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References from the first Neptunia

• Vert's Limit Break looks like a Giga Drill Break with a Red Ring Of Death.
• Noire's Limit Break looks very suspiciously similar to Yuri's Savage Wolf Fury.
  • To be more exact, Noire performs Yuri's Savage Wolf Fury sword combo barrage, followed by Asbel's Stampede Strike (Juuha Goushouzan) super upperslash, followed by countless sword flashes to dismantle the poor enemies... Did I already mention that Noire is Badass?
• Neptune's second Limit Break is reminiscent of Wren's transformations and Wren's Positron Bolt.
• Noire's third weapon is Elysdeon, the description "This sword is rumored to have come from a distant planet, key to fending off some legendary evil".
• AMAZOO.nep.
  • Dungle Maps.
• When Neptune is in her coma at the beginning of the game, she hopes that she doesn't go crazy and start "collecting rings floating by the ground" or wandering around and "stepping in some ABC gum".
• Nisa screaming "Wait" and "You don't deserve to know my name!"
• Neptune: "Muda muda muda muda muda muda muda!"
• Neptune: "From start to finish, I'm always at a climax!"
• Neptune once met a strange mangaka that talked about the existence of a giant blue shadow in form of a dragon. Said mangaka wore a gas mask.
• Noire's transformation quotes are chock full of these.
• Green Heart invites IF to play a "zombie mall-survival blood fest".
• A set of twins chase a turtle named Wowser from the Shroom Kingdom.
  • Two plot-important Mario ones involving meeting Peach and Yoshi expies.
• "No, this is a herd of super speedy blue hedgehogs!"
• Vert gives us a now-outdated reminder to preorder Hoop: Reach.
• The party runs across a lone member of S.R.A.T.S. who suggests you should be a "master of unlocking". The member even looks like Chris Redfield (his Resident Evil 5 incarnation).
• One of the DLC bosses is a "Traitor Knight" that resembles a gender-flipped Kain Highwind.
• Noire makes references, and even cosplays as one of her lookalikes◊, complete with ailurophilia. Here are some of her references.
  • "Transformation, ho!"
  • "Lastation Prism Power, Busty in Black!"
  • "Servants of Niflheim, return from whence you came."
  • "Shut up, shut up, shut up!"
  • "Who (the hell) do you think I... No, that's not right either."
• Compa introduces a Fighting Game match: "Heaven or Hell! Let's Rock!"
• Noire attempts to think up a catchphrase. "Through fire, justice is served!"
• The description of the Overlord Momus item says, "If you collect all five, the Overlord will awaken." Overlord Momus, obliterate?
• One of the first few lines Neptune has is, "Neptune does what you all don't," which is appropriate since Sega, which Neptune represents, used "Genesis does what Nintendon't" as an advertising line back in the day. What's more, this was a purely American ad campaign; the translators were actively adding to the shout outs, even obscure ones that many kids today likely wouldn't know about.
• In the manga, apparently a goddess is also a freeloader.
• At Leanbox, the party encounters a man who is looking for the culprit who stole the barrier protecting their town. With the exception of where he's holding his weapon, the silhouette really looks like Yuri Lowell.
• Neptune, Compa and IF run into a group of "road pugilists" beating up on barrels and used cars, among them a sumo wrestler and a cute Chinese girl with "really monstrous thighs".
• In another event, they see a group of movers moving boxes so that they can stack them so that they don't leave any gaps.
• A small dungeon in the Dark God's Cave in Lastation was carved by an evil lord with a pickaxe.
• The first time Neptune and her friends prepare to go terraporting, she thinks she's supposed to make a long jump across to reach the other landmass, and IF dares her to put on overalls and a red hat.
• Neptune: "The expo's on like monkey kong!"
• Neptune: "Greedy Boy appears! Command?"
• In the skit "Amnesiac Buddies", Black Heart complains to Neptune that her followers think "[she] only does everything."
• A dungeon in Lowee is named Bruagga Tower.
  • Another in Leanbox (?!) is named Hirool Castle.
• Nep and company are introduced to the Watch & Game in a skit.
• At Lastation, Nep and company encounter aspiring game creator Zach Unfair, whose favorite title is GG7.
• The kid in the skit "Attack of the Cicada Horde" plays too much Cogs of Battle.
• IF: I've never been trapped in a disc before either. We might have to sit tight until we're summoned back out.
  Compa: By Mr. Heretic? Do you think he'll ever throw the disc at someone and say "I choose you, Compiffytune?"
• Neptune: "Pretty and mysterious Neptune of love and justice. In the name of the Basilicom, I'll punish you!"
• One of the optional quests is titled "The Goddess Who Leapt Through Time".
• One of the DLC quests comes from an Overlord whose level has deteriorated down to level 1 while he was asleep.
• Neptune: "Let's transform and roll out!"
• There is a bird-type enemy called the Choocoboo, but it's colored pink instead of yellow.
• The skit "Master Idol Production" is a huge reference to The Idolmaster.
• The skit "Brain Age Score" has Nep, Compa, and Iffy having mental ages of 40-60, according to the results.
• Noire: Meh. Maybe someone's breeding them in a monster ranch or something.
  Neptune: Yeah, whatever. Monster Rancher isn't a job. That's so silly!
• In the Normal Ending, after defeating Arfoire's second form...
  Neptune: Drat. When she turned into the dragon, I thought she was gonna offer me half the world or something.
• In one of the RED skits, Red pulls out an assortment of improbable weapons: a kendama, a throwing disc, and a yo-yo. She tells IF that some kid fought off aliens with a yo-yo to rescue his dad.
  • Later, while being used as Red's personal Lap Pillow, IF remarks that her head is really heavy, like a barbarian who powers up by eating caveman meat.
• Neptune (to Avenir president Singe): "As a man of many vectors would say, resistance is futile."
• Arfoire: "Who're spelunking enthusiasts?! Don't they blast ghosts with oxygen tanks and stuff?!"
• In the skit "Amateur Writer's Contest", Blanc/White Heart wants to buy a personal computer for herself, but nothing with Blast Processing.
• One of Neptune's battle start quotes is "I can already see this ending..."

