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!!Anime or Manga with their own pages

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* ''HilariousInHindsight/AttackOnTitan''
* ''HilariousInHindsight/BirdyTheMighty''
* ''HilariousInHindsight/DeathNote''
* ''HilariousInHindsight/DragonBall''
* ''HilariousInHindsight/FullmetalAlchemist''
* ''HilariousInHindsight/HaruhiSuzumiya''
* ''HilariousInHindsight/MahouSenseiNegima''
* ''HilariousInHindsight/{{Naruto}}''
* ''HilariousInHindsight/OnePiece''
* ''HilariousInHindsight/{{Pokemon}}''
** ''HilariousInHindsight/PokemonAdventures''
* ''HilariousInHindsight/PrettyCure''
* ''HilariousInHindsight/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''
* ''HilariousInHindsight/SailorMoon''
* ''HilariousInHindsight/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''
* ''HilariousInHindsight/{{Zoids}}''
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!!Other examples:
* ''Manga/RealAccount'' is a horror manga set where the characters is pulled into the social network app of the same name. It gets get both frightening and bloody hilarious when Creator/{{Nintendo}} announces their first social networking app Miitomo which has strangely many similarities to [[InseriesNickname ReAca]]…
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' (2006), Yuichi is chastised for having a boring introduction to his new class. Yuichi says, "If's there an interesting way to introduce yourself, I'd like to see that." Earlier that same year, his voice actor had landed the role of Kyon. Yuichi is also once called out for talking narration to himself by Kaori, something that Kyon does all the time.
* ''Manga/ShugoChara'' had this weird moment where our resident crossdresser makes a return. Apparently, if Kukai, Tadase and Nagahiko were in the same scene, they would resemble the trio from ''Boku no Pico''.
* One of the episodes of ''Manga/SoulEater'' features a throwaway gag about how, [[spoiler:since Shinigami-sama's soul is bound to Death City, the city would have to sprout legs and walk if he were to track down and defeat the Kishin, who has now gone into hiding.]] Cue episode 47 of the anime. While this might sound like {{Foreshadowing}}, the same scene appearing in the manga, which lacked the eventual plot twist.
* In ''Anime/HisCooolSehaGirls'', Dreamcast suggests a version of ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'' where the players' equipment is replaced with [[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo puyos]]. Sega had already implemented such a feature in the game, with promotional items that turned the players' [[RobotBuddy MAG]] into either a green or red puyo.
* One infamous fansub of ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell: Stand Alone Complex'' [[BlindIdiotTranslation mistranslated "foreign mafia kidnappings" as "mass naked child events."]] Funny enough at the time. However, in 2009, along came ''Anime/EdenOfTheEast'' (from the same director, no less)--which involves something that could accurately be described as a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mass_naked_NEET_event.jpg "mass naked NEET event."]] Apparently Kenji Kamiyama watches fansubs of his own anime...
* ''Anime/DuelMasters'':
** Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz had a small recurring role as Fritz the bitter goblin. One of his main running gags was his BerserkButton, where he would yell at anyone who called him a squirrel. Thus, fans of the dub were amused when Horvitz was later cast as the titular animal character in ''WesternAnimation/SquirrelBoy''.
** ''Duel Masters'' itself is a rather obscure series that ended up becoming a GagDub in the English version, making fun at [[SeriousBusiness the seriousness surrounding playing cards.]] And then WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries came out and launched [[TheAbridgedSeries a thousand imitators.]]
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' / ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'':
** In 2003, mahq.net made an AprilFoolsDay [[http://www.mahq.net/rants/prank.htm announcement]] of a ''SEED'' sequel. After ''SEED Destiny'' got released, it only became funnier.
** ''SEED Destiny'' had two characters called Shinn and Lunamaria. Fans were up in arms when [[StrangledByTheRedString they hooked up with no buildup whatsoever]] after Shinn [[spoiler:seemingly killed Athrun and Luna's sister, Meyrin]]. Now that Creator/KenichiSuzumura and Creator/MaayaSakamoto (Shinn's and Luna's [=VAs=], respectively) are [[HeartwarmingInHindsight married in real life...]]
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** When the mysterious black cat, Yoruichi, first appears in the story, the English dub has Urahara greet it with an enthusiastic "Who's my favourite pussy?!". Later on in the story, it's revealed that the black cat is really a shapeshifting ''woman''.
** In a joke slice-of-life sketch, Iemura, 4th Division third seat, and self-confessed weakest third seat in the entire Gotei 13, complains about someone like Kyoraku becoming captain and outranking him, who, despite his lazy, womanising behaviour was pushed into the Gotei 13 to prevent his prodigious talent from being wasted. [[spoiler:He's talking about the future Captain-Commander of the Gotei 13.]]
** Early in the Lost Agent Arc, Uryuu is mistaken for Ichigo. During a close-up of Uryuu's face, he demands "You got a good look at his face, didn't you? So what part of me resembles Kurosaki?". Since Kubo uses OnlySixFaces, the fanbase quickly transformed it into a meme. [[spoiler:Kubo later reveals that Ichigo and Uryuu are blood relatives; Ichigo's mother and Uryuu's father were cousins.]]
* ''Manga/FlameOfRecca'':
** A (supposedly) OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent {{Ninja}} {{Otaku}} discovers that he's TheLastOfHisKind from a clan named "Hokage"... one imagines hilarity would ensue if Recca ever met ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''.
** Later on, Recca gained the power of two flame dragons, explicitly male and their names were... [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homura and Madoka. So are they flame dragons or Puella Magis?]] (and one of them [[spoiler:becoming a goddess.]])
* Yokota School in ''Anime/BloodTheLastVampire'' is peppered with posters advertising the Halloween dance party and costume contest. One of them features [[Theatre/{{Wicked}} a pretty blonde witch standing next to an ugly green witch]].
* Prowl in ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'' is a strict police car Autobot who lives "by the book". In the English dub a year later, his voice actor was Wayne Lewis, who is a porn actor under the name "Wankus".
* ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'':
** Remember that yacht that was from the delayed episode? It turns out that it is the yacht of ''the director'', Keitaro Motonaga, and that the nature footage was taken during a TNK corporate retreat in 2005. ''[[MemeticMutation Nice boat]]'', indeed.
** And when the episode was released later, it turned out that the final scene actually does take place on a nice boat.
** This is also applied to ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' considering who plays [[Creator/DaisukeHirakawa Will Turner]] in the Japanese dub. [[spoiler:Makoto Itou becomes the captain of a [[CoolBoat really]] [[MemeticMutation NICE BOAT]] -- without losing his head!]]
* In the first episode of ''Anime/RahXephon'', Haruka invites Ayato to come with her, saying she'll explain all the world's secrets. He responds that he's not interested in older women. Although this line is already amusing, it becomes much more so on second viewing because [[spoiler:Ayato and Haruka actually do end up together]].
* Andy Richter recorded the voice of Notoru in the English dub of ''Anime/TheCatReturns''; in fact, it was his only anime voice work ever. Well, that is, until ''Series/TheTonightShow'' [[http://vimeo.com/10662248 took a little trip to Bang Zoom]]...
* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'':
** Japan's human name is Kiku Honda. When the Japanese soccer team later scored their first goal ever in a World Cup, the scorer's last name was Honda. Even being the most common Japanese surname, it's ''still'' funny.
** Making it even better: Kiku's name means chrysanthemum. "Chrysanthemum" is slang for "anus" in East Asian cultures... LOL, {{yaoi fangirl}}s.
** And then, even better: In Spain's version of [[ImageSong Marukaite Chikyuu]], you can hear Soccer/Football sounds, such as a ball being kicked and a referee's whistle being blown. Guess which national team won the 2010 FIFA World Cup?
* ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** In the opening scenes of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Part 5]], [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Part 4]] supporting character Koichi Hirose meets protagonist Giorno Giovanna. Creator/RomiPark voiced the latter in the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 PS2]] adaptation of this story arc, then the former in ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle''.
** In Part 7, one character has the ability to control a pack of raptor dinosaurs. That raptor packs can be trained to follow orders from a human is a central plot point of ''Film/JurassicWorld''.
* During a chase scene in an early episode of ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'', Vash starts complaining to his [[BilingualBonus maman]], and then wonders aloud why he's speaking in French. Sort of random on its own, but hilarious when you consider who [[Creator/MasayaOnosaka he]] ends up voicing in ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia''...
* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'' is a {{Shounen}} sports series, so naturally, many of the events are too far-fetched to be plausible. One match between Tezuka and Atobe leads to a 37-35 points tie-breaker. A later match between Atobe and Ryoma ends with a 116-114 points tiebreaker, implying a duration of several ''hours'' for the tiebreaker ''alone''. But surely, no actual living person, let alone ''two'' people, have that much stamina, right? Fast forward to [[RealLife Wimbledon 2010]], and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isner%E2%80%93Mahut_match_at_the_2010_Wimbledon_Championships the marathon match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut]]. The total match time was ''eleven'' hours, ''eight'' hours for the final set alone, which eventually ended with Isner's victory, 70 ''games'' to Mahut's 68. That's ''games'', not ''points'', eclipsing the [=PoT=] tiebreakers by at least three times.
* In the fields of Latin American dubs, Creator/IrwinDaayan provides a really good one. His break-out role was male!Seiya Kou in ''Anime/SailorMoon Stars''... flashforward 12 years and have him playing ''another'' Seiya as a part of the two ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' dubs for the Hades Saga. El Oh El.
** Since the Latin-American dub studios have similar actor pools depending on which country the series are dubbed, the RelationshipVoiceActor trope brings up this more than once. One of the best examples is when Victor Ugarte was cast as Shinji from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' in both Mexican dubs, and his sister Gaby is cast as Rei Ayanami in the 2nd one. This sounds normal at first, but once you remember that [[spoiler: Rei is his mother's clone and thus she ''is'' Shinji's sister in canon... sort of]], the deal becomes absolutely ''hilarious''. Even better... considering how that spoiler is in the ItWasHisSled vein now, there's ''no'' way that such a RelationshipVoiceActor bit wasn't intentional.
* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'':
** One of the Digi-Destined is a girl named Sora bearing the [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c0/df/ba/c0dfba890e865d11fec453991cfd22e9.png Crest of Love]]. The 2002 game, Kingdom Hearts, would not only feature a protagonist of the same name, but a [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/71/0e/a5/710ea5e3842862b2bd9d138532ffa87c--hearts-logo-kingdom-hearts-tattoo-ideas.jpg very familiar heart logo]].
** In the Japanese version, Kari's full name is "Yagami Hikari". In Japanese, "Hikari" translates into "light". [[Manga/DeathNote Let that sink in for a few moments]] and see if you can keep from envisioning her with a [[MemeticMutation JUST AS PLANNED]] expression.
** With the popularity of ''Film/TheRoom'', Oikawa's appearance just got [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW7qi60kWTI a whole lot funnier]].
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
