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  • In In chapter 11/episode 3 of Barakamon, Naru's face changes into a style very reminiscent of Golgo's to represent how cool and mature she feels after learning how to read katakana.
  • In Dandadan, Okarun gives Ayase a limited-edition DVD of the first Golgo live-action film as a present, as she has a Celeb Crush on its star Ken Takakura. The chapter where this happened was published shortly after Takao Saito's death.
  • GTO: The Early Years: Ryuji almost elbows someone who snuck up behind him in the face, who then asks if he's Golgo.
  • In Lupin III: Part 6, episode 4, an Expy of Duke Todo is one of the dozen assassins at the Cafe.
  • The manga version of Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi has main character Sashi get mistaken for "The Legendary Assassin Lugolgo 12" in the hardboiled world.
  • It's never remarked on within the show, but Todo regularly gets his coffee at the Mitsuyoshi family shop in Tada Never Falls in Love, seen as a silent customer in the shop. He even secretly snipes a prize at a street fair for Theresa and Tada with a cork gun.
  • In the Toradora! anime, Minori pretends to be Golgo at one point.
  • The Yu-Gi-Oh! manga has a mercenary appear during the Death-T arc that is pretty much Golgo himself in all but name.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: One duelist whom Manjoume/Chazz easily defeats is named Gelgo and looks almost exactly like Golgo.

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  • The Battle Cats features a sniper cat, Sniper the Heavy, which is named "Negolgo" in Japan. Using it even activates a combo called "Thirteen." Its true form, Sniper the Deadeye, takes the reference further by being named "Negolgo 31" in Japan.
  • Saints Row: The Third has the Togo-13 automatic sniper rifle available in one of its many DLC packs. The weapon in question even behaves similar to Golgo's iconic scoped M16 rifle.

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