Shout Out / Soul Tide

Main Story

• When Lin argues about putting a little girl like Freesia in the Defender role and wanting to substitute instead, she decides to have a duel with the Evoker to prove herself. She opens up with a move she saw from "Dragoon Ball" and fires a Kamehameha (which is just a weakened Chi Blast).
• At various points in the story and outside of it, Deanna sometimes gets called "Dora-nya" by the Evoker or something close to a certain blue gadget-filled robot who solves a lot of problems.
• In Graveland Stage 13-1, the party comes across some leeks. The Evoker asks the girls should what they should do with them: Satya, who notably wears her hair in twintails, mentions holding the leek gives her an urge to dye her hair green, and the Evoker imagines hearing a melody of another world.
• In the "Luna Chess" side story, one of the cards used is a limb of the Grand Templar Adrian that is part of a set, and when combined together, turns into a game-breaking card. (The man in question is human, not some mythical entity, but blatant idolizer Rosario effectively says he could walk it off.)

Events

• Amongst the many nicknames Benten has for her squadmates in Golden Bough and Seven Wishes, she calls Andrea "Gundam Andrea", or just "Gundam".
• In Dream Quest v1.0, when Coco and a snake monster get into a tug of war over a holy sword known as the Ex-curry-bar, the Evoker can choose to use a spell, chanting two familiar chuunibyou-style lines to cast an EXPLOSION!
• Dream Quest v2.0 has a few of these:
  • During a side quest where you help a cockroach girl get popular, she at one point tries dressing up as different kinds of insect-girls and mentions a reincarnated white-haired spider woman theme getting popular.
  • A side quest has you meet a slime monster introducing themselves as a "King of the Undead". When the Evoker wonders how a slime could be one, the slime cites a history of them having been a laundry washer and a demon lord.
• In Playtime's Over, as part of one puzzle, there are two paintings based on true stories the party must choose between: one of a king who pulled a sword from a stone, the other of a god who taught humans about fire and was chained up at the end.
• The Golden Crepuscule event is itself a parody of Humongous Mecha anime, given the piloted mechs, an alien invasion from outer space, and, for certain anime, a romance between the protagonist and a heroine, both of whom come from different species fated to be each other's enemies.
  • The names of the three piloted Soul Cleavers are references to the Gundam franchise (First Soul Cleaver, Freedom Soul Cleaver, and Justice Soul Cleaver).
  • You can find a girl asking if you're recruiting singers, who says that "every galactic war comic has a singer" who saves the world with her songs and is accompanied by a robot.
• Cultivation Cradle:
  • An unusual crossover is talked about in the first stage, where the Evoker happens upon a room full of human-sized farming tools and contrastingly gigantic vegetables. This reminds him of a tale about someone who got shipwrecked on an island and survived for 28 years, 2 months, and 19 days, and mentions that the protagonist found a house full of stuff upscaled from their human counterparts belonging to "Giantkin".
  • In The Kingdom of Sparrow, you find the same guild receptionist as seen in the last stage. She explains that she is actually that receptionist's sister, saying it was a popular trope to have "Twin sisters serving as nurses or patrol officers."
• The Dream Quest 5.0 event is a Shout Out and Affectionate Parody of Star Wars, taking place in a futuristic galactic setting with Arc Knights instead of Jedi Knights, the Electro-Magnetic Force instead of the Force, the Sins instead of the Sith, and the Rebel Alliance instead of... the Rebel Alliance.

Miscellaneous

• Juewa's fifth Date features a "fishing ball" that is thrown and fires a net to catch fish. The Evoker mentions that the inventor was inspired by a comic book that involves catching a legendary dragon.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica:
  • Juewa's Lv. 33 Present story revolves around this reference: The Evoker informs her of a missing child they know, Oscar, seeking out an urban legend to revive her deceased cat. This legend tells of a "white alien creature" who "helps people to realize their dreams at the cost of making a secret contract with it". When asked about it, Juewa casually mentions wiping out one such civilization that taught witchcraft. Later, the "alien" when met in person turns out to be a mundane scammer playing as a Bedsheet Ghost, but otherwise gives the expected spiel, offering a contract for Oscar to become a "crescent girl" in exchange for reviving her cat.
  • In the first chapter of the Wonderland event, the Evoker jokingly greets Miko with a certain alien's sales pitch: "Hello, would you like to sign a contract with me to become a magical girl?" Granted, his job also has him make contracts with girls who become beings that can use magical powers (excluding those who already have powers, and they are all already deceased anyway).
• Miko's second Date has her keeping a night watch. The Evoker inwardly wonders whether she'll then say "winter is coming".
• The Evoker gets Impossibly Delicious Food at a restaurant named "Yukihira" on a patrol in the Trade District at night.
• A patrol in the Central Square has you pretending to be a public virtual assistant in a booth named "Sili".
• One of the catches you can get in your Home’s Fishing Minigame is a “Lost Ring”.