Shout Out / Kimi No Na Iowa

Ace Combat (and other flight action)

• "The other wants the world in every generation, and we shall fell every last one of them."
  • Yet, what is a shipgirl? ... Can we actually see the lines that divide one from another?
  • THE SKY IS CONNECTED
  • Vestal refers to the use of USVs as "seas unknown".
  • ...something that might lead a human to call it quite the entertainer, but it would be over with this next shot—-
  • "...weapons that have taken the lives of 30 million."
  • “Heed my words. There are no means of ending this hideous evil in a definitive and elegant manner."
  • "For there to be a restoration of balance, a judgment..."
  • "...and definitely not to snuff out lives with senseless cruelty..."
  • "It is not enough to defang these lost kingdoms."
  • "You do not lack the drive... Picture it... salvation..."
  • "...and then set off as soon as we’re ready.”
  • "The death of the evil billions and their enablers is a necessity..."
• Chapter 17 mentions Tokyo's "shattered skyline".
  • The Chinese C4ISTAR plane overseeing the operation in Chapter 19 is Tian Yan.^note Chinese for Sky Eye
• After abyssal attacks on Los Angeles, a great host are dancing with the angels.
  • Chapter 32 has a Chinese aircrew mention his air force's brevity code for missile launch: "Drive".
• {Did you know? I was supposed to have three sisters. One who would seek strength, one who would live for pride, and one who could read the tide of battle. Those were the three.}
  • It was a warm and sunny day.
  • "What has Japan given us?"
  • "...this twisted game needs to be reset... We’re going to start over from scratch. This is what we came back for... We will start over from zero and entrust the future to the next generation."
• "Speaking of stories unknown, did you ever hear the tale of Zirgzar?"^note Sdrawkcab Name of Razgriz
• One of the C4ISTARs assigned to the St Lawrence Island operation is Queenmaster.
• The C4ISTAR in the US Gulf Coast region is Citadel.
• Chapter 31 reveals what abyssals call themselves: Peacekeepers.
• The Australian air battle management in Chapter 32 is provided by Solano.^note Crux's real name is Eugene Solano.

Battlestar Galactica (2003)

• The commander of NAVENSCIWARCOM is Vice Admiral Nagara (sic), and under her is a Rear Admiral Jefferson^note As in William Jefferson Clinton "Husk" Adams, bespectacled with suspected Hispanic or Mediterranean ancestry. Under him in turn, Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Paris "Razor" Abel^note As opposed to Helen(a) Cain commands Construct Three, with an aide Lieutenant Stephanie^note As in Shaw's actress Stephanie Jacobsen Saw[sic], and Captain George "Glider" Zelben^note An Anglicisation of Juergen and an anagram of Belzen, with the callsign a reference to what Belzen said he wanted to do on shore leave commands Amalgam 55. Zelben in turn has an XO, Commander Graham^note As in Fisk's actor Graham Beckel Frisk[sic]. Adams's XO is also Captain Paul Tai^note A pun on Saul who became Paul and Tigh.
• Chapter 15 mentions a Larson-Moore-Eick problem.
• In Chapter 19, Yorktown signals Essex to execute her plan of the plan with "The back door is open. Repeat, the back door is open.”
• In Chapter 22, Abel thinks to herself about having had nightmares of summarily executing an insubordinate officer, which Cain did to Belzen in canon.
• Chapter 25:
  • Reference is made to a Noodle Incident in which something happened when Tai was left unsupervised.
  • The head of Iteration is one RDML Tomas Markson, after the protagonist of the fanfic The Scattering.
  • Adams says that "assuming that the abyssals have shown their entire hand is a hard six I'd rather not roll".
• In Chapter 26, Ayaka thinks about "see[ing] gamma rays, hear[ing] X-rays, smell[ing] dark matter, feel[ing] solar wind"^note From Cavil's Being Human Sucks rant when considering magic-granted Super-Senses.

DC Comics

• Shipgirls using the lunge rote generate blue lightning like the DC Extended Universe Flash.
  • Speaking of the Flash, Chapter 13 has a Super Speedster being surprised by the fact that her target can track her.
• When Charybdis sees Ayaka, she says "You're a big girl".
  • Princeton says "How about a magic trick?"
  • Uatu One-Three says “After all, if you’re good at something, never do it for free, right?”
  • The Big Girl gag reappears in Chapter 17.
  • Now was not the time to disabuse Mighty Mo of her notions. That came later.

Devil May Cry

• Quincy and Alice dance the Devil Trigger dance in Chapter 20.
  • So it was written.
  • "Got all the spring you need right here!"
  • ...frustration getting bigger.
• In a deleted scene, Akagi uses Judgement Cut End. Northampton uses it for real in Chapter 33.
  • Extracts from "The Time Has Come" are scattered across the abyssal supreme commander's speech in Chapter 31.
• Foolishness, Abel, foolishness.
• In Chapter 32, Northampton expresses her disappointment that Naganami was not, despite being a fellow swordswoman, the sole person with guts in this stinking hole.

Doom

• The official term for magical energy is Or Energy.^note Doom's is argent or silver, energy from Hell. Or is an archaic way of referring to gold, so it's energy from Heaven.
  • West Virginia rampaging in Chapter 20 is described as ripping and tearing without mercy.
  • “The N!ps are rage, brutal, without mercy... We… we must be worse, to rip them up and tear apart those who would condone their continued existence."
  • “So we walk eternally through the shadow... standing against evil where all others falter."
  • “May our thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on our swords never dry... and may we never be needed again.”
• "Against all the evil that Hirohito’s ilk can conjure, all the wickedness that J@pkind can produce, we will send unto them… only you... Buy that time, until it is done."
  • "You are the shell that shoots at the heart of the defilers, and those that would seek to stand with the J@ps against justice should feel warned, for they are no dominant lifeform, no master race... Yours is a steel-barreled sword of vengeance... The time the J@ps will make long-overdue reparations in their blood is now.”

Furi

• "Today's a big day."
• "Look to the sky. Therein lies your answer."
• "Shake your head. Nod your head. It's time to go."
• Having missing parents, it fucked you up inside.

Marvel Comics

• In the past, Uileag saved a boy named Peter from a bully named Flash.
• A third BERND member is Dr Esteban Mysterio.
  • The hand motion Ayaka uses for rewinding time involves turning of the wrist, similar to how Strange does it in the 2016 film.
  • Princeton can create portals that spark at the edges, also like how Strange and the other sorcerors can.
• Amalgam 55's callsign is "Uatu". Fittingly, Yorktown calls her commentator mental instance a Critic.
• If one let her guess, to the people of the Republic of the Philippines, this archipelago of over 7,000 islands was home, and it was beautiful.
  • "I hope they forget me."
  • “Fun isn’t something one considers when saving the world, but this does put a smile on my face.”
• In Chapter 26, as Ayaka prepares to use vitae for the first time, Princeton asks her if she's ready for a higher form of war.
  • "“There was an idea… to bring together a fleet of remarkable ships. To see if they could become something more. To see if they could work together when we needed them to. To fight the war that we never could. So many of us sank still believing in that idea."
  • "It is an old-fashioned notion..."
  • "Believe that there is no throne, no version of this where the J@ps come out on top. We could not protect our world, but we can well sure avenge it."
• Also in that chapter, Ayaka likens the call to start drawing on her vitae stores to as if it's calling her to take its hand, complete with "Black Tears" from the soundtrack in question playing.
• "...we upgraded your armour! Impressive..."
• "...whatever it takes... Some think that the evil was in the past and it is acceptable to move on, but not us. Not us.”

