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Genius Bonus: Some of the Phantom Books are actual literary works.
In episode 12, the Phantom Book that was written by a famous but unspecified assassin morphs into the gun that John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
From the same episode, a chapter title page (or something similar) in the book Dalian is reading says "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones", the title of a short story by Samuel Delany.
Hal's staff greatly resembles Raising Heart. It even goes "Cartridge Load" when he stuffs a Phantom Book at one end to fuel his attack magic.
In episode 8, a stuffed bear appears in an auction catalog, whose design is noted to have become famous thanks to "a certain president."
A certain scene in episode 3 looks strikingly similiar to Gainax's earlier mini-series, Houkago No Pleiades
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