Tributes to Neon Genesis Evangelion in other Anime and Manga

As the name implies, this page is for references to Evangelion.

Sgt. Frog (aka Keroro Gunsou)

Sgt. Frog (anime and manga) has too many Evangelion references to possibly list them all, so a few will have to do.

Corporal Giroro...

...revives like Eva-02

In this sequence from Vol. Eleven of the Manga, Corporal Giroro revives like Eva-02 in EOE.

Another of Kururu's experiments gone horribly wrong

In this episode, the Keron Force tries to conquor Earth by making everyone lethargic with "May Disease", which seems to be the Japanese equivalent of Spring Fever. This somehow escalates into a Third Impact-style disaster.

Hayate no Gotoku

Hayate no Gotoku, or Hayate the Combat Butler, is a show that started in April of 2007. This show contains so many parodies and references to other anime, TV shows, and games, that it is nearly impossible to catch them all.

From episode 5

During an episode with an extended parody of the game "Dragon Quest", the head of Giant Rei/Lilith popped out of the enemy everyone was fighting:

Rei/Lilith makes an appearance

Nerv logo look-alike can be seen in one of the baths:

Nerv logos in a bath house

The comparison from Episode 24' when Shinji and Kaworu are in the bath

This following sequence parodies the first launch of Evangelion Unit-01. This is a giant nursing robot that goes berserk.

The shoulder pylon locks are released

The giant nursing robot takes its first tentative steps

The giant nursing robot roars

Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann

Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann, an anime by Gainax that aired starting in April of 2007, in episode 6, the animators were said to have "gone crazy" (according to Hiroyuki Yamaga, at the Fanime 2007 Gurren-Lagann panel, concerning how the cameos weren't scripted to turn out like that) and stuck several females from other Gainax shows in the bathhouse, all wearing bunny outfits similar to the Daicon III and IV animations. Among them, were Rei and Asuka.

Asuka and Rei make appearances as bathhouse hostesses

Diebuster

Diebuster, or Gunbuster 2, is an OVA from 2004 by Gainax. In episode 6, the final episode, there is an overt reference to Gendo putting his hand over Rei's left breast and it going inside her body.

Hand over left breast, then goes into body

Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi

Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi is a 13 episode series by Gainax that aired in April of 2002. In episode 3, when Satoshi realizes what's going on in this world, you can see grey Evangelion Unit-01 floating in space in the same fashion at the very end of End of Evangelion, with flowing hair.

Eva-01 floating in space

Also, in episode 3, during the brief flash of the "Anime Pyramid", you can see Eva-01's head in the 3rd tier.

The Anime Pyramid

Also, in episode 3, after Satoshi gets inside the pilot's seat, the Evangelion background music, Decisive Battle, can be heard in the background. In episode 8, Satoshi's sister is seen running down the street, toast in mouth, wearing Rei's school uniform, saying "I'm late, I'm late", taken directly from the alternate reality in Episode 26 of the Evangelion TV Series.

Sashi's sister doing her alternate reality Rei impression

Fooly Cooly

The Gainax/Production I.G. OVA Fooly Cooly(Furi Kuri or FLCL), naturally contains several Evangelion references.

In the second episode of the series, main character Noata Nandaba remarks that his father, Kamon "wrote an ‘Eva’ book a long time ago"

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Hideaki Anno also provides the vocal effects for Miyu Miyu, the Nandaba family cat.

He Is My Master

From the anime He Is My Master, a 12 episode TV show by GAINAX, there is a scene where several Evangelion characters show up as dolls on a shelf. On the bottom row on the left, there are chibi versions of Mayumi, Misato, Asuka, and Hikari. On the bottom row on the right, there is a Rei Ayanami wearing the school uniform from the alternate reality from Episode 26.

Several Evangelion characters show up as dolls

Great Teacher Onizuka

Great Teacher Onizuka is a show that first aired in June of 1999 and based on a manga series that started in February of 1997. In the manga, when Onizuka walks through Yoshikawa's room, you can see several posters of Rei and Asuka hanging on the walls.

Posters of Rei and Asuka line Yoshikawa's walls

Also, in the anime, Onizuka can be seen occasionally sporting a red scarf that has the 7 eyed mask, similar to Lilith's Mask. Since the 7 eyes is symbolic outside of the Evangelion series, it's possible that this is not a reference at all to Evangelion.

Onizuka's red scarf

In the manga, after winning the swimming contest against Mr. Fukuroda, he says that he'll use the winnings to buy Evangelion trading cards.

Volume 4, page 114, of the GTO manga

In volume 11 of the manga, when Miyabi was setup with an S&M crowd, there is a Seele mask on one of the S&M implements against the wall.