Metal Gear

• Shimakaze says "I'm pretty good, huh?" while doing Ocelot's gesture.
• The admiral of the JMSDF Yokosuka district's shipgirl contingent is Shizuka "Hummer" Minami.^note "Shizuka" is Japanese for "Quiet" and the character hums a lot.
  • "The world called, and you answered. Peacekeeping is a great good, a just cause."
  • "The shining lights, even in death, who we sank with our own hands..."
• In Chapter 17, Alice tells Albacore not to OSP a Saratoga cosplayer, prompting the latter to complain that she had already brought her Fulton.
• War had changed.
  • Missouri's summoning involves her recalling an Alternate Self that remained a constant when war had changed.
  • In Chapter 24, Kaga calls herself an old killer brought back for wetwork. She repeats this in Chapter 29.
• An earlier draft of Chapter 14 had "Mathematics, daughter."
  • Broken in two… WITH HER BARE HANDS!
  • "Like the good ol' days after 12/7."
  • "America is diseased, rotten to the core."
  • "There’s no saving it. The only way for it to be redeemed... is to pull it out by the roots... Wipe the slate clean, burn it down. Only then, from the ashes... a new world will be born..."
  • "We kill because it has to be this way..."

Nasuverse

• Charybdis refers to her class as a bunch of Grangerfaces because of how Hermione and the rest all look like Emma Watson, and there's a game called "Entropy Venti" something around. Chaldea is the European equivalent to BERND.
• Chapter 12 mentions "Gilgamesh levels of arrogance".
  • When Saratoga says in Chapter 26 that marrying her admiral is an ever-distant utopia, Alice asks what Avalon's got to do with it.
• Ayaka's spell that quadruples speed through Time Mastery is called "square accel".

Nier

• "...nor to become as gods..."
  • "...the weight of the world is a burden we ourselves must carry..."
  • “I know it is tempting to think our Heraclean task is the punishment of some god. The sky looks so ominous... and we cannot save everyone because we are just so few."
  • "This is not a price we pay for our past mistakes..."
  • "...not as a celebration or a redemption song."

Other KanColle fan works

• One of Ichiyo's BERND colleagues is Gail Salazar Ramone^note As in Sa-Ra Gail if read the other way around.
  • An incident occurs where Summoned shipgirls have to be reminded regarding a casualty that they are girls, not just ships.
  • "Fuck you, I do what I want!" Also mentioned in Chapter 22 as Missouri's impression of what Jersey is like.
  • There is a conspiracy theorist in Akron, Ohio who is convinced the shipgirls are actresses or cosplayers and that the war is against China or Russia that inexplicably hasn't gone nuclear.
  • In Chapter 24, Saratoga asks what it means to find the right man, not believing that it's as simple as finding someone who knows to sing about the ship of happy landings.
  • In Chapter 26, a literature professor with BERND named Percival Gloire^note Contrasting with Arthur Crowning, "gloire" being French for "glory", as in "crowning glory" is mentioned.
• In Chapter 29, a minor character scoffs at the idea of peaceful abyssals, asking if one of them is going to end up in the job market.
• Chapter 32 mentions a "CVB-44 incident".

Other Makoto Shinkai works

• Nijimi's first words to Ayaka are "Hello, little star."
  • "...I am here."
  • Ayaka "sees" the rainy bus stop scene when she first lays eyes on Naganami.
  • Naganami's altered rigging, with its back thrusters, back of shoulder missile pods and bracer-mounted energy blades, is modelled after a Tracer.
  • Naganami is Alternate Self Mikako.
• (Takuya) Shirakawa and Tomizawa are mentioned to be at an Aomori-based university working on dimensional studies using a theorem partially developed by Tsukinoe.
  • The Silver Ladder is also called Ezo.
• Uileag prayed for one more time, one more chance to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
  • The missed opportunity to reunite on the bridge in Winter 2021 is also likened to being "gone like a letter swept away by the wind."
  • Ayaka "sees" the railway crossing with its cherry blossoms overhead when she first lays eyes on Akagi.
  • Akagi wears a pink spinel on her silver engagement ring, just like adult!Akari.
  • Yamashiro says that the velocity of shells from the magic railgun is five kilometres per second.
  • In Chapter 21, Ayaka notes the presence of an ethereal swirl of snow and cherry blossoms around Akagi.
  • In Chapter 24, Akagi recalls the otherworldly dream on the hill.
• Children Who Chase Lost Voices: The other person who created the theorem Takuya and Tomizawa are using is surnamed Watase. Asuna?
  • Naganami asks if Princeton's inability to open a portal to extract Uatu Two and Riptide is due to Quetzalcoatl Gatekeeping Instability.

