Aoi House - Tributes To Other Media

Tributes To Other Media

There are many references to various other real-life celebrities as well as anime and video games mostly in the form of the characters from Aoi House dressing up in various character's costumes from the referenced work. In Aoi House in love! Volume two, they also reference several American series as well. Below is a list of shows that are either referenced or parodied as well as the real-life celebrities that are mentioned:

• Adam and Joe Go Tokyo
• American Idol
• Andrew W.K.
• Azumanga Daioh
• Battlestar Galactica
• Bleach (manga)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Cardcaptor Sakura
• Chobits
• Chrono Crusade
• Citizen Kane
• Cutie Honey
• Cthulhu mythos
• Dance Dance Revolution
• Death Note
• Densha Otoko
• Di Gi Charat
• Disgaea
• Doctor Who
• Dragon Ball Z
• Elite Beat Agents
• Evil Dead
• Final Fantasy VI
• Final Fantasy VII
• Final Fantasy VIII
• Final Fantasy IX
• Final Fantasy X
• Final Fantasy X-2
• Final Fantasy XII
• FLCL
• Fullmetal Alchemist
• Fushigi Yūgi
• Orochuban Ebichu
• Gaijin Invasion
• Gravitation
• Great Teacher Onizuka
• Gundam Wing
• Gunslinger Girl
• Hand Maid May
• Happy Days
• Harry Potter
• Hard Gay
• Honey and Clover
• James Bond
• Jay and Silent Bob
• Jurassic Park
• Katamari Damacy
• Kingdom Hearts
• Kodocha
• La Blue Girl
• Love Hina
• Magical Girl Pretty Sammy
• Man-Faye
• Mario
• Mars
• MegaMan.EXE
• My Sexual Harassment
• Naruto
• Negima!
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Night of the Living Dead
• No Man's Land
• Nurse Witch Komugi
• Oh! My Goddess
• Only the Ring Finger Knows
• Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan
• Ouran High School Host Club
• Paranoia Agent
• Pita-Ten
• Phoenix Wright
• Pokémon
• Pop'n Music
• Ragnarok Online
• Ranma ½
• Read or Die
• Revolutionary Girl Utena
• Rock Band
• Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Sailor Moon
• Scooby Doo
• Silent Hill
• Sonny & Cher
• Space Channel 5
• Spider-Man
• Sorcerer Hunters
• Star Wars
• Super Mario Bros.
• Teen Titans
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
• The White Stripes
• Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
• Uniform fetish/Nurse stereotypes
• Urusei Yatsura
• Video Girl Ai
• Village People
• Voltron
• Wicked
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
• YuYu Hakusho

In addition Adam Arnold has also admitted he is a huge DC Comics fan. Two of the characters surnames are actually either taken directly from the DC character's surname or is parodied on a nickname. The two characters in question are:

• "Sandy Grayson" who's surname is taken from Dick Grayson, the original Robin.
• "Morgan McKnight" who's surname is actually taken from the nickname for Batman who is known as The Dark Knight.
• Alex and Morgan's children, "Harley", "Ivy", and "Timothy" are named after Pamela Isely a.k.a. Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, and Tim Drake a.k.a. the third Robin.
• Sandy and Maria's children, "Victor" and "Helena," are named after Mister Freeze and Helena Bertinelli a.k.a. the Huntress.
• Sandy and Maria's bookstore, Bookcave, is a reference to the Bat Cave.
• New Aoi House member "Stephanie Kane" is named after Stephanie Brown (a.k.a. The Spoiler) and Bob Kane, the creator of Batman. Her last name may also be a reference to the second Batgirl Cassandra Cain. Stephanie also has a pet bat named Babs, which is a common nickname for Barbara Gordon.