Volume 11 of the GTO manga

In volume 14 of the manga, when Miyabi came to school after dying her hair blue, Onizuka hugs her and tells her how big of a Rei Ayanami fan he is, believing that Miyabi dyed her hair to look like Rei.

Volume14 of the GTO manga

In episode 12, Teshigawara Suguru, the Math teacher, wears a white glove on his right hand that looks very similar to the ones that Gendo Ikari wears, and can be seen pushing his glasses up several times in this episode.

Teshigawara pushing his glasses up in a similar fashion as Gendo Ikari

While the class was in Okinawa, Yoshikawa can be seen building a sand castle similar to child Shinji's sandcastle (a pyramid) in the Sandbox Sequence in the End of Evangelion.

Yoshikawa's pyramid made of sand

Genshiken

In the Genshiken manga by Shimoku Kio, which started in December of 2002, one of the short Omake strips has Ohno Kanako, an avid cosplayer, dressed up as Asuka.

Cosplayer Ohno Kanako dressed up as Asuka

In the second season of the Genshiken anime, near the end of episode 2 you can see 2 stacks of doujin on a table. The one on the right features Asuka and Rei in bikinis on the cover and Asuka is holding a beach ball that looks like Leliel.

Doujin with Asuka and Rei in bikinis

Elf ban Kakyuusei

Elf ban Kakyuusei is a 4 episode OVA that was released in November of 1997 and based on a dating sim. In episode 4, during a scene in a theatre, several characters from Evangelion are clearly depicted sitting in the theatre.

The backs of Asuka, Rei, and possibly Misato and Fuyutsuki

Burn Up W

Burn Up W, a 4 episode OVA release starting in April of 1996. Although it was released the same year the Evangelion TV Series was aired, in episode 2, Nanvel produces a robot named "El Heggunte'" which is very obviously a reference to Evangelion Unit-01.

"El Heggunte" from episode 2

There is a sequence of Nanvel's display with a timer and text scrolling by. The text is the episode list of the Evangelion TV Series.

Nanvel's display and scrolling text

Love Hina

In the Love Hina manga, Keitaro was following Naru around when she stops at a Cosplay Cafe, he imagines her wearing Asuka's red plugsuit.

An image of Naru dressed in Asuka's plugsuit

Seto no Hanayome

Seto no Hanayome is a series that aired in April of 2007. In episode 16, Rei and Asuka can be seen in the crowd in the school's hallway wearing the school's uniforms.

Rei and Asuka amongst the crowd

Ikki Tousen

In the second season of Ikki Tousen (Dragon Destiny), the mid-episode eyecatch in episode 8 featured Gakushin Bunken in Rei's plugsuit as well as the interface headsets.

Gakushin Bunken is seen wearing Rei's plugsuit

801 T.T.S. Airbats

In 801 T.T.S. Airbats, an OVA that was released from 1994 to 1996, an Evangelion poster can be seen on the wall of Takuya Isurugi's bedroom.

An Evangelion Poster on the wall

Yakitate! Japan

Yakitate! Japan (manga) by Takashi Hashiguchi and serialized starting in 2002 and getting a U.S. release starting in September of 2006, in the U.S. release volume 10, chapter 83, page 6, during Pierrot's flashback on a beach, his child self can be seen building a sandcastle, which turns out to be a pyramid and includes a frame very similar to the Sandbox Sequence in the End of Evangelion where a child Shinji builds a pyramid sandcastle. Although pyramids made of sand is not unique to Evangelion, this is a possible reference to the End of Evangelion due to the last frame on this page.

Child Pierrot builds a pyramid sandcastle

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, or The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, was a show by Kyoto Animation that started in April of 2006. Although the scene near the end of the show where Haruhi chokes Kyon (for apparently no reason at all) may or may not be a direct reference to the final scene in the End of Evangelion, the circumstances, the desolate surroundings, and the lighting of this scene has many fans believing it is a direct reference.

Haruhi chokes Kyon in a similar fashion to Shinji choking Asuka

Azumanga Daioh

Azumanga Daioh, an anime that aired in 2002 and based on a 4-koma manga of the same name by Kiyohiko Azuma, in episode 3, Yukari mimics the way Misato drinks beer, slamming the empty glass down and yelling. Although it is debatable whether this was a direct reference, the similarities are clear.

Koi no Mon

Suzuki Matsuo's 2004 romantic comedy Koi no Mon features, among its countless anime and manga references, a cosplay bordello that capitalizes on Rei Ayanami's fame as an otaku idol. Hideaki Anno makes a small cameo appearance in the movie as an inn keeper. Sauce.

Some prime Engrish in the brothel's ad.

Anno as an inn keeper.