When it comes to references and homages to "Back to the Future," the most common ones are about the latter half of the film — the Enchantment Under the Sea dance, the "Johnny B. Goode" performance, the lightning striking the clock tower, or simply the DeLorean time machine. Even something as obscure as the nod to Doc Brown's (Christopher Lloyd) crude models in "Loki" is still alluding to a moment that takes place after Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) goes back in time. Indeed, we rarely get tributes to the opening of the movie, itself a perfect scene with memorable visuals and a hilarious gag that sets up the tone of the rest of the film.
Leave it to an anime to correct that mistake and give us a fantastic callback to that sequence.
The anime, of course, is "Dan Da Dan," which is the rare