Anyone seen a interesting homage/parody in anime?

Nappy · Post by **Nappy** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 12:00 am

I haven't seen pokemon in awhile and tuned in today which waiting on laundry, and I noticed they were doing a parody to Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai it was kinda weird, the seven being ash/brock/misty/egg thingy, jessie/james/meowth. I remember awhile back they did one to Yojimbo too. Oh Slayers did Yojimbo too.

There's also that one arc in kenshin thats a homage to Indiana Jones, in that the enemies are German and part of a powerful orginization, and they are looking for the sacred water, and the whole treasure hunt and rolling boulders thing (I thought that was hilarious hehe).

So anyone seen some homage/parodies in anime, from movies, etc.

And don't say excel saga cuz the whole show is based on parodies :P

NPC3000 · Post by **NPC3000** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 12:15 am

I just saw the opposite about an hour ago, a movie with an homage to an anime. I watched Requiem for a Dream, there was a scene where Jennifer Connelly was crouching in a bathtub, face down in the water. Suddenly, she starts screaming at the top of her lungs, bubbles flying out of her mouth, rising to the surface of the water. 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.

Then again, Bebop has a lot of homages as well as Excel

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HellBlazer · Post by **HellBlazer** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 12:16 am

Not an anime...but i think everyone show watch City Hunter(live action version with jackie chan) It has one of the most hilarious paradies iv ever seen!! Its a street fighter 2 parody

(NERD Studios) Arturo · Post by **(NERD Studios) Arturo** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 1:23 am

I've seen a few fan-made parodies that were really great. Most common practice for one on those is to make your own subs, which can get really crazy after a while. I'm not sure where you would find them though. I've only seen them at cons where I meet fansub distributors, but I suppose you could probably pick some up from your p2p file-sharing program of choice.

Heero_Yuy84 · Post by **Heero_Yuy84** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 1:25 am

G Gundam...besides the obvious nods to the earlier Gundam series in the final two eps
There's also
Rocky Horror Picture Show (in the second ep in the Japanese language track, the Stalker starts by saying in English "I would like, if I may...to take you" then he starts speaking in Japanese)
Star Trek (in the 'Trust You Forever' opening you can see a guy in a Star Trek uniform walking past Argo...at first I thought this was BS, but it's true, I doublechecked)

Cowboy Bebop
The episode titles 'Wild Horses,' 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' 'Honky Tonk Woman' are all song titles

Also, Gunbuster has a couple of nods (the one main example I can remember off the top of my head is the Tortoro poster in Noriko's room)

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 1:30 am

DOKINIUM!!!

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

Nappy · Post by **Nappy** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 2:39 am

I'm pretty sure all of bebops episodes are song titles, alot are blues. Bebop does a few homages as well, that refrigerator episode is straight outta Alien. The first one ends like bonnie and clyde. Pierre is batman like and in a film noir style. Ed's 2001 space odessy computer. etc.

Whoa!
I just put bebop and homage into yahoo and it came up with this site
http://rfblues.aaanime.net/Omake/Influences/index1.htm

They are dead on @_@ Got alot more than I noticed, and alot of other cool stuff. It seems even BigBigTruck gave them some info.

UncleMilo · Post by **UncleMilo** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 4:09 am

All the Bebop titles are refs to songs. Someone actually posted about that a long time ago.

Lilo and Stitch was created by a fan of the Ghibli film and there is a store in the background called Kiki's...

Episode One of Cowboy Bebop has a nice homage to Desperado

Whoever talked about Requiem for a Dream is reaching... I have seen that scene done in movies before... WELL before Pefect Blue even existed as a movie

Excel Saga and Otaku no Video are both filled with MANY anime parodies.

FLCL has SO MANY OBSUCURE refs to... well... everything that someone could write a list that would be longer than the show itself!!

The Dirty Pair TV series (the only one not to come to the US) had lots of neat little refs... once they're in an office building and some of the names on the list of people who worked there were the names of the crew of the Enterprise (James Kirk, Leonard McCoy and so on)... there is another episode where someone drops a blueprint and it flickers by for a frame or two... but it is of the USS Enterprise... and then there is one episode that has a nice homage to Freddy of Elm St. fame.

-Uncle Milo

Nappy · Post by **Nappy** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 4:58 am

oh ya in maralade boy they watch Elm Street on Friday, or Friday on Elm Street, something like that.

NPC3000 · Post by **NPC3000** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 12:23 pm

UncleMilo wrote:Whoever talked about Requiem for a Dream is reaching... I have seen that scene done in movies before... WELL before Pefect Blue even existed as a movie

I should've mentioned, the events surrounding the character in Requiem for a Dream is not all that dissimilar to the one in perfect blue in ways that I'd rather not spoil. And not to mention the fact that they used the exact same shots by first looking down on her from above and then showing her face from the side as she starts screaming. Unless the scene in Perfect Blue was a refrence to a movie, I'm quite certain that's where the idea for the scene came from.