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Cain Highwind
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"Ok this has been bugging me for a while now.." , posted Sun 10 Nov 22:25

I've been watching YuYu Hakusho recently, and I can't get over the fact that Yusuke and Kuwabara look EXACTLY (or at least eerily similar) to Kyo and Iori from KoF. They even have the same kind of "relationship". Is it the same character designer, story writer, or something? Or just a coincidental ripoff? I know a lot of people (young DBZ fans) look at Chrono Trigger and go "OMG it looks JUST like DBZ. This Chrono guy looks like SSJ4 Gogeta and Magus looks like the fused kai! Lucca looks like Bulma! what going on?!?"

And I just though KoF and YYH had the same type of simularity maybe.

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Burning Kyo

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"Re(1):Ok this has been bugging me for a while" , posted Mon 11 Nov 04:45

quote:
I've been watching YuYu Hakusho recently, and I can't get over the fact that Yusuke and Kuwabara look EXACTLY (or at least eerily similar) to Kyo and Iori from KoF. They even have the same kind of "relationship". Is it the same character designer, story writer, or something? Or just a coincidental ripoff?

I don't think that there's the same relation between Yusuke/Kuwa' as Kyo/Iori ... or maybe at the begining, before meet Hiei 'n Kurama.
Yusuke/Kuwa' are friends contrary to Kyo/Iori.

You can find the same scheme of relation between "Yuyu Hakusho" heroes (Yusuke, Hiei, Kurama 'n Kuwa') 'n "Hunter X Hunter" heroes (Gon, Kirua, Kurapika 'n Léolio) ... but it's normal 'cause both are by the same author, Yoshihiro Togashi.
It's a very classic scheme of relation for adventure/fighting mangas :
- One Piece (Luffy, Zorro, Sanji 'n Pipo)
- Shaman King (Yoh, Ren, Anna 'n Ryu)
- Naruto (Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Rock)
- Samurai Deeper Kyo (Kyo, Kyoshiro, Yukimura 'n BeniTora)

In this scheme, all the characters have the same (or almost) personnality too : naïve hero, bad-tempered challenger, "lookslike" female or female 'n the stupid funny guy.

Teme no hono wa nani iro da ?

Toxico

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"Re(1):Ok this has been bugging me for a while" , posted Mon 11 Nov 04:53

quote:
I've been watching YuYu Hakusho recently, and I can't get over the fact that Yusuke and Kuwabara look EXACTLY (or at least eerily similar) to Kyo and Iori from KoF. They even have the same kind of "relationship". Is it the same character designer, story writer, or something? Or just a coincidental ripoff? I know a lot of people (young DBZ fans) look at Chrono Trigger and go "OMG it looks JUST like DBZ. This Chrono guy looks like SSJ4 Gogeta and Magus looks like the fused kai! Lucca looks like Bulma! what going on?!?"

And I just though KoF and YYH had the same type of simularity maybe.

Oddly enough, I always thought that Chrono looked like Goku, that Magus looked like Piccolo, that Lucca looked like Bulma; plus you could relate the rest of the cast to other random Dr. Slump/ DB people....

I guess that Toriyama snesei needed more drinks when designing the cast for CT... ;P

pinkdino
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"Re(1):Ok this has been bugging me for a while" , posted Mon 11 Nov 09:38

quote:
I know a lot of people (young DBZ fans) look at Chrono Trigger and go "OMG it looks JUST like DBZ. This Chrono guy looks like SSJ4 Gogeta and Magus looks like the fused kai! Lucca looks like Bulma! what going on?!?"

You think that's bad, look at Tobal #1's Chuji-Wu compared to Gohan.

Tashoku Kisune

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"Re(2):Ok this has been bugging me for a while" , posted Mon 11 Nov 12:48

quote:
I've been watching YuYu Hakusho recently, and I can't get over the fact that Yusuke and Kuwabara look EXACTLY (or at least eerily similar) to Kyo and Iori from KoF. They even have the same kind of "relationship". Is it the same character designer, story writer, or something? Or just a coincidental ripoff?

I don't think that there's the same relation between Yusuke/Kuwa' as Kyo/Iori ... or maybe at the begining, before meet Hiei 'n Kurama.
Yusuke/Kuwa' are friends contrary to Kyo/Iori.

You can find the same scheme of relation between "Yuyu Hakusho" heroes (Yusuke, Hiei, Kurama 'n Kuwa') 'n "Hunter X Hunter" heroes (Gon, Kirua, Kurapika 'n Léolio) ... but it's normal 'cause both are by the same author, Yoshihiro Togashi.
It's a very classic scheme of relation for adventure/fighting mangas :
- One Piece (Luffy, Zorro, Sanji 'n Pipo)
- Shaman King (Yoh, Ren, Anna 'n Ryu)
- Naruto (Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Rock)
- Samurai Deeper Kyo (Kyo, Kyoshiro, Yukimura 'n BeniTora)

In this scheme, all the characters have the same (or almost) personnality too : naïve hero, bad-tempered challenger, "lookslike" female or female 'n the stupid funny guy.

Ooooh.. Kurama and Hiei! <faves along with Kuranue and Koenma. Wow.. that's a lot of K-names.>