Shout Out / Dragon Half

• To Iron Man, Mazinger Z and Guyver in one single scene.
• In the final arcs of the manga, Rogue Finn built three Robot Girls. One of them was armed with a Rocket Punch, and other with Torpedo Tits. Blatant reference to Mazinger Z.
• Likewise, those three robots (Navel 08, Dark Cherry and Apple) are named after fruits (Navel 08 is a reference to Cara cara navel oranges)
• Apple uncannily resembles My from the The Moomins series.
• Talking about Super Robot Genre, in one scene Damaramu combined with a flying ship right like UFO Robo Grendizer did.
• Lufa's parents are named Link and Zelda.
• And Mia's parents are named Mario and Peach.
• Sonic—Dick Saucer's cousin—is named after Sonic The Hedgehog (hence, his impressively running speed).
• Mermaids Rosa and Lydia are named after two characters of Final Fantasy IV (although English-speaking audiences might be more familiar with the latter name getting translated as Rydia).
• Secondary character Adol is named after Ys main character.
• Simon Del Monte, his brother Ralph and their holy zombie-vanquisher Legacy Weapon sword are a blatant reference to Castlevania.
• When Mink and her friends arrive at the Azatodeth Island Base, at the beginning it behaves like a Dragon Quest game. There are random encounters every few steps, and a random warrior fights a tree with banners showing how many damage points he has got.
• Vena being the daughter of a king who married a Slime is taken directly from The Final Fantasy Legend.
• There’s a reference to Mobile Suit Gundam in Volume 3, Part 22, where Dick Saucer tells someone to “blame the misfortune of (their) birth”.

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