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* In ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', Patamon gets lost and overhears a couple of teenage girls talking about how Hachiko is where to go if you want to meet up with someone. The dub just says "the park," though.
* An appropriately [[squick]]y parody of Hachiko shows up in ''[[Franken Fran]]'', who puts the loyal dog's brain in the body of a middle-aged man [[Brain Bleach|(she at least gives him underwear)]]; the "dog" remains his usual affectionate self. Did I mention the dog's owner is [[Squick|a little girl?]] {{spoiler|After defending his owner from rapists, the girl accepts and loves her dog, even if his form is a bit weird. Unfortunately she gets cancer and dies in a faraway hospital, leaving the poor dog-man to waste away while awaiting her return. Of course, a statue of the loyal man-dog is built in his memory.}}
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* In ''[[Manga no Tsukurikata]]'' Morishita asks Takeda to meet her at Hachiko; she notes that [[Country Mouse|country people]] seem to be fond of it.
* In ''[[Tenchi in Tokyo]]'', Nobuyuki (Tenchi's dad) blurted out "It's fashionable to meet at the Hachiko statue" in an attempt to be one of those "with it" dads. This was left in the dub, probably puzzling many.
* The anime series ''[[Fortune Dogs]]'' includes in one episode an [[Expy]] of Hachiko
* An episode of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' used the trope with a Ninetales guarding the shrine its trainer used to live in.
* One of Luffy's earliest adventures in ''[[One Piece]]'' pays Hachiko a homage in the form of a dog who waits and gaurds his late master's pet food shop.
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' has {{spoiler|Arthur sitting by Suzaku's fake grave near the end of the series}}.
* In ''[[Gintama]]'', when Kagura is having trouble sleeping, they listen to a variation of the story on a radio talk show. The dog is named Jerry rather than Hachiko and instead of dying, he turns into a seemingly harmless old man.
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* Dog Monday from "Rilla of Ingleside" by L. M. Montgomery had been waiting on train station for four years, waiting for Jem coming back from WWI.
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** [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Mad_Dog_of_Darkness "Mad Dog of Darkness"] shows Marron corrupted by evil and mutated into a creepy and fearsome beast by dark powers - though the card itself doesn't call the dog Marron, it has the same dog tag as all the other cards in the series.
** [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Mecha-Dog_Marron "Mecha-Dog Marron"] is a mechanized version with 1000 ATK and DEF that approaches the loyalty motif from a different angle - when destroyed and sent from the field to the Graveyard, it reliably inflicts 1000 damage to the opponent, though if it falls in battle the controller ''also'' takes 1000 damage.
** [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Skull_Dog_Marron "Skull Dog Marron"] is Marron's ''animated skeleton'', which has been waiting for its master to come back even after 1,000 years. It's not nearly as creepy as "Mad Dog", though, and even ends up being quite cute when it appears in [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Card_Trivia:Skull_Dog_Marron other cards' artworks].
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* Being set completely in Shibuya, ''[[The World Ends With You]]'' naturally features Hachiko, which plays a minor part in the story.
* In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Imagine]]'', if you look hard enough, you can find intact statue of Hachiko in post-apocalyptic Shibuya. Except he looks kind of grey...And small.
** And in ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne]]'', Decarabia waits for his friend Forneus by the statue of Hachiko. Forneus, however, is the game's first boss and has already been killed by the protagonist at this point.
* Koromaru from ''[[
* In ''[[Ghost Trick]]'', Missile doesn't let a little thing like [[Undying Loyalty|dying]] stop him from helping his mistress. {{spoiler|Even if he doesn't get the type of ghost tricks necessary to help, he's more than willing to wait ''ten years'' to enlist the help of someone who does.}} All to try and save someone who's literally already dead... That's devotion. {{spoiler|'''''HE SUCCEEDS!'''''}}
* In what is clearly a homage to Hachiko, the city area of the first ''[[Mega Man Star Force]]'' game has a statue of a dog (Who in the English translation is named Rover). You meet Sonia there for your date, er, shopping trip.
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