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* The title of the first episode is [[ShingekiNoKyojin "Shingeki no]] [[CthulhuMythos Jyakushin"]] while the second episode (at least in the previews) is titled [[{{LightNovel/SasamisanAtGanbaranai}} "Nyaruko-san Ganbaranai"]].
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* The title of the first episode is [[ShingekiNoKyojin [[Manga/AttackOnTitan "Shingeki no]] [[CthulhuMythos Jyakushin"]] while the second episode (at least in the previews) is titled [[{{LightNovel/SasamisanAtGanbaranai}} "Nyaruko-san Ganbaranai"]].
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* Also in episode 4, Kuuko wears a t-shirt with the message "You lose if you work", the same message in Anzu Futaba's shirt, the famout NEET from [[TheIdolmaster The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls]].
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* Episode 8:
** Nyarko asks Mahiro "Do You Remember Love?", which is another reference to ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''.
** Nyarko asks Mahiro "Do You Remember Love?", which is another reference to ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''.
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* In the seventh novel, Shantak-kun turns into a little girl with help from Cuuko. Nyarko's reaction is to claim that [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai There's no way my pet can be this young a girl.]]
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* In the seventh novel, novel/episode 8 of season 2, Shantak-kun turns into a little girl with help from Cuuko. Nyarko's reaction is to claim that [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai There's no way my pet can be this young a girl.]]
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** Kuuko mentions Kuune being lost inside a [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Super Dimension Fortress.]]
** When Mahiro is woken up by Nyarko, [[Film/CastAway Wilson]] can be seen in the foreground.
** Kuuko mentions Kuune being lost inside a [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Super Dimension Fortress.]]
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--> '''Cuuko:''' [[ToLoveRu Our trouble is always darkness]]."
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** A jealous Kuune [[LightNovel/ChuunibyouDemoKoiGaShitai take off an eyepatch revealing a golden eye underneath while saying "Synapse, Break!"
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*** For good measure, [[ActorAllusion Shantak-kun starts to flip out as soon as the name is mentioned.]]
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* Episode 6:
** A jealous Kuune [[LightNovel/ChuunibyouDemoKoiGaShitai take off an eyepatch revealing a golden eye underneath while saying "Synapse, Break!"
*** While tailing Kuuko and Mahiro. She mentions that she's going to [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex their illusions]] while thrusting her right hand out.
** A jealous Nyarko then wonders if a Manga/{{Death Note}}-like book exists.
** Kuuko decides to name her and Mahiro's child Kuroko. Now if it's a guy, she gets him to play [[Manga/KurokoNoBasuke basketball]] and if its a girl she send her to [[Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun Academy City]].
** A jealous Kuune [[LightNovel/ChuunibyouDemoKoiGaShitai take off an eyepatch revealing a golden eye underneath while saying "Synapse, Break!"
*** While tailing Kuuko and Mahiro. She mentions that she's going to [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex their illusions]] while thrusting her right hand out.
** A jealous Nyarko then wonders if a Manga/{{Death Note}}-like book exists.
** Kuuko decides to name her and Mahiro's child Kuroko. Now if it's a guy, she gets him to play [[Manga/KurokoNoBasuke basketball]] and if its a girl she send her to [[Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun Academy City]].
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** [[IkaMusume Squidn't it a fine time to inkvade?]]
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* Another reference to ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is made in episode 4 when Nyarko is discussing her relationship progress with Mahiro to Tamao. Nyarko is dressed up like Zero, then does a Geass command with her eye.
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!!Season 1:
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* In the seventh novel, Shantak-kun turns into a little girl with help from Cuuko. Nyarko's reaction is to claim that [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai There's no way my pet can be this young a girl.]]
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* The main antagonist of LightNovel volume 8 is [[Film/TheMatrix Agent Smith]], his full name is ClarkAshtonSmith and he's working for cracker group call [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Digital Beings]].
* The title of the first episode of the second season is [[ShingekiNoKyojin "Shingeki no]] [[CthulhuMythos Jyakushin"]] while in the second episode (at least in the previews) is titled [[{{LightNovel/SasamisanAtGanbaranai}} "Nyaruko-san Ganbaranai"]].
* In episode 1 of the second season, Kuuko also points at the screen during one scene, in a manner very reminiscent of Konata from the ''Manga/LuckyStar'' opening.
