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* When ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' was shown in the late 1990s, people complained that it was "just a rip off of ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]!''". ''Urusei Yatsura'' had been parodying ''Tenchi''{{'}}s [[Unwanted Harem|genre]] since the ''late seventies''.
* Disgusted fans in various threads on several different anime forums complained that ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam]]'' (made in 1994) ripped off the plot and major themes of ''[[Zoids]]: New Century Zero'' (made in 2001). Their apparent reasoning was that because Zoids was the first show to air on Cartoon Network, it must have also been the first show to have been made in Japan.
* Similarly, ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' often faltered in international releases due to people accusing it of ripping off shows it inspired, such as ''[[Voltron]]'' and even it's own spinoff/sequel ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]''.
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*** ''[[Code Geass]]'' and ''[[Death Note]]'' don't really have that much in common besides some superficial similarities: both involve [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] and brilliant young men with self-righteous ideals who gain some sort of supernatural power by chance. That's just about it.
* [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s ''[[Kimba the White Lion]]'' series has received some flack for bearing similarities to Disney's ''[[The Lion King]]''... even though the original manga was created thirty years ago.
** Hell, Tezuka was ''dead'' for almost five years by the time ''[[The Lion King]]'' came out! Sensibly, more people make the opposite accusation in this case.
** This was parodied in [[The Simpsons]]: "You must avenge me, Kimba. I mean, Simba."
*** As he was writing [[Astro Boy (anime)|Astro Boy]] and [[Isaac Asimov|Asimov]]'s stories started getting published apparently a bunch of people accused Tezuka of ripping of Asimov outright. Surprisingly enough Tezuka did come up with the concept of laws that had to be obeyed by robots before Asimov (or at least ''published'' such a thing first). Chances are that
* The phrase “[[Gratuitous English|Get chance and luck!]],” commonly associated with ''[[Angel Beats!]]'' character T.K., originated from "Get Wild", an ending theme to ''[[City Hunter]]''.
* Among ''[[Defense of the Ancients]]'' players, knowledge of “[[Shout-Out|Lina Inverse]], [[Slayers|The Slayer]]”'s origins is sparse enough where fanart (her appearance is a reskin of ''[[Warcraft|WC3]]''{{'}}s sorceress unit) and even fanfic has been created with no connection whatsoever to the original character.
* "Shall I cool your head a little", sometimes attributed to ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'', actually came from ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z''.
** Similarly, people seem to think that the nickname "the white devil" is simply one created for Nanoha, whereas it is in fact a a description of the original [[Mobile Suit Gundam|RX78-2 Gundam]] from in-universe, applied to Nanoha for ironic purposes.
* The ''[[Petite Pride|"Flat chest is a status symbol!"]] quote is always associated with [[Lucky Star|Konata]], as opposed to its original user [[SHUFFLE!|Mayumi]]. Which is weird, since Konata flat down says when she uses it she got it from "an [[Eroge]] character".
* When ''[[Uchuu Senkan Yamato|Space Battleship Yamato]]'' first aired on US
* [[Gurren Lagann|Kamina]]'s [[Catch Phrase]] of "Who the hell do you think I am?" can be traced back to [[Godannar|Shizuru]] several years earlier.
** And his [[Triangle Shades]] can be traced back to ''[[Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]'' a decade and a half earlier, although Kamina did turn them [[Up To Eleven]].
* Multi-route adaptation of a [[Dating Sim]]: If somebody thought ''[[Amagami]] SS'' was the first to do this, they must not have read ''[[KimiKiss]] - Various Heroines''. Developer Enterbrain must has preferred both of their franchises being adapted that way.
* When in ''[[Naruto]]'' {{spoiler|the Nine Tailed Fox's name is revealed as Kurama and the Four Tailed Gorilla's was revealed as Son Goku}}, some were up in arms, claiming Kishimoto ripped off of ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' and ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', despite the name of the former existing in Japanese folklore in a relevant tale, that of Tengu Kurama, while the latter is also a reference to ''[[Journey to the West]]'', a very pivotal book in Chinese Literature.
* When ''[[Digimon]]'' came out, it was blasted as a ''[[Pokemon]]'' ripoff because of its use of 'evolution' and monster collecting. Whether or not that Digimon did rip off Pokemon is debatable but it is also moot considering the [[Megami Tensei]] series already did the concept of monster collecting (with the use of computers even) long before either did.
* Hardcore fans of the [[Magical Girl]] genre are often surprised (and sometimes angered as seen from some posts on an [[Image Board]] which shall be unnamed) when people claim [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]] is a deconstruction of the Magical Girl genre when all it really does is use well-established magical girl tropes to great effect. The creator himself even admitted it's not a deconstruction at all.
** Good examples of the darker and edgier tropes seen in magical girl shows are the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' manga (especially the final arc Sailor Stars), ''[[Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne]]'', ''[[Prétear]]'', and ''[[Full Moon o Sagashite]]''.
** Also ''[[Princess Tutu]]'', ''[[Uta Kata]]'', ''[[Earth Maiden Arjuna]]'', and the ''[[My-HiME]]'' franchise.
* Quite a few Western ''[[Naruto]]'' fans who see a kanchou being performed<ref>surprising someone by shoving one's index fingers into their butt crack</ref> will assume it's a reference to the "Sennen Goroshi" scene. Kanchouing is actually a popular real-life prank in Japan, the local equivalent to the American wedgie.
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