Expy/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

* ''[[A.I. Love You]]'' has numerous examples taken from [[Ah! My Goddess]]: Saati is Belldandy, Toni is Urd, Kimika Aso is Sayoko Mishima. Forty fills the same spot as Skuld, but has a notably different personality and is more similar to Kaolla Su from [[Love Hina]].

* Related to the Negima examples above, Mina Tepes from ''[[Dance in the Vampire Bund]]'' is an obvious expy of Evangeline. They're both blonde vampire lolis with [[Hot Amazon|hot adult]] [[Older Alter Ego|forms]], both are very powerful, and both are often shown in [[Fan Service|skimpy clothing and in various states of undress]].

** The anime would have originally had Shampoo look a lot more like Lum; in the season one opening, there are eye-catches of Shampoo showing her with dark green hair and light blue eyes.

** But Inuyasha is a lot more Ranma than Kagome is Akane- note the perching, attitude, and even resemblance.

*** Inuyasha and male Ranma even share a voice actor (in Japanese and, in the later seasons, English as well).

*** There's also a TV anchor in Urusei Yatsura manga with practically [http://koti.phnet.fi/otaku/takahashi/tvanchor.jpg identical looks].

** Shun Mitaka of ''Maison'' is suave, rich, and has a silly uncontrollable phobia. Just like Shutaro Mendou of Urusei Yatsura (they even have the same voice actor).

* Tomoe from ''[[Kamisama Kiss]]'' has more than a few things in common with [[Inuyasha]]. Not only do you have a physical resemblance (both are [[Little Bit Beastly]] [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|White-Haired Pretty Boys]] with [[Hellish Pupils]] and [[Unusual Ears]]) they also have similar mannerisms ([[Does Not Like Shoes|both don't like shoes]], both are [[Deadpan Snarker|Deadpan Snarkers]] and both are [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Jerks with Hearts of Gold]]). Then you have the fact that both are forced against their will into being bodyguards and servants to a Type B [[Tsundere]] [[Ordinary High School Student]] who is afflicted with [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]] and both eventually fall in love with said student.

* The three main characters of ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'' were all upgrade expies from an earlier Kaishaku work called ''Cross Triangle''. (Kurusugawa Himeko and Oogami Souma even shared partial names with their predecessors -- Kurusu and Oogami.)