* The title of the first episode of the second season is [[ShingekiNoKyojin "Shingeki no]] [[CthulhuMythos Jyakushin"]] while in the second episode (at least in the previews) is titled [[{{LightNovel/SasamisanAtGanbaranai}} "Nyaruko-san Ganbaranai"]].
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* Kuune introduces herself with [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar "Omae wa mou shindeiru" and "Welcome to this crazy time."]]
* A recording played in episode 5 starts with "Testing, testing. [[LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts Baka test.]]" Mahiro even seems to {{lampshade}} it.
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* In the seventh novel, Shantak-kun turns into a little girl with help from Cuuko. Nyarko's reaction is to claim that [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai There's no way my pet can be this young a girl.]]
* The main antagonist of LightNovel volume 8 is [[Film/TheMatrix Agent Smith]], his full name is ClarkAshtonSmith and he's working for cracker group call [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Digital Beings]].
* A recording played in episode 5 starts with "Testing, testing. [[LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts Baka test.]]" Mahiro even seems to {{lampshade}} it.
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* In the seventh novel, Shantak-kun turns into a little girl with help from Cuuko. Nyarko's reaction is to claim that [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai There's no way my pet can be this young a girl.]]
* The main antagonist of LightNovel volume 8 is [[Film/TheMatrix Agent Smith]], his full name is ClarkAshtonSmith and he's working for cracker group call [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Digital Beings]].
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** The EyeCatch gives a ShoutOut to DeathNote, ''of all things.''
--> '''Mahiro:''' "This is the first time in my life I've been provoked to hit a woman."
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* In episode 2 of the anime series, [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure "There's only one reason for your defeat. One simple answer. You... You made me angry.]], followed with [[{{Kiai}} "MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA"]] and ended with [[CatchPhrase "Yare yare da ze"]]. For those who don't know the first one, that's what Jotaro said when he defeats Dio.
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** Also during the Rock-paper-scissors contest. Nyarko mention that the winner can become a center in a sub-group and gets interrupted by Mahiro before she can name drop {{AKB48}}. Hasta after losing mentions that he want to tell people, [[Anime/AKB0048 You can hate me, but don't hate Mahiro-Kun.]] He too is [[WritingAroundTrademarks stopped by Mahiro.]]
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* Just before that, Mahiro randomly fetches a copy of [[KamisamaNoMemoChou Heaven's Memo Pad]] light novel from a bookshelf.
* At the end of the preview for episode 3, Nyarko exclaims "Biku biku bikurin! Jan-ken-pon!", paraphrasing [[Anime/SmilePrecure Cure Peace's]] InTheNameOfTheMoon speech.
* At the end of the preview for episode 3, Nyarko exclaims "Biku biku bikurin! Jan-ken-pon!", paraphrasing [[Anime/SmilePrecure Cure Peace's]] InTheNameOfTheMoon speech.
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* Episode 2 gives us [[TheGreatBigLibraryOfEverything Celaeno Library]]... as well as the [[ToshokanSensou library's task force]].
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* Episode 2 gives us [[TheLibraryOfBabel Celaeno Library]]... as well as the [[ToshokanSensou library's task force]].
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* Just before that, Mahiro randomly fetches a copy of [[KamisamaNoMemoChou Heaven's Memo Pad]] light novel from a bookshelf.
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* At the end of the preview for episode 3, Nyarko exclaims "Biku biku bikurin! Jan-ken-pon!", paraphrasing [[Anime/SmilePrecure Cure Peace's]] InTheNameOfTheMoon speech.
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* The title of the first episode of the second season is [[ShingekiNoKyojin "Shingeki no]] [[CthulhuMythos Jyakushin"]] while in the second episode (at least in the previes) is titled [[{{LightNovel/SasamisanAtGanbaranai}} "Nyaruko-san Ganbaranai"]].
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* In episode 1 of the second season, the anime shop the main characters visit has a lot of manga about ''LightNovel/OreNoKanojoToOsananajimiGaShurabaSugiru''.
** Kuuko also points at the screen during one scene, in a manner very reminiscent of Konata from the ''Manga/LuckyStar'' opening.
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**Kuuko also points at the screen during one scene, in a manner very reminiscent of Konata from the ''Manga/LuckyStar'' opening.
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** Kuuko also points at the screen during one scene, in a manner very reminiscent of Konata from the ''Manga/LuckyStar'' opening.
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* In episode 3, Cuko quotes [[FullMetalAlchemist the law of Equivalent Exchange]].
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* Nyarko cries names of various {{Sunrise}}'s HumongousMecha whenever being attacked by Mahiro ([[Anime/{{Gundam}} mobile suits' models]] in first episode, [[Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon heavy mecha]] in second). Cuko pulls out CQC Type 100 ([[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Hyaku-shiki]]) in her first appearance and her telepathic laser drones resemble first generation funnels.
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** It pretty much duplicates the infamous "locked in a sports equipment shed with a girl" scene from ''{{Clannad}}''.
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* "SAN" is an attribute in the classic Tabletop RPG ''CallOfCthulhu'' by Chaosium. You can even see a glimpse of a character sheet and the trademark percentile dice of the Chaosium RPG systems in the first episode, and a Storyteller screen in the ED. The roll shown is accurate as well, illustrating either a legitimate failed SAN roll (with the amount of lost sanity not shown), or the roll for said amount. Incidentally, a d100 like the one shown would be appropriate for seeing Nyarlathotep in one of its monstrous forms.
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** In the fight scene, Nyarko is dressed as [[VideoGame/VirtuaFighter Pai Chan]], Cuuko as either [[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Kasumi]] or [[VideoGame/FatalFury Mai Shiranui]], and Hasta as [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Bridget]]. The stats given are their actual ones from the CallOfCthulhu RPG.
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This anime is like a geek test. Indeed, [[http://nyaruref.blogspot.ca/ a blog was specifically set up to catalogue most of the references found per episode]]. Some of the more ''obvious'' Shout Outs in the series can be seen below. It even makes sense in-canon, since the premise revolves around AliensStealCable.
* The series loves to reference ''other'' (yes, there are more) "Moe Mythos" series. In Episode 1, a little figurine on the anime store is the version of Nyarlathotep from the manga ''Igyou tachi ni yoru to sekai ha...''. The cover of the "recalled {{eroge}}" is from ''Maumi Shoujo R'lyeh ruru'' light novels. And two girls in Mahiro's class are characters from ''R'lyeh High School'', which shares the same illustrator with this series, Koin. The mech VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}} make brief cameo in episode 11.
* "SAN" is an attribute in the classic Tabletop RPG ''CallOfCthulhu'' by Chaosium. You can even see a glimpse of a character sheet and the trademark percentile dice of the Chaosium RPG systems in the first episode, and a Storyteller screen in the ED. The roll shown is accurate as well, illustrating either a legitimate failed SAN roll (with the amount of lost sanity not shown), or the roll for said amount. Incidentally, a d100 like the one shown would be appropriate for seeing Nyarlathotep in one of its monstrous forms.
* At the sight of Nyarko giving a brutal beatdown on a Nightgaunt, Mahiro looks away, crouches and covers his ears while repeatedly telling himself "I hear nothing...", in the same way as [[Manga/KOn Mio Akiyama]].
* There are more than a few shout outs to ''KamenRider''. Nyarko is a big fan of the series and she drops poses and references to the franchise non-stop. You could make a whole subpage devoted just to these references.
* When Nyarko sends out Shantak-kun [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} poke-ball]], she copies Ash Ketchum, minus the hat spinning.
* In an episode of the first anime series, Cuuko mentions the line "swans look calm but are actually kicking furiously under the water" while a Fender bass guitar floats on the background, a reference to ''{{K-On}}'''s first season ED song lyrics.
* Nyarko cries names of various {{Sunrise}}'s HumongousMecha whenever being attacked by Mahiro ([[Anime/{{Gundam}} mobile suits' models]] in first episode, [[Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon heavy mecha]] in second). Cuko pulls out CQC Type 100 ([[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Hyaku-shiki]]) in her first appearance and her telepathic laser drones resemble first generation funnels.
** The third episode exclamations (Pazuzu, Nalagiri and Tezcatlipoca) are from ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' (Nyarlathotep is a character there, too).
** Fourth episode has only one yelp (Eroba!), this one from ''FistOfTheNorthStar''
** Fifth episode has another single yelp, this time from ''KinnikuMan'' (Hell Missionaries)
* The last (broadcast) episode of the first anime has Nyarko assure Mahiro that everything would be alright as they would erase everyone's memories once they were done. Then she takes out the [[Franchise/MenInBlack neuralyzer]].
