I'm back with another installment of Watamote: Hidden gems were I attempt to point out all the parodies and Easter eggs in each episode! This time around, I'm traveling back in time to episode 1! Let's see what we could spot!
Hidden Gems
Tomoko's Book Book
In this scene Tomoko is quietly reading in class. What is she reading? A book...called book. I bets it's a real page turner.
Manga Mania
In this scene Tomoko heads to the library, but did you notice what manga Tomoko and the gentlemen beside her are reading? If you look closely, you'll see the real life manga, (in order) Akame ga Kuri, Chronicles of the Going home, and Bakaramon. What do these title have in common? They are all published by Square Enix, the same company that publishes the Watamote Manga!
Akame ga Kiru
Barakamon
Chronicles of the Going Home Club
(Which also happens to be a new summer anime as well!)
Parodies
Anime
Anime
Ouran High School Host Club
Tomoko pictures this as her soon to be High School life. I have to say, the girl has got good taste! Looks like they got everything from the light blue jackets to the infamous floral borders~
Death Note
Watamote made fans flip with this parody of the infamous Death note writing scene. If only they included the chip scene! Check out this play by play comparison uploaded by YouTube user h4rd2
Games
Duel Love
The scene that made everyone uncomfortableXD So in this episode, Tomoko plays a hand-held game where the player must rub the back of some random bi-shonen dude until he...well...finishes? Well good news everyone, this scene is based on the DS game Duel Love.
Check out the real life massage scene:
Products
Everyone's favorite Eatery!
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| Add this to the growing collection of anime McDonalds parodies |
Everyone's favorite Eatery!
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| Gaagle... |
References
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| AKB48 |
In this scene, Tomoko's imaging what it must be like when the popular kids got out to karaoke. One boy mentions that he want to sing AK*, but the last letter is bleeped. Seems like a reference to popular J-pop super group AKB48.
Gantz and Parasyte
While wishing the worst upon her fellow classmates, Tomoko drops so more bleeped out references, this time mentioning the Shorty Aliens from the manga Gantz and the undercover parasite Hideo Shimada from the manga Parasyte.
Gantz
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| Hideo Shimada |
Gantz
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| Shorty Alien |
Well, that's all I could under cover! Anything that you think I missed?
Wow, nice work! As someone who doesn't read an manga or watch anime apart from Watamote all these references go over my head.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit, some of the references went over my head the first time around too ^^'. But thanks:)
DeleteI think it had Kuroko no basuke and Mirai Nikki references
ReplyDeleteOoo! I'll make sure to add those when I spot them:)
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