Shout Out / Harry and the Shipgirls

• Naka had Harry play Ōkami on one of her livestreams.
• When chewing out Aoba for some poorly thought out journalism that left Akatsuki reduced to tears, Harry was overheard at one point yelling, "Don't swear to the Kami, swear to me!"
• Harry compared airshipgirls to looking like the Strike Witches, only they could wear pants.
• Amaterasu's disguise as Sunny is based on her appearance in Okami, and she may have helped create the game in the first place.
• As Sunny, Amaterasu likes to be a Big Friendly Dog for USS Taylor, referencing Constellations.
• Taylor herself is a reference to a Worm and Kantai Collection crossover called The Little Ship That Could.
  • The Repair Ship USS Amycus is loosely based on Amy Dallon from the same.
• Like a certain Miko from the worm fanfic Constellations Rose believes that tea time is courtesy time
• If Harry ever loses his temper, he uses the same swearing style as Captain Haddock.
• Norimune gave Kyoshu the latest issue of ''Mizuchi Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch'' before going to bond with Jacklyn.
• Cyrus Greengrass is just one character who likes to play World of Warships.
• Natsumi has a brother named Taichi, and sisters named Asuka and Rei.
• One of Natsumi's friends, an inaba (rabbit yokai) is named Tsukino Usagi. Her older brother is named Arutemisu.
• A Muggle-born former Hogwarts student gave Dumbledore a duplicate of the Luggage. He names it Rupert.
  • A conversation in the Library makes reference to L-Space and Orangutans.
• Yokai shipgirls tend to look like they're from Azur Lane.
• Haru likes to play Touken Ranbu.
• Here Dumbledore naming his phoenix Fawkes is an explicit reference to Guy Fawkes.
• In a battle against a group of funayuurei, Tenryuu asked Harry to play Final Fantasy music.
• Touhou Project is apparently very popular.
• Just like in the actual Kantai Collection game, there was an incident involving the Fleet of Fog.
• Harry and Hermione are both fans of Hayao Miyazaki.
• During his first year, a bored Harry got some seventh years to create some fully animatronic Kyubey dolls that he sent through the owlbox, pranking all of Yokosuka Naval Base.
  • On hearing about it Goto ordered the incident be added to The List.
• Colombe's arc in Operation Butterknife was designed as an homage to Indiana Jones.
• Upon learning that the Weasleys had a very large quantity of platinum cauldrons, Ooyodo laughed like The Joker, while Supprin paraphrased the inscription on the one ring.
• The engagement ring Percy gave Supprin is modeled after the One Ring. While the one he gave Ooyodo could pass as a Green Lantern ring.
• During a Cutaway Gag showing Harry's Great-Great-Grandfather Ian bedding a normally predatory Jorogumo, it's shown that she's enjoying herself so much that she starts singing "Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life."
• Johnston managed to get Draco to become a major Star Wars fan.
• Juuchi has been known to occasionally go for enthusiastic walks during a battle.
• The admiral of Pearl Harbor has been stated to look just like Samuel L. Jackson.
• Sendai has a complete boxed set of Kikaider.
• HMS Phoenix created foot-powered cars to use in Hawaii. HMS Hawaii even told Aso that you're supposed to yell "Yabba dabba doo!" when you start one.
• When Harry got to meet Lyra, she quoted Jiraiya's famous speech.
• Captain Itami of the JSDF is regularly compared to another man named Itami.
• The German submarine U-1407 is an Expy of Houshou Marine.
  • The sailship Henry Grace À Dieu is an expy of Shirogane Noel.
• Lily Potter apparently knew Balalaika.
  • An omake sees Rose and Haruna meet and befriend Roberta in a bar hevily implied to be the Yellow Flag. It's followed by a bunch of thugs showing up and starting a fight that ends up demolishing the bar........again.
• Delilah Naomi de Breuil: She's a Spy, uses a Revolver and has the Codename Ocelot. Sound famliar? She even lampshades it by using the screenname "Revolver Ocelot" online
• Apparently, James Potter would sometimes go on trips under the pseudonym Mr. Black.
• While Lily Potter thought an adventure in New York was fun, she was disappointed that there were no turtles in the sewers.
• Apparently, when Lily hijacked an F-14 fighter, she started singing Danger Zone.
• While rallying his friends to handle the cooking for Rose and Haruna's wedding, Harry chose to adapt Brother-Captain Indrick Boreale's famous speech.