* Cuuko used to play make-believe ''SaintSeiya'' in space kindergarten and Nyarko liked to break up make-believe games, earning the nickname of [[ToaruMajutsuNoIndex Imagine Breaker]]
* Nyarko pulls off an [[{{Scryed}} Exterminating Last Bullet]].
* [[Manga/OnePiece Let's head for the Grand Line!]]
* [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Do you remember our love?]]. Also, a "superdimensional circus" is better known in this wiki as the MacrossMissileMassacre.
* Nyarko wants to know if Cuko's grandfather was a [[Anime/TheBigO negotiator in the City of Amnesia]].
* In episode 2 of the anime series, [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure "There's only one reason for your defeat. One simple answer. You... You made me angry.]], followed with [[{{Kiai}} "MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA"]] and ended with [[CatchPhrase "Yare yare da ze"]]. For those who don't know the first one, that's what Jotaro said when he defeats Dio.
** The [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure "MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA"]] is also shared with her brother in the next episode.
* In ''Haiyoru! Nyaruani'', there are portraits of Creator/HPLovecraft and AugustDerleth on the living room walls.
** In ''Another Crawling Chaos'', R'lyeh has a "Arkham Haunted House". Arkham House was the publishing company operated by Derleth and Donald Wandrei, founded to print Lovecraft's anthologies.
* A [[Creator/MontyPython blasphemous hand grenade?]]
* In episode 3, Cuko quotes [[FullMetalAlchemist the law of Equivalent Exchange]].
* Also in episode 3, after [[MonsterPrincess killing a bunch of Ghouls and Nightgaunts with a chainsaw]], Nyarko says, [[Manga/LupinIII "Once again, I have cut a useless object."]]
* Also in episode 3, Nyarko asks Mahiro if he wants her to call him "Nii-nii". That term is frequently used by [[VideoGame/{{Amagami}} Miya Tachibana]], who, like Nyarko, is voiced by KanaAsumi.
* Nyarko goes on to make a [[IchigoMashimaro gununu]] face when confronted with [[KamenRiderDecade DK-do]] 10 year premium anniversary cake. Also from ''IchigoMashimaro'', Cuuko's face-plant is a trademark of that series resident twintails, Miu.
* The vignette that appears in the first episode of the second anime while Nyarko says "Earth, what a terrifying child you are!" is from ''GlassMask''.
* The line Nyarko uses to introduce herself to the classroom is from the OP of ''{{Braiger}}'' (and the music from the ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' videogame).
* R'lyehland's mascot, Insmouthboy, looks a lot like another fish-boy, {{Ponyo}}
* The "trapezohedrons are unbreakable" from episode three is both yet another reference to ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' ("Diamonds are unbreakable") and the "shining trapezohedron" from Lovecraft's ''The Haunter in the Dark''.
* The dog chasing Hasta in episode 4 looks like Marron from ''Manga/ToLoveRu'', which, like this series, is produced by XEBEC.
* In the first episode, replace the miso soup bowl with a beer can and you get a perfect reference to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' Misato Katsuragi's {{Beergasm}} moment. Also, Luhi makes the Ikari Gendo pose right down to the ScaryShinyGlasses.
* Luhi Siston drives a [[Film/BackToTheFuture Delorean]] that leaves fire tracks when reaching warp-speed.
* Nyarko's car can use a ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars''-style MAP attack.
* In the seventh novel, Shantak-kun turns into a little girl with help from Cuuko. Nyarko's reaction is to claim that [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai There's no way my pet can be this young a girl.]]
* In episode five Hasta says he wants to "combine" with Mahiro. At the end of the preview for the next episode, Mahiro asks why Nyarko hasn't made a "combine" robot joke this time: Nyarko answers that "it was a little too adult". Of course, there's a HumongousMecha series where mecha "combining" has a DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything quality, ''SouseiNoAquarion''. Hasta also has an unusually sharp sense of smell, just like Aquarion's Apollo, and he makes an absurdly long-reach love promise with Mahiro, too.
** It should be noted that ''gattai'' [[DoubleEntendre can mean just that.]]
** In a later episode he goes full circle calling it [[GaoGaiGar Final Fusion]] instead.
* When Mahiro learns that Hasta had to perform CPR on him and thus has stolen his first kiss, he mutters "No count, no count!" in GratuitousEnglish, just like Kaoru did in ''AmagamiSS'' when she accidentally kissed Junichi. That would make it the second Kaoru reference in the series, if you count Nyarko using her belly-exposing stance in episode three.
