Anyone seen a interesting homage/parody in anime?

The Non-Professional · Post by **The Non-Professional** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 2:53 pm

most people dont know this, or they do and just dont know, Love Hina parodyed Dragonball or to be more spesific journey to the west. the story dragonball was based off

psyko · Post by **psyko** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 4:03 pm

FLCL's reference to South Park is fairly obvious and quite hilarious. It also makes a reference to the original Daicon IV by Gainax.

Tsuji Mania · Post by **Tsuji Mania** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 9:40 pm

I realized not long after I finished the movie that it was an allusion to a scene in Perfect Blue where the same thing happens.

As for anime, Cowboy Bebop has a very obvious homage to batman in the episode Pierrot le Fou where the city looks kind of like Gotham and the villain is a cross between the Joker and the Penguin and Spike face-offs with him in a dimented amusement park like the kind you see in the joker episodes in the animated batman series.

Both of those. Um yeah no. Not at all. >.>; That's what we call a coincidence.

As far as real homages.....hmm....tough to say.... fine line between a homage and a cultural reference eh?

In many ways the comic, drama and anime of GTO all pay seperate homages as well as cultural references. For instance, "Ashita no Jo" is usually among a fighting game selection. In the drama there's a cultural reference to Kinpachi Sensei. And the anime also has its fair share, albeit toned down due to copyright issues on television.

I think an interesting homage was when Son Gokou (well even though the character says he isn't, Edmund knows what's up) appears in the Chinese Street Fighter movie.

In Life in A Glass House (or something) they reference DBZ.

There really are so many, you can't even begin to think of them all. Good idea for a topic!

Tsuji Mania · Post by **Tsuji Mania** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 9:44 pm

most people dont know this, or they do and just dont know, Love Hina parodyed Dragonball or to be more spesific journey to the west. the story dragonball was based off

I most certainly knew that. And what's more is that Hsi Yu Chi references are found in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllllll forms all over the globe. I won't even begin to mention them because they're everywhere.

They're in Capcom fighting games, Pocket Fighters and MVSC2. Many many MANY different animated series have been based off of it, and even more make small jokes about it. Live action series, movies, merchandise, video games, comics it just doesn't end.

HELL! NBC had a made for TV Movie based on it just a short while back!

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 9:51 pm

My personal fave parody/homage is when the Enterprise-D and the Yamato slug it out for supremacy of the cosmos.

O ho ho ho...

Yosho · Post by **Yosho** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 8:28 am

Two that I can think of that weren't mentioned yet are from Magical Shopping District Abenobashi and Magical Project S (Pretty Sammy).

Abenobashi is one of Gainax's newest shows. There are SO many references to other anime, sentai shows, RPG's and other things. First of all, almost all of the character designs are from other Gainax shows. The main male character (can't remember names) looks like Taro from FuriKuri, and the main girl character is Hikari from Eva. Later on there are blatent references to DBZ and Fist of the North Star.

Near the end of Magical Project S, Pixy Misa (the evil magical girl) is seen flying through space in a big space ship. They show her behind one of those huge wooden steering wheels, and she's dressed up as Captain Harlock. Keep in mind that Magical Project S IS a parody show about magical girls. But with the Captain Harlock reference it's hard to figure out who the target audience is.

LittleKefalos · Post by **LittleKefalos** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 1:31 pm

Here are a few on the Tenchi side that I think were missed.

In the Tenchi OAV series, I think Episode 4 (the bath-house episode). At the beginning the galaxy police are nearing Kagato's ship and the one guy, who is blown up in a bit, looks like Spock from Star Treck.

Tenchi has a lot of references to Space Movies in general, including both Star Treck and Star Wars (how can you not see this).

Furthermore, Tenchi refferences itself and the Demon at Rashoman story is refferenced in at least two different Universe Episodes and the first movie (there might be more, I don't remember).

Oh yeah and pretty Girl Sammi (in Universe episode), is aSailor Moon parody. The whole alternate universe mini series in Universe had many different homages.

Sub0 · Post by **Sub0** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 5:22 pm

poppykoc!! -JSRF
I don't really think there are hommages unless the director says so.. it's just hard to say what somebody else is thinking.

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 7:41 pm

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I'd post a link, but it's no longer available for download.

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