Anime references in other movies/tv shows/other

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I was watching Duck: The Carbine High Massacre the other night and one of the scenes had one of the shooters watching anime which was MD Geist and Gunsmith Cats.

Another movie i can think off that had another anime reference off the top of my head is in the Transformers film there was a Naruto wallpaper in the college dorm and in The Monster Squad the little kid in the movie had a Robotech T-shirt on.

What other films happen to have anime/manga style references in films and tv shows?...
 
The movie "The Core" had a Sailor Moon reference of all things. When one of the main character's students about doing some internet search, the guy replies "You can use our T1 line to search Sailor Moon crap".

That one line was the only reason why I watched the film too.

The Battletech/Mechwarrior series had a nuraber of references to anime. Wolf's Dragoon's had Char Anzable as a pilot. Nice
 
Robot Chicken has had a few. (probably stating the obvious, but I think it's a little weird because most other shows like this avoid anime references. )

I recall references to Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, and Ranma 1/2.
 
There's also the obligatory mention of that verse in the Barenaked Ladies' song "One Week":

Like Kurasawa I make mad films
Okay, I don't make films
But if I did they'd have a Samurai
Gonna get a set a' better clubs
Gonna find the kind with tiny nubs
Just so my irons aren't always flying off the back-swing
Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon
'Cause the cartoon has got the boom anime babes
That make me think the wrong thing
 
Conan O'Brien did an anime bit (twice) on his show:
http://anime.about.com/b/2009/07/27/conan-obrien-does-anime.htm

Saturday Night Live has had multiple skits featuring a bad waiter/bartender wearing a Rurouni Kenshin shirt. Moreover, Kristen Wig, while doing a Bjork impersonation, also corabined elements of Snarf from Thundercats (is that an anime?).

South Park did an entire episode where the kiRAB buy ninja weapons, and the show turns into an anime parody.

There are others too - I just can't think right now.
 
Oh yea, Billy and Mandy did a spoof off DBZ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoKGP83WGfM

And KiRAB Next Door did a spoof on it as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8YGnc-09pU

Spanish dub... my bad...
 
Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle) did a Kamehameha in the classic "The Flirting Scholar". Years later, he would produce that awful Draognball movie.

Stephen Chow also recommended "City Hunter" as comtemporary classic literature in his other classic film "Fight Back to School". He plays a cop going undercover as a university student in the film.
 
Everwood used to have a bunch of anime references. Ephram, the main character, was an anime fan for the first 2 seasons or so...until he got a girlfriend. Then the anime angle faded out. I have no idea what the subtext behind this is.

The O.C. had several references to Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Full Metal Alchemist courtesy of Seth, the resident nerd. In the last season, Ryan spent a night watching some anime with a girl. I couldn't quite figure out what was playing...it looked like Vampire Hunter D from the shots I could see.

I'm quite sure CSI or some other crime show used anime once or twice to try to spin some excuse for sources of criminal deviance. Those shows are so incredibly conservative politically...
 
Don't forget about the following TV Funhouse segments:

1. Barabi 2000 (which features a clip of Akira)
2. Kobayashi (a DBZ parody that included clips from the show in the background)

Also, at some of the WWE tapings, some fans were seen holding a sign of Pikachu in DX garb (this was back in the late 1990's BTW), a cardboard cutout of Chii from Chobits, and a sign promoting the "Nuku Nuku World Order" (a reference to the anime Catgirl Nuku Nuku).
 
Most recently, an episode of Chowder called "Tofu Town Showdown" had Schnitzel going Super Saiyan.

Also, Schnitzel screamed RAAADOUKEN!!!
 
Reference in a rap song, but I think it's valid to add-Deltron3030

Del I'm feeling like a ghost in a shell, I wrote this in jail playing host to a cell.
For the pure verbal, they said my sentence was equivalent to murder
 
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