** In one episode, Lelouch goes to Ikebukuro and Jeremiah comes to kill him. Sounds fairly straightforward, until Creator/JohnnyYongBosch and Creator/CrispinFreeman got cast as [[LightNovel/{{Durarara}} Izaya and Shizuo]], and all you can think about is whether Jeremiah is going to throw a vending machine at Lulu when he gets there. (For context, ''Durarara!!'' is set in Ikebukuro.)
** After Euphemia chooses Suzaku as her knight, Cornelia calls her to scold her about it, saying that if she wants to change the system, she can do so [[spoiler:if she becomes Empress]]. That happens toward the end of ''[[Manga/CodeGeassNightmareOfNunnally Nightmare of Nunnally]]'', with Cornelia's approval.
** Kallen's claim in episode 19 that Euphemia is a useless puppet princess of Britannia who can't make any decisions of her own. [[spoiler: Episodes later, Euphie gets killed after being accidentally mind controlled and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy stripped of her free will]]. Could be considered HarsherInHindsight too.]]
** "Zero, you son of a bitch!"
* In one episode of ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'', Sakura watches the "Binkan Salaryman" with Shizuki and Dokuro, which is a movie about a guy that's pretty... ''sensitive'' to everything. This scene becomes slightly better if you've heard "Jizz In My Pants".
* An early arc in the ''Manga/GetBackers'' anime had the Recoverery service of Ban and Ginji doing battle against transporter Kuroudo "Doctor Jackal" Akabane, voiced by Creator/ShannonMcCormick in the dub. In the machinima ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', [=McCormick=] does the voice for Agent Washington, who happens to be codenamed Recovery One.
* Because its creator is a huge comic book {{fanboy}}, ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' has several characters modeled after those from Creator/MarvelComics. Amusingly, Hannya is sort of an accidental example, being kind of similar to ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}. Both are hideously disfigured {{ninja}}, and Deadpool has been presented as having a common origin with Wolverine, and Hannya uses WolverineClaws ([[Film/XMenOriginsWolverine which one version of Deadpool also gets, kinda]].) On the other hand, their personalities are quite different.
* The second anime series of ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'', "Maximum Tournament", said on its opening "The lightning only struck me once, but gee...". In the manga series, one character was indeed struck by a lightning. [[MadeOfIron And he just]] [[WorldsStrongestMan shrugged it off]]. Once, but gee...
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** At the end of the DVDCommentary for ''The End of Evangelion'', the commentators joke about the (un)likelihood of ''Eva 2: ElectricBoogaloo''. A decade later, the oddly-titled ''[[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Rebuild]]'' movies are in full swing, and one of the most popular fan theories about them is that they are actually sequels to the original series.
** The meme "Get in the damn robot" is often used as a TakeThat towards Shinji's unwillingness to pilot Unit-01 (especially in the first few episodes of the series). Fast forward to 2017 with the [[CashCowFranchise latest spin-off]] ''[[OverlyLongTitle Legend Of The Piko Piko Middle School Students]]'' where not only Shinji, but the rest of the cast refuse to get in the damn robots to play video games instead.
* In January 2011, the Adult Swim forums temporarily changed their "Other Anime" section to be themed around ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt''. A few months later in April, Funimation licensed ''P&S''. The dub being broadcast on AS in the future almost seems like a shoo-in now...
* ''Manga/VenusVersusVirus'' and ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'' both have anime adaptations with {{Gecko Ending}}s and are rife with AdaptationDecay. Their manga endings were written in ways to be the opposite of the anime versions, which causes this to anyone who has seen the anime first.
* [[http://somemanga.com/manga/Itou_Junji_Kyoufu_Manga_Collection/11.1/ "Town Without Streets"]] by Creator/JunjiIto featured a girl whose privacy is being invaded by her family (they don't trust her after catching a boy in her room - he was trying to [[Film/{{Inception}} implant feelings while she slept]]. Additionally, the boy's name is [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Kishi]][[Manga/SixSixSixSatan moto]]). Fed up with her parents and brothers poking holes in her walls, she goes to visit her aunt only to discover a world where there's no privacy ([[Website/FourChan except for masks]]) and [[Website/{{Facebook}} everyone must know]] [[Website/LiveJournal what you're doing]] [[Website/{{Twitter}} at all times]] (I don't know if this story is pre-internet but it definitely looks pre-FriendingNetwork[=s=]).
* Filipino ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' fans get a kick out of seeing Hero TV. It actually exists as an all-Filipino anime channel since 2005, way before the anime's original broadcast. And in 2013, the same actual Hero TV will air ''Tiger & Bunny''!
* TheReveal in the ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' [[TheMovie movie]] ''Prince of Darkness'' is the experiments Akito suffered made his skin sparkle when hit by sunlight. Thanks to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'''s [[OurVampiresAreDifferent sparkly vampires]] it's impossible not to chuckle at the sight of this.
* 'Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'':
** Lead female Haruhi has a sort-of UnwantedHarem among the members of the Host Club. Said harem includes a young man named Hikaru Hitachiin (and his brother Kaoru, too). As of August 2011, Haruhi's seiyuu Creator/MaayaSakamoto and Hikaru's seiyuu Creator/KenichiSuzumura [[http://aramatheydidnt.livejournal.com/2662566.html have just gotten married.]], taking their RelationshipVoiceActor to a new level. [[HeartwarmingInHindsight Be happy, Hikaru and Haruhi!]] (And [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDEstiny Shinn and Lunamaria]], too. And [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Aeris and Zack as well]]. But especially you, [[LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai Mikiya and Shiki]].)
** In episode 5, the Hitachiin twins dye their hair during their fight. Hikaru dyes his pink, making him look a little like a certain [[Manga/FairyTail Fire Dragon Slayer]] also played by Creator/ToddHaberkorn a few years later.
** Similar to the ''Pokémon'' example above with Dent, one of the first things that Tamaki remarks upon seeing Haruhi's apartment is that it's very clean. Mamoru Miyano would later voice Death the Kid in ''Manga/SoulEater'', who is [[SuperOCD absolutely OBSESSED with cleanliness and symmetry]].
** Early on, the author Hatori Bisco stated that she couldn't see Haruhi and Tamaki ending up together. ''[[spoiler: Guess how it ends.]]''
* A couple of months prior to ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz'' being released in the US, someone [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST'd]] a fansub of the three-part OVA version. One of the riffs regarding Duo's flashback in part two references a scene from episode 11 of the main series:
-->'''Crow''': (as Professor G) But go ahead and tell everyone you are part of Operation Meteor. And here's a little speech to memorize so you can amaze Quatre with how similar your orders are.
** Ten years later, in the new manga retelling of the series, ''Endless Waltz: Glory of the Defeated'', [[http://gallery.zeonic-republic.net/displayimage.php?album=110&pos=10 Professor G gives Duo the orders from episode 11 word for word before he leaves for Earth.]]
* Speaking of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Gundam]]'', the alloy that comprised said Mobile Suit was called ''Gundarium'' and was made with Titanium ore mined from the Moon named Luna Titanium.[[labelnote:Fun Fact]]This alloy is still called Luna Titanium in ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX''[[/labelnote]] fast forward to 2011 and it has been discovered that there is up to ten times the amount of Titanium ore on the Moon than originally theorized, oh and it's denser and stronger than anything found on the Earth.
* One of the quotes describing Creator/NorioWakamoto is [[Comicbook/{{Watchmen}} "God exists and he is Japanese"]]. Come the anime version of ''Manga/FutureDiary'', he ends up voicing Deus, God of Time and Space.
* ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'': The whole BrotherSisterIncest between Himari and Kanba Takakura becomes hilarious by episode 21. Why? [[spoiler: Because not only they turn out to be NotBloodSiblings (though Himari had amnesia in regards to that), but then we learn that Kanba's ClingyJealousGirl Masako is Kanba's real sister (and ''twin''), and ''they knew it all the time'']]. Meaning, [[spoiler: the pairing that many people shunned due to incest, [[FlirtyStepsiblings it wasn't blood-incestuous in the end.]] And the "alternate" pairing that some people shipped to not fall into BSI? ''SurpriseIncest!''.]]
* Late ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' watchers might be amused when the Federation first calls out to "prepare the Mon-Soonos for launch" -- spelled differently, but pronounced the same as an {{Animesque}} show [[WesternAnimation/{{Monsuno}} that also involves launching]]. Creator/KirkThornton and Creator/KeithSilverstein are in both shows as well.
* In TheNineties, one of Creator/TakehitoKoyasu's first popular roles was Takuto Izumi from ''Manga/{{Zetsuai 1989}}'', a character [[{{Expy}} heavily inspired]] by Kojiro Hyuuga from ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa''. Flash-forward more than 10 years... and guess '''who''' voices Hyuga in the ''Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002'' TV series?
** Another one that crosses from a videogame to anime medium. He voices Zed in the remake ''[[VideoGame/WildArms1 Wild ARMs: Alter Code F]]'' who joins your party as an optional party member. His CombinationAttack Jack has him screaming "Excalibur". Fast forward a few years later, [[Manga/SoulEater guess who voices the annoying Excalibur.]]
* Ever since Creator/{{Funimation}} released ''Manga/SoulEater'', fans often compared the newcomer Creator/MicahSolusod to Creator/JohnnyYongBosch. Fast forward two to three years later, and it's been announced that Creator/MicahSolusod will be replacing Creator/JohnnyYongBosch in the role of Kazuki Makabe in ''Anime/FafnerInTheAzureDeadAggressor'' and Claus Valca in the ''Anime/LastExileFamTheSilverWing'' dubs.
** This is actually surprising to some people since Creator/JohnnyYongBosch had worked with Funimation a few times in the past.
** And now Mr. Solusod is playing the lead in ''Anime/EurekaSevenAO'' - that is, the son of the character played by Bosch.
* Back in the fourth volume of ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'', [[TheRival Vali]] boasts to the protagonist Issei that the current red dragon-white dragon rivalry was unfair because Vali's from a privileged family by being a descendant of Lucifer, while Issei's the son of a common {{Muggle}}. He then wished that Issei was at least from a family with some background. Fast forward to Volume 12 where [[spoiler: Issei's now the son of both Great Red and Ophis, ''two of the most powerful beings in this series'' by virtue of [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilding his body]] because his old body has died thanks to an AchillesHeel.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Appleseed}} Ex Machina'', the current must-have product in Olympus is the Connexus, which is basically a smartphone except you wear it as a headset rather than hold it. The first version of the iPhone came out the same year as the movie.
* The ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' manga collection book ''Sasami Stories'' has two ''yonkoma'' that fit this:
** In one comic, the artist declares that Queen Misaki would be the breakout character for the third OVA series like how Washu was that for the second. She turns out to have a very big (if very short) part in it.
** Another comic has Kiyone Makibi smacking Mihoshi with a hammer and begging her to just forget about her. Come the third OVA series, Kiyone is replaced with Noike and Tenchi's mom takes up Kiyone's name.
* Creator/JamieMarchi, in the DVDCommentary of ''Anime/{{Mnemosyne}}'' lamented their inability to say swear as they please in most anime dubs, even where it might fit, due to the younger program ratings, citing ''Mnemosyne'' as a breath of fresh air, with its TV-MA rating. A few years later, Marchi went on to voice Panty Anarchy of ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', an anime noted for its [[ClusterFBomb gratuitous profanity]].
* In ''VisualNovel/EfAFairyTaleOfTheTwo'', [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/miyakodango.jpg Miyako holds a phone card with an illustration]] that resembles [[VisualNovel/{{Clannad}} Dango Daikazoku]]. Both Miyako and Nagisa would be voiced later in English by Creator/LuciChristian, as the two visual novel adaptations originally aired in Japan in 2007.
* The story of ''Manga/{{AKIRA}}'' is in a backdrop of the 2020 Neo-Tokyo Olympics, and the said title character was apparently below the unfinished Olympic stadium. On September 9, 2013, Tokyo was selected as the host of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', a hooded man named Zelgadis offers Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev to join him in order to be paid for a statue he wants. Lina refuses because "you're the kind of person who I'd rather die than join up with." Zelgadis later helps them defeat the BigBad of that season, and as of ''Slayers Next'', is a main characters and and an official member of the FiveManBand.
* A short 4-koma titled ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}: Shounen Ou! Shorts'' was released shortly after ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' came out. It features, [[http://www.mangapark.com/manga/metroid-shounen-ou-shorts/v1/c1-3/1 among other things]], [[WebVideo/GameGrumps one of the scientists trying to wear the Metroid as a hat]].
* A handful of vehicles in ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'', like Asurada, Ogre and among others, can shape-shift its aerodynamics to make the cars go faster in straightways. A few decades later, UsefulNotes/FormulaOne now has the drag reduction system (or DRS for short) in their cars, which has the same effect.
* Rico from ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' bears more than a passing resemblance to Pico of ''Boku no Pico'', down to the name. Whether he's an {{expy}} or not is unknown since the series [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff is more popular outside of Japan]]. While Pico is a [[DudeLooksLikeALady feminine boy]] Rico is an [[{{Bifauxnen}} androgynous girl]].
* In Creator/OsamuTezuka's manga ''Barbara'', the protagonist rejects an offer to participate in a political election because he doesn't believe that people would be so stupid to only vote for a person due to his reputation as an artist, just like "''[[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan they wouldn't vote for an actor to become president]].''''
* Creator/SentaiFilmworks has been throwing the "[[ForcedMeme lewd card]]" image from ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'' season 2 in regards to Creator/JessicaCalvello. And now, Ms. Calvello herself is part of the ''Infinite Stratos'' season 2 dub.
* In an episode of the English dub of ''Manga/SgtFrog'', a reality show team comes to Earth to film an episode of their show. Natsumi replies "I could be the next Miley Cyrus". Keep in mind that the show came out in the early 2000s. Obviously, that joke has gotten even funnier nowadays.
* ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'': In episode 15, Kirara prays "I wanted to be strong like the samurai." Fast-forward to 2011, where here dub actress, ColleenClinkenbeard, plays [[Manga/FairyTail Erza Scarlet]], one of the most badass {{Action Girl}}s in all of anime, who [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/73/33/c3/7333c3957270aab3ee804a146a38d737.jpg has a very iconic]] [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cd/6a/a7/cd6aa75c968ba6942c25fc37916e3c99.jpg samurai getup.]] She even wore a [[https://dailyanimeart.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/erza-samurai-armor1.jpg second one in an anime-exclusive arc.]]
* Back at the end of the 90's when [[Creator/VizMedia Viz]] still published their English manga releases as monthly comics, at the end of one ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' issue in a letters column one reader says that they far prefer DBZ over ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' and ''Franchise/SailorMoon''. Viz recommends the reader try Pokémon (since they had the English license to the manga as well as the home video rights to the anime) but agrees about Sailor Moon (which they didn't have the license for). Flashforward to 2014 and Viz now has the English license to the Sailor Moon anime.
* The titular ''LightNovel/NinjaSlayer'' is voiced by Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa and this time, he has to avenge his wife and son, ''[[Manga/{{Naruto}} rather than be the son doing that job]]''.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'': The 10th opening of the anime showing Zeref and Mavis side-by-side counts, as the manga hadn't even gotten to the point where it confirmed Zeref and Mavis has a deep connection at the time.
* ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'':
** The author is a fan of ''Metal Gear Solid'' and included references such as Miia the lamia dressed as Snake (what else) and Rachnera the arachne cosplaying as The Boss. The manga later was made into an anime, and the episode including those references and others was broadcast on September 1, 2015... the same day ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' was released worldwide.
** Episode 10 of the anime is titled "Everyday Life With D", referring to a death threat against the protagonist signed simply "D". Given that the episode features some of the raunchiest scenes that appear in the manga, one can recall what "[[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-d The D]]" means in some circles...
* ''Anime/LuckyStar'':
** The show is known for its frequent use of BlandNameProduct. Case in point: Konami is renamed "Kyonani" in the background when Konata imagines herself in ''VideoGame/TrackAndField''. As of 2017, [[http://dmxrated.deviantart.com/art/Lucky-Star-Day-of-the-Beehive-654697256 the cover image for a planned fangame]] has surfaced, with its own variation of the company name (and former logo) as that planned for the team-to-be behind it. ([[https://dmxrated.dreamwidth.org/627786.html And it's not just a shipping reference either.]])
** Konata sings "[[Anime/DragonBallZ Cha-la Head-Cha-la]]" in the ending sequence to episode 5. Voice actor Aya Hirano eventually landed a role on ''Anime/DragonBallKai'' as Dende, and the Japanese dub of ''Film/DragonballEvolution'' as Bulma.
* ''Anime/{{Gintama}}'':
** There was a recurring gag where Gintoki, as [[HighSchoolAU Ginpachi Sensei]], is smoking in class, and students protest it. Gintoki answer that this is not a cigarette, but a lollipop. Thoses familliar with [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4kids]] would immediately think of [[CutAndPasteTranslation their dub]] of ''Manga/OnePiece'' where Sanji's cigarettes where edited into Lollipop.
** Mixing this with BitingTheHandHumor,the show makes a joke in the middle of Season 2 that there would be a movie of its Benizakura arc. A fake trailer was shown, and the characters joked in-universe how Creator/{{Sunrise}} already has the track record of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam recutting]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam remaking]] their series into feature-length movies. After the first Gintama series ended, this is exactly what Sunrise would eventually do for the first Gintama movie.
** In episode 154, one of the guest at Kyuubei's Birthday party, is a famous actor named Shunosuke Oguri, [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed a parody]] of real life japanese actor Shun Oguri. It was just one of the [[ReferenceOverdosed many]] jokes this show make about a Japanese Celebrities, but became doubly funny a few years later when Shun Oguri end up being cast as Gintoki for the live action movie.
* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'':
** The few last chapters lauched a ShipsThatPassInTheNight in the form of Seiya/Hades after the former complimented on the latter sad but beautiful eyes. It doesn't end there, though. ''Manga/SaintSeiyaNextDimension'' have Seiya's predecessor Tenma and Hades' previous vessel Alone best friends, but ''Manga/SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas'' - with the same setting - takes this even further by having their relationship dripping with HoYay, with Alone actually harbors [[HomoeroticSubtext romantic]] [[SingleTargetSexuality feelings]] for Tenma.
* ''Anime/TheBraveExpressMightGaine'' may have come out in 1993, long before the anime craze truly caught on in America, but Shogun Mifune's "Japanese culture is the greatest thing ever" and his desire to emulate it is surprisingly close to the modern 'weeaboo' stereotype.
* As soon as ''Anime/ReleaseTheSpyce'' was annoucned, people were referencing the "The spice must flow!" meme from ''Literature/{{Dune}}''. Then, when the first episode premiered, it turned out that the titular spice granted superhuman physical abilities.
* Volume 4 of ''Manga/KomorisanCantDecline'' had several bonus pages where the cast talked about how exicited they were for the then upcoming anime. On the page focusing on Shuri's family, her little sister talks about how much she's looking forward to being animated and comments that it wouldn't make much sense for their mother to be animated given how little she moves. Guess which of the two of them was AdaptedOut when the anime finally came out.
* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'':
** When she was first mentioned, many readers thought that Kei had a crush on her older brother and would be competing with Kaguya for his affection. Then it turned out that not only was she not in love with him ([[BigBrotherWorship romantically, anyways]]), she specifically goes out of her way to make sure that nobody ever thinks that she does.
** In Chapter 114, Miko tells Shirogane that his face isn't her type and she prefers someone more like actor Sho Hirano (whom she'd been established as being a fangirl of in earlier chapters); while this was probably {{Foreshadowing}} on Aka's part ([[ComicBookFantasyCasting Hirano was the inspiration for Ishigami]]), this chapter became hilarious when Hirano was cast as Shirogane in the LiveActionAdaptation[[note]]Amusingly, this disparity is referenced in Chapter 140, which celebrates the movie. Ishigami suggests that Hirano resembles Shirogane, which Miko agrees with; when Miyuki turns around and says "If anything, he looks more like Ishigami", Miko gets deeply offensive[[/note]].
* Fans of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' would often compare Kanna to the Blue Eyes White Dragon from ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' due to her being... well, a blue eyed, white dragon. Jump forward to August 2019, when Creator/{{Konami}} added a [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon_Maid Dragon Maid archetype]] to the card game.
* In 2014, an anime called ''Anime/TribeCoolCrew'' aired as part of Nichi Asa Kids' Time. One of the main characters had pink hair in a giant side ponytail, was named Kanon Otosaki and was into dancing. In 2016, the third season of ''[[VideoGame/PriPara [=PriPara=]]]'', which premiered the same year as ''Tribe Cool Crew'', introduced a character named Kanon who looked very similar to the one from that show.
* In the 4th ''Anime/DirtyPair'' OVA in which a group of boys take over an army base, one of their demands is their own tv channel that airs nothing but cartoons all day, the OVA originally aired in 1987, Cartoon Network was launched 5 years later.
* ''Anime/AlakazamTheGreat'' was listed by Michael Medved as one of the choices in his book ''The Fifty Worst Films of All Time''. Now anime has risen to mainstream popularity in the modern day. In other words, modern-day otakus had the last laugh at Medved's name-and-shaming.

