Visual novel Majikoi! Love Me Seriously! is set in alternative version of modern Japan, has numerous characters (including extremes of heroic strength, being otaku, harboring fetishes among others) and numerous routes, involves fights, rivalry and romance. POV doesn't have to stick with Yamato, the protagonist. There's little material that could not get a Shout-Out to it.
List of Shout-Outs
- Cap has a habit of announcing how many Experience Points he's earned after any given fight.
- Yamato and Moro are avid players of a game that is all but confirmed to be Monster Hunter. They even get Momoyo to try it as a way to get her mind off of fighting and she takes a shine to it herself.
- One event in the Visual Novel reveals that Momoyo lost sleep due to spending the night reading one of Yamato's manga collection. The name of the manga? 20th Century Men.
- In Wanko route, offering this for Yukie to read nets comments about it having a film adaptation and finding it hard to stop reading. Matsukaze says that its author drags things on again.
- The boys are always reading copies of "Jasop", discussing the latest "To-Loverun". Yamato asks Yukie to fetch him a copy of "Sasoday". Note that the "N" character in katakana is very similar to "So" in Japanese.
- EVERY SINGLE quit-game skit in the Visual Novel is a shout out to something, including other roles played by each character's voice actor/actress. One such simple gag goes as follows:
- Momoyo: I'm gonna play the little sister character today! Hey brother! Where are you?
Suguru: I'm right here! Your elder brother stands before you!
Momoyo: Found ya! (PUNCH)
This skit references these two characters' voice actor/actress' roles in the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam movie compilation.
- The skit titled "Looseboy on G-string" is a reference to Maou and Usami Haru (Looseboy was the scenario writer for that game)
- The skit titled "Maro Fantasy 13". Note that Final Fantasy 13 is released December 2009 while Majikoi is released August 2009.
- A skit with Jun and Yukie starts with Jun wondering, what's with the pairing, likely due to the characters belonging to different cliques in story. He asks Yukie what's with her Matsukaze cellphone strap and hears that that's "classified information"... which is a dead giveaway, near-Catchphrase of Mikuru from vanilla Haruhi Suzumiya anime adaptations. Yukie and Mikuru share the voice actress, Jun's voice is that of Kyon, and it's Kyon who hears the phrase a lot, asking Mikuru questions she's not allowed to give other answers to.
- In the Miyako route, on one of the schooldays, Jun musters up courage to confess to Mayo by Saying "Strike, Drive, Valor". It's a Super Robot Wars reference, as Jun is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita, the voice actor of Brooklyn "Bullet" Luckfield, one of the main characters. Those are literally three of his Spirit Commands from the game, as evident from their Japanese names "hicchuu", "kihaku" and "nekketsu" (which, in order, give 100% accuracy, +30 Will and 2x damage).
- In Episode 3 of the anime, Yamato is playing a game on his MBox that resembles a certain bullet hell series.
- During the Kawakami War, Cap wants to call his squad, the "Gurren-tai".
- Numerous references to other galge and makers, including Giga, who lent their game engine to the Majikoi series.
- In a scene in Wanko's route, Wanko mention that her heart skipped when Kaku is mentioned. This is extended further by Miyako saying she sounds like Teiiku and Chika saying she sounds like Chouhi.
- During the Kawakami War Gen-san is insistent that he is a competent archer. Nothing comes out of this since the purpose was to point out that he is an archer. Should come as no surprise that this is the only time in the entire game that the English word "archer" is used instead of the Japanese word of archer that is used in all other instances.
- "Tacchan, take me to Koshien."
- "Steel is my body and fire is my stomach."
- In the Mayucchi route, should you choose to eat Chris' inari:
- Chris: I put some seasoning and nasu kinoko as secret ingredients.Yamato: ———Ah... it hurts.*Click* The firing hammer in my mind comes firing down. (Screen acts like it was shot by a bullet and cracks into pieces)
- In the ending skit titled Paradise Lost, Ryuhei and the prime minister talked about killing spirits with a blade wielding schoolgirl.
- In the ending skit titled Code Yamato, Cookie 2 praises Yamato for his intelligence and mentioned that he would like a match.
- Doubles as Actor Allusion, Cookie 2 utters "Yes, my master" in Engrish, and later shouts "I, Cookie command you! All of you die with me!" in Momoyo's route.
- Koyuki declares herself as Ishima Kaigen. Fitting as her voice actress voiced her in nitro+'s Hanachiirasu.