* Nyarko follows the [[Manga/DetectiveConan Ran Mori]] school of thinking: karate kicks can solve anything!
* The [[IncrediblyLamePun Nephren-car]] can negotiate even Red Canyon and Fire Field! Good thing if you're playing ''VideoGame/{{F-Zero}}''.
* Hasta's father is president of CCE - ''Carcosa Computer Entertainment''. Carcosa is the city associated with Hastur in TheKingInYellow, the company full name is ShoutOut to SCE - ''SonyComputerEntertainment''.
* After giving a PantyShot to Mahiro (and only him) Nyarko turns and does Machiko's catchphrase "how shameless" and pose (but fully clothed) from MaicchinguMachikoSensei.
* Mahiro's mom breaks out her [[DynastyWarriors Musou attacks]] in episode 6.
* Also in episode 6, Cuuko [[LightNovel/DenpaOnnaToSeishunOtoko falls from the sky while wrapped in a futon.]]
* In Episode 7 Nyarko makes a direct reference to {{Daitarn 3}}, then after Mahiro [[BrutalHonesty bluntly tells her he doesn't like her]], she goes [[ColorFailure totally pale]], then the following EyeCatch shows her slumped on a stool, mimicking the famous scene in ''Manga/AshitaNoJoe'' where [[spoiler:the titular Joe Yabuki dies on the spot after his final fight]].
* Nyarko's evil expressions while plotting to get into Mahiro's bed are straight out of VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi.
* Episode 8 has a heap of them in the Dating Sim:
** It opens with Nyarko running into Mahiro in a manner similar to the dream sequence from episode 26 of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''
** Mahiro and Kuko's first encounter is from ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'' (except here, it's ''Azathoth'' watching over them).
** There are numerous references to LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya: Kuuko mentions "Endless Eight"; later she impersonates Ryoko Asakura, sans the [[StepfordSmiler cheerful disposition]] and with a {{BFS}} instead of the knife. Immediately after we see Nyarko in a PlayboyBunny getup attempting to play the Lovecraftian version of "God Knows".
** The restaurant scene is taken straight from {{WORKING}}, complete with Nyarko in a Poplar-esque ponytail.
** In the fight scene, Nyarko is dressed as [[VideoGame/VirtuaFighter Pai Chan]], Cuuko as either [[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Kasumi]] or [[VideoGame/FatalFury Mai Shiranui]], and Hasta as [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Bridget]]. The stats given are their actual ones from the CallOfCthulhu RPG.
** The GayOption ending from ''True Love 95'' gets brought up as a possible route by Yoriko, who tells her son that even Yoichi, his BromanticFoil, might confess to having feelings for him, just like how Kazuhiko Miyoshi, the foil in that game, did the same towards the end of the game if the player was unable to choose a girl for Daisuke.
** Nyarko, Hasta and Cuuko strike a pose very similar to Keima from ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', complete with glasses.
** It pretty much duplicates the infamous "locked in a sports equipment shed with a girl" scene from ''{{Clannad}}''.
** When Yoichi shows the status of each girl, those statuses are lines from JPop songs: Nyarko's status was ''[[{{Macross7}} Advancing Love Heart]]''; [[SouseiNoAquarion For ten thousand years and two thousand more Hastur has wanted to combine.]]; Tamao [[KamenRider555 Seriously fell in love 555 seconds ago.]]
* Episode 9 features [[Franchise/{{Digimon}} Dagomon]].
** Tamao [[spoiler:(possessed by Isuka)]] wields a reflex camera like a gun, referencing [[Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters the Ichigan Buster]].
** Nyarko [[spoiler:(in Mahiro's body)]] sports a CatSmile and [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing eyes]] akin to the infamous [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyubey]].
** Mahiro, while [[FreakyFridayFlip inside Nyarko's body]], commands Kuuko to take Nyarko (who's inside Mahiro's body) and Hasta to the living room so that they wouldn't bother him. He promises her a contract in which Nyarko will give her body and soul to her in exchange. His movement when "commanding" her is similar to Lelouch from Anime/CodeGeass, while Kuuko responds with [[GratuitousEnglish "Yes, your Highness."]]