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* Samurai7: In episode 15, Kirara prays "I wanted to be strong like the samurai." Fast-forward to 2011, where here dub actress, ColleenClinkenbeard, plays [[Manga/FairyTail Erza Scarlet]], one of the most badass {{Action Girl}}s in all of anime, who [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/73/33/c3/7333c3957270aab3ee804a146a38d737.jpg has a very iconic]] [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cd/6a/a7/cd6aa75c968ba6942c25fc37916e3c99.jpg samurai getup.]] She even wore a [[https://dailyanimeart.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/erza-samurai-armor1.jpg second one in an anime-exclusive arc.]]
* Back at the end of the 90's when [[Creator/VizMedia Viz]] still published their English manga releases as monthly comics, at the end of one ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' issue in a letters column one reader says that they far prefer DBZ over Anime/{{Pokemon}} and Franchise/SailorMoon. Viz recommends the reader try Pokémon (since they had the English license to the manga as well as the home video rights to the anime) but agrees about Sailor Moon (which they didn't have the license for). Flashforward to 2014 and Viz now has the English license to the Sailor Moon anime.
* The titular ''NinjaSlayer'' is voiced by Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa and this time, he has to avenge his wife and son, ''[[Manga/{{Naruto}} rather than be the son doing that job]]''.

* ''Manga/BirdyTheMighty'':
** In the original manga, after getting caught by Gomez trashing some robots, with the help of Tsuotmu, Birdy rattles off a ''Manga/SailorMoon''-esque speech (though the original manga does predate ''Sailor Moon''). In the OVA, Birdy was voiced by [[Creator/KotonoMitsuishi Sailor Moon's seiyuu herself]].
** [[spoiler: Shyamalan's death at the hands of Sayaka after the Ryunka complete possesses her]] is a lot more unintentionally hilarious to watch when you remember that their seiyuu, Creator/KenichiSuzumura and Creator/MaayaSakamoto, are now married, which also augments the NoYay undertones between those two characters
** In the OVA series, Birdy is followed by someone who turns out to be a talent scout, thinking she could be a model. In ''Decode'', Birdy has a disguise as one.
** There's an episode in which a little girl who defends a boy from bullies at a refugee camp Tsutomu and his friends visit sparks a debate among the boys about whether it's humiliating to have to be saved by a girl. In ''Anime/HeatGuyJ,'' an earlier work by Kazuki Akane, two of the important men have the following exchange:
-->You have to be saved by a woman? That's so pathetic.
-->It's not every day you get saved by an angel.
** Yutaka Izubuchi served as the creature designer for the OVA adaptation. He would also serve as the creative producer for ''Decode''.
** One of the tracks for ''Decode'' is named "Franchise/WonderWoman". Not only did Creator/ZackSnyder admit that ''Decode'' was an influence for the Superman/Zod battle at the end of ''Film/ManOfSteel'', but in the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, Creator/YukoKaida (Moss) is the dub voice actress for Wonder Woman and Creator/KotonoMitsuishi (OVA!Birdy) narrated a trailer for ''Film/WonderWoman2017''.
* [[Franchise/{{Zoids}} Zoids anime series]]:
** In-universe example: In one instance Fiona is caught by one of Rosso and Viola's henchmen, who comments that she's cute and will be a "real knocker in few years." Come the timeskip in Guardian Force, we see he was right on the money.
** Season 2 villain Hiltz is very much similar to [[Manga/{{Naruto}} fellow Akatsuki member]] Sasori, an EvilRedhead who have a scorpion-like machine (or doll in Sasori's case) as a weapon. They even share [[Creator/{{TakahiroSakurai}} the same japanese voice actor]]!
** Speaking of Creator/TakahiroSakurai, he ends up voicing the blond and spiky haired character [[Anime/{{ZoidsNewCentury}} Bit Cloud]]. The show aired on 2001. Fast forward to 2002, after the release of the first Videogame/KingdomHearts, Sakurai is now the official voice of [[Videogame/{{FinalFantasyVII}} Cloud Strife]], another blond and spiky haired character.
** Also, Liger Zero's major attack is Strike Laser Claw, an attack with claws. [[Creator/{{RichardIanCox}} Bit's English voice actor]] will eventually voice [[Manga/{{Inuyasha}} a certain half-demon]] who fights and attacks with his claws.
** My name is Harry Champ, I'm a man destined to be king! Now replace "king" with [[Manga/{{DeathNote}} "god of new world"...]]

* ''Anime/AlakazamTheGreat'' was listed by Michael Medved as one of the choices in his book ''The Fifty Worst Films of All Time''. Now anime has risen to mainstream popularity in the modern day. In other words, modern-day otakus had the last laugh at Medved's name-and-shaming.

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' does this a few times, but in episode 4, Kamina says that 16 combines at once sounds "Stupid", but in ''Lagann-Hen'', the second movie, [[spoiler: this is almost ''exactly what Simon does'', and turns into a giant energy reincarnation of Kamina, the same person who ''advised against'' this stupid stunt]].
** Also counts as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}, given that his rejection of his concept was because "True combining should be about truly bonded souls slamming into each other!" Come the end of the anime, [[TrueCompanions it's hard to argue that the Dai-Gurren Brigade is anything but.]]
** Everyone will agree that Kamina has the most [[CoolShades badass sunglasses]] ever. What you may not be aware of is that they had appeared on [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Ash's Squirtle]] [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP012 about ten years prior.]]
*** And [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] [[http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg107/Skysaurus/sunglasses.gif before even that.]]
*** The Calvin and Hobbes strip is completely uncanny, with the exact same colour and shape, but the ones on Ash's Squirtle are not only black but also too...rounded.
** [[Anime/DragonBallZ The Great Saiyaman]] suddenly becomes absolutely ''awesome'' when you realize that Creator/KyleHebert uses his Kamina voice while doing those scenes.
** Kamina City actually exists, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamina in Congo]]. It also has a badass motto, "To Take the Blazing Sun in our Bare Hands".

* In ''[[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia Hetalia]]'', Japan's human name is Kiku Honda. When the Japanese soccer team later scored their first goal ever in a World Cup, the scorer's last name was Honda. Even being the most common Japanese surname, it's ''still'' funny.
** It gets better: Kiku's name means chrysanthemum. "Chrysanthemum" is slang for "anus" in East Asian cultures... LOL, {{yaoi fangirl}}s.

* In the opening scenes of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Part 5]] of ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Part 4]] supporting character Koichi Hirose meets protagonist Giorno Giovanna. Creator/RomiPark voiced the latter in the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 PS2]] adaptation of this story arc, then the former in ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle''.

* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'' is a {{Shounen}} sports series, so naturally, many of the events are too far-fetched to be plausible. One match between Tezuka and Atobe leads to a 37-35 points tie-breaker. A later match between Atobe and Ryoma ends with a 116-114 points tiebreaker, implying a duration of several ''hours'' for the tiebreaker ''alone''. But surely, no actual living person, let alone ''two'' people, have that much stamina, right?
** Fast forward to [[RealLife Wimbledon 2010]], and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isner%E2%80%93Mahut_match_at_the_2010_Wimbledon_Championships the marathon match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut]]. The total match time was ''eleven'' hours, ''eight'' hours for the final set alone, which eventually ended with Isner's victory, 70 ''games'' to Mahut's 68. That's ''games'', not ''points'', eclipsing the [=PoT=] tiebreakers by at least three times.

* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', one of the Digi-Destined is a girl named Sora bearing the [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c0/df/ba/c0dfba890e865d11fec453991cfd22e9.png Crest of Love]]. The 2002 game, Kingdom Hearts, would not only feature a protagonist of the same name, but a [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/71/0e/a5/710ea5e3842862b2bd9d138532ffa87c--hearts-logo-kingdom-hearts-tattoo-ideas.jpg very familiar heart logo]].
** In the Japanese version of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''', Kari's full name is "Yagami Hikari". In Japanese, "Hikari" translates into "light". [[Manga/DeathNote Let that sink in for a few moments]] and see if you can keep from envisioning her with a [[MemeticMutation JUST AS PLANNED]] expression.

* In an episode of ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Lelouch goes to Ikebukuro and Jeremiah comes to kill him. Sounds fairly straightforward, until Creator/JohnnyYongBosch and Creator/CrispinFreeman got cast as [[LightNovel/{{Durarara}} Izaya and Shizuo]], and all you can think about is whether Jeremiah is going to throw a vending machine at Lulu when he gets there. (For context, ''Durarara!!'' is set in Ikebukuro.)

