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Hey, Answerman! Identity Theft

Ummm, he said Hakaider, not Kikaiter. In fact, you said Hakaider, too. Then you said Kikaider.

Hakaider was George Lucas' inspiration for Darth Vader

The word "Jedi" is derived from the Japanese words "Jidai Geki" which translate as "period drama." A period drama is a Japanese TV soap opera program set in the samurai days. George Lucas mentioned in an interview that he saw a "Jidai Geki" program on TV while in Japan a year or so before the movie was made and liked the word.

George Lucas said in an interview that Darth Vader was based on Hakaider, a villain from the superhero TV series, "Jinzô ningen Kikaidâ" (1972), which he saw while he was in Japan.

Why don't we accuse Lucas of ripping off Kurosawa's film with Star War, let's do the same thing for the Matrix trilogy because it's look a lot like Ghost in the Shell.

Oh what about Japan making Kaze No Stigma looking a little like Avatar: The last Airbender, and Fist of the North Star looking too much like Mad Max.

Let's also accuse Vampire Knight of ripping off Twilight (even though both of them were written during the same year).

Why does the movie's plot resemble a lot like Silence of the Lamb and Se7ven?

Although 1979's Mad Max is commonly credited as being the origin of the visual motif by which the post-nuclear apocalypse is a barren wasteland populated by gangs of muscle-bound, mohawked goons bearing spiked clubs and face paint as they commit untold atrocities, there is actually something that established and utilizes this sort of imagery which precedes it by several years: the 1973 shonen action manga Violence Jack by Go Nagai.

Kind of odd that Wikipedia never pointed out that Kikaider (the villain Hakaider) influenced Star War. I wonder why Hakaider was never mention to the whole public.

Because Lucas and the Wachowskis acknowledged their influences?

Avatar looks like Naruto

Silence of the Lambs is another take on the Ed Gein guy, so I guess it's "public domain".

mdo7, Kikaider was originally created in the 70s, so while the Hakaider movie was in the mid-90s, it started in the 72.

Let's face it. People watch movies and tv, read books, and then when they see other stories they see resemblances in them. Maybe they're right on a few, but to me people are too quick to say that something is a rip-off without having evidence to that claim.

I feel that if you are going to accuse something of being stolen or copied, don't just go with superficial similarities as being your proof.


I looked at a trailer for Kaze No Stigma and it doesn't look anything like Naruto. Maybe the characters are what have a resemblance, because I'm not seeing it.

he's not making it up. I just finished watching Paprika and Inception was definitely inspired by it! I work at a movie theater so I watched Inception last night

So did the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Frame of Mind",

I think the more likely reality is that you're a person who has proven time and time again that you are so heavily bias towards Japanese media that your perception of reality is completely warped and unreliable in these matters.

I knew the moment this post came out that you'd make it your soapbox