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Parodies galore!
Parodies are used in a large number of anime nowadays, especially comedy animes. The real reason is to increase sponsors or to keep the editors happy? I don't know, but what I know is that it definitely piles up on the comedic value!
Yakitate! Japan is probably well-known for its parodies. I can remember a few.
- During the Monaco Cup arc, the Japan reps suffered from dehydration after competition on the island. The doctor that attended to them in the anime was the main character, a vet from Running Wild. In the manga it is Doctor Blackjack.
- Godzilla appeared in the Pantasia Newcomers arc where Kazuma made his turtle bread.
- A parody to the Gundam series appeared somewhere...
- Lord of the Rings also made its appearance with "Biwa no Monogatari". In Japanese, Lord of the Rings is known as "Yubiwa no Monogatari". Biwa is Japanese for loquat.
- At the end of the manga, Kawachi becomes Dhalsim and goes on a training journey with Ryu and Ken, all characters from Street Fighter... (to be frank, I think this final parody is stupid...)
This is just listing a few of the parodies in YJ. If I had to list everything, it would take me a real long time...
School Rumble also has its share of parodies.
- In the 2nd or 3rd episode, Harima dodges Tenma's arrow Matrix-style.
- In the beginning of an episode, when Harima's manga is shown, he becomes something like Goku in Dragonball. His hair turns blonde and becomes spiky as he gathered up his power to fight evil lord Karasuma.
- When Tenma and Harima both thought of cycling to school to be closer to their crushes, a car resembling that from Initial D (the one with Fujiwara Tofu Ten, although it is named differently in SR) is shown.
- From what I saw on a site, the Ginga Ensen part is actually a parody of Galaxy Express 999.
- SR Nigakki has a ep where they had a survival game to decide what to do for the cultural festival. It resembles Battle Royale.
I only managed to catch 1 parody for Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu.
- In the ep where the boys (apart from Sousuke) tried to peek on the girls in the hot spring, one of the boys (the bespectacled one, I forgot his name) went into berserker mood, or SEED mode, an obvious parody of Gundam Seed.
Talking about parodies, who can forget Gintama! Gintama has full of parodies of other Jump comics.
- Gintoki keeps talking about bankai, obviously from Bleach. Ichigo even appears in the beginning of an ep!
- In the ep where Shinpachi was hospitalised, there were obvious parodies from drama Shiroi Kyoto.
- Yamazaki was dressed as Ryoma when he was spying, although he was regarded as a hentai by the other civilians next to him.
- Gintoki dresses as Eyeshield 21 when they were training Sadaharu.
I think that there are many more parodies in Gintama, just that I couldn't catch it. Well, not everyone knows everything right? Onwards to more Gintama!
Labels: anime, bleach, fmp, gintama, gundam seed, parody, school rumble, yakitate
On Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 11:56 AM
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My name is Lim Ming Hui and I am a female. I am born in the sunny island of Singapore (is that good or bad?). I was born on September 24th as a Libran, although to be precise, I am born in a cusp. I love anime and manga.
I pretty much turned everything Italian. Why can't I use other layouts??!!! (ramblings of an otaku...)
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