> 2000man wrote:

>>i felt that big-o was like 20%%dark city 30%%batman 15%%voltron 10%%cowboy
>>beebop

>
> Well, at least you've left some percentage for "A Wind Named
> Amnesia," which I've never seen, but which I'm told the Japanese
> creators were more likely to have seen than "Dark City" (which
> I've also never seen... now if you had said Terry Gilliam's
> "Brazil"...)
>
> This is why I'm mostly a critic in "Inspired by..." threads (and
> more so in the less charitable "Ripoff of..." threads). I'm fine
> with "this is like that," or "this reminds me of that," or "if
> you like that you may like this," but I don't like to move to
> "this came from that" without more evidence. For instance, is
> what you see of Cowboy Bebop in Big O from Cowboy Bebop, or from
> the same source which Cowboy Bebop borrowed from?
>
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