* ''Manga/DeathNote''. Both of Light Yagami's [[Creator/MamoruMiyano voice]] [[Creator/BradSwaile actors]] have one of these. First is that Swaile voiced a guy named [[Anime/MegamanNTWarrior Lan Hikari]]... Let's see... "Hikari" is the Japanese word for Light...
** More importantly is Miyano's when voicing Kiba from ''Anime/WolfsRain'', when confronting Tsume for the first time. Tsume lets Kiba know that he has issues with his killing, but Kiba replies, "'''What's wrong with killing?'''" Then, Tsume tried to explain that killing is against the rules for the city, and which word does Kiba use to describe those rules? '''ROTTEN!''' In addition, how many letters in Kiba's name have to be changed to get Light's world-wide alias?
*** He had a reverse example of this for Death Note as well. At one point, Ryuk refers to Light Yagami as "a worthy shinigami." Later, in Manga/SoulEater, Miyano voiced a literal shinigami... albiet one [[SuperOCD obsessed with symmetry]].
** Creator/BradSwaile voiced [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Quatre]], whose name means "[[FourIsDeath four]]" in French, and who goes on a rampage in Wing Zero destroying colonies. Quatre also ''hates'' killing people and is a dedicated pacifist.
** The infamous [[http://chanarchive.org/4chan/a/326/swimming-lessons-gif "Light gives Matsuda SWIMMING LESSONS"]] meme is already funny, but it takes even more levels in hilarious when one sees that one of the better known members of the 2012 and 2016 Japanese National Swimming Team ''[[http://setosnicegirl.tumblr.com/post/28356722393/go-for-the-gold-matsuda-old-joke-is-old-but-i is]]'' named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Matsuda Matsuda.]]
*** Becomes even funnier when learning that the ''other'' Matsuda from the Japanese Olympic Team [[http://www.herald.ie/sport/other-sports/matsudas-a-true-survivor-3182424.html is a policeman]], and takes a turn into BlackComedy once learned that ''this'' Matsuda's speciality is [[spoiler: sharp-shooting with a 10 mm pistol.]]

* At the end of the DVDCommentary for ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]]'', the commentators joke about the (un)likelihood of ''Eva 2: ElectricBoogaloo''. A decade later, the oddly-titled ''[[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Rebuild]]'' movies are in full swing, and one of the most popular fan theories about them is that they are actually sequels to the original series.
** The meme "Get in the damn robot" is often used as a TakeThat towards Shinji's unwillingness to pilot EVA-01 (especially in the first few episodes of the series). Fast forward to 2017 with the [[CashCowFranchise latest spin-off]] ''[[OverlyLongTitle Legend Of The Piko Piko Middle School Students]]'' where not only Shinji, but the rest of the cast refuse to get in the damn robots to play video games instead.

* Filipino ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' fans get a kick out of seeing Hero TV. It actually exists as an all-Filipino anime channel since 2005, way before the anime's original broadcast.
** And in 2013, the same actual Hero TV will air ''Tiger & Bunny''!

* In ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', lead female Haruhi has a sort-of UnwantedHarem among the members of the Host Club. Said harem includes a young man named Hikaru Hitachiin (and his brother Kaoru, too). As of August 2011, Haruhi's seiyuu Creator/MaayaSakamoto and Hikaru's seiyuu Creator/KenichiSuzumura [[http://aramatheydidnt.livejournal.com/2662566.html have just gotten married.]], taking their RelationshipVoiceActor to a new level. [[HeartwarmingInHindsight Be happy, Hikaru and Haruhi!]] (And [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDEstiny Shinn and Lunamaria]], too. And [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Aeris and Zack as well]]. But especially you, [[LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai Mikiya and Shiki]].)

** Similar to the Pokémon example above with Dent, one of the first things that Tamaki remarks upon seeing Haruhi's apartment is that it's very clean. Mamoru Miyano would later voice Death the Kid in ''Manga/SoulEater'', who is [[SuperOCD absolutely OBSESSED with cleanliness and symmetry]].

* Before the actual announcements of the licensing and dubbing of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', [[http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/9444/4kidsmadoka.jpg there had been a joke that 4Kids will license and dub the anime]], with all the [[{{Bowdlerize}} bowdlerizing]] and [[DubNameChange name changing]] they're famous for. Sayaka's name is changed to Sarah, for instance. Months later, Sayaka's English voice actress is revealed to be... Creator/SarahWilliams.
** Additonally, Kyubey's voice actress (Creator/CassandraLee) and Mami's voice actress (Creator/CarrieKeranen) have indeed been in a couple of [[Anime/YuGiOhGX 4Kids]] [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds dubs]].
** Another dub-related HIH: Remember [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/pool/show/3420 this doujin]]? Now imagine [[{{Manga/Berserk}} Casca]] replacing Mami: they're both voiced by Carrie Keranen.
** Not dub-related: April 21, 2011: Episode 11 of ''Madoka Magica' airs. [[spoiler: Homura, having previously stolen a few truckloads of Type 88 antiship missiles from the JGSDF, fires them off at Walpurgisnacht.]] April 21, 2011: [[spoiler: In Real Life, the JGSDF's 6th Surface-to-Ship Missile Regiment, which uses Type 88 missiles, is disbanded.]]
** And yet another dub-related HIH: Hitomi Shizuki's FanNickname is "Green [[Manga/KOn Mugi]]". And then, we have Mugi's English voice actress, Creator/ShelbyLindley, voicing Hitomi.
** [[https://youtu.be/5v3xk2dJ1Ak This fan video]] features a mash-up of ''Madoka'' set to the opening song of ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows''. This is twofold hilarious in hindsight, as the video was made well before the final arc ''The World God Only Knows'' which featured MentalTimeTravel, also a major part of ''Madoka's'' finale, and also because of the fact that, in the ''Madoka'' movies, Homura eventually [[spoiler:becomes an equivalent to the devil]].

* ''Franchise/PrettyCure'':
** Because of the many [[SailorEarth fanmade Pretty Cure teams and heroines]] in the fandom, this inevitably comes into play whenever information about the next season turns out to include a Cure with a common OriginalCharacter name, such as [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Blossom]], [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Cure Melody]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Cure Heart, Cure Diamond]] and [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Cure Mermaid]].
** With his fluffy hair, Kenji Ban, a minor character from ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', could be easily mistaken for a shounen anime character. Two years later, Yoshihiko Umakoshi, character designer for ''Heartcatch'', went on to work on [[Anime/SaintSeiyaOmega an actual shounen anime]].
** The lyrics to ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'''s first ending include the words ''doki doki Precure''. [[Anime/DokiDokiPreCure Guess what's the name of the season that came after Smile]]?
*** Similarly, the second ED for ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'' contained the phrase "a la mode". The series to follow after it was ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode''.
** The franchise also has a surprising tendency to attract ballet-related examples:
*** Cure Rhythm's tutu in ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'' was once described on [[http://precure.livejournal.com/1396129.html a LiveJournal entry reviewing all the Pretty Cure costumes up to this point]] as making her look "almost like a cross between a ballerina and a princess". [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Three seasons later]], we get a Pretty Cure who's both a ballerina and a princess.
*** An early mistranslation ("volley", as in volleyball, accidentally being translated into "ballet" due to similar katakana) caused some fanon about Akane from ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' practicing ballet. Then [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Minami]], who actually practiced ballet, came on the scene...
*** Nearly two full decades after Sailor Moon tried out for a role in ''Theatre/{{Giselle}}'', ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'' lead character Cure Flora performed a selection from the ballet for a recital.
** Speaking of ''Sailor Moon'', something related to character design: in the figure skating episode, look very closely in the crowd during the first shot of the hopefuls auditioning to replace Janelyn as Misha's figure skating partner. One of them, a redhead in a black and pink tunic, bears a pretty major resemblance to [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure one of the franchise's first heroines]].
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'':
** If you've watched "WesternAnimation/BraveLittleTailor", it can be amusing to see how many similarities these two shows share.
** Basically any variation of ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' turns hilarious after this series.
** Also, the ''Keflings'' games.[[note]]Basically taking the idea of Eren Titan plugging the hole in the wall by having a clothed Titan help the 'humans' (Keflings) build their town by carrying and placing buildings![[/note]]
** There's also ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'', a Japanese [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 PS2]] game where you travel on horseback through a massive wasteland, slaying giants by attacking their weak point.
** A story about fighting giants after said monsters destroy a wall meant to protect humans from them, where the main character's last name is Jaeger? [[Film/PacificRim Sounds vaguely familiar.]]
** The meme of Eren being scrawny and Levi and Mikasa being obscenely muscled because of WordOfGod confirming that they both weigh more than him. Come Chapter 53, we find out that Eren is actually very muscular, and just has a lean build that makes it easy to hide.
** [[AmbiguouslyBi Reiner]] commenting on the Female Titan having a "nice ass", [[spoiler:when he knows it's Annie.]]
** Krista/[[spoiler:Historia]], the AllLovingHero and FriendToAllLivingThings often had fans compare her to a fairytale princess. [[spoiler:Come Chapter 55, and it turns out she ''is'' a princess.]]
** Creator/YuShimamura, who voices Annie, also does the voice for the little excited boy Eren sees when the 57th expedition returns in Episode 22. [[spoiler:This is somewhat really ironic when the reason they're all so broken down is thanks to the Female Titan, and then you have Annie's voice actress being the only cheerful one welcoming them back and admiring how brave they are.]]
** The ShipTease between Eren and Annie when both their Japanese seiyuus played subtle love interests in ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'', where Shimamura's character also happens to crystallize herself at one point in front of Creator/YuukiKaji's character.
** Remember the "[[http://25.media.tumblr.com/673f1212471a444d38bc084e89ea4105/tumblr_mmnlh4eDdS1r215p2o1_500.gif Titan-san is late]] [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/dbbc85f64d327b7288e21aea206d682a/tumblr_mmnlh4eDdS1r215p2o3_500.gif for anime school!]]" meme from way back when? Now there is a [[HighSchoolAU Junior High School AU]] manga spinoff where humans and Titans go to the same school.
** The [[http://imageserver.moviepilot.com/hobbit_the_battle_of_the_five_armies-another-hobbit-poster.jpeg?width=300&height=300 teaser poster]] for the third installment of ''Film/TheHobbit'' series looks strikingly similar to ''Attack on Titan's'' iconic title poster. Parodied [[http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/204/f/f/ff22b47cff6881175e502ccc9c1a1470-d7rzyfk.jpg here]].
** Since the series started up, just about everyone's been crossed over with the series, more notably Franchise/SpiderMan, who's been doing the swinging around buildings thing for decades. [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-03/attack-on-titan-gets-crossover-with-marvel-comics/.80625 Then, they decide to actually do a crossover involving the web-slinger]].
* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
** The 10th opening of the anime showing Zeref and Mavis side-by-side counts, as the manga hadn't even gotten to the point where it confirmed Zeref and Mavis has a deep connection at the time.
* The author of ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' is a fan of ''Metal Gear Solid'' and included references such as Miia the lamia dressed as Snake (what else) and Rachnera the arachne cosplaying as The Boss. The manga later was made into an anime, and the episode including those references and others was broadcast on September 1, 2015... the same day ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' was released worldwide.