References found in Neptunia mk2:

• Horsebirds won't make any sense unless you've played Final Fantasy XIV where they have renamed Chocobos into horsebirds. Compile Heart took it Up to Eleven.
• Steins Gate characters Kurisu Makise, Mayuri Shiina, and Itaru "Daru" Hashida make a cameo as part of 5pb's attacks.
• Rorona, Totori, the Chims, Ceci, and Mimi show up for some of Gust's attacks.
• Nepgear's dream reenacts the entire sequence of the third episode of Puella Magi Madoka Magica right down to two of the seiyuus (Nippon Ichi being Mami and Uni being Sayaka) and of course includes the head chomp.
  • Would have also been an awesome Actor Allusion for the English dub too, because Nepgear's VA is Madoka (and Uni is also voiced by Sayaka's voice actress, Sarah Williams). Alas, Missed Moment of Awesome Casting Gag since the event with the English voices used isn't dubbed during that scene.
• Two things from the opening. Besides the obvious narration, pay attention to the tower of TVs during the opening. Remind you of something?
• Gamindustri's preferred social networking site is Chirper.
• When gaining a level, Neptune may occasionally hum the victory tune from Final Fantasy.
• 5pb provides the voice for a synthesizer, but becomes upset that people are making her sing and dance to rather strange things.
• Metal Dogoos are hidden in a single group of enemies in LAN Castle. They're worth about 4 times the Experience and twice the Credits as the rest of the fight, and their Metal Jelly sells for another 11111 Credits.
• Vert's Military Dress costume adjusts her color scheme in such a way that she looks like Luka.
• Ram insists that Lowee's best games would easily be the Pocketed Monstrosities franchise, with over 1,510,376 monsters to catch and raise.
  • In the same scene, the game Uni plays is a hunting game where she gets together with a group of friends and hunt a bunch of really big monsters.
  • Also, Planeptune had a game where everyone had beam swords in outer space.
  • Nepgear mentions an old game that had a 60 million credit budget. Her favorite parts were operating a forklift and using her allowance to get things from vending machines.
• Compa's cake is never a lie.
• In one of the events, Neptune tells her sister that the duty of a goddess is to wait for the phone on their desk to ring, then visit the person calling and grant their wish.
• The description for the rock icon quotes the famous "I got a rock" scene from It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown verbatim.
• When you start a new game, Meijin Takahashi (of Adventure Island fame) will give you a friendly reminder not to stare too close to the screen while playing.
• In a Chirper event focusing on Nisa, Blanc is reminded of a game where the main character is part of a secret Broadway troupe living in New York. The game in question is Sakura Taisen V, which was released by NIS America.
• Blanc mentions that she likes ordering books from Blarnes and Foible (Barnes and Noble).
• The first time the group meets Linda (a low-level ASIC thug), they mock her "soldier" title and tell her she's nothing more than an "underling" (perhaps even a Mid-Boss?) Just as in Disgaea, Linda's on-screen title changes to reflect this.

