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** 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.
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** At the end of the DVDCommentary for ''The End of Evangelion'', the commentators joke about the (un)likelihood of ''Eva 2: ElectricBoogaloo''.[[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo Electric Boogaloo]]''. 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.
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* 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.
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* 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}}'' ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' 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.
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* ''Anime/DirtyPair'' TV episode 12 concerns two genetically-engineered, super-intelligent mice who take over WWWA Headquarters, several years before ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' was made.
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* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' has a scene where Nanoha tells her six year old daughter Vivio that she wont get any bigger if she doesn't eat her vegetables. [[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid Jump forward four years]] and Vivio would gain free access to an OlderAlterEgo. Made funnier by the fact that Caro is also shown having difficulty eating her vegetables in the same scene, [[OlderThanTheyLook and she ultimately remains the same height for the remainder of the franchise]].
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* In 2011 the Anime adaptation for the ''Toys/BBSenshiSangokuden'' toyline, ''SD Gundam Sangokuden: Brave Battle Warriors'' came to an end. Then two years later in 2013, toy company [=MegaHouse=] teamed up with [[Creator/AshiProductions Production REED]] and Creator/PolygonPictures to make an Anime Short series, ''Bakujuu Gasshin Ziguru Hazeru'', based off of their upcoming ''Ziguru Hazeru'' toyline, which had [[FollowTheLeader Mecha Designs that looked rather similar to]] ''Franchise/SDGundam''. What’s more, both ''Sangokuden'' and ''Ziguru Hazeru'' were based off of Chinese legends, ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' for ''Sangokuden'' and ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' for ''Ziguru Hazeru''. Then in 2019 came ''Anime/SDGundamWorldSangokuSoketsuden'', another ''SD Gundam'' Anime based off of ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms''...and then in its 2021 sequel, ''Anime/SDGundamWorldHeroes'', the ''Three Kingdoms''-based characters team up with another character based off of ''Journey to the West''’s main protagonist, Sun Wukong!
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* In 2011 the Anime adaptation for the ''Toys/BBSenshiSangokuden'' toyline, ''SD Gundam Sangokuden: Brave Battle Warriors'' came to an end. Then two years later in 2013, toy company [=MegaHouse=] teamed up with [[Creator/AshiProductions Production REED]] and Creator/PolygonPictures to make an Anime Short series, ''Bakujuu Gasshin Ziguru Hazeru'', based off of on their upcoming ''Ziguru Hazeru'' toyline, which had [[FollowTheLeader Mecha Designs that looked rather similar to]] ''Franchise/SDGundam''. What’s more, both ''Sangokuden'' and ''Ziguru Hazeru'' were based off of Chinese legends, ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' for ''Sangokuden'' and ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' for ''Ziguru Hazeru''. Then in 2019 came ''Anime/SDGundamWorldSangokuSoketsuden'', another ''SD Gundam'' Anime based off of ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms''...and then in its 2021 sequel, ''Anime/SDGundamWorldHeroes'', the ''Three Kingdoms''-based characters team up with another character based off of ''Journey to the West''’s West'''s main protagonist, Sun Wukong!
* ''Anime/TweenyWitches'': At one point, Arusu asks Eva if there are male witches. It's revealed late into the series that the [[spoiler:pirate]] witch [[spoiler:Lennon]] is actually a boy.
* ''Anime/TweenyWitches'': At one point, Arusu asks Eva if there are male witches. It's revealed late into the series that the [[spoiler:pirate]] witch [[spoiler:Lennon]] is actually a boy.
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* In 2011 the Anime adaptation for the ''Toys/BBSenshiSangokuden'' toyline, ''SD Gundam Sangokuden: Brave Battle Warriors'' came to an end. Then two years later in 2013, toy company [=MegaHouse=] teamed up with [[Creator/AshiProductions Production REED]] and Creator/PolygonPictures to make an Anime Short series, ''Bakujuu Gasshin Ziguru Hazeru'', based off of their upcoming ''Ziguru Hazeru'' toyline, which had [[FollowTheLeader Mecha Designs that looked rather similar to]] ''Franchise/SDGundam''. What’s more, both ''Sangokuden'' and ''Ziguru Hazeru'' were based off of Chinese legends, ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' for ''Sangokuden'' and ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' for ''Ziguru Hazeru''. Then in 2019 came ''Anime/SDGundamWorldSangokuSoketsuden'', another ''SD Gundam'' Anime based off of ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms'.'..Kingdoms''...and then in its 2021 sequel, ''Anime/SDGundamWorldHeroes'', the ''Three Kingdoms''-based characters team up with another character based off of ''Journey to the West''’s main protagonist, Sun Wukong!
