Owing to her name, personality and outfit, Mayano Top Gun was chosen as a special Japanese advertising pilot for Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and replaced Maverick in an alternate version of one of the movie posters in Japan.
Four Uma Musume voice actresses attended the movie's Japanese premiere, which included Tom Cruise prompting Mio Hoshitani by asking, "You copy?" to salute and say one of Mayano Top Gun's trademark lines: "I copy!"
Four Uma Musume voice actresses attended the movie's Japanese premiere, which included Tom Cruise prompting Mio Hoshitani by asking, "You copy?" to salute and say one of Mayano Top Gun's trademark lines: "I copy!"