The Lowest, Absolutely Worst Mission in History
The Lowest, Absolutely Worst Mission in History is an military parody
comic full of otaku references by Morihito Kanehira, comedy manga writer
for Comic Beam magazine. Since few people stand any chance of getting
all the jokes packed in here, here's a list of all the ones I have been
able to figure out:
- The "Red Quad-Stars" is a reference to the "Black Tri-Stars" team
from Gundam.
- "Lum" is a reference to Ursuei Yatsura.
- "Giren" is another Gundam reference.
- "Uguu~" is a Kanon reference.
- "Tomino and Anno" are Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hideaki Anno,
directors of Gundam and Evangelion, respectively.
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Panda! Go Panda! is a very old show that Hayao Miyazaki worked
on.
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Kimba the White Lion is a sixties anime by Osamu Tezuka.
The Lion King is often accused of being a ripoff of it.
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Nadia is Gainax's and Hideaki Anno's
first TV show. Atlantis is similarly accused of being a ripoff of
this.
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Tsutomu Miyazaki is an otaku turned serial killer, which predictably
caused a big backlash against anime and otaku:
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Sazae-san, Crayon Shin-chan and Chibi Maruko-chan are all
very popular children's anime that aren't very well-known outside
Japan.
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Ojamajo Doremi is a children's show popular with otaku. The second
version is originally titled Mo~tto! Ojamajo Doremi, which translates
as in the comic.
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Nobuyo Oyama is the voice actor of Doreamon, in the show of
the same name. It is immensely popular in Japan, but not much outside
it.
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Masako Nozawa is, obviously, the person who does Son Goku in
Dragonball.
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Megumi Hayashibara should be known to all otaku. She is a very
popular voice actress (Rei in Evangelion, for instance) and
idol singer.
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Miina Tominaga's name is written "Mi~na Tominaga",
because it's cute.
- The final page is, of course, a reference to Di Gi Charat.