- In Mayucchi route, Moro ponders what other manga of interest to girls to suggest, dropping a title of "Kanojo Kareshi Jijo", quite recognizable His and Her Circumstances. He runs into a fellow, more hardcore otaku who announces his plan to go watch K-OOn despite not being keen on music (yep, K-On! is about a group of girls forming a light music school club) as well as being tempted into buying the instrument Miya-tan plays (Mio is one of the quite popular main characters, and the series did make that sort of impact too).
- In the Miyako route, the group catches a stalker named "Ito Makoto"
- When Kazuko gives her opinion about evident strong competition for "KOS" no-holds-barred martial arts battle royale for loads of money in Mayucchi route, she points out a pair of brothers from America, the strategic one by first name of Gates has changed his computer to XP, after all. That XP thing gets compared to ME and praised by Gates' comrade later. Same relative position of respective Microsoft Windows operation systems should've been obvious by the time of Majikoi development.
- A minor event in Chris route has Capt find a horse race that has "Matsukaze" participating in it. Main characters group's Matsukaze threats to sue "like a certain mouse character."
- With an element of Take That! at Dragon Ball Z, "Dragon Bazz live-action movie" with Gokuu character in it, is off-handedly referred to as something to watch without any expectations, in Chris route.
- A part of TV broadcast "Titanig 2" has Tigaprio character affirm unlikelihood of this Titanig sinking, its being twice the size of the previous one... Yes, Yamato confirms the guy was supposed to be dead after the first "Titanig." No, there isn't actually a Titanic (1997) sequel with such premises.
- Chris' father powers up by the end of Chris route by turning younger, calling out "Mephistopheles" in the process, proceeding to say a guy named Faust was the first to use this secret technique. See Faust for how much spin on its elements that was.
- Obvious in its name format, "Hunter x Hasoter" manga can be given to Yukie for a read in Wanko's route. Matsukaze claims that Yukie is able to deal with things like Menthuthu one way or the other. There's one tough, strong and quick to adapt antagonistic character (Chimera Ant royal guard) whose long name starts with "Menthuthu" in Hunter × Hunter, although everyone calls him using the last part of the name — Youpi — there.
- 2F class homeroom teacher buys a new whip at Suikoden shop on the school trip in Wanko's route.
- If Yamato chooses to stay in the room on the trip of Wanko's route, he gets to hear Suguru gush about a manga with the same name as Bamboo Blade, fitting details of its plot and characters.
- On an affection-raising outing with Momoyo in her route, Yamato can find out that she reads "Weekly Jomp" magazine (to look for people stronger than her in manga), and any basketball manga can't compare to "Scrum Dunk" (Slam Dunk was first serialized in Shonen Jump).
- In an Agave character selection event, a dating sim by the name of "Amakami" is mentioned. After saying that people are envious of its protagonist, Yamato is fetched by Chris and Momoyo, with an offer of tea from the latter, while Jun comments that Yamato has it nice himself. The title is one rendaku
away from pure and uplifting kind of romance-exploring Amagami, Chris is voiced by the same actress as Amagami's Haruka, Momoyo's voice actress voices Haruka's best friend, Hibiki, and another heroine there is an avid member of tea-themed School Club (the game has no childlike-appearance characters, so Jun the extreme lolicon can speak about it with a straight face). - In the Agave After route in S, a fortune teller named Mother of Kawakami appeared. This sounds suspiciously similar to another fortune teller/psychic who as the moniker Mother Mifune.
- The skit titled "Gratitude" in S is a blatant reference to Blazblue.
- Kazuko wonders if she could do a Zoom Punch at one point in her route.
- Moro utters the phrase "Can't hear you" once in the first game. That is the catchphrase of Ryutaros in Kamen Rider Den-O, voiced by Moro's voice actress.
- Gakuto says that he's bored of using apple pies as tools for masturbation.
- Shakadou in Majikoi S' Momoyo After route: "I'll make you experience a crimson tale of adventure and horror, filled with vampires and stone mas-"
- Momoyo trying to justify her fear of ghosts: "Ghosts are immune to Fighting-type moves. What do I do?"
- In Koyuki's route, Ageha's butler Koujuurou shouts "Uchuu kitaaaaaaaaa", which is a recurring line in Kamen Rider Fourze, where Koujuurou's voice actor is the narrator.
- Benkei's route shows that she and Yamato are both Journey fans.Benkei: This whole area looks like it'd be pretty come nightfall.
Yamato: [singing] When the lights go up in the city, and the moon shines on the bay.noteBenkei: Oh, I know that song. Want to do karaoke next time?
