to get her in bed, a JRPG style damage count of 9999 appears above his head. In the anime, this is animated in the style of Paper Mario. Damage numbers appear again near the end of chapter 15, where Meidri deals 999 each to Stunk and Zel with a thrown stool and tray respectively after they remark about their newfound knowledge of the egg-laying process.
  • The survey about the 5 least marriageable races is presented in the style of Family Feud in the anime (the manga just displays it as a list).
  • When hyping themselves up to go to the demon brothel in the manga, Zel says, "time for some demon fusion!"
  • Observant viewers realized that the male-to-female potions in episode 3 are purple and in triangle-bottomed flasks, rather like a similar potion that players can brew in Terraria.
  • The cold open for chapter 9 has Zel curled up in Yamcha's Pose.
  • The rock monsters in episode 4 combine in a fashion just like a Super Robot of old-school Brave fame, and its proportions may put Dragon Quest players in mind of a golem from that series.
  • When Stunk fantasizes about what it would be like to have sex with an android, the one he imagines is running on GNU/Linux, and she asks Siri to start her sexual service process.
  • When Meidri punishes the Reviewers for making golems shaped like her for their jollies in chapter 13, she punches Kanchal in the face such that his LP (Life Points) are reduced to zero, like in Yu-Gi-Oh! or the SaGa (RPG) series. In the anime adaptation of this chapter in episode 6, the way the camera focuses on her feet and shakes as she stomps towards the boys angrily is straight out of a kaiju movie or Jurassic Park, and then she uses Liu Kang's Flying Bicycle Kick to batter Crim.
  • In chapter 11/episode 6, everyone's naughty bits are covered in sparkles while in the will-o'-the-wisp's shop... except for Crim's, whose "censorship" looks more like the Special Beam Cannon.
  • At the end of episode 6, the will-o'-the-wisp ladies put on an illusionary light-show parade based on the Main Street Electrical Parade.
  • The spark that jumps when Meidri feels the start of her egglaying contractions in episode 7 is remarkably like a Newtype Flash.
  • When Crim voices his objection to the idea of eating the freshly laid eggs of sentient species, in the manga word art of said word in a style clearly evoking Ace Attorney is shown above his head.
  • When the regular readers get a gander at the review of The Boss's Hideout, the Lizard Man fantasizes about the Master-Maid roleplay scenario, bringing The Lusty Argonian Maid to mind.
  • At the beginning of episode 9 when Count Call Girlula awakens, the organ that acts as the background music plays a piece that homages 'Bloody Tears' from Castlevania.
  • When the guys give their reviews of the undead ladies, they're standing in a graveyard with lightning that looks rather like the one Michael Jackson used for his "Thriller" music video.
  • The English subtitles add a reference to the RollerCoaster Tycoon meme about Mr Bones's Wild Ride when Brooz talks about how he didn't really enjoy the skeleton succu-girl.
  • Bi Bananan directly references a real light novel while 'enjoying' her production of a succubus film.
  • The stinger for episode 9 has Mitsue reference and even quote the song "Miseratere (lit. enchanted)" by Judy Ongg.
  • In episode 10, when talking about lower-quality Decoy Doll clones, the low-quality clone used as an example speaks with a looping Vocaloid voice sample.
  • Several characters (mostly succu-girls) are pretty blatant references to characters from other works:
    • Episode 12 has a moment where Kanchal talks about how he made a golem copy of an idol singer; the little so-and-so halfling made the golem in Kanna Hashimoto's image.
    • In the anime, Stunk calls Demon Two a "Piccolo wannabe".
    • Pritz's knight costume was more like Agrias Oaks' costume in the manga rendition of The Boss's Hideout; Amahara has a fondness for the Final Fantasy Tactics character (previously having done doujins starring her), so it was not a surprise that he'd have one of the girls wear a costume based on her uniform. Passione changed the uniform's design for the animated adaptation and made Pritz a brunette instead of a blonde, presumably to avoid legal difficulties that might arise.
    • One of the Default Dolls is a horned redhead princess wearing a certain crown to go with a white dress, which is a reference to one of Amahara's original sketches for the series featuring Bowsette.
    • Sohl from the manga only aquarium brothel looks extremely similar to Miss Kobayashi, and a few of the salamanders on billboards look like Tohru (one of them is even wearing a maid costume).
    • Asatent, the demon madam of The Succubus Tower has similar coloration and features to Morrigan Aensland from the Dark Stalkers series.
  • The mimic chapter of the manga features an Attack on Titan reference with a giantess brothel, "Ejac on Titan".
  • The Elder Treant Church official seen at their meeting in Chapter 44 resembles the Great Deku Tree.
  • In the second novel, as soon as they realize they're in a redcap brothel, Zel notes that they've entered The Danger Zone.
  • When Zel explains what he knows about ninjas, the picture behind him of a male ninja wearing nothing but a head concealing mask and a loincloth looks exactly like the Ninja from the Protect Me Knight/Gotta Protectors series.
  • The header for the ninja review ends with "Believe It!" in word art similar to Naruto's title, and the pin-up girl clearly alludes to that manga's title character: having whisker-like facial markings on her cheeks, light hair in pigtails like when he uses the "Sexy Jutsu" technique, and is sitting on a giant frog.

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