Mayo Chiki!/Trivia

• DVD Bonus Content: See Too Hot for TV.
• Names to Know in Anime
  • Satoshi Hino: Kinjiro Sakamachi (Another beleaguered male lead role in the tradition of Yuuji and Saito)
  • Yuka Iguchi: Subaru Konoe (Oh so Playing Against Type, considering all her more decidedly feminine roles)
  • Eri Kitamura: Kanade Suzutsuki (Now with Ami's covert bitchiness and Rin's perversion)
  • Kana Hanazawa: Kureha Sakamachi (Playing Against Type, if the majority of her roles -- soft-spoken girls -- are anything to go by)
  • Kana Asumi: Nakuru Narumi
  • Mariya Ise: Masamune Usami
  • Miyuki Sawashiro: Kosame Samejima
  • Minori Chihara: Ichigo Saotome
  • Keiji Fujiwara: Nagare Konoe (another bespectacled Overprotective Dad)
• Relationship Voice Actor: Almost all of the voice actors have been in the A Certain universe:
  • Subaru as Index, Jiro as Shiage, Kureha as Erii, Usami as Lucia, Nakuru as Hyouka, and Nagare as Kihara.
  • Kanade and Kureha have been together many times before: Mairu and Anri, Yui and Tenshi, Izumo and Shiemi, Karen and Nadeko, Akeru and Yuuka, Tatiana and Holly, Sunao and Potemayo, Ganessa and Lana, and Akane and Kagari.
    • Also Kosame as Celty, Kanbaru, and Iwasawa.
  • Karen and Tsukihi of the Fire Sisters in Bakemonogatari are now master (Kanade) and servant (Subaru) respectively, with Nadeko (as Kureha) having a crush on the latter.
• Shout-Out: When Jiro wakes up strapped to a bed, Kanade tells him he has been turned into a cyborg. He responds with a henshin pose.
  • One of Kureha's wrestling moves on Jiro early on is the Sharpshooter.
  • In the third chapter of the manga: Jojo's Unique Adventure?
  • The S4's appearance is similar to the FFF.
  • In episode 4's Eyecatch Subaru thinks that dirty thoughts are bad.
  • When an angry Subaru threw Nakuru's Jiro x Subaru yaoi BL out the window, the latter leaps after it screaming "I can fly!".
  • Episode 10's preview has Jiro declaring "There's No Way My Little Sister Can Be Wearing Such Cute Panties!", and Kureha replying "I Don't Care About My Big Brother's Underwear At All!"
    • Bonus points her seiyuu is Kuroneko
  • In episode 10 the game makers has a Kämpfer, a Hidan no Aria and a Yumekui Merry poster.
  • Not to mention that in the very same episode the game Kanade gave Usami is a reference that would be more immediately obvious to the show's original Japanese audience, but is a bit of a Genius Bonus to international audiences: Ryuunosuke Akutagawa's short story "The Spider's Thread".
  • Still in episode 10, Yui Ogura and Kaori Ishihara voiced two waitresses who look suspiciously similar to Ako and Riko. It's no coincidence, as both seiyuus sang said show's ending theme, "Our Steady Boy". Why the studio did not bother to get Ayana Taketatsu and Yukiko Tatsumi to have voice roles is a mystery.
  • Episode 10 also reveals that Toshio and Sadako haunt Usami's apartment.
  • Again, the same episode: last year on Kureha's birthday Jirou went to a "TKG48" concert.
  • In Episode 13:
    • Kureha and Usami disguise themselves as Natsuru and Aria
    • The Eyecatch looks suspiciously like the famous pose for the Ore No Imouto light novels.
    • Nakuru is reading a manga that's cover is very similar to Kimi ni Todoke.
    • There was a Palette Swap of Index and Last Order on a poster.
    • There are characters who look a lot like Ami Kawashima and Azunyan and Nodoka.
• Too Hot for TV: As expected, the Blu-Ray release of this series ups the fanservice, although Barbie Doll Anatomy appears to still be in effect.

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