* ''Anime/LuckyStar'' is known for its frequent use of BlandNameProduct. Case in point: Konami is renamed "Kyonani" in the background when Konata imagines herself in ''VideoGame/TrackAndField''. As of 2017, [[http://dmxrated.deviantart.com/art/Lucky-Star-Day-of-the-Beehive-654697256 the cover image for a planned fangame]] has surfaced, with its own variation of the company name (and former logo) as that planned for the team-to-be behind it. ([[https://dmxrated.dreamwidth.org/627786.html And it's not just a shipping reference either.]])

* In an episode of TheNineties ''Anime/SailorMoon'', Usagi and Rei are shown [[LuminescentBlush blushing]] while reading a {{Takarazuka}} Revue magazine. Cut to the 2013 ''Theatre/SeraMyu'' revival, where Usagi's love interest is played by Yūga Yamato, a former Takarazuka alum. And note that the critics praised Yamato's [[HoYay onscreen chemistry with the actress playing Usagi]]...
** Gets even worse. Said musicals' cast lists swam with retired Zuka people - the most prominent one being Haruka and Michiru, who were originally conceived as {{Expies}} of the ''otokoyaku''/''musumeyaku'' model, being played by Shuu Shiotsuki and Sayaka Fujioka, themselves retired Takarasiennes.
** In episode 145, Yamagishi, the young balletmaster, tells Fish Eye that he had always wanted Kiriko for the lead in his production of ''Theatre/{{Giselle}}'' because she's able to convey a wide range of emotions, unlike Fish Eye, who risks coming across as one-dimensional. You know, like most every Albrecht in productions since the Commies took over in Russia. If she lived in the days of [[http://www.nureyev.org/rudolf-nureyev-main-roles-ballets/ballet-giselle-albrecht-petipa-rudolf-nureyev Rudolf Nureyev]], Kiriko would be a perfect partner for him.
** Sailor Pluto always carries a staff tipped with a heart-shaped gem. In 2015, the New Horizons probe finally reached Pluto, and revealed two geological regions that, together, like a heart when seen from space.
** The live-action part of the [[WesternAnimation/ToonMakersSailorMoon Toon Makers pilot]] of ''Sailor Moon'' that never aired received a great deal of criticism for taking the original anime and turning it into a ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' knock-off. This was ''already'' funny given that ''Sailor Moon'' was always openly an all-female take on the popular ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' franchise which spawned ''Power Rangers'' in the first place. It becomes funny in hindsight when you fast forward to 2004, when Toei literally made a tokusatsu of the show in the style of Super Sentai with ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon''. They even included many seasoned veterans of the Super Sentai franchise in the production side of things, bringing the reference loop full circle.
** People complained how in the Creator/DiC English dub, they were called 'Scouts' instead of soldiers. And that they said, 'Scouts sell cookies! They don't fight or do battles!'....[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4hKRvzfE3E then came the PC game, 'Cookie Domination.]]
** The Brazilian Portuguese dub of ''Sailor Moon'' became infamous as the second season onwards had a cast [[TheOtherDarrin completely different than the 1st season cast]]. The title character, that was voiced by Marli Bortoletto, was later voiced by Daniella Piquet in the other seasons. Later, when ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' started to air in Brazil, Piquet voiced Sakura, but when the second film premiered in the country, the same Bortoletto who voiced Sailor Moon first, replaced Piquet as the voice of Sakura. This movie actually [[DuelingDubs has two different dubs]], and both of them with the same voice actress.
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' (2006), Yuichi is chastised for having a boring introduction to his new class. Yuichi says, "If's there an interesting way to introduce yourself, I'd like to see that." Earlier that same year, his voice actor had landed the role of Kyon.
** Yuichi is also once called out for talking narration to himself by Kaori, something that Kyon does all the time.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' had a scene with Nodoka being attacked by a perverted bounty hunter with tentacles, who starts stripping her clothes off while ranting about "boobies". After Negi saves her in a BigDamnHeroes moment, the group later runs into the same gang of bounty hunters in a [[FuroScene Bath house.]] Turns out [[spoiler: the tentacle guy is actually ''a hot female'' with a healthy appreciation for breasts.]] SkinshipGrope ensues.
** Waaaay back in chapter 15, [[spoiler:some eavesdropping caused the class to think that Negi was a prince]]. Roughly 200 chapters later, it turns out [[spoiler: he ''is'']].
** Also in chapter 210, after [[spoiler:everyone important has left for the magical world]], several characters are joking with the twins about how the main cast was abducted by aliens. The twins panic, saying "next time we meet Asuna she won't be Asuna anymore." [[spoiler:Turns out not long into the arc, Asuna gets kidnapped and replaced with a lookalike that has her personality and memories]].
*** And speaking of [[spoiler: aliens]]. One of the major reveals later is that [[spoiler: the magical world is based off Mars. This also happens to shed some light on Chao calling herself a Martian.]]
** When Evangeline was still Negi's opponent, during her duel with him, [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v03/c023/17.html she captured a bunch of his other students and dolled them up as]] {{Meido}}s. Among her victims we have [[spoiler: Akira Ookochi and Ako Izumi]], who end as maids ''again'' much later... [[spoiler: in the Magical World, when alongside Natsumi they sell themselves into slavery.]]
** In Chapter 229, when [[spoiler:they find out that Fate's real name is Tertium, which means the third, they start to worry if there's more then one of them]]. Come Chapter 311, and [[spoiler:we meet Quartum, Quintum and Sextum.]]
** The English dub of spinoff series ''Negima!?'' has a point where Shichimi says "Perhaps it is time to dine, nya" a paraphrase of Enma Ai's catchphrase from ''Anime/HellGirl''. It's even more hilarious when realizing that the joke was simply a ShoutOut in the Japanese version. In the dub it's a ShoutOut ''and'' a [[CastingGag "same voice actor" joke]], since Creator/BrinaPalencia voices both characters.

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Scar is voiced (in Brotherhood) by Creator/JMichaelTatum, who also voiced [[AGodAmI Enel/Eneru]] in ''Manga/OnePiece''. Scar attacks state alchemists in the name of God... or, rather, he attacks in the name of himself.
** In a bonus feature in volume five it shows that one of Ed's boxers' possible designs was Automail. In a volume 7 bonus feature, guess what the Truth takes from him.
** Kind of a weird example of both ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' and ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' with the latter's episode ''Sympathy for the Devil''. The Bebop episode features a character, Wen who essentially looks identical to FMA's Selim Bradley. This is funny because of the common twist that [[spoiler: both characters are far older than they look and are only masquerading as children]]. While probably accidental, it means that if you watched Bebop after FMA, you'd probably guess the twist immediately, and vice versa.
** Rewatch episode 19 knowing that [[Creator/TravisWillingham Mustang]] and [[Creator/LauraBailey Lust]] are married.
** In a ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' mod, there is a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loln9flB5Vg video]] with [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Zidane]] fighting [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII Cloud of Darkness]]. Now look at Lust and compare her appearance with that of the Cloud of Darkness and realize that Creator/LauraBailey voices both in English. Edward Elric and Zidane have the same seiyuu, Creator/RomiPark.
** In the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist 2003 anime version]], episode 15, Maes Hughes (voiced by Creator/SonnyStrait in the dub) says something along the lines of "What do you want me to do, fire my slingshot at him?!". Flash forward to 2007, and his voice actor became the new voice of the ''Manga/OnePiece'' sniper Usopp...
*** Also from the 2003 anime: Selim Bradley is introduced at the last second only to be killed off by the anime's version of Pride, King Bradley. Four years later, [[spoiler:Selim Bradley turns out to be the manga's Pride. And King Bradley is his direct subordinate.]]
*** A similar case comes ''even later'' with [[spoiler:Scar]]'s death in the 2003 anime, where he continues to fight even after having his arms blows off. Come chapter 105 of that manga and not only does [[spoiler:Bradley]] do the same thing, it was ''caused by'' [[spoiler:Scar]].
*** There is a filler episode with Mustang's subordinates getting creeped out by unusual things happening in Warehouse 13, several years before [=SyFy=] had a show called ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' about unusual things happening.
* Manga/{{Naruto}}
** In the ''Shippuden'' dub, Chiyo is voiced by Barbara Goodson. Her grandson, Sasori is voiced by Creator/JohnnyYongBosch. That's right, [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Rita Repulsa and Adam]] are doing role reversal (Goodson as one of the heroes, and Bosch as a villain).
** There's also the joke when Choji sees Naruto's [[RazorWind Rasenshuriken]] and assumes, based on the name, that it was a projectile attack ([[ElementalPunch it isn't]]). Nearly one hundred chapters later, [[spoiler:it shows up again and now it ''is'']].
** ''Naruto the Movie: Road to Ninja'' is the newest ''Shippuden'' movie set in an alternate universe (or something), the difference? Naruto's parents are alive and Sakura's are dead. Now remember that comment Sakura made in the beginning of the series about Naruto and his behavior because of a lack of parents and it turns into GallowsHumor.
** Back in the first chapter/episode, Naruto is doing graffiti all over the Hokage Monument. [[spoiler:One of them is his dad.]]
** [[spoiler:Chapter 599 revealed that Obito is the BigBad Tobi, while in the English dub Obito was voiced by Creator/VicMignonga who also voiced "serious Tobi" in one of the video games. Consequently, Tobi might not be a [[MemeticMutation good boy]] now, but he once was one.]]
** In the preview for episode 25 attached to the end of episode 24, Naruto is freaking out over Part 1 of the Chuunin Exams, worried that he'll be "the oldest living Genin". As of now, Naruto's still a Genin and it looks like he's gonna stay that way. [[AlmightyJanitor Not that it really matters]].
** In one {{Omake}}, Sakura calls out the staff because the current ending only features Hinata. The omake ends with her angrily demanding her own ending - which she got for the very next ending.
** Naruto's fight with Gaara has him and Gamabunta due a joint transformation into an image of the kyuubi, though just to use its tails and claws for gripping. [[spoiler: During the Fourth Shinobi War arc, Naruto gains the ability to turn into the real thing.]]
** Creator/AkiraIshida (Gaara of the Desert's Japanese VA) is the defacto voice actor in Japan for [[Franchise/StarWars Luke Skywalker]]. Luke was raised in Tatooine, a ''desert'' planet. Also overlapping with RelationshipVoiceActor, Hiroshi Iwasaki (Shukaku's Japanese VA and Gaara's Tailed Beast) is also the defacto Japanese VA for ''C-3PO'' in the same franchise. Extra hilarity both Shukaku and C-3PO are the opposite of each other. Even more hilarious is the fact Gaara's life is basically [[spoiler:what could happened if Luke was raised by his father Anakin aka Darth Vader, rather by his uncles and killing (a resurrected) Vader by himself, rather than Emperor Palpatine]].
** Creator/TesshoGenda's role as the Kurama The Nine-tailed Fox is pretty hilarious if you take into account he voiced some roles with some odd relation with him voicing a [[AnimalisticAbomination giant-sized fox]].
*** As [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos in Japanese]]: Kratos' main speciality is killing creatures like Kurama for breakfast, and that's before going against ''gods''.
*** As [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Foghorn Leghorn in Japanese]]: You know, foxes eats poultry.
*** As [[Film/PacificRim Stacker Pentecost in Japanese]]: Stacker's job is stopping apocalypses in a HumongousMecha against the {{Kaiju}}. Kurama is a {{Kaiju}}-sized fox who causes '''them'''.
*** As [[Manga/YuYuHakusho Younger Toguro]]: Well, Kurama has his name because of that series.
** There are a number of dramatic scenes where [[http://i.imgur.com/Yf1vVaP.jpg Naruto proudly proclaims]] [[http://i.imgur.com/tZyuQr3.jpg he's going to become hokage no matter what]]. Which kinda gives the impression that being the Hokage is awesome. [[spoiler: Well, Naruto eventually becomes hokage and [[http://i.imgur.com/WBxxUNB.jpg it turns out the job isn't all it's cracked up to be in the slightest]]]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nFM4wDeXco One FOX "Animation Domination" short]] had the idea that Naruto and Sasuke's final battle would just be them [[SayMyName screaming each other's names]] and ''literally'' kissing and making up. [[spoiler: The final battle is pretty much this, but the "kiss and make up" part is metaphorical.]]
* Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz had a small recurring role in ''Anime/DuelMasters'' as Fritz the bitter goblin. One of his main running gags was his BerserkButton, where he would yell at anyone who called him a squirrel. Thus, fans of the dub were amused when Horvitz was later cast as the titular animal character in ''WesternAnimation/SquirrelBoy''.

