This is from episode 22 of Ouran High School Host Club. It’s a moment I refer to sometimes when talking with friends about anime, and I was kind of annoyed that I just could not find it on google image search. So here it is. It’s Kasanoda the mean-looking son of a gangster’s dad making a reference to Yokoyama Mitsuteru’s manga series Giant Robo.
Use it, spread it, maybe use it to trick Ouran fans into watching Giant Robo OVA. On that note, maybe you can use Renge-chan to convince someone to watch RahXephon.
OGIUE MANIAX 
I’ll wager that screenshot will be used to far greater success in convincing Giant Robo fans into watching Ouran than vice versa.
Still, for all these otaku in-jokes in things today, do people really go out and track down the referenced title in any significant quantity out of a desire to get the joke? I sure don’t see those fans of Lucky Star or whatever making it their mission to go seek out [insert show here] just because someone mentioned it or showed a bit from it. The “Family Guy” effect, if you will.
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I have no clue about Lucky Star, but it was done for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: http://wiki.sos-dan.com/wiki/The_Melancholy_of_Haruhi_Suzumiya#Trivia
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Hilariously enough, I just finished watching the first episode of Giant Robo.
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Ohhh that’s awesome. So very awesome.
@Daryl: I’d have to agree. When I watch reference-heavy anime like FLCL with groups of people at my school’s Sci-Fi/Anime club, most of the audience just goes silent during references they don’t get, and no one asks about what the show is referencing.
And man, it’s sooo awkward to be the only person in the entire room laughing at that Lupin III monologue in FLCL.
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I have this cap at hand, too!
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>>Still, for all these otaku in-jokes in things today, do people really go out and track down the referenced title in any significant quantity out of a desire to get the joke?
Pani Poni Dash probably helped in me going out and watching more things. That show gets funnier the more times I watch it.
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