Referenced By / A Dog of Flanders (1975)

• Lucky Star:
  • In episode 6's Lucky Channel, Shiraishi claims that Otaku are the kind of people who are always crying over A Dog of Flanders, likely referring to the 1975 anime. Akira lampshades how dated Shiraishi's idea of an otaku is.
  • In Episode 11, Konata tells her friends about a time her dad Soujirou had to deliver a manuscript, but kept falling asleep on the train and missing his stop; at one point Soujirou is shown crying in his sleep and saying "Patrasche, I'm so tired...".
• Nodame Cantabile: Nodame sings the theme song of this anime while in the bath.
• Re:Zero: In the anime adaptation, Subaru's cellphone ringtone is the theme song of A Dog of Flanders. Fittingly, the name of Subaru's ground dragon from the same episode is the same as the dog's name from the book, Patrasche.

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