Overwatch

• When using Anti-Air Cut-In, Atlanta says "I've got you in my sights".
• Oakland uses Doomfist's rising uppercut plus lunge punch combo in chapter 12, as part of which she Instant Armors up a gauntlet for her right forearm.
• Maya says "It's High Noon!" when she first appears. She also whistles the victory theme.
• In response to be asked about there not being enough justice in the summoning building, Maya says that it rains from above in the chambers.
• Hiryuu and Souryuu can use Hanzo's Ultimate.
• Charles Ausburne and Oakland says "Justice rains from above!" after unleashing a tsunami on the abyssal Spratly Islands bases.
• Missouri says "The world could always use more friendliness" in Chapter 22.

Pacific Rim

• After sinking the abyssals attacking New York City, Atlanta and O'Bannon are told to check for a pulse because of the experiences of a CDR R Becket.
  • Oakland uses Gipsy Danger's Elbow Rocket on an abyssal in chapter 12.
  • Now the alien life was entering from deep beneath.
  • In Chapter 22, the summoning speech laments the imminent apocalypse that mankind alone cannot cancel.
  • Two of the Australian admirals are Robert “Hercules” Martini and Maximilian “Chuck” Appleby, who have dirty red hair and blue eyes that occasionally get them mistaken as relatives.^note Referring to Herc and Chuck Hansen, played by Maximilian "Max" Martini and Robert Kazinsky (born as Appleby).

Star Wars

• "This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them."
• It was very impressive... Yorktown couldn’t resist feeling very proud.
• {I felt a great disturbance, as if an old hag suddenly went fast. I fear something vulgar has happened.}
• “I thought not. It’s not a story History and Heritage Command would tell you."
• Whatever the truth was, LCDR Godai had been a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
• ...was Luke using the Force, or was the Force using Luke?
• The strategist’s descent was not so artfully done...

XCOM

• Gonzalez Team goes into Overwatch using lines right out of XCOM troopers' mouths. Various other lines from XCOM appear here and there.
• The modified Osprey tilt-rotor that serves as air transport for the USN ship girls has the In-Series Nickname of "Skyranger", and apparently Jake Solomon himself was practically floored at its reveal In-Universe, and called the girls "real ayy hunters". The one in use at McGuire-Dixie-Lakehurst has the callsign "Cloudy Sky", a play on EU's Big Sky.
• The official designation of Task Force VALKYRIE is an "extradimensional entity combat project".
• Two of the NAVENSCIWARCOM research personnel are a Dr Halen who urges the shipgirls to exercise restraint when using explosives and a Dr Sheng.
• Vulcan says that Iteration personnel joke about making laser cannons for sale.
• Despite the occasional crack, all concerned knew very well that a highly-concentrated electrical current wasn’t likely to work on something that magically melded human, ship and spirit.
• "Status confirmed. All hostiles are down and the area is secure.” “Status confirmed. Mission accomplished."
• Two of the USN analysts mentioned in Chapter 14 are Mr Odd and Mr Rush^note As in Beaglerush.
• In Chapter 20, Charles paraphrases Peter van Doorn by saying “Wasn’t fair for us to have all the fun".
• "Hello, Commander. It is good to see you again."
• In the summoning speech in Chapter 22, RDML Abel calls the abyssals an enemy unknown and a terror from the deep and laments that the imminent apocalypse is beyond the ability of humanity's interceptors and enforcers to cancel.
• In Chapter 23, Ayaka lies down, tries not to panic and loses control of the situation.
• In Chapter 26, West Virginia refers to hitting 38 knots thanks to Ayaka's mass acceleration spell as "a proper speed of death".
• In Chapter 31, Gelaf is a Sdrawkcab Name for Faleg and Wynn derives from Xwynns.

