Kimi no Na Iowa/Shout-Out
- "The other wants the world in every generation, and we shall fell every last one of them."
- The constructionmen in Chapter One share surnames with Quentin Tarantino characters: Winnfeld, Driver, Kiddo, Candie, Schultz and White.
- Constructionman Schultz reenacts the Roll Safe "X can't happen if Y doesn't" gesture.
- "Being a big, stupid amadan like Bro."
- "Had to be me!"
- Uileag is said to have a helping people thing.
- "It's full of stars..."
- ESTABLISHING BATTLEFIELD CONTROL UPLINK SUCCESSFUL WELCOME BACK
- BOILERS ONLINE SENSORS ONLINE WEAPONS ONLINE ALL SYSTEMS NOMINAL
- Uileag once saved a guy named Peter from a bully named Flash.
- Uileag prayed for one more time, one more chance to make things right.
- Chapter Four also alludes to a letter swept away by the wind.
- "We don't get to rest just yet..."
- “I am you and you are me.”
- Uileag recalls interrupting a sexual assailant who talked about suing damn brats.
- "Today's a big day."
- {Look to the sky. Therein lies your answer.}
- “Time to wake up. ... Shake your head. ... Nod your head. ... It’s time to go. Pull yourself together."
- ...it fucked you up inside...
- "This is my moment! I prepared for it! You are not taking it away from---”
- {Hello, little star.}
- {...the long way down the road to the chemist is just peanuts to space.}
- {Truly there were more things than dreamed of in our philosophy...}
- {...I wasn't in Kansas anymore.}
- {...infinite in distance, unbound by death.}
- {...for it is in passing that we achieve immortality.}
- {...I am here.}
- The global anti-abyssal organisation is called Task Force VALKYRIE.
- “It’s hot drop o’clock!”
- "I've got you in my sights."
- The transport plane with callsign Cloudy Sky is a play on Big Sky.
- CLOSE RANGE (allcaps necessary)
- Two of the researchers are a Dr Shen(g) and a Dr Halen who calls for exercising restraint.
- The XV-23 EnOsprey has the In-Series Nickname of "Skyranger".
- Task Force VALKYRIE is officially called an "extradimensional entity combat project".
- Artillery Spotting is also called Siege Mode.
- The Is did their best. ... Their best was not good enough.
- In Chapter Five, Atlanta and O'Bannon are told to check for a pulse following the experiences of a CDR R Becket.
- "Don't hesitate to wake me when you need me.”
- "Regret, regret, regret."
- “When you first saw her in a danger of her own making, were you blinded by your common history?”
- Any second now. Any second...
- When talking about O'Bannon's past in Chapter Six, Albacore does a jig based on Pikotaro's PPAP.
- "Forget it, Iowa. It's Quincy."
- "Ayayayayayaaaa.exe is not responding."
- The US Navy command in charge of shipgirls and other exotic phenomena is called the United States Naval Enlightened Science Warfare Command and uses the Technocracy's logo. Their research arm is called Iteration, with talk of Progeny being stood up later.
- In Chapter Eight, Dubai and something involving "CAPT Walkure and his Delta boys" are mentioned.
- "Death toll... too many."
- As authors' notes for Chapter Eight reveal, Ayaka's boss is named for NBA players - Charles (Barkley) S(haq O'Neal) (Michael) Jordan.
- "Begone, thought."
- The canonical Iowa is likened to Liberty Prime.
- Stingray from Down Periscope appears in Chapter Nine.
- In Chapter Nine, Quincy hijacks the base PA to sing "Love of QuincyQuincyQuin!".
- Ayaka has an Imagine Spot of her grandmother doing the No Country for Old Men Implied Facepalm.
- The basic lunge rote has a Japanese term starting with "ga" and involves drawing the left arm and leg back while sliding the right hand's fingers over the weapon.
- The basic lunge rote also results in the generation of blue lightning like with the Flash in the DC Extended Universe.
- The Chaldea Enlightened Science and Security Organisation is the pan-European equivalent of BERND. "Saberface" gets mentioned in the same scene.
- Having failed to make the canonical Your Name, Keit-Ai was instead Shinkai's big break in this universe.
- "You're a big girl."
- One of the BERND personnel is Ronald Coventry.[1]
- Something terrible happened to Carmichael here too.
- Another BERND personnel is Dr Esteban Mysterio.
- "What a shame."
- "I never asked for this either."
- "I'm shocked and amazed."
- "Target verified. Commencing hostilities."
- "Protect, attack, never stand back - that’s what I do!"
- "“My hands would be happy just touching yours."
- The abyssals call themselves Peacekeepers.
- "Blood and gold? A broken throne?"
- So many, and yet it would never be enough, never be enough...
- "... and so too in our case should premature peace never have been an option."
- The strategist’s descent was not so artfully done...
- Physics was just applied mathematics...
- “‘Ey Boss, can I have a dead J@p, please?”
- "Like the good ol’ days after 12/7."
- "A rule of nature, then, Ma'am?"
- “You have given so much to your country... and no one has the right to ask any more of you... but I’m asking.”
- "The time has come to end you rightly."
- "You will not forget the Navy's power. You are not worthy as our opponent."
- It is time to go.
- {Mi---mission failed. We’ll---we’ll get them ne---ne---nex---}
- They will have order..."
- Uileag recalls interrupting a sexual assailant who talked about "having order".
- Two of BERND's assistant directors are surnamed Faden and Joyce.
- "What do we have after 500 million?"
- "There will not be generations because of the abyssals."
- He was angry. He should be. It wasn't fair.
- Two female relatives named Harumi and Suzu, the older of which has a mother named Kiseno. The younger one also dies to air attack.
- Back to Kimi no Na Iowa
- ↑ Harry Potter and Ron(ald) Wesley, plus Dresden and Coventry being (in)famous firebombed cities