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* Several themes in ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' can be traced to scriptwriter [[Gen Urobuchi]]'s afterword to the first volume of ''[[Fate/Zero]]'', of which he was also the author.
** And to [[Bokurano]]
* ''[[Dororon Enma-kun]] Meramera'' to [[Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen]] - they both take famous [[Go Nagai]]'s manga, revamp it for modern audience and introduce new plotlines and characters, including at last one [[Canon Immigrant]].
* Both the anime and game series ''[[Inazuma Eleven]]'' is this to ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]''.
* ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure]]'' to ''[[Dragon Ball]]''.
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== Fan Works ==
* ''[[Luminosity]]'' is doing to the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' universe what ''[[
* Horrifyingly, [[Fanfic/Sweet Apple Massacre|Sweet Apple Massacre]] could be considered this to [[
** There's also ''Muffins'' and ''Dresses''.
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** ...which was a spiritual successor to [[Nickelodeon]]'s other sketch comedy series of the early [[The Nineties|Nineties]], ''[[Roundhouse]],'' which was an updated version of the network's fondly remembered ''[[You Can't Do That on Television]],'' which itself, was inspired by network [[Variety Show|variety shows]] such as ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' and ''[[Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In]]'' (see a few entries below).
* ''[[Big Time Rush]]'' is the spiritual successor to ''[[The Monkees]].''
** ''[[The Monkees]]'' itself was, more or less, a spiritual successor to [[The Beatles]]' films ''[[A Hard Day's Night]]'' and ''[[Help!]]!''
* ''[[Rescue Me]]'' is a [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[The Job]]''.
** As was ''[[The Unusuals]]''.
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* ''[[Illusion of Gaia]]'' and ''[[Terranigma]]'' are considered to form a thematic, though unofficial, trilogy as successors to ''[[Soul Blazer]]''. Although there ''are'' direct links included; The first boss of ''[[Soul Blazer]]'' is a [[Bonus Boss]] in Illusion of Gaia, with a storyline explanation of why, albeit a somewhat bizarre one. Meanwhile, ''[[Terranigma]]'' is explicitly referred to as "[[Illusion of Gaia]] 2" in a [[Developer's Room]] [[Easter Egg]].
** There's also a dog named Turbo who shows up in all three games.
** To some, ''The Granstream Saga'' on the [[
* The turbulent history of ''[[Wasteland (video game)|Wasteland]]'''s developers has prompted a lot of this:
** After Interplay made ''Wasteland'' for Electronic Arts, EA made a "sequel" named ''[[Fountain Of Dreams]]'', which they ultimately decided not to market as a sequel to ''Wasteland''.
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* ''[[God Hand]]'' is said to be a better 3D version of ''[[Final Fight]]'' than either of the actual 3D ''Final Fight'' games (one which was a competitive fighting game, and other a ''GTA''-clone).
** ''[[MadWorld]]'' appears to be a [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[God Hand]]'', being made by [[Platinum Games|the reassembled remains of Clover Studios]], creators