• Rabastan Lestrange's compulsion to attack Windmills is presumably a nod to Don Quixote
• The Hungarian Horntail Harry beats up during the first task is named Sötétség, which is Hungarian for "Darkness". Her reaction to the defeat once she recovers is disturbingly similar to her namesake
  • Being a masochistic female dragon, she is also similar to Tio Klarus.
• One of the projects that Kamo backed was a plan to have people be possessed by the spirits of work horses, to get soldiers who were stronger than average. Some girls who were affected by the project were possessed by the spirits of race horses instead, turning them into Uma Musume.
• Upon learning about Quidditch, Iowa, Kongou, Nagato, and Hoppou promptly used the Bludger to reenact the Dragon Dodgeball scene from Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid.
• On their way to a Christmas KFC dinner, the Puppy Love group see Jesus and Buddha pass them.
• One of the members of TOTEM briefly seen on screen in passing is an up and coming highly gifted necromancer called Adept Hare. AKA William Afton.
• Harry and friends singing a reworded version of Come On Eileen at Natsumi's 16th birthday party. It was All Just a Dream.
• Revina pranking Fred & George with a cake and a potted plant is an inversion of "Kono Dio Da!".
• Dumbledore namedrops You Are Already Dead when describing Quirrel's situation after encountering Voldemort; he was screwed either way.
  • Yuudachi cannibalises the chant of Khorne's followers when she hears about the incident and that Harry will probably need a shoulder or three to cry on for a short while.
  Yuudachi: "Cuddles for the Cuddle God, Hugs for the Hug Throne, Poi!"
• From one of the Omakes to The Ring. One boy escapes from Sadoko by stealing a kiss as she exits the boy's computer screen. They are now Happily Married and he works as a computer repair man; she uses her powers to ask what time he'll be home at.
• Regina's reaction to a Battleship Demon insulting and threatening Shinano and Harry during operation UNDERTOW greatly resembles the result of Josuke Higashikata hearing someone insult his hairstyle.
  • Regina's reaction was to say, "You awoke the legendary Super Regina!
• James having to get Lily out of trouble with the Police after some drunken hooliganism smacks of Mass Effect 3 and the Citadel DLC, specifically Grunt celebrating his birthday and Shepard having to get him out of trouble with the Police.
• One of Harry's babysitters was Katarina Claes.
• Once while drunk Tenryuu called Inazuma Magical Girl Lyrical Nanodesu, an anecdote that Harry brought up with Myrtle while he was trying to find a talking animal he could send Inazuma as a pet (and Mentor Mascot).
  • Nanoha herself is one of Hoppou’s classmates when she starts school. Their teacher is Alma Wade.
• One of the Abyssals serving Porta is named Chiaphasas, has a smelly sidekick named Irgen and writes a memoir about her exploits and the supposedly unearned reputation resulting from them.
• Oda Kotegiri has been shown to hum a certain Gilbert & Sullivan tune about a little list while working.
  • Masamune-no-Kotegiri is a big fan of The Mikado and goes to see a rendition whenever she has some spare time,
• Shortly after she was summoned, Yuudachi was shopping for clothes...but she couldn't find any, because she was looking in the ramen store.
• An invisible Kenshō dumped some snow down Ehren's sweater during a snowball fight. When Ehren asked who did it, her response was "Mou... the Goldfish knows...."
• Old Man Henderson makes a cameo appearance after the Yule Ball by helping to clean up after Harry's lawn gnome prank
• A rather complex example with the recipe for lembas elven waybread. Being a fan of The Lord of the Rings , Harry Potter regularly bakes waybread for his friends. This includes his fellow Gryffindor Lily Moon, whose family recipe for bread wafers (using supernatural ingredients native to Alfheim) was the inspiration for the waybread in the books thanks to a much younger Lily gifting a wafer to a visiting professor who had been called to look at an ancient runestone found in the Orkney Islands during 1923....
• When giving the Duckies some Christmas cakes, Harry channeled The Super Dictionary.
  Harry: "Yes! A cake for each of you! And that is as many as four cakes for four Duckies! And that's a good thing!"
• When Draco was taking the Carrow Twins out to Hogsmeade to discuss business relating to MACUSA going Fallout, we were introduced to Zoe Accrington who is, due to WOG, basically the one who created My Immortal albeit this iteration is about 00Draco and his unrealistic Harem, sexual prowess, and whatnot. Further WOG said that this was to roast said Crapfic and to mess with Draco
• One reporter seen interviewing President Timmons was an American relative of Pansy's, Peter Parkinson.
• One Omake featuring Porta references The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, specifically the Gondor Calls for Aid scene.
• Izanami revealing the she's working at a Gas Station without anyone noticing like she also does here is a major Wham Episode in Persona 4.

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