World Of Darkness/Chronicles Of Darkness

• Shipgirls and abyssals come from the supernal realm, Natural Borns after a process called Reawakening.
  • A Project Silver Ladder that studies the supernal is mentioned.
  • The hypothesised abyssal with the ability to attack from the supernal is codenamed Exarch, as first revealed in Chapter 25.
  • Chapter 29 mentions a Project Obrimos that's resulted in a weapon involving pure Prime release.
  • Abyssals call primium thaumium.
• Bases with stationed shipgirls generate Infrastructure, though as Vulcan notes, outside the name, it doesn't conform too tightly.
• The international anti-abyssal coalition is called Task Force VALKYRIE.
• The US Navy operates shipgirls under the United States Naval Enlightened Science Warfare Command, dividing into Constructs and then Amalgams. Their command logo is the Technocracy's. Their research division is called Iteration, working on hypertech, and are thinking of splitting biomedical and life sciences matters into Progeny. Cecil mentions in Chapter 7 that many people think the abyssals will disappear if they disbelieve hard enough, an obvious nod to Paradox.
  • In Chapter 10, the unavailability of Shockwave support is brought up.
  • According to Chapter 13, there is an In-Universe work called Etherite: The Technomancing.
  • One of Chaldea's personnel is a Cemal al-Hallaq.
  • JEXRA has Research & Execution departments.
  • JEXRA Yokosuka has what are implied to be Akashic Brothers, a Son of Ether, a Celestial Chorister, a Dreamspeaker and a Golden Chalice Euthanatos.
  • The brevity code used by shipgirls for conventional units is "consor".
  • A magic-disrupting material called primium.
  • The Commonwealth navies call their shipgirl command the "Fleet Enlightened Shock Arm", a nod to the Enlightened Shock Corps.
• The abyssal base targeted in Chapter 19 is called Yorak.
  • The Ship is similar to how the Beast works.
• Charles Ausburne refers to West Virginia going berserk as the Ahroun. Takanami uses the brevity code Crinos instead.

Your Lie in April

• “My hands would be happy just touching yours."
• There is a cafe run by a Nozoyami^note Backward by syllable family that serves killer caneles.
• "‘Maybe there’s only a dark road up ahead, but you still have to believe and keep going,’ they said. ‘Maybe, just maybe, light can reach the bottom of a dark ocean,’ they said.” ... “‘If we make the darkness shine, it will become a starry sky’? ... and everything from me that reaches someone is calamity!”
• "Do you think you could make everyone forget?”
• “My boilers go funny when I think of CDR Frisk; the colours around me somehow become more vivid and everything sparkles so brightly. Is that love?”
• Takanami's death involves her glowing, turning translucent and dissolving into Cherry Blossoms just like Kaori.

