Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de - Volume 8 - Chapter SS2

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? Should I have called it the Lemegeton instead of a grimoire?

The Lemegeton is one of several names for The Lesser Key of Solomon, a seventeenth-century grimoire that gets alluded to all the time in the sort of media that Andou eats up. The text itself is a compilation of other older texts, and was likely inspired by an earlier grimoire called the Key of Solomon. Numerous editions and translations have been published over the years, one of them by the infamous Aleister Crowley himself.

? Like the Book of Eibon, or the Pnakotic Manuscripts...?

The Book of Eibon and the Pnakotic Manuscripts are both texts from the Cthulhu Mythos, as Andou notes, though only the Pnakotic Manuscripts were the creation of H.P. Lovecraft! The Book of Eibon was referenced by Lovecraft on numerous occasions, but was created by Clark Ashton Smith, one of Lovecraft’s contemporaries and friends. Both books are grimoires, and it’s worth noting that the Pnakotic Manuscripts were the very first fictional grimoire that Lovecraft wrote about, originating in his short story “Polaris.”

? ...it’s like, y’know, the same sorta mindset that got Ash to give up his Charizard, I guess...

Ash’s relationship with his Charizard in the Pokémon anime is a rather dramatic one, largely thanks to the Pokémon’s chronic attitude problem. The extended plot arc culminates with Ash leaving Charizard behind for the sake of both of their personal growths. This was a pretty big moment in the history of the anime, since at that point Charizard had been part of the team for the vast majority of the show’s run (which at the time totaled over a hundred episodes).

? Find out after the commercial break!

The particular phrasing used in this line was popularized by the staggeringly popular anime adaptation of Chibi Maruko-chan, a manga by Sakura Momoko about a mischievous little girl and her family. The anime has been running constantly since 1995, and it currently boasts somewhere in the vicinity of a thousand five hundred episodes. Its characters and their trademark phrases are downright iconic, and its “to be continued after the commercials” phrase has been parodied and spoofed to the point that it’s all but taken on a life of its own.