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* In 2011 the Anime adaptation for the ‘’Toys/BBSenshiSangokuden’’ toyline, ‘’SD Gundam Sangokuden: Brave Battle Warriors’’ came to an end. Then two years later in 2013, toy company [=MegaHouse=] teamed up with [[Creator/AshiProductions Production REED]] and Creator/PolygonPictures to make an Anime Short series, ‘’Bakujuu Gasshin Ziguru Hazeru’’, based off of their upcoming ‘’Ziguru Hazeru’’ toyline, which had [[FollowTheLeader Mecha Designs that looked rather similar to]] ‘’Franchise/SDGundam’’. What’s more, both ‘’Sangokuden’’ and ‘’Ziguru Hazeru’’ were based off of Chinese legends, ‘’Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms’’ for ‘’Sangokuden’’ and ‘’Literature/JourneyToTheWest’’ for ‘’Ziguru Hazeru’’. Then in 2019 came ‘’Anime/SDGundamWorldSangokuSoketsuden’’, another ‘’SD Gundam’’ Anime based off of ‘’Romance of the Three Kingdoms’’...and then in its 2021 sequel, ‘’Anime/SDGundamWorldHeroes’’, the ‘’Three Kingdoms’’-based characters team up with another character based off of ‘’Journey to the West’’’s main protagonist, Sun Wukong!
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* In 2011 the Anime adaptation for the ‘’Toys/BBSenshiSangokuden’’ ''Toys/BBSenshiSangokuden'' toyline, ‘’SD ''SD Gundam Sangokuden: Brave Battle Warriors’’ Warriors'' came to an end. Then two years later in 2013, toy company [=MegaHouse=] teamed up with [[Creator/AshiProductions Production REED]] and Creator/PolygonPictures to make an Anime Short series, ‘’Bakujuu ''Bakujuu Gasshin Ziguru Hazeru’’, Hazeru'', based off of their upcoming ‘’Ziguru Hazeru’’ ''Ziguru Hazeru'' toyline, which had [[FollowTheLeader Mecha Designs that looked rather similar to]] ‘’Franchise/SDGundam’’. ''Franchise/SDGundam''. What’s more, both ‘’Sangokuden’’ ''Sangokuden'' and ‘’Ziguru Hazeru’’ ''Ziguru Hazeru'' were based off of Chinese legends, ‘’Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms’’ ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' for ‘’Sangokuden’’ ''Sangokuden'' and ‘’Literature/JourneyToTheWest’’ ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' for ‘’Ziguru Hazeru’’. ''Ziguru Hazeru''. Then in 2019 came ‘’Anime/SDGundamWorldSangokuSoketsuden’’, ''Anime/SDGundamWorldSangokuSoketsuden'', another ‘’SD Gundam’’ ''SD Gundam'' Anime based off of ‘’Romance ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms’’...Kingdoms'.'..and then in its 2021 sequel, ‘’Anime/SDGundamWorldHeroes’’, ''Anime/SDGundamWorldHeroes'', the ‘’Three Kingdoms’’-based ''Three Kingdoms''-based characters team up with another character based off of ‘’Journey ''Journey to the West’’’s West''’s main protagonist, Sun Wukong!
