Queen and Ishiwatari

[K' Dash]

I am a huuuge fan of daisuke Ishiwatari (creator of the guilty gear video game series), ever scince i realized how much we think alike. anyway... Ishiwatari has this obsession with Queen as for naming his characters after some of his favorite songs and Bands, so much so that his "alter ego" sol badguy is a big Fan of queen. i too use names of bands, musicians and artists to name some of my characters but too a point. I wanted to know if there are other artists or creators of other anime/games who have done this.

[Ironfrost]

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 springs to mind; all the episode titles are taken from the titles of rock songs from the 1960s and 70s.

[Dessa]

While it technically doesn't count, Weiß Kreuz Glühen's episode titles are all names of Weiß songs (yes, the group came before the anime, but still...).

L/R is one giant Beatles reference.

[John]

Shinichiro Watanabe is a well known music lover, having peppered Cowboy Bebop with pop music references.

[Gasaraki]

Eureka seveN has a ton, mostly of electronic music stuff

Mostly taken from ANN:
Nearly every episode title is a reference to something -- usually it's the name of a song or a music album. Some are quite obvious, like the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" for episode 27. Others are rather obscure, such as Episode 33, "Pacific State," by the British acid-house act 808 State. The more obscure titles tend to refer to dance and electronic music tracks, most notably the four Acperience episodes, named after a multi-part production of the same name by the German trance duo Hardfloor.

Besides their fondness for electronic music, Eureka Seven's creators are clearly big fans of the Beastie Boys. Episode 18 is named after their 1994 album Ill Communication, while Renton's father Adrock gets his name from one of the trio's members. The wall-paintings shown in episode 15 -- reading "The King Adrock" -- are a joking reference to several of his verses.

Several character names are references:

Moondoggie's real name is James Darren Emerson; this is most likely a double reference to actor James Darren who played Moondoggie in the film Gidget, as well as former Underworld DJ artist Darren Emerson.

Ray and Charles Beams is most likely a reference to Ray Charles =P

Adrock Thurston is named after Adam Horovitz, aka Ad-Rock, from the Beastie Boys.

Ken-Goh is named after Kengo Watanabe, aka KEN=GO, a DJ who was the partner of Eureka Seven series writer Dai Sato in founding the Frogman record label in 1993 and Frognation Ltd. in 1997.

LFO and KLF are the names of two British bands that appeared during the end of the 80's while the model number of the Gekko-Go, SL-1200 Mk-II, is a reference to the Technics SL-1200 direct-drive turntable.

The Terminus LFOs are named after famous Roland synthesizers and drum machines: TB-303, TR-808 and TR-909. Other LFOs named after Roland products are the Terminus TR-505 and TR-606, and the Spearhead SH-101. AFX, Dewey's space ships that fire at the Coralians, are named after Aphex Twin, another British band on the same label as LFO

The color schemes of the Beams' Spearhead LFOs are based on those of the VF-1 Valkyrie fighters used by Max Jenius and his wife Millia in the classic mecha anime series Macross. Charles' white stripes on blue paint job corresponds to Max's Valkyrie, and Ray's white stripes on red corresponds to Millia's Valkyrie. The Mon-Soono type10 and type20 KLFs are named after Korg products - the MS-10 and MS-20 monophonic synthesizers. Also, the VC10 KLF is named after Korg's VC-10 vocoder.

There's some other non-music references as well.

[ZeroRyoko1974]

Bastard completely centers around metal bands. The main character is Dirk Schneider (Dee Snider), there are also references in magic spells, and other people and places to j-metal bands, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, and Anthrax

[Dessa]

Dark Schneider, ZeroRyoko..