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.

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?

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

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

Luckyman: I feel like I've become a Super Saiyan!

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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".

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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...

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!

Pan: What? Another giant monkey?
Satan: What the hell is going on here? Is this the planet of the apes?

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?

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

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...!

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.

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...

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

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

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?!

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

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.

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

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!!

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.

(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?

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.

(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?