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5139 Name: へゆりの住人(´･ω･`) 2023/05/25(Thu)20:18:06 +
I wouldn't say it's obscure but Blame! is loosely based off of several western sci-fi books from the 90's. Notably, feersum endjinn, it was written by Ian M banks of the culture series and it takes place from the perspective of 4 different people notably one really dumb or immature young man whose simpleminded thinking and speech shows up in his parts of the book.

The backdrop is a castle the size of a country whose capital(the chandelier) is at war with the basement and where the end times are about to happen.

What's your obscure fact?
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0 5145 Name: へゆりの住人(´･ω･`) 2023/05/26(Fri)11:35:34 +
An Al Qaeda run web forum tried producing their own anime. They even released some stills showcasing what they were working on. Personally, I think the whole thing was posted for the lolz, but the Western media ran with it anyway "jihadists produce cartoons for kids" so I guess it had the intended effect.
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0 5547 Name: へゆりの住人(´･ω･`) 2023/06/24(Sat)14:43:24 +
>>5139
Feersum Endjinn is great, Nihei also took a lot of inspiration from Great Sky River by Gregory Benford. Most of the character names in Blame! are lifted straight from that book.
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0 5663 Name: へゆりの住人(´･ω･`) 2023/07/01(Sat)18:22:19 +
Not exactly the most obscure, but Space Battleship Yamato was a great inspiration for Space Invaders, and subsequently nearly every shoot em up made in the 80s and 90s. Gradius, Salamander, R-Type, etc. So, it's partly Leiji Matsumoto to thank for the space shmup.
>>5145
Arab anon here. No surprise in that regard. Anime has been popular in Arabia since the 70s. Even older Gen Xers remember stuff like Treasure Island, Captain Tsubasa, the aforementioned Space Battleship Yamato, Rose of Versailles, and other stuff. I think anime is seen as something even more normie than it is in the West (and I suppose in the West it's considered normie enough, I suppose). So I can't be surprised that Islamists try making their own anime.

BTW, if you ever return to this board and see this, I'd really like to know more. Can't find anything about that Al Qaeda anime.
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0 5681 Name: へゆりの住人(´･ω･`) 2023/07/02(Sun)15:54:08 +
https://myanimelist.net/anime/30850/UFO_Gakuen_no_Himitsu
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0 5699 Name: へゆりの住人(´･ω･`) 2023/07/02(Sun)23:31:00 +
The Matrix movies were gay all along (´･ω･`)
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0 6000 Name: へゆりの住人(´･ω･`) 2023/07/25(Tue)10:04:39 +
>>5663
I blame spacetoon

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