does pokemon reference others cartoons/anime? i only remember them doing some jojo poses but nothing else.
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_references_to_popular_culture_in_Pok%C3%A9mon
Not an anime, but Misty's Staryu in the anime was a huge Ultraman reference with it's voice and the blinking color timer.
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mostly sentai stuff.
zubat, golbat and crobat are all apparently based on bat-themed sentai villain headgear