https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas

Utopia requiring the perpetual suffering of a child.

Actually pretty fucked up they didn't credit her, it's almost the same story

    • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I mean if you're writing sci Fi you've almost certainly delved into Ursula K Le Guin, so I think that's likely the inspiring fiction.

      Her story was also predated anime as an extent form of media.

      Not to mention it's almost a 1:1 recreation of the story.

      I'm not critiquing the show. The story they did is hard to see as anything except a critique of social inequality. Just think it'd be cool to credit the story lol

      But yeah tvtropes is cool everything is anime and no one has ever been inspired by anything or whatever

            • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              It's just fucking irrelevant to my main point lol. Ursula K La Guin was a famous sci Fi author whose story showed up beat for beat on a show I just watched and thought it was neat.

              It was almost certainly not the responsibility of anime.

              But yes, the origins of the genre go back further than what I said. My bad