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** The males in most of Miyazaki's films look to be expies as well. Just look at Lupin and Ashitaka, and tell me they weren't drawn from the same cloth visually. Then, look at Haku from Spirited Away, they all look drastically alike.
** Miyazaki does this ''deliberately''. [[Justified Trope|He treats character designs as "actors", and re-uses them between films]]. They're rarely expies in anything but appearance, though.
** As a result, you can trace a line of expies through his works, going back to well before ''Nausicaa''. The [[My Neighbor Totoro|Totoros]] have ancestors in the pandas of ''Panda! Go, Panda!''. [[Laputa: Castle in
* Leiji Matsumoto is another writer who uses 'actors' to the extreme, which considering the number of crossover characters in his series, can be confusing as hell. It's particularly noticeable in ''[[Galaxy Express 999]]'', when after watching enough episodes you can predict a character's personality, and even their chances of surviving the episode, the first time they appear. Strangely enough, this doesn't make the series any less awesome.
* Everyone in the ''[[Giant Robo]]'' [[OVA]] is an Expy of a character from various manga by Mitsuteru Yokoyama.
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