** The "OnTheNext" preview for Episode 10 has Nyarko thinking of using Mahiro's voice, exclaiming the "I'm so stupid!" quote of [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Sayaka Miki]], who shares Mahiro's voice actress, EriKitamura, [[spoiler:moments before she is turned into a Witch]].
* Episode 10 uses the EyeCatch sound effect from ''KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'' for Kurei's [[PowerNullifier power un-nullifier]].
* Episode 11 starts with the characters playing MarioKart.
** The end of the Episode pretty much recalls [[spoiler:LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya's "Endless Eight" and "The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya"]].
* Episode 12 features Nyarko, Cuuko, Hasta, Luhy and Yoriko striking the [[Main/EngineSentaiGoonger Go-onger]] group pose.
* The main antagonist of LightNovel volume 8 is [[Film/TheMatrix Agent Smith]], his full name is ClarkAshtonSmith and he's working for cracker group call [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Digital Beings]].
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* The series loves to reference ''other'' (yes, there are more) "Moe Mythos" series. In Episode 1, a little figurine on the anime store is the version of Nyarlathotep from the manga ''Igyou tachi ni yoru to sekai ha...''. The cover of the "recalled {{eroge}}" is from ''Maumi Shoujo R'lyeh ruru'' light novels. And two girls in Mahiro's class are characters from ''R'lyeh High School'', which shares the same illustrator with this series, Koin. The mech VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}} make brief cameo in episode 11.
* "SAN" is an attribute in the classic Tabletop RPG ''CallOfCthulhu'' by Chaosium. You can even see a glimpse of a character sheet and the trademark percentile dice of the Chaosium RPG systems in the first episode, and a Storyteller screen in the ED. The roll shown is accurate as well, illustrating either a legitimate failed SAN roll (with the amount of lost sanity not shown), or the roll for said amount. Incidentally, a d100 like the one shown would be appropriate for seeing Nyarlathotep in one of its monstrous forms.
* At the sight of Nyarko giving a brutal beatdown on a Nightgaunt, Mahiro looks away, crouches and covers his ears while repeatedly telling himself "I hear nothing...", in the same way as [[Manga/KOn Mio Akiyama]].
* There are more than a few shout outs to ''KamenRider''. Nyarko is a big fan of the series and she drops poses and references to the franchise non-stop. You could make a whole subpage devoted just to these references.
* When Nyarko sends out Shantak-kun [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} poke-ball]], she copies Ash Ketchum, minus the hat spinning.
* In an episode of the first anime series, Cuuko mentions the line "swans look calm but are actually kicking furiously under the water" while a Fender bass guitar floats on the background, a reference to ''{{K-On}}'''s first season ED song lyrics.
* Nyarko cries names of various {{Sunrise}}'s HumongousMecha whenever being attacked by Mahiro ([[Anime/{{Gundam}} mobile suits' models]] in first episode, [[Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon heavy mecha]] in second). Cuko pulls out CQC Type 100 ([[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Hyaku-shiki]]) in her first appearance and her telepathic laser drones resemble first generation funnels.
** The third episode exclamations (Pazuzu, Nalagiri and Tezcatlipoca) are from ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' (Nyarlathotep is a character there, too).
** Fourth episode has only one yelp (Eroba!), this one from ''FistOfTheNorthStar''
** Fifth episode has another single yelp, this time from ''KinnikuMan'' (Hell Missionaries)
* The last (broadcast) episode of the first anime has Nyarko assure Mahiro that everything would be alright as they would erase everyone's memories once they were done. Then she takes out the [[Franchise/MenInBlack neuralyzer]].
* Cuuko used to play make-believe ''SaintSeiya'' in space kindergarten and Nyarko liked to break up make-believe games, earning the nickname of [[ToaruMajutsuNoIndex Imagine Breaker]]
* Nyarko pulls off an [[{{Scryed}} Exterminating Last Bullet]].
* [[Manga/OnePiece Let's head for the Grand Line!]]
* [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Do you remember our love?]]. Also, a "superdimensional circus" is better known in this wiki as the MacrossMissileMassacre.
* Nyarko wants to know if Cuko's grandfather was a [[Anime/TheBigO negotiator in the City of Amnesia]].
* In episode 2 of the anime series, [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure "There's only one reason for your defeat. One simple answer. You... You made me angry.]], followed with [[{{Kiai}} "MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA"]] and ended with [[CatchPhrase "Yare yare da ze"]]. For those who don't know the first one, that's what Jotaro said when he defeats Dio.
