Quotes tagged with "(pop) culture references" (best)

Mahiro Fuwa: To you, life was just something you acted out and ended, all according to someone else's script. That's why you were always quoting Shakespeare... However, Aika, I say that you were wrong! You did what you shouldn't have, and didn't do as you should have. Because you relied on someone else's script, you were wrong. ... I won't live my life by another person's script. Not by "Hamlet" or "The Tempest". I don't know how many years in the future it will be... But I'll write and act my own ending.

Sato: The plan is more important than anything. As one commander used to say, "I love it when—"
Tanaka: "—a plan comes together." Right?

Ito: What is that?
Mikatan: Isn't it obvious? It's Yakushimaru Ritsuko. Oh, I mean, a Christmas tree.
Yuta: How do you make that mistake?

Shinichi Kudo: I don't want to write about detectives... I want to be one!! The Heisei era Sherlock Holmes!!

Tae Shimura: The most dangerous moment in hunting is the moment you've captured your prey. The bigger the prey, the more you let your guard down. Go read "Hunter x Hunter" volume 3, before you try and take us on, old hags.

Kotaro Katsura: It's not Zura. It's Captain Katsura, dattebayo!

Kagura: Sounds like Rocky.
Gintoki: She's playing a Rocky-ish theme.
Kagura: It's similar, but...
Gintoki: It's the stuff adults worry about, you know, like getting into trouble if you use the real theme. But why Rocky?!
Gengai: Just hearing it motivates you.

Sagaru Yamazaki: How am I supposed to hit on a girl with this hair? I can't play anything beyond a side role in Fist of the North Star.

Shinigami: You know nothing about my suffering!
Gintoki: I can pretty much guess. You couldn't learn Bankai or something, right?

Hajime: It'd be a tragedy if we gave them a culture-inspired name, since it'd affect the rest of their life.
Kaoru: Let's name it something that'll go with your family name.
Hajime: If it's a boy, Shinji. A girl, Rei.

Gintoki: Scary... Super scary!
Hasegawa: What part of that story made you freak out?!
Gintoki: Toei Animation's gonna kill us!

Gintoki: I don't wanna do any training. It's such a pain.
Shinpachi: He just said something a JUMP main character would never say! He doesn't have a shred of ambition!

Gintoki Sakata: When are they going to run the next Hanger x Hanger? Keeping me in suspense like that! They say "we'll be right back".

Hata-ōji: I make a rare appearance and this is how I get treated? I might as well transfer over to "D.Gray-man".

Elizabeth: Man, look at you all whining. That's why you're One Piece Quarter. Actually, it took four years to make 1/4 the amount. So if you want to be number one, you'll have to spend sixteen years preparing.

Tadakuni: That's my little sister's underwear, dude!
Yoshitake: Rest assured. It's equivalent exchange. I left my underwear behind in its stead.

Hajime Obi: The name's Obi Hajime! If that's a pain to say, call me Obi-One!

Kōji Yoshida: I'm A-OK with taking on the challenge of making you a super mangaka! ... That's right, like the Super Saiyan of mangaka.

Asagi: You don't see a lot of people applying for ninja licenses these days. Let me make this clear first. Becoming a ninja doesn't mean you'll be able to use stuff like the Rasengan or chakra, okay?

Nagi: Wow, you have so many toys! What's this ball?
Chłopiec: It's a superball. You've never seen one?
Nagi: Wait, by any chance if you gather seven of these...

Surface: You've heard of "Perman", right? You know the copy robot from "Perman"? Isn't that thing convenient? Don't you think it'd be great to have one around?
Josuke: Hey, Koichi. What is he talking about? What the hell is "Perman"?
Surface: You haven't heard of "Perman"?! I can't believe it. And you call yourself Japanese?

Sulya: You asked why I can live in this world. And that's because I have something that fuels me. It's a fuel that will keep me going for the rest of my life. And that's because the last Star Wars film ended on a cliffhanger. In the old world, it was prohibited to read novels or watch movies, let alone make them. But in the next culture... I don't care if it takes tens of thousands of years! I'm going to raise that culture to the exact same level as the era when they made Star Wars... so I can watch the next movie in the franchise! All this destruction is necessary in order to make that possible!

Spike: 'Scuse me, Jet.
Jet: What?
Spike: You said three, not four.
Jet: Disinformation is sometimes required for both enemies and allies.
Spike: Don't pull that "Art of War" crap on me!

Yotasuke Takahashi: After all this, I'll play Pokémon at home and sleep.

Yatora Yaguchi: Is this really happening? Is this the Hu–er Exam...?!

Maruo Kaido: I already know what I want to be—a manga protagonist! Goku. Kinnikuman. Jotaro. I wanna be like them. So, when I was little, I started doing the same training they did in the manga. Over and over and over. By the time I was seven, I could split boulders. But... I've learned my lesson. For a normal person making a normal life... strength just isn't necessary. A manga is just a manga.

Jimmy Kudo: I don't want to write about detectives... I want to be one!! I'm going to be a modern-day Sherlock Holmes!!

Conan: Hey, why is this café named Poirot?
Azusa: Oh, the manager is a big fan of mystery novels. Have you heard of Hercule Poirot? He took the name from him! He's that famous chubby detective.
Conan: Oh yeah! I've seen him on TV! The detective in the rumpled raincoat who always says "My wife..."
Azusa: No, no! That's not Poirot! That's Columbo.

Rock: Do something! Rambo shot one of those down with a bow and arrow!

Conan Edogawa: Wowee! A Game-Man! Yay! Yaiba's Big Adventure! Go Yaiba!! Beat Onimaru!!

(Conan puts his glasses on Anita)
Conan: You know what? For some reason, nobody can recognize you with these glasses! Clark Kent would kill for a pair like these, you know?
Anita: Oh... And what are you without the glasses? Superman?

Godai Miyako: For a second, Grandmother looked like the Lilac Fairy from The Sleeping Beauty, but she was actually Carabosse, who lives in the haunted house.

Dutch: When he crashed he hollered out like you wouldn't believe. Man, he sounded like William Holden in The Wild Bunch.

(Conan puts his glasses on Haibara)
Conan: Did you know? If you put those on the no one will figure your identity! Clark Kent was pretty great at it, wasn't he?
Haibara: Oh my... So without glasses, you're Superman?

Fumio: You want muscles, here you go!! I've been training every day since grade school thanks to Dragon Ball!
Kanna: I think he still believes he can do а Kamehameha...!

Fumio Akatsuka: It's true that as a little kid I was thin and weak... And it was Jump that told me that if I trained, I could get stronger. In my desire to come ever closer to my beloved Jump characters, I'd wear the shell of a turtle on my back... I'd climb a cliff using only one arm... I'd stop a barrage of tennis balls with only my stomach muscles... And while I was at it, I managed to style my hair like a Super Saiyan...

Fujio: A slump is when one hits a wall that represents one's limitations. However, when one hones one's spirit, one can break through said wall to mature at an extraordinary pace!!
Fumio: Or to put it in Dragon Ball terms... In the Cell Saga, Goku uses both his spirit and the Time Chamber to train for the new challenge.

Fujio: I, on the other hand, would open a gallery for my manga awards in the Louvre and fill it with my drawings of Lum!
Kanna: Lum...?! Are your glasses really fake?!