Shout-outs founds in The Child of Love:
- Hotaru Tomoe from Sailor Moon makes a cameo.
- In a scene Hikari calls Shinji "playboy-kun"
- Kaworu is renamed Kaoru. The name comes from Kaoru Kamiya from Rurouni Kenshin.
- After the Final Battle Rei changes her surname to Mizuno.
- In the epilogue Shinji says they are considering naming their daughter Akiko.
- One of the agents of Shinji and Asuka's security detail is called Yuu Saotome, after a character of a Ranma ½ fanfic.