* In 2003, mahq.net made an AprilFoolsDay [[http://www.mahq.net/rants/prank.htm announcement]] of a ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' sequel. After ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' got released, it only became funnier.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''

* In ''Manga/FlameOfRecca'', a (supposedly) OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent {{Ninja}} {{Otaku}} discovers that he's TheLastOfHisKind from a clan named "Hokage"... one imagines hilarity would ensue if Recca ever met ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''.

* Remember that yacht that was from the delayed episode for ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays''? It turns out that it is the yacht of ''the director of School Days'', Keitaro Motonaga, and that the nature footage was taken during a TNK corporate retreat in 2005. ''[[MemeticMutation Nice boat]]'', indeed.

* Very early on ''Manga/DragonBall'', when Goku turns into a giant ape for the first time, Oolong remarks "What's with this dude? Is he an alien?" About 15 volumes later... he is.
** Similarly, when Goku and Piccolo Daimaô first square off, Piccolo calls Goku "smaller than ant's poop" and Goku replies by calling him "slug's poop". Slug in Japanese is "Namekuji", where the name for the later-introduced Planet Namek comes from. Guess who's from Namek? Piccolo.
*** Guess who else is from Namek? [[Anime/DragonBallZLordSlug Lord Slug!]]
** When Bulma is first introduced in Dragon Ball, she planned on using the Dragon Balls to wish for a PrinceCharming boyfriend. She ends up married to a WarriorPrince in ''Dragon Ball Z''. It's even {{lampshaded}} [[http://www.mangareader.net/dragon-ball-sd/5/5 here]] in Dragon Ball SD.
** We're all familiar with ''Film/DragonballEvolution'', right? What about ''Dragon Ball GT Evolution''? No? Back when Funimation were doing single disc releases of the series they did a form of [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Idiosyncratic Volume Naming]] involving words that end with "ion". "Evolution" was the volume with episodes 48-51.
*** Speaking of ''GT'', the German dub of the series renamed the Black Star Dragon Balls as the Super Dragon Balls. Good thing ''GT'' isn't in the same continuity as ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', otherwise the German dub would've had to rename the ''actual'' Super Dragon Balls the Black Star Dragon Balls.
** In an early episode on ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Goku meets Princess Snake, who apparently has fallen in love with him. In the Creator/{{FUNimation}} dub she was played by Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard, who would later play Goku in Manga/DragonBall: [[NonSerialMovie Curse Of The Blood Rubies]].
** Apparently, Mr. Satan invented planking about fifteen years before anyone else was doing it. In attempt to make it look like he had knocked out Majin Buu for a photo he was taking, he told Buu to hold still and lay flat on his stomach. He even commented that it seemed strange, but it was the new trend in picture-taking.
** When Goku refuses to kill Piccolo Jr. after winning the fight against him at the end of ''Dragon Ball'', stating that he could use a rival, in the Funimation dub Yamcha says sarcastically, "Oh, I'm sure you'll be best friends someday." Guess who actually does end up best friends with Piccolo in ''Dragon Ball Z''? Goku's son.
** One of the early antagonists in ''Manga/DragonBall'' was a rabbit who had the power to turn anyone he touched into a carrot. When Goku faces him, the rabbit asks him if he wants to be carrot. In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', it turns out that Goku's Saiyan name is Kakarot!
** At one point during Goku and Krillin's training, Master Roshi tied them both to a tree, shook a hornet's nest with a stick, and told them to ''[[WebVideo/DragonBallAbridged DODGE!]]''

* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** The [[CutAndPasteTranslation 4Kids dub]] was already a joke for, among other things, cutting out a story arc involving a whale named Laboon, and another involving giants. Two later arcs that came up about 200 to 300 episodes later involved plot points based on those stories. The first one involved a character being friends with the two giants from the missing arc, and, in the second, the author introduced [[spoiler:a new crewmate, Brook, whose entire character motivation revolves around getting back and seeing Laboon]].
** There's also [[http://www.mangaeden.com/En/One%3D_%3DPiece/14/ the cover of Chapter 14]], which shows Luffy as Literature/{{Dracula}}. Much later, this becomes an inadvertent StealthPun when you consider that [[spoiler:"dracula" means 'son of the dragon']], at least in older Romanian, which is quite accurate as Luffy is indeed [[spoiler:''[[LukeIAmYourFather Dragon's son]]'']].
** Minor early example: when Nami first met Luffy, she called him "Boss" as a way of getting Buggy's goons who were chasing her to go pick on Luffy instead. [[AsYouKnow Three arcs later, she wound up officially joining the Straw Hats as Luffy's navigator]].
** A voice-acting related one. Brook's VA, Creator/YuichiNagashima way before being known as Brook, voiced a character in the gag series SexyCommandoGaiden named Tsuyoshi Tsobe also better known as Kyasharin or ''"Living Bones"''.
** Also a voice-acting related one; the protagonist himself, Luffy's VA (Creator/MayumiTanaka), is voicing a villain in ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'', the little boy Ira. The hilarious part? Creator/EiichiroOda ''considers'' the entire Precure series as his rival because his daughters love it more than his series. The fact that Luffy's VA is voicing ''a villain'' also adds the hilarity.
** The name of an electric-based character can be rendered in Western alphabet as Eneru, Ener or Enel. It's not known if Oda was aware of that, but Enel is also [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enel Italy's biggest electric utility company]].
** Staying with Enel, a man who has deluded himself into thinking he's a PhysicalGod, his appearence explicitly based on the rapper Eminem. Flash forward a few years, and Eminem himself releases a single... called "Rap God".

* In ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', the moments of Haruhi molesting Mikuru are funnier than the first time round, due to Haruhi's Japanese voice artist (Creator/AyaHirano) voicing Kaoru, a 10-year-old LovableSexManiac, in ''Manga/ZettaiKarenChildren''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkxhyrhmn5A This]] scene parodying ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' becomes funnier when you realize that Creator/WendeeLee would later voice Athena Cykes in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies''.
** Ten years after voicing [[Anime/HaruhiSuzumiya an occasional bunny girl]], Creator/AyaHirano is now voicing a ''regular'' [[PlayboyBunny bunny girl]]. More details on this direct-to-video event [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-05-17/fairy-tail-unaired-fairy-penalty-game-anime-previewed-in-video/.102185 here]].
** Remember the whole [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya "We're stuck in an endless recursion of time"]] thing? Said by Itsuki Koizumi, voiced by Creator/DaisukeOno? Cue Ono later voicing Battler in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', also stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop, albeit this one not noticeable to...[[MindScrew part of]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext himself]]. Daisuke Ono would even voice [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Jotaro Kujo]], who also gets caught in a (albeit relatively short-lived) GroundhogDayLoop.
** For more hilarity, guess which character is voiced by Creator/TomokazuSugita (the voice of Kyon)? Ronove the butler, who is also caught (sorta) into said GroundhogDayLoop. Not only everyone is Itsuki for Kyon, but now everyone is Ronove for Battler.

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* From ''Manga/OnePiece'':

** If you've watched ''Disney/BraveLittleTailor'', it can be amusing to see how many similarities these two shows share.

* In the 4th ''Anime/DirtyPair'' OVA in which a group of boys take over an army base, one of their demands is their own tv channel that airs nothing but cartoons all day, the OVA originally aired in 1987, Cartoon Network was launched 5 years later.

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** When Shirogane is trying to gauge his likability in chapter 114, Miko says that his face isn't her type and that she'd prefer someone who looked like Sho Hirano. Three guesses who was cast as Shirogane in the live-action movie, and the first two don't count.

