Shout Out / Nichijou

• To Super Mario Bros.:
  • When Nano bounces along several Brick Blocks to make Coins fly out in the story where the Professor gives her a Reaction feature. The anime version shows up in Episode 15.
  • In Chapter 135, a Question Block is among the items being sold by a street vendor.
• In Episode 2 of the anime, Sasahara can be seen playing with a Game Boy, and later with a Virtual Boy.
  • From the same episode (the second prototype comic in the manga): Sometimes I'm a bear, sometimes I'm a be-ar, but my true identity is...
• Episode 4: After taking up a Laying Buddha pose, Mai points her finger up and touches the finger of an alien arm drawn on the blackboard above her.
• In Episode 5, Nakanojou tries to disprove the spiritualist by asking him to summon soap. When the medium does so, he fearfully thinks "Is there a person named Soap?" This could be a possible shout out to Soap MacTavish of Modern Warfare, since, for one, both characters sport mohawks.
• In Episode 6 of the anime, a car and married couple from the Game of Life appear.
• Also in Episode 6, Mio delivers Rei's line from Fist of the North Star: "What color is your blood?!"
• When the deer hits the principal, it lands a Street Fighter IV-style Focus Attack.
• Episode 8 references TRON, albeit with an actual bicycle.
• In Episode 10, Sakamoto claims that Jazz legend Miles Davis would be horrified by the Professor and Nano's awful trumpeting.
• In Episode 14 Yuuko kicks her shoe off on top off a car.
• In Episode 16/Chapter 93 Mai has a Specialman eraser. In the same episode, during her Unstoppable Rage Mio does Akuma's signature shadow step "Ashura Senkuu" before pulling off a Dragon Screw on Sasahara's Goat.
• In Episode 18, Number 6's last words as he plummets to his death after having failed to entertain Princess Starla are "I have but one regret in my life!" (我が人生に一片の悔い... ありいー！ Waga jinsei ni ippen no kui ...ariiii!), the only changes made to the phrase being the word for "life" used (人生, jinsei instead of 生涯, shougai) and the verb being positive instead of negative.
• The "incantation of resurrection" that Mai uses to win the Rock-Paper-Scissors staircase game is a cheat code for Dragon Quest (although it turns out Mai remembers it wrongly, as evidenced by her failure to make it work when she tries to use it while playing the game later on).
• In Episode 20 Sakamoto shouts "Shabba-Dabba-Doo!" in the same way "Yabba-dabba-doo!" is said, all while doing the classic Hanna-Barbera run startup.
  • The same episode's eyecatch has an angel-thing (?) reading The Sirens of Titan.
• In Episode 21 Misato and Weboshi each hit Fecchan with a Double Lariat.
  • The Episode 21 one above can also double as a Kinnikuman shout-out, as Neptuneman and Big the Budo's move predates the Naruto one, as well as there already being two Kinnikuman shout-outs in the show already. The other shout-out is in Episode 17's "Like Love" where the boss is doing the Palo Special, made famous by Warsman.
  • Also in episode 21, Weboshi has an AC/DC shirt.
• The Professor seems to be a fan of Astro Boy if Nano's adventures in Chapter 178 are anything to go by.
• In the 9th Ordinary Shorts compilation, Tanaka's chant and the title of the strip make reference to Peacock King.
• Chapter 145 has the Literary Allusion Title of The Sorrows of Young Aioi.
• Tanaka and his obsession with his afro is likely a reference to Afro Tanaka, a long running manga series that follows the titular afro-wearing character through his youth and adulthood.
• When Misato and Sasahara are being chased by the "jaguar" in Chapter 202, Sasahara suggests throwing honey ay yhe "jaguar", leading to Misato saying "It's not Winnie the Pooh!"

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