References found in Neptunia Victory:

• One of Izawa's trailers show off a lot of works from Osamu Tezuka.
• The ending shows off Pac-Man, and The Legend of Zelda to name a few.
• Yet another Vocaloid reference is made by Noire's Stone Leek costume by name and description. However design wise it looks closer to being Dees Vanguard than Miku.
• When Mr.Badd reveals himself, he orders his soldiers to make sure to search the CPUs to be sure they have no game-breaking escapipes to warp out of prison with.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica gets referenced quite frequently throughout the game.
  • There is a quest given by a "Uni Sound-Alike". She needs you to kill a few Cuberials who tricked her into taking on a curse to make a wish. Another quest is given by a "Small White Animal" who has made so many contracts with young girls that it needs you to go out and get it some more magical contract paper.
  • In Chapter 7 a new NPC that looks almost exactly like Kyubey in shows up in Planeptune named Rokubei. It wonders why you'd be asking it about a contract and insists that it's just a cat.
• When Nepgear is talking with Vert about how she's no longer the main character like she was in the last game, Blanc comes by to inform her that she has Dragonball Syndrome, where the older family member passes the lead role to a younger one only to steal it back and that it can only get worse from there for the younger character.
• Noire's Elysdeon returns from the first game. The description now also mentioning that it was built by Landale & Landeel Enterprises.
• In one event Neptune shouts out "The Wheel of Fate is Turning, Heaven or Hell, let's rock!"
• Rei's entire past is a big shout out to the Atari console and The Great Video Game Crash of 1983.
• On the way to Lowee the group comes across a patrol and Neptune suggests that they "go all Roads of Fury on them." And that she gets to be the guy on roller skates.
• Plutia's Thunder! and Super Thunder! attacks change to Thunder Blade and Super Thunder Blade in HDD.
• From the DLC costume pics for Tekken, she gets Kuma and Lili's costume.
• When Plutia is about to transform to give Noire her "most popular lecture" in chapter 3, Neptune tells the player to "Press the B Button to stop the evolution" (Well, in the Japanese version, at least.)
• Some of your scouts include Maryo and Player 2, Amamiya Lint, and Mao.

References found in the manga

• In one chapter of the manga, Neptune ends up babysitting her sister, Uni, Rom and Ram after they were accidentally transformed into infants. At one point, the baby carriage she was keeping the latter two girls in ends up rolling down a road. After Neptune manages to catch up to it, she realizes that they passed by a bunch of floating blocks with question marks, out of one of which popped a turtle shell, which Rom/Ram happily throws away.