** The [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure "MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA"]] is also shared with her brother in the next episode.
* In ''Haiyoru! Nyaruani'', there are portraits of Creator/HPLovecraft and AugustDerleth on the living room walls.
** In ''Another Crawling Chaos'', R'lyeh has a "Arkham Haunted House". Arkham House was the publishing company operated by Derleth and Donald Wandrei, founded to print Lovecraft's anthologies.
* A [[Creator/MontyPython blasphemous hand grenade?]]
* In episode 3, Cuko quotes [[FullMetalAlchemist the law of Equivalent Exchange]].
* Also in episode 3, after [[MonsterPrincess killing a bunch of Ghouls and Nightgaunts with a chainsaw]], Nyarko says, [[Manga/LupinIII "Once again, I have cut a useless object."]]
* Also in episode 3, Nyarko asks Mahiro if he wants her to call him "Nii-nii". That term is frequently used by [[VideoGame/{{Amagami}} Miya Tachibana]], who, like Nyarko, is voiced by KanaAsumi.
* Nyarko goes on to make a [[IchigoMashimaro gununu]] face when confronted with [[KamenRiderDecade DK-do]] 10 year premium anniversary cake. Also from ''IchigoMashimaro'', Cuuko's face-plant is a trademark of that series resident twintails, Miu.
* The vignette that appears in the first episode of the second anime while Nyarko says "Earth, what a terrifying child you are!" is from ''GlassMask''.
* The line Nyarko uses to introduce herself to the classroom is from the OP of ''{{Braiger}}'' (and the music from the ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' videogame).
* R'lyehland's mascot, Insmouthboy, looks a lot like another fish-boy, {{Ponyo}}
* The "trapezohedrons are unbreakable" from episode three is both yet another reference to ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' ("Diamonds are unbreakable") and the "shining trapezohedron" from Lovecraft's ''The Haunter in the Dark''.
* The dog chasing Hasta in episode 4 looks like Marron from ''Manga/ToLoveRu'', which, like this series, is produced by XEBEC.
* In the first episode, replace the miso soup bowl with a beer can and you get a perfect reference to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' Misato Katsuragi's {{Beergasm}} moment. Also, Luhi makes the Ikari Gendo pose right down to the ScaryShinyGlasses.
* Luhi Siston drives a [[Film/BackToTheFuture Delorean]] that leaves fire tracks when reaching warp-speed.
* Nyarko's car can use a ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars''-style MAP attack.
* In the seventh novel, Shantak-kun turns into a little girl with help from Cuuko. Nyarko's reaction is to claim that [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai There's no way my pet can be this young a girl.]]
* In episode five Hasta says he wants to "combine" with Mahiro. At the end of the preview for the next episode, Mahiro asks why Nyarko hasn't made a "combine" robot joke this time: Nyarko answers that "it was a little too adult". Of course, there's a HumongousMecha series where mecha "combining" has a DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything quality, ''SouseiNoAquarion''. Hasta also has an unusually sharp sense of smell, just like Aquarion's Apollo, and he makes an absurdly long-reach love promise with Mahiro, too.
** It should be noted that ''gattai'' [[DoubleEntendre can mean just that.]]
** In a later episode he goes full circle calling it [[GaoGaiGar Final Fusion]] instead.
* When Mahiro learns that Hasta had to perform CPR on him and thus has stolen his first kiss, he mutters "No count, no count!" in GratuitousEnglish, just like Kaoru did in ''AmagamiSS'' when she accidentally kissed Junichi. That would make it the second Kaoru reference in the series, if you count Nyarko using her belly-exposing stance in episode three.
* Nyarko follows the [[Manga/DetectiveConan Ran Mori]] school of thinking: karate kicks can solve anything!
* The [[IncrediblyLamePun Nephren-car]] can negotiate even Red Canyon and Fire Field! Good thing if you're playing ''VideoGame/{{F-Zero}}''.
* Hasta's father is president of CCE - ''Carcosa Computer Entertainment''. Carcosa is the city associated with Hastur in TheKingInYellow, the company full name is ShoutOut to SCE - ''SonyComputerEntertainment''.
* After giving a PantyShot to Mahiro (and only him) Nyarko turns and does Machiko's catchphrase "how shameless" and pose (but fully clothed) from MaicchinguMachikoSensei.
* Mahiro's mom breaks out her [[DynastyWarriors Musou attacks]] in episode 6.
* Also in episode 6, Cuuko [[LightNovel/DenpaOnnaToSeishunOtoko falls from the sky while wrapped in a futon.]]
* In Episode 7 Nyarko makes a direct reference to {{Daitarn 3}}, then after Mahiro [[BrutalHonesty bluntly tells her he doesn't like her]], she goes [[ColorFailure totally pale]], then the following EyeCatch shows her slumped on a stool, mimicking the famous scene in ''Manga/AshitaNoJoe'' where [[spoiler:the titular Joe Yabuki dies on the spot after his final fight]].
* Nyarko's evil expressions while plotting to get into Mahiro's bed are straight out of VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi.
* Episode 8 has a heap of them in the Dating Sim:
** It opens with Nyarko running into Mahiro in a manner similar to the dream sequence from episode 26 of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''
** Mahiro and Kuko's first encounter is from ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'' (except here, it's ''Azathoth'' watching over them).
** There are numerous references to LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya: Kuuko mentions "Endless Eight"; later she impersonates Ryoko Asakura, sans the [[StepfordSmiler cheerful disposition]] and with a {{BFS}} instead of the knife. Immediately after we see Nyarko in a PlayboyBunny getup attempting to play the Lovecraftian version of "God Knows".
** The restaurant scene is taken straight from {{WORKING}}, complete with Nyarko in a Poplar-esque ponytail.
** In the fight scene, Nyarko is dressed as [[VideoGame/VirtuaFighter Pai Chan]], Cuuko as either [[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Kasumi]] or [[VideoGame/FatalFury Mai Shiranui]], and Hasta as [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Bridget]]. The stats given are their actual ones from the CallOfCthulhu RPG.
** The GayOption ending from ''True Love 95'' gets brought up as a possible route by Yoriko, who tells her son that even Yoichi, his BromanticFoil, might confess to having feelings for him, just like how Kazuhiko Miyoshi, the foil in that game, did the same towards the end of the game if the player was unable to choose a girl for Daisuke.
** Nyarko, Hasta and Cuuko strike a pose very similar to Keima from ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', complete with glasses.
** It pretty much duplicates the infamous "locked in a sports equipment shed with a girl" scene from ''{{Clannad}}''.
** When Yoichi shows the status of each girl, those statuses are lines from JPop songs: Nyarko's status was ''[[{{Macross7}} Advancing Love Heart]]''; [[SouseiNoAquarion For ten thousand years and two thousand more Hastur has wanted to combine.]]; Tamao [[KamenRider555 Seriously fell in love 555 seconds ago.]]
* Episode 9 features [[Franchise/{{Digimon}} Dagomon]].
** Tamao [[spoiler:(possessed by Isuka)]] wields a reflex camera like a gun, referencing [[Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters the Ichigan Buster]].
** Nyarko [[spoiler:(in Mahiro's body)]] sports a CatSmile and [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing eyes]] akin to the infamous [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyubey]].
** Mahiro, while [[FreakyFridayFlip inside Nyarko's body]], commands Kuuko to take Nyarko (who's inside Mahiro's body) and Hasta to the living room so that they wouldn't bother him. He promises her a contract in which Nyarko will give her body and soul to her in exchange. His movement when "commanding" her is similar to Lelouch from Anime/CodeGeass, while Kuuko responds with [[GratuitousEnglish "Yes, your Highness."]]
** The "OnTheNext" preview for Episode 10 has Nyarko thinking of using Mahiro's voice, exclaiming the "I'm so stupid!" quote of [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Sayaka Miki]], who shares Mahiro's voice actress, EriKitamura, [[spoiler:moments before she is turned into a Witch]].
* Episode 10 uses the EyeCatch sound effect from ''KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'' for Kurei's [[PowerNullifier power un-nullifier]].
* Episode 11 starts with the characters playing MarioKart.
** The end of the Episode pretty much recalls [[spoiler:LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya's "Endless Eight" and "The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya"]].
* Episode 12 features Nyarko, Cuuko, Hasta, Luhy and Yoriko striking the [[Main/EngineSentaiGoonger Go-onger]] group pose.
* The main antagonist of LightNovel volume 8 is [[Film/TheMatrix Agent Smith]], his full name is ClarkAshtonSmith and he's working for cracker group call [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Digital Beings]].
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