References in VNs to other works

[Snowtsuku]

The goal of this thread is to post several references on the visual novels that we read. The purpose is for the lulz, trivia or to understand why it was added as a dialogue. I might have to skim through several VNs I've played to collect more screenshots but these are the ones I have at the moment.

 

I'll add some later. Feel free to contribute.

 

Clannad

Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you.

A reference to the short story The Dandelion Girl by Robert Young

 

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Ikikoi

Reference to Clannad's Kotomi route

 

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Reference to Clannad's Tomoyo route.

 

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Konosora

Reference to the song The Rain in Spain from the musical My Fair Lady

 

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[Funnerific]

Ikikoi

Reference to Clannad's Kotomi route

Reference to Clannad's Tomoyo route.

You mean Kotomi

 

Edit: Sorry, my mistake.

[Snowtsuku]

You mean Kotomi

I placed the spoilers correctly o.O

The top is Kotomi, the bottom is Tomoyo.

 

Edit: Formatting.

[Flutterz]

My Girlfriend is the President

Reference to Tsukihime, not sure what the Hakuri border is a reference to, and Higurashi

[Life]

The rewrite common route. There are just so many references all throughout. I don't remember all of them but they're everywhere. I can't post pictures now though.

[Nagisa_Fawkes]

This is a picture from Chaos;Head, of the MC room (can't even remember the name of the bastard, not that I care), you can clearly see Otome and Yume from Da Capo II there, maybe there are more but none other that i recognize.

 

EDIT: Never mind I just saw the girl from Fate/Stay Night, just started reading the VN so I don't know her name either

 

EDIT2: Oh and Rin is there as well.

 

[Dizzyworld2]

I find this topic rather interesting!

 

This might not really count but...

 

Fate/Stay Night

Rin's referencing Hisui from Tsukihime, who makes awful sandwiches for Shiki in Kagetsu Tooya.

 

[garejei]

This is a picture from Chaos;Head, of the MC room (can't even remember the name of the bastard, not that I care), you can clearly see Otome and Yume from Da Capo II there, maybe there are more but none other that i recognize.

 

EDIT: Never mind I just saw the girl from Fate/Stay Night, just started reading the VN so I don't know her name either

 

EDIT2: Oh and Rin is there as well.

 

 

Huh, that's a pretty cool easter egg. The rest are from Nitro+ games basically. Jingai Makyou, Gekkou no Carnevale, Zoku Satsuriku no Django and Demonbane at first glance.

 

Anyway, the most obvious reference I can think of is the "dream sequence" sort of thing from Muramasa, when random heroines from other Nitro games appear in front of the MC. Even Sonico makes a brief appearance at the end.

[SieghartXx]

Comyu

The kinda obvious reference to Hermione from Harry Potter

This one I don't know, but here it goes: 

The main character works at a bar, and the Chinese owner is seemingly attracted to him (saying that he swings both ways). This reminds me of Family Project (Kazoku Keikaku), since the MC also works at a bar, and the owner is also a Chinese that wants to, hum, nail him. Both owners seem to have a deep connection to the underworld, and are depicted as mysterious but seemingly powerful people.



I know there were more references to other games, but I can't remember them right now ;A;

[Funnerific]

Fate/Stay Night, and maybe other Type-Moon games?

My Girlfriend is the President is just full of these.

[FruitsPunchSamurai]

Majikoi is full of references to people in real life and other animes and manga lol .

 

I'll post pics of them later.

[Kanbe]

Rewrite

Grazeblue = Blazblue

[Famichip]

Here's one from Majikoi.

[Vokoca]

Ore no otouto ga, anna ni kawaii wake ga nai!! (My little brother can't be this cute!!)

From Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi

[Heizei_koukousei]

Ikinari Anata ni Koishiteiru plays with anime a bit and they aren't trying to hide it

 

There's more but I didnt grab a screenshot of the other lines

[BookwormOtaku]

Well, I remember in Steins; Gate Kurisu made a reference to Back to the Future (sorry no picture available). Which reminds me I still need to finish that game...

 

The most recent one I can remember was where in the DLC episode of Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies, a reference to Sharknado was made

[Down]

I'm not even halfway through Steins;Gate right now and it references tons of stuff, it would be a pain to list them...

 

Also Muv-Luv Extra has references to Gundam (like when Yuuko talks about colony drops) and other robot stuff.

[Kurisu-Chan]

You know, i could actually try to list everything that Steins;Gate references, but even me, the steins;gatekeeper, can't do that.

[BookwormOtaku]

In Tsujidou-san no Junai Road there's a certain handheld game Ai's interested in:

[Funyarinpa]

In Danganronpa 2, Death Note was referenced somewhere around CH5 (spoilers)

 

It's when you talk to Souda about the email he found on a computer in the Sea King Industries, when you are first discovering the fifth island.

 

Killer Queen

 

Quite interestingly, the collar mechanic's resemblance to Battle Royale's collars were, in fact, used as a plot device in the game in EP2, when the protagonist learns that you actually could mess with the collars to take them off; however, since the collars made everybody think of Battle Royale -where messing with the collars would detonate them- very very few people tried to tamper with their collars (and it is actually mentioned that a few people have managed to win the game this way.)

[Mephisto]

 

Propeller games. 

[Snowtsuku]

I remember posting a thread like this.

 

Sadly the thread died due to my inactivity.

[Eclipsed]

Not really a reference to other works, but I thought it was cool how Yuzusoft would have cameos of their previous characters from earlier games show up in newer games:

Noble☆Works' Kanemoto Akari appears in a background of Dracu-Riot!



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Akari:

Likewise, I heard Elina from Dracu-Riot! appears in the newer Amairo＊Islenauts.

 

 

[Vokoca]

The Muramasa dream sequence was mentioned here before, but it really is something special. Here's a random pic from it:

 

I remember posting a thread like this.
 
Sadly the thread died due to my inactivity.

Ah, should've searched properly, then. Sorry. D:

[Down]

Well, apparently Cartagra makes references to MariMite... Or rather to an erotic fanfiction of MariMite, I'd say.

 

 

No big surprise from a company like Innocent Grey I suppose