Other works

• The constructionmen in Chapter One are surnamed after Quentin Tarantino characters: Winnfeld, Driver and Kiddo, Candie and Schultz and White.
• Constructionman Schultz taps his temple with his right index finger while making a "X can't happen if Y doesn't" statement.
• Ciarán says that Uileag had a "helping people thing".
• A few lines from Yeats's The Second Coming appear in the speech Ayaka receives prior to her Reawakening.
• The scout plane Iowa deploys the first time addresses her with the callsign "Renner".^note A Genius Bonus; Renner is the actor of Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Iowa is the Hawkeye State.
• The notifications Ayaka gets during her Reawakening are "Establishing Battlefield Control/Welcome Back" and "Boilers Online/Sensors Online/Weapons Online/All Systems Nominal."
  • General Shi says "Melt; everything of theirs must melt.”
• Ayaka is told "We don’t get to rest just yet."
  • "This isn't a war ordinary humans can win."
• Iowa tells Ayaka that “I am you and you are me.”
• The abyssals did their best. Their best wasn't good enough.
  • West Virginia angrily says in Chapter 13 that shipgirls are meant to be officers and ladies of the US Navy, not witches and whores.
  • In Chapter 23, the other three Iowas sing ''Life Will Change'' to welcome Ayaka home.
    • "Looking cool, IoIo!"
• A character mentions having read that "the long way down the road to the chemist is just peanuts to space."
• "I wasn't in Kansas any more."
• The old cant Ayaka recites includes "infinite in distance and time, unbound by death". Later on, a character remarks that "it is in passing that we achieve immortality."
• Nijimi remarks that repressing her talents in Bergeronian fashion in the pursuit of faux-equality would have been a disservice to all.
• "It's hot drop o’clock!"
• Artillery Spotting also has the In-Series Nickname of "Siege Mode".
• Roaring and blazing with great sound and fury, signified the employment of 18 Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles.
• "Don't hesitate to wake me when you need me."
  • "Regret, regret, regret."
  • “When you first saw her in a danger of her own making, were you blinded by your common history?”
  • Yamashiro refers to Yasukuni Shrine as "that monument to all our sins."
• "Forget it, Iowa. It's Quincy."
• Albacore calls Ayaka Ayayayayayaaaa.exe.^note As in the opening to "Awaken".
  • {What a beautiful sight,} Kaga said in Japanese as she chewed.
  • In Chapter 29, Essex says "I refuse" while looking back at Hammann.
  • In Chapter 31, Missouri gives a steamroller to a Re.
• The American civilian agency studying supernatural phenomena is the Bureau of Enlightened Science Research and Defence (BERND), founded by Professor Ralph Besen.^note This is also a Castlevania reference; Trevor Belmont was originally named Ralph in the Japanese. Meanwhile, Prof Bruttenholm's surname is pronounced "broom"... which "Besen" is German for.
• CAPT Cecil says the use of the term "Enlightened Science" is a fillip to the electronic old men running the world who haven't gotten the message that it's a new age.
  • "What a shame."
  • Amalgam 451's callsign is Looking Glass.
  • "Going in and going in and going in like the US Marshall and his three daughters!"
  • "I like everyone, Dr Reed!"
• The impetus for BERND was the discovery of unknown red crystals and unreadable books the Nazis were experimenting on humans with.
• The Quick Reaction Amalgams based at McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst are Coyote, Gonzalez and Roadrunner.
• During the Terror, there were operations in Dubai where a Delta Force Captain named Walkure was involved and things went poorly.
• After having a salacious thought about Ayaka in Chapter 8, Uileag says "Begone, thought."
• Sayaka's Alternate Self is named Hitomi and her child with Tessie('s alternate) is named Kyouko.
• The instructor for the basic magic class at MDL is "Stingray".
• In Chapter 9, Quincy hijacks the base PA and starts singing "Love of QuincyQuincyQuin!"
• The basic lunge rote involves drawing your left arm back while stretching the right arm out and is called by the Japanese something that starts with a "ga".
  • "...until we bring death to evil, whether swift..."
• Another BERND member is Ronald Coventry.
  • Something happened to Carmichael here too.
• When Princeton is introducing herself, she says, "Set an abyssal a fire, it's warm for a night. Set an abyssal afire, it's warm for the rest of its life!”
• Did abyssals dream of oil-fired sheep?
• In Chapter 12, an adaptation of Donald Rumsfeld's infamous "You go to war with the army you have" line comes up.