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** Kazami’s old Force, Mu Dish, has a ‘’Literature/JourneyToTheWest’’ motif to them, with one of their members (Yuri) even looking like a MonkeyKingLite, and they also pilot Gunpla of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Cosmic Era]] mechs. Then years later, ‘’Anime/SDGundamWorld’’ would have its own MonkeyKingLite as its main protagonist...and even better, he’s ‘’ALSO’’ based off of a Cosmic Era mech! (The [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Impulse Gundam]], in his case)
** Kazami’s old Force, Mu Dish, has a ‘’Literature/JourneyToTheWest’’ motif to them, with one of their members (Yuri) even looking like a MonkeyKingLite, and they also pilot Gunpla of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Cosmic Era]] mechs. Then years later, ‘’Anime/SDGundamWorld’’ would have its own MonkeyKingLite as its main protagonist...and even better, he’s ‘’ALSO’’ based off of a Cosmic Era mech! (The [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Impulse Gundam]], in his case)
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** Kazami’s old Force, Mu Dish, has aIn 2011 the Anime adaptation for the ‘’Toys/BBSenshiSangokuden’’ toyline, ‘’SD Gundam Sangokuden: Brave Battle Warriors’’ came to an end. Then two years later in 2013, toy company [=MegaHouse=] teamed up with [[Creator/AshiProductions Production REED]] and Creator/PolygonPictures to make an Anime Short series, ‘’Bakujuu Gasshin Ziguru Hazeru’’, based off of their upcoming ‘’Ziguru Hazeru’’ toyline, which had [[FollowTheLeader Mecha Designs that looked rather similar to]] ‘’Franchise/SDGundam’’. What’s more, both ‘’Sangokuden’’ and ‘’Ziguru Hazeru’’ were based off of Chinese legends, ‘’Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms’’ for ‘’Sangokuden’’ and ‘’Literature/JourneyToTheWest’’ motif to them, with one of their members (Yuri) even looking like a MonkeyKingLite, and they also pilot Gunpla of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Cosmic Era]] mechs. for ‘’Ziguru Hazeru’’. Then years later, ‘’Anime/SDGundamWorld’’ would have its own MonkeyKingLite as its main protagonist...and even better, he’s ‘’ALSO’’ in 2019 came ‘’Anime/SDGundamWorldSangokuSoketsuden’’, another ‘’SD Gundam’’ Anime based off of a Cosmic Era mech! (The [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Impulse Gundam]], ‘’Romance of the Three Kingdoms’’...and then in his case)
its 2021 sequel, ‘’Anime/SDGundamWorldHeroes’’, the ‘’Three Kingdoms’’-based characters team up with another character based off of ‘’Journey to the West’’’s main protagonist, Sun Wukong!
** Kazami’s old Force, Mu Dish, has a
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** Kazami’s old Force, Mu Dish, has a ‘’Literature/JourneyToTheWest’’ motif to them, with one of their members (Yuri) even looking like a MonkeyKingLite, and they also pilot Gunpla of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Cosmic Era]] mechs. Then years later, ‘’Anime/SDGundamWorld’’ would have its own MonkeyKingLite as its main protagonist...and even better, he’s ‘’ALSO’’ based off of a Cosmic Era mech! (The [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Impulse Gundam]], in his case)
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** 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''.
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** In the opening scenes of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind 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''.
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* 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!''.]]
* ''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!''.]]
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* One of the quotes describing Creator/NorioWakamoto is [[Comicbook/{{Watchmen}} [[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'': ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'': 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!''.]]
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** 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.
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** 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'' ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' as Dende, and the Japanese dub of ''Film/DragonballEvolution'' as Bulma.
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* 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''...
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* 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''...''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers''...
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** 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]].)
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** 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 [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners Mikiya and Shiki]].)
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** 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.]])
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** 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 In 2017, [[http://dmxrated.deviantart.com/art/Lucky-Star-Day-of-the-Beehive-654697256 the cover image for a planned then-planned fangame]] has surfaced, appeared, 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 it wasn't just a shipping reference either.]])
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* The Performapal deck in ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV''. The protagonist is a goofy entertainer who tries his best to make people happy, but sometimes loses control of his darker side and ends up spreading misery and trauma with his Performapal deck. Fusing with his counterparts would make Yuya more powerful, but eventually release the show's BigBad. In the real-life game Performapals were designed to be fun and casual, but would inadvertently become horribly broken with the addition of Performage cards. The insane synergy between them lead to one of the most infamously overpowered decks in the game, making a horrible experience to play against. So just like their player, the fun deck that meant to spread joy became a near-unstoppable force of despair.
** It also works from the Performage perspective, too. In the anime, they were used by Dennis; a character who pretended to be a charismatic and friendly showman, but was actually a villain. The deck was also entertainment-based, and it helped to create this wicked deck.
** It also works from the Performage perspective, too. In the anime, they were used by Dennis; a character who pretended to be a charismatic and friendly showman, but was actually a villain. The deck was also entertainment-based, and it helped to create this wicked deck.
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* ''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.]]
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* ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'': In episode 15, Kirara prays "I wanted to be strong like the samurai." Fast-forward to 2011, where here dub actress, ColleenClinkenbeard, Creator/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.]]
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** 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.]]
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** 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 Masaki and Uryuu's father Ryūken were cousins.cousins, although she was adopted.]]
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** Fans have long joked that Ishigami was the protagonist of a harem manga due to his status as a LauncherOfAThousandShips. [[spoiler:With chapters 190-192 confirming that Iino, Tsubame, and Osaragi all have feelings for him, he can officially be considered to have a harem.]]
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!!Anime or Manga with their own pages
[[index]]
* ''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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!!Anime or Manga with their own pages
[[index]]
* ''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}}''
[[/index]]
!!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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