#Episode 4 - Not Losing to Elbows, Not Losing to Knees/The Antenna Is Rising... We Must Attempt to Live!

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###Art of the Day

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###Endcard by Hideo Nishimoto

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###Manga Chapters ch.5 and ch.7

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###List of references

• Entire Abiru's design was based on Rei Ayanami, character from Neon Genesis Evangelion. The abusive text by Meru also alludes to the character and NGE.

• At around 5:01 the manga that Abiru's father tries to buy is a parody of the manga Ichigo 100%.

• At around 13:33 there is a play on the classroom in Negima.

• There are multiple parodies of Billy Blanks' "Training Camp" videos (example) througout the episode.

• When Kafuka is talking about an insect conference, there is a split second shot of a white sheet that says "Hinata Springs", a reference to Love Hina, made by Ken Akamatsu (who also created Negima).

• Itoshiki is given a fake tail and fake ears by students, which is a possible homage to "Loveless" where all people are born with animal ears and tails but lose them later in life.

• After the ending animation, there is a brief fanservice shot of Kaere. On her panties, is what appears to be a crude sketch of Setsuna Sakurazaki and a chupacabra from Negima. Yuu Kobayashi (Kaere's VA) voiced Setsuna.

• Itoshiki's phone appears to be a model called "Da Camo" This is a parody of "[Da Capo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Capo_(visual_novel)", a popular dating sim/anime created by CIRCUS (might be fixed with the fact that the phone has the camera). Another version: it could be a reference to Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo.

• Guess the tail of Pokemon!

• Near 10:56 and after the credits, there is a short scene depicting a typical battle scene in various kinds of RPG video games, like Final Fantasy. Apparently MAEDAX was too hard to the characters to take down.

• Near 17:47, Itoshiki points in two directions with a sound effect that is from The Powerpuff Girls.

• Yet another reference to Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

• On Meru's phone you can see the frog from Negima.

If you've spotted more references, let me know and I'll add them to the list!