* ''HilariousInHindsight/PokemonAdventures''

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Anyone who's familiar with ''Pokémon'''s "[[NewRulesAsThePlotDemands aim for the horn]]" probably had their laughs back in Gen III of the games, when the Rhyhorn family (including Rhydon, which was the victim of said move) gained the Lightningrod ability. So not only is it immune to electrical attacks, probably to the frustration of those who can't tell between anime plot and game mechanics, but with that ability, as long as it's on the field, you can't aim an Electric attack at ''any other Pokémon''!
*** Related to this, in the episode ''Tag! We're It...!'', the first pair of opponents Ash and Paul face had...a Magmar and Rhydon. And the Rhydon had Lightningrod.
*** In the original anime, you aim for the horn. In ''Anime/PokemonOrigins'', [[RussianReversal horn aims for you]]! Rhyhorn gets back at Electric-types by delivering a One-Hit-KO Thunderbolt to Red's Jolteon. Jolteon gets [[NoSell Volt]] [[EpicFail Absorb]] in Gen III.
** Another bit regarding Lightningrod. Even though Ash's Pikachu has Static, he balanced on his tail to dodge a berserk Thunder from Surge's Raichu. As of Gen V, the Pikachu family has Lightningrod as their Dream ability.
** In the Orange Islands episode "Wherefore Art Thou, Pokémon?", Misty makes a couple of cracks about Ash being ObliviousToLove. For one of them, she commented that, maybe someday, he'll grow up. [[NotAllowedToGrowUp Nineteen years later, Ash is still 10 years old]].
--->'''Misty:''' You're not mature enough to understand.\\
'''Ash:''' I am too!\\
'''Misty:''' Well, someday you'll grow up.\\
'''Ash:''' [[CornerOfWoe I already am]] [[HypocriticalHumor grown up]]!
** At the end of the episode, Ash wonders if people fall in love when they kiss. Misty replies that they will have to wait and see. [[spoiler: [[TheBigDamnKiss cue the ending of the XYZ anime]]]]
** In 2006, there was an April Fools joke pulled by a Japanese fansite about an anime adaptation of the ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' SpinOff games. Later in the fall of that year when when the games made their American debut, Creator/CartoonNetwork did air an anime adaptation alongside it.
** In the third episode of the anime series, "Ash Catches a Pokémon", when Jessie and James both unleash their Pokémon at once, Ash states that using two Pokémon at once is against Pokémon League rules. Come 2002, upon the release of ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Ruby & Sapphire]]'', Double Battles and Multi Battles (also known as Tag Battles) are introduced.
*** Not necessarily hilarious, but the Viridian Gym battle with Jessie saw her send out three Pokémon at once against Ash's three. It would take [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite four generations]] for triple battles to be ''officially'' introduced to the game.
** There's also a scene where Ash makes a remark about how Shellder clamping on Psyduck's tail would make it a Psybro due to how Slowpoke evolves into Slowbro. In the same episode, Shellder clamps onto Psyduck's head. Guess how Slowking evolves from Slowpoke.
** When Cilan's design was revealed, there were many jokes comparing him to Tamaki from ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub''. Creator/MamoruMiyano would soon be revealed to be his voice actor.
** Ash's Pikachu has the FanNickname "Godchu" for being seen as overpowered, including the aforementioned "Aim for the horn" incident. Come ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros 64'', Pikachu (although it's obviously not Ash's) was found to be top-tier.
*** Contrast with Mewtwo. "We dreamed of creating the world's strongest Pokémon...and he's bottom tier in ''Melee'' and MIA in ''Brawl''."
** In one episode, Ash inadvertently interrupts Trip while he battles a Palpitoad, causing the Pokemon to run away before Trip could catch it. In the next episode, Ash ends up catching a Palpitoad for himself.
*** This is reminiscent of an incident in "Challenge of the Samurai." Samurai interrupts Ash, who's trying to catch a Weedle, and the Pokemon escapes.
** In "The Mystery of the Lighthouse," Bill remarks that there are more Pokémon than one can imagine, and it will take years to find them all. The episode aired in Japan in 1997. Fast-forward 15 years, and ''Pokémon'' is one of the longest-running TV shows ever in excess of 700 episodes, 15 movies, and one of the most popular video game series ever with no signs of slowing down.
*** And in that time, the series has introduced another five hundred species of Pokémon.
** In the episode "Holiday at Aopulco," the Who's That Pokémon?, a eyecatch bumper showing a different Pokémon each time, turns out to be Brutella, the main villain of that episode. 15 years later, in episode 10 of the anime ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure''[[note]] the episode where the villains go to the human world for Akane's okonominayaki[[/note]], the second eyecatch (usually showing the team mascot Candy one being a different outfit or background) turned out to be the main monster of the series, an Akanbe!
*** It's also worth noting that this kind of Who's That Pokémon? happened again in the Japanese version of "The Bug Stops Here!", with Jessie as a Venomoth. The Akanbe kind of eyecatch in ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' happened twice during the first half of the series, appearing again 7 episodes later, because the episode was about a joke contest.
** In "Minccino: Neat and Tidy", Bianca tells Ash's Oshawott to use Hydro Pump, with Ash replying that he doesn't know it. Oshawott would later learn Hydro Pump in ''Best Wishes 2''.
** Way back in the first season episode "The Flame Pokémon-athon", there's a race where trainers ride their Pokémon, and one trainer is riding a Rhyhorn, which given the variety of Pokémon that can be used is shown to be [[EpicFail/AnimeAndManga not such a good choice]], especially when there turns out to be a river crossing and Rhyhorn sinks like, well, [[ShapedLikeItself a giant stone rhinoceros]]. Flash forward five generations and Rhyhorn racing is a serious Kalosian sport.
** In a Kanto filler episode dealing with the theory that Clefairy came from space, there's a joke scene where a MadScientist invents a scanner that claims Clefairy, Jigglypuff and Misty (who was holding Togepi) are aliens. All three Pokemon would end up becoming Fairy Types 6 generations later. That scientist accidentally discovered a new type!
** Ash's first Pokemon League battle ever takes place over a pool of water, and at one point, he orders Krabby to dive into it. Come Gen III, Dive becomes an official move.

* In 2014, an anime called ''Anime/TribeCoolCrew'' aired as part of Nichi Asa Kids' Time. One of the main characters had pink hair in a giant side ponytail, was named Kanon Otosaki and was into dancing. In 2016, the third season of ''[[VideoGame/PriPara [=PriPara=]]]'', which premiered the same year as ''Tribe Cool Crew'', introduced a character named Kanon who looked very similar to the one from that show.

* In general, [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole Adaptation Induced Plot Holes]], courtesy of {{Filler}} arcs.

* It's honestly quite astounding how the writer of Manga/PokemonAdventures makes up so much of his story yet nearly all of it still manages to fit into future game canon. This is why fans joke that Hidenori Kusaka can see into the future:
** In the Yellow arc, there's a flashback of Oak's Kangaskhan beating one of Agatha's ghosts with a Dizzy Punch, which should be a total cop out seeing how Normal moves don't affect Ghosts. Now about a decade later in the newer games, Kangaskhan is given the ability Scrappy...which allows Normal (and Fighting) attacks to hit Ghost-types.
** The new "critical capture" feature in the ''Black and White'' games sound a lot like capture spots.
** So, you dress up as a Rocket member to infiltrate their base, only to have your cover blown because your disguise was ripped off... ''Special'' did it long before the ''HGSS'' games were released.
** [[spoiler:Zapmolcuno]] is finished off by a Blastoise, Charizard, and Venusaur simultaneously using their strongest attacks. It's [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros the Triple Finish!]]
*** And then they go ahead and [[http://www.otakuworks.com/view/76067/pokemon-adventures/vol-29-chp-328-337/read/142 use the phrase]] [[http://www.otakuworks.com/view/76067/pokemon-adventures/vol-29-chp-328-337/read/143 itself.]] [[WildMassGuessing Maybe that's where they got the name?]]
** In ''Pokémon Platinum'', you get the chance to purchase an insanely expensive villa and furnish it with insanely expensive furniture. Good thing that the lead character of the corresponding arc was conveniently already established to be insanely rich.
** A green jewel meant to control Rayquaza... Emerald had one on his forehead before the ''HGSS'' games came up with the concept.
** It took five generations for Game Freak to have the Gym Leaders more involved with the plot, have secondary jobs, and have them directly oppose the evil villainous team. It took only one for ''Pokéspe''.
** Black's Munna clearing his head is a reference to the C-Gear. There is now a Munna C-Gear skin available.
** In the ''GSC'' arc, some Rocket grunts fill a Spider Web with electricity. Gen V introduces the move Electroweb.
** In the ''Platinum'' arc, Caitlin's personal Pokémon is a Gallade. As it turns out in the ''BW'' games, she is a master of Psychic Pokemon.

* It's honestly quite astounding how the writer of ''Anime/PokemonSpecial'' makes up so much of his story yet nearly all of it still manages to fit into future game canon. This is why fans joke that Hidenori Kusaka can see into the future:

* Fans of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' would often compare Kanna to the Blue Eyes White Dragon from ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' due to her being... well, a blue eyed, white dragon. Jump forward to August 2019, when Creator/{{Konami}} added a [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon_Maid Dragon Maid archetype]] to the card game.

* Fans of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' would often compare Kanna to the Blue Eyes White Dragon from ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' due to her being... well, a blue eyed, white dragon. Jump forward to August 2019, when Creator/{{Konami}} added a [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon_Maid Dragon Maid archetype]] to the card game.
** "jump forward to august 2019"? its currently july 2019. did a time traveler write this?

* Fans of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' would often compare Kanna to the Blue Eyes White Dragon from ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' due to her being... well, a blue eyed, white dragon. Jump forward to August 2019, when Creator/{{Konami}} added a [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon_Maid Dragon Maid archetype]] to the card game.

** When Shirogane is trying to gauge his likability in chapter 114, Miko says that his face isn't her type and that she'd prefer someone who looked like Sho Hirano. Three guesses who was cast as Shirogane in the live-action movie, and the first two don't count.

* Volume 4 of ''Manga/KomorisanCantDecline'' had several bonus pages where the cast talked about how exicited they were for the then upcoming anime. On the page focusing on Shuri's family, her little sister talks about how much she's looking forward to being animated and comments that it wouldn't make much sense for their mother to be animated given how little she moves. Guess which of the two of them was AdaptedOut when the anime finally came out.

* Volume 4 of ''Manga/KomoriSanCantDecline'' had several bonus pages where the cast talked about how exicited they were for the then upcoming anime. On the page focusing on Shuri's family, her little sister talks about how much she's looking forward to being animated and comments that it wouldn't make much sense for their mother to be animated given how little she moves. Guess which of the two of them was AdaptedOut when the anime finally came out.

* As soon as ''Anime/ReleaseTheSpyce'' was annoucned, people were referencing the "The spice must flow!" meme from ''Literature/{{Dune}}''. Then, when the first episode premiered, it turned out that the titular spice granted superhuman physical abilities.

** Season 2 villain Hiltz is very much similar to [[Franchise/{{Naruto}} fellow Akatsuki member]] Sasori, an EvilRedhead who have a scorpion-like machine (or doll in Sasori's case) as a weapon. They even share [[Creator/{{TakahiroSakurai}} the same japanese voice actor]]!