The Blue Bird (play) - Mentions in Other Works

Mentions in Other Works

RahXephon

Blue birds appear as symbols and one of the characters is named "Michiru", which is the Japanese name for Mytyl.

Eureka Seven

Three of the characters were named after the author's name, his surname being divided: Maurice, the eldest of Eureka's children; Maeter, the second oldest; and Linck, the youngest. The book itself also appears briefly in the series being read by one of the characters.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Kyon seemingly randomly asks Haruhi if she has read The Bluebird of Happiness. This initially appears to be a random reference, however it has since been noted that the Land of Memory, the Palace of Night and the Kingdom of the Future which appear in L'Oiseau bleu may each correspond to one of Haruhi's three unusual companions (the aliens, the espers, and the time travellers, respectively.) This is also a reference as to how what Haruhi is searching for (aliens, time travelers, espers, or anything out of the ordinary) is around her every day. In the manga, Kyon comments on it as a "children's book". He refers to his "Bluebird of Happiness" on several occasions later in the novel.

Ballet Shoes

In the novel Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild and the television adaptations of it, Pauline and Petrova Fossil play Tyltyl and Mytyl in their ballet academy's production of "The Blue Bird".

K-PAX

Prot helps one of the patients by assigning him three tasks, the first of which is to find the Bluebird of Happiness.

L'Oiseau bleu/Aoi Tori

Japanese TV drama from 1997 telling a "tale of tragic love between Yoshimori, a station employee at a quiet, rural station, and Kahori, the wife of the heir to a family fortune." Kahori's daughter Shiori is reading "L'Oiseau bleu" as a child and the story is cited several times during the 11 episodes.

Yellow Submarine

At the end of the movie, the Chief Blue Meanie says that "My cousin is the 'Bluebird of Happiness'". It also shows bluebirds on his head when he says this.

Birds in the Future

In this manga by Osamu Tezuka, one chapter is directly inspired by the play.

Jean Libon, Belgian painter

He uses to call one of his exposition "L'oiseau bleu". Until this day, "L'oiseau bleu" is the symbol of his work, full of mystic and magic.

Pokémon

In Try for the Family Stone!, 616th episode of the anime featured in the twelfth season, two siblings called Ltyl and Mytyl (in the Japanese version) search for a Dusk Stone in order to evolve a Murkrow. The Pokémon Swablu and Altaria are also references to the titular bird, and were named "Tylt" and "Tyltalis" respectively in Japanese.

Bakemonogatari

In Nisio Osin's light novel, Kizumonogatari, Tsukihi Araragi asks her older brother Koyomi Araragi the question, "Where did Tyltyl and Mytyl find the Blue bird?". In Nekomonogatari (White) Tsubasa Tiger, the character Hanekawa Tsubasa mentions The Blue Bird in her soliloquy, about how one should find a Blue Bird if they don't have a home. She also ponders the possibility that just as the Blue Bird may be in someone's home, so, too, could the beast of misfortune lurk there.

Umineko no Naku Koro ni

In Chapter 4 of the VN, Maria uses the tale of Tyltyl and Mytyl to explain why Ange can only see sadness in Maria's memories when she herself believed she was having a good time and likens the bluebird to happy Fragments.

Wandering Son

The chapter 96 is titled "Tyltyl and Mytyl"

Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward

One of the characters wears a pendant resembling a blue bird in a cage. In one of the game's scenes, she talks about the pendant's meaning to her, and its relation to Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird.