Here are some trivia about some of my fave animes that I found on the net(specifically animenewsnetwork.com)....
Ghost Hunt:
In episode 9 when Naru falls off of this chair he looks very similar to L from Death Note when he is killed.
SPR, the paranormal research company Naru is the manager of, really does exist. It is called the Society for Psychical Research and is located in Marloes Road, London, UK.
Ghost Hunt is an actuall profession. There are several classifications for Ghost Hunters, and Naru appearently belongs with Scientific class, that seek to prove, or disprove paranormal phenomena such as ghosts through the use of scientific protocols. And they really do use everything Naru does!
Yu Yu hakusho or
Ghost Fighter:When Yu Yu Hakusho was still running in Japan, it was second behind Dragonball Z in popularity.
Kurama was the most popular anime character in Japan for two years. He beat out the extremely popular Goku from Dragonball fame.
Yu Yu Hakusho spawned 112 Episodes,19 Manga Volumes, and 129 Manga Chapters.
Episode 24. In-joke. Urameshi and Kuwabara attack Gokumonki with "Shonen Jump". The manga of Yu Yu Hakusho was originally serialized in Shonen Jump Weekly.
Kuwabara's name is a combination of two of Yoshihiro Togashi's favorite baseball players.
Kurama and Hiei are both mountains in Japan.
In episode 6, the words "Mad Piero" can be seen as graffiti on one of the walls. This is a self-reference from the anime studio behind the production of the series, Pierrot, whose name is pronounced as Piero, and is the Japanese word for clown, derived from the French language. A villain by the name of "Mad Piero" also appears in the anime title Cowboy Bebop.
In episode 9, The Successor to Genkai! The Tournament Begins, background characters that look remarkably like Zangief, Dhalsim and E.Honda from the fighting game franchise Street Fighter appear behind Yusuke and Kuwabara.
In episode 21, when Yusuke reawakens in Kuwabara's room after the Maze Castle battle, we discover that he has an Oingo Boingo (American New Wave rock band started in the 1980s) poster on his wall in the background.
An inconsistency that occurred during the Saga of the Three Kings story arc was that in episode 26 of both the English and Japanese versions, Hiei says that he and his sister are half siblings and have different mothers. Yet in episode 100 in his reflections of his life, they have the same mother.
Several references to the Sailor Moon metaseries are found throughout Yu Yu Hakusho, perhaps because series creator Yoshihiro Togashi was dating Sailor Moon creator Naoko Takeuchi at the time (whom he later married). In The Three Kings saga, Koenma appears at the tournament dressed incognito as Sailor Moon's Tuxedo Mask. In chapter 44 of the manga, Kurama states: "Just call me Tuxedo Mask." after breaking up a fight by throwing a rose. In the final episode of the series, two of Keiko's classmates bear strong resemblances to Haruka Tenoh (Sailor Uranus) and Michiru Kaioh (Sailor Neptune)
In the final episode, while Kurama is speaking to Kuwabara on the train, a sign on a building reads in English "YUYUHAKUSHOEND!".
The kanji that were used by the author to spell Yuu Yuu Hakusho have 2 possible meanings. 1 is "Astral Visit Report", and the other is "Chronicle of Yuusukes Journey". The second is supported by the fact that the same kanji is used for the Yuu in the title, as for the Yuu in Yuusukes name (Yuusuke means lit. "Ghost Helper", Hakusho translates roughly to document, white paper, or report). The second meaning is also supported by the end of the anime, which states that the show is nothing but a record of Yuusukes travels, recorded by rei-kai intelligence.
Kuwabara's favourite band is Megallica, the "Gods of Heavy Metal" as he calls them, in the Chapter Black Saga; Megallica may possibly be a tribute/parody of both Megadeth and Metallica.
In The Three Kings saga there are some pretty obvious references to Star Wars. One of these occurs in episode 99 (Unforgettable Memory) in which Mukuro replies to Hiei "I won’t say something like 'I Am Your Father'”. Another parody is in episode 101 (The Makai Thief) when Yomi’s assistant, a short, old ,one colore and wrinkled demon, Yoda appears.
Inu Yasha:
The battle between Inu-Yashas' father and the demon Hyouga over the Sea of Japan was so fierce it caused the tremendous storm "Kamikaze" which thwarted the invasion of Japan by Hyouga and his human allies.
IY movie 2 - Kagami no Naka no Mugenjo: Urusei Yatsura's "Cherry" can be spotted appearing as a Jizo statue mid-way thru the film.
IY epi. 90 - Sota - Kagome's kid brother - must REALLY like Detective Conan. His good clothes are identical - all he's missing are the specs!
Rumic Theater, Epi. 13, 1st season. Watch for Inu-Yasha and Kagome's very first cameo appearance outside their own series.
Episode 128: Shin'ichi Kudou and Ran Mouri from Meitantei Conan (Case Closed) make a brief cameo appearance along with a few other anime characters from different shows including Doremi from Ojamajo Doremi DOKKAAN!.
After 167 episodes, Sunrise Inc. decided to end the animated show and release the conclusion to the story in manga (Japanese comic books). But, on a radio talk show, the Producer of the show announced that they only ended the first series of the show. Hinting that a second series will be coming soon.
In the TV airing of the episode "Aristocratic Assassin, Sesshomaru", when Sesshomaru slays the wolves who attack him, they are torn apart. However, the next shot shows the wolves' dead bodies laying on the ground completely intact with a few bloody wounds on them.
In the Mexican Spanish dub of Inuyasha, Kagome was renamed to "Aome" because Kagome sounds like an offensive pun in Spanish (especially, Latin America Spanish)
In the english dub they Pronounce Kirara's name "Kilala" yet they spell it "Kirara" in the titles of episodes such as episode 91 "The Suspicious Faith Healer and the Black Kirara" and episode 97 "Kirara Come Home!".
The fire-rat exists in Japanese folklore, it was not made up for the Inu Yasha storyline. In the book Th Shining Princess and other Japanese Legends by Eric Quayle (1989, Little, Brown & Co. publishers), it is described as follows:"This extremely rare, but ferocious animal always attacked on sight and its bite was lethal. It also had the magical power of being completely immune to flames and heat and could walk through the hottest fire without harm."
In Episode 16, Miroku magically knows how to ride a bike.
The first ending "My Will" is the only ending theme song in which Inuyasha, Miroku, Shippo, and Kilala are not pictured. In ep. 1 If you look carefully, you can see metal railings on some parts of the shrine in the feudal era. But in later episodes, these rails all vanish!
Sesshomaru, in the manga, is said to be ninety-three years older than Inuyasha.
In the Brazilian portuguese dub the names of "Miroku'' and ''Naraku'' has been changed for ''Miroki'' and ''Naraki'', due to the words ''ku'' sounds like an offensive pun. As in the spanish dub, in portuguese ''Kagome'' has renamed ''Aome'' too, due to the same thing, once the portuguese is similar to spanish.
Card Captor Sakura:
The Libra card, which is never used in the anime or manga but shown several times, is used to tell if someone is lying.
The Sword Card bears a stricking resemblance to the shinken from X/1999 (another Clamp series)
The relation inbetween Yukito and Toya is not only friendship but something more. The term "homosexual" was used directly to describe their relation in "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia".
Many of the characters from Cardcaptor Sakura are also seen in Tsubasa:Reservoir Chronicle( Clamp's another production). Characters such as Sakura, Syaoran, Tomoyo, Toyo, Yukito, Clow Reed were seen in these anime with little changes in their roles but had similiar faces and names.
Syaoran, all the way from the episode in which he first showed up up until episode 40, never calles Sakura by her name.
The card created in the final episode does not have a name. However, Nelvana decided to name it, and overlay the title "The Hope" on the card for their dub. This causes continuity errors, however, as "The Hope" Card actually does exist, in the second movie.
In episode 5 as Sakura is going to seal the Jump card. There is an homage to, if not an actual, pikachu among the toys.
As with almost all clamp series, there was a male/male relationship, touya and yukito, but there was also a one-sided female/female relationship that was removed, from the english version at least, between sakura and tomoyo. it implied homosexuality, pedophilia, and incest because sakura and tomoyo were said to be cousins.
Well that is all...
Hope the people who will read this post will enjoy as I did!!!