• Abyssal planes are described in Chapter 12 as having the sky taken from them.
• Uatu's anti-air fire is described as a big, beautiful wall.
  • “How do these insipid monikers help make Japan radioactive again, bulwark?”
  • "Not their best. People that have lots of problems."
  • "Is Japan not sending us their best after all?"
• One of Task Force VALKYRIE's unofficial mottoes is "ten impossible things before breakfast."
• Antiship missiles hitting abyssals in Chapter 12 are said to dawn in fire.
  • {Hey you, you're finally awake.}
• Princeton drops bombs into her hat-portal like Salt Bae.
• The jinxed abyssal destroyers' counterproductive attempts to intercept fire is referred to as "halping".
  • "Numbers are the fundament of the universe. Understand them, and you can understand everything.”
  • ...what arose from the crater her landing had formed in the ground was a green-glowing colossus, without wincing or the slightest sign of pain.^Spoiler Adapted from what was said of the Harbinger clones
  • "You are doing a good thing. The greatest thing."
• Already-sinking abyssals keep trying to the last to stab at the shipgirls from Hell’s heart.
• "Tonight, Uatu Two joins the hunt!"
• There is a Russian bomber man surnamed Gryzlov.
• Gryzlov remarks that most Americans don't speak suka blyat.
• Shimakaze introduces herself as a Very Fast Picket.
• Maya calls herself Great and Powerful.
• Two Chaldea personnel are Dr Roth and Dame Becker working on Da'at Yichud.
• "Here's a touching story. ... The end.
  • "So much blood!"
• Professor Ralph Besen's first name is also a Castlevania reference; Trevor Belmont was originally named Ralph in the Japanese.
  • In Chapter 15, Maya says that Choukai was "BEATEN… BY A LITTLE GIRL?!”
• "Hotshot."
• "I love it!"
• "You live, you die, you live again..."
  • "Paperwork is MEDIOCRE, so you’d better not be! Do it well and do it fast, and you will be awaited in Valhalla, where you will sail eternal, shiny and chrome! WITNESS!”
• In Chapter 15, Ayaka thinks that there's no obvious way to get to a paper-hanging SOB and shoot her.
• After hearing a certain shipgirl's choice of music, Maya remarks that she's a woman of culture as well.
• Some destroyers ask Hiryuu and Souryuu if they need to hold their sake.
• "...all those lost in time, like tears in the rain." "Time to die."
• The nature of a battleship is described in Chapter 16 as "protect, attack, never stand back".
• The lyrics to "Deja Vu" are cunningly scattered around Chapter 17.
  • "Let's stop sailing in the 1900s, yeah, IoIo? It's an old place you ought not be!"
  • "Gas Gas Gas" is played In-Universe in Chapter 26 as Ayaka uses her new mass acceleration spell.
• Two female relatives named Harumi and Suzu, one of whom has a mother named Kiseno.
• "Top of the morning to you, everyone!"
• "Kaga, you bitch!" Complete with the hand clasp.
• 100 million people used to live here. Now it was a ghost town.
• Minefields so thicc Aku would think you were overdoing it.
• Battlegroups went for enthusiastic walks...
• Abyssal battlegroups are said to have the implacability and firepower at least an order of magnitude that which any platoon of Skynet’s robot killers could bring.
• Akagi in battle is referred to as embodying the unyielding Kiplingesque steel of the female of the species.
• The mass buff Nakahara confers in Chapter 19 grants electrical "rails" to cannon and the brevity code is "Flipside".
• Yamashiro slaps the roof of a turret and says "This bad boy can fit so much speed in it!"
• An abyssal is described in Chapter 19 as being mangled beyond even Phil Swift’s ability to remedy.
• "May I have some Lamp Rubs, Brother?”
• After a while, all they were doing was just cleanup, punching bone chips into the floorboards...
• It was free real estate...
• Unusual problems called for unusual solutions.
• "Have no fear! For we are here!"
  • "It's definitely not fine now!"
• "Excuse me what the fuck."
• CHOMP
• “Uatu Three-One, ravioli ravioli do not lewd the Secretary of the Navy!”
• "...there’s something more viscerally satisfying about the thunder of guns tearing something apart, isn’t there?” “I guess the sound of the drums beating in hearts does have that effect.” Missouri obligatingly performs the song when making her entrance in Chapter 22.
• ...no Izumo Inquisition to not expect.
• Birds were singing. Flowers were blooming. ... On days like these...
• When thinking about what her presence symbolised in Chapter 21, Ayaka wonders how she might have taken it in a post-The Man in the High Castle world.
• “What difference at this point does it make?”
• When Yamashiro says that "Glory is fleeting, but failure is forever", Ayaka wonders if the latter shouldn't be obscurity instead.
• "...the distance between here and home feels like A Place Further than the Universe..."
• Missouri's summoning has her recall Alternate Selves where on her a rogue agent's treason was thwarted, she brought the rain when Soviets attacked and she endured after the young had fallen to extraterrestrial attack.
  • “I see you’re all ready to play with the big boys!"
  • “You have given so much to your country... and no one has the right to ask any more of you... but I’m asking.” “What do you need, Ma’am?” “I need your help."
• The signal is calling. \ Our planet is falling. \ The danger is magnum. \ Better make it strength for freedom!
• In Chapter 22, a random sailor shouts "Yes" while pumping his fist to triumphant background music.
• The beauty of Summoned shipgirls is described in Chapter 22 as gross incandescence.
• ...and not for the first time that year, that month, that week or even that day...
• "Star of the Fleet, Mizzou~Mizzou~Rii!”
• “Wisky better not be flat and ginger! That’d be just rude!”
• "Not quite my tempo."
• In Chapter 23, Jersey asks Missouri if she wants some pumped-up concrete kicks.
• In Chapter 23, Missouri says Ayaka normally doesn't turn up the radio and asks if she is going to bust out a jacket gay cheetahs had to die for.
• In Chapter 26, Ayaka says that her combat experience has given her "enough perspective to stuff Anton Ego."
• “They were the first ones to see. They are the last ones to bleed.”
• “I do not go a-recruiting from the guests on the day my sister is to be married.”
• "We should go."
  • "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong."
  • "We had a good ride." "The best."
• "Oh, really?" "Ja, really."
• "... it feels like just yesterday that you wanted to run away and never say goodbye."
• Shin had gone even further beyond...
• Akagi recalls in Chapter 24 how a certain dream she used to have involved soaring, tumbling, freewheeling.
• When Alice talks about becoming human, Quincy says that at least it isn't Detroit.
• The multipliers on Ayaka's mass acceleration spell go dot, line, triangle and square.
• In Chapter 26, Hammann tells Princeton "Don't act dumb!"
  • The /// assault was now in progress ///
• Amtrak has a World Dreamer^note Season 2 OP2 "Dream World" maglev and a Field Crosser^note Season 1 OP1 "Crossing Field" conventional high-speed railway.
• In Chapter 29, Iteration is working on portals that use a ring-shaped machine. One of the personnel involves asks if it's wrong to doing so while not under Cheyenne Mountain, causing his unamused leader to ask if he's a spy for the Chair Farce. The teams in question are reporting to one Admiral Davis.^note As in Don Davis, the late actor for General Hammond.
• In Chapter 29, a minor character tells another that he would have become a wizard in a few more years if a shipgirl hadn't intervened.
• "It's all politics. Always has been.
• "I love the smell of fuel-air explosions in the morning."
• Bismarck calls herself the King of the Ocean. Her callsign being Formtaker One comes from the line "From the mist a ship is taking form".
• In Chapter 31, a Canadian lieutenant says his kids read an old scifi comic about ships with glowing logos that transform and fire Death Rays.
• "You're a star, and what do stars do?" "Shine!"
• Shine shine shine shine shine!
• {Thanks to Spatial folding...and we didn’t even have to do it a thousand times.}
• The first spoken lines of Chapter 31 quote from James Flecker's The Golden Journey to Samarkand.
• In Chapter 31, the abyssal supreme commander's thoughts and speech include allusions to "Never Enough" and "A Million Dreams" from The Greatest Showman, while the Villain Song is an adaptation of "From Now On".
• Physics was just applied mathematics...
• “‘Ey Boss, can I have a dead J@p, please?”
• "You are ships of focus, commitment, and sheer will..."
• “...all the lights on the seas are our enemies..."
• "Every one of them. Everyone."
• “...work in the dark to serve the light... Where the Americans, Quislings and thralls blindly follow the J@ps, remember:” “Nothing is true!” “Where the Americans, Quislings and thralls are limited by morality or law, remember:” “Everything is permitted!”
• The shipgirl distress beacon is called a Susan Horn.
• In Chapter 32, one character makes a Deadly Lunge against another. The defender dodges it, causing the attacker to say "Nice dodge!" The defender replies with "What's wrong with you?"
• "Honor sank in the harbor."
• Chapter 9 reveals that Makoto Shinkai exists in this universe, though he never succeeded in turning If I’d Known It Was a Dream into your name., with his sixth movie remaining a cult hit and his seventh being Keit-Ai instead of Weathering With You.