Shout-Out: Near constantly, due to the in-story presence of Shonen Jump and various other manga. In the first chapter alone there are references to Death Note, Dragon Ball, and One Piece.
- Given that the creators are the same team who worked on Death Note, there were bound to be more than a few references:
- The first volume has Mashiro and Takagi say 'I feel just like Gevanni!' while stalking someone.
- One chapter has Mashiro and Takagi sitting in similar positions as L and Light respectively.
- Fukuda has also been seen wearing a very familiar looking jacket to one Misa Amane's.
- Episode 9 had Takagi doing Light's over the top hammy reactions.
Putting our feelings into our fingertips... AND SENDING THEM!- In the Otter 11 side story, Otter 11 is hailed as a "modern day Kira".
- Episode 20 had Hattori saying "Just as planned..." before biting into an apple.
- One of the up and coming actresses listed in Chapter 21 plays a character in St. Visual Girls' Academy called Misae Amanegawa.
- In Chapter 82, a chapter of Otters 11 has the main character crashing into a TV studio with a truck; both scenes are evenpractically identical, down to the layout. And the TV studio is named "Sumire TV", a play on the original's "Sakura TV" (both are girl's names derived from names of flowers).
- Just like in Death Note, "Sakura TV" causes trouble by not very ethical broadcast of crimes.
- Their new dark hero is an ego-centric high-school student who was given powers from a simple-minded demon to brainwash people to follow his sense of justice and battles with the police, followed by a heroine who get used as a pawn.
- There is another Jump title hidden right inside Bakuman's own. If you cover the very bottom of BAKUMAN. to hide the period, it becomes RAKIIMAN (Luckyman), a work theorized by many to be the writer's previous work.
- Becoming more of a Lampshade Hanging, at least three different Luckyman books are scattered on the first volume cover.
- Not to mention Super Hero Legends is a Whole-Plot Reference to Tottemo! Luckyman, which would be the author's first work to get animated.
- Interestingly, a Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds poster of Yusei Fuudo was seen in the Shonen Jump offices despite there being no manga version of the series at the time.
- The characters make references to manga published in magazines other than Jump, but only to manga that predate or had been running during Jump's early years.
- In the first episode of the anime, one shot of a manga store shelf shows the Hikaru no Go and Death Note mangas side-by-side, Hikaru No Go being the one which made artist Takeshi Obata popular even before Death Note.
- One of the names they pitched, Hitmen 10, is probably a Shout-Out to the Suda51's games Killer7 and No More Heroes.
- There was even a reference to Mr. and Mrs. Smith when they were discussing Hitmen 10, although not by name.
- Of all things, Dick Dastardly gets a passing reference in regards to his Real Life Dub Name Change.
- Mashiro's insistence on working on Detective Trap despite being hospitalized mirrors the final days of Osamu Tezuka, who too refused to stop working even in his terminal state. When you consider that, it gets much more relieving when not only Mashiro recovers, but also Jump decides not to cancel Trap (at least not by that point).
- Eiji's excursion as to what a manga hero's eyes look like (comparing Mashiro's eyes to them in the process) includes drawing the eyes of Goku (in Super Saiyan mode), Luffy, Naruto and Ichigo.
- In Chapter 59, Reborn! and Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi! were mentioned.
- Chapter 94, while discussing art styles, includes scenes from Naruto, Bleach and One Piece.
- Chapter 98's color splash page has True Human represented by a Weeping Angel.
- Wait...A homeless boy with a nice hat who is good at drawing wandering in the cold with only his trusty mutt as companion? I sure hope its not following this.
- When Mashiro takes up a temporary work as Niizuma's assistant in volume 3, he goes to introduce himself. Niizuma, not noticing who he is talking to (remember that he likes Ashirogi Muto's work), replies saying "Yoroshiku Mechadoc", which is the name of a racing manga that was serialized on Jump in the early 80s.
- Chapter 115 has one which seems to be a direct challenge addressed to Enigme, Jump's newest suspense hit. Chapter 117 has the author of the one-shot admit that he "kinda stole the setting" from it.
- The inference of the timeframe when Classroom of Truth (mentioned under Next Sunday A.D.) takes place brings to mind the protagonists of Neon Genesis Evangelion, who are also 14-year-olds born in 2001.
- Sakura TV
makes an appearance at one point. - Chapter 151, the new pitch the duo are working on as a means to battle it out with Eiji's new piece. The character designs resemble Zetman, and the story itself about two combatting protagonists, one for justice and one for corruption. On reading it it is not far off to suddenly think of Death Note and Code Geass... especially the latter when you take into account the Brainwashing abilities of their new characters.
- The uniform of the characters of Nanamine's manga Classroom of Truth seem to come straight out of D.Gray-Man (which was initially published in the Weekly Jump). The heroine is even an expy of Lenalee.
- Miho Azuki is almost an exact carbon copy of Iori Yoshizuki from I"s, and not just in terms of appearance. Both are aspiring young women who enter the competitive Japanese media idol industry, with Azuki getting involved in voice acting and Iori becoming a film/stage actress. Their romances with their respective male leads are also quite identical, with the main difference being that Miho and Mashiro's relationship is far less Wangsty than Iori and Ichitaka's.note
