2000man wrote:

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?