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A similar practice was once common among European nobility, specifically through the use of signet rings to impress a personal seal into wax bindings on messages.
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* ''[[Hand Maid May]]:'' Kazuya Saotome receives a package from the Cyberdyne Company, he needs to go look for his seal. When he turns around, however, the delivery person is nowhere to be found.
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** It also features probably the most over-the-top usage of a stamp in anime: in one of the openings, we see a huge meteorite destroying an entire city and carving an enormous crater... and the meteorite turns out to be a ''building-sized'' version of Rikdo Koshi's stamp.
* Despite driving like a maniac for her driving tests, Natsumi in ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'' gets a driving licence anyway, since the examiner passed out during the test, conveniently letting the stamp fall on the requisite box on the form.
* Zeniba's golden seal in ''[[Spirited Away]]'' turns out to be a major plot point, and in one DVD special the English staff talk about the addition of the word "golden" to keep the mostly young audience from mistaking it for the other type of seal that barks and dives underwater, [[Viewers
** And since the seal is in essence Zeniba's name, {{spoiler|her sister's}} theft of it is not just robbery, but an attempt to gain magical power over her.
* Adron's personal seal is an important plot point in the [[Dragaera]] novel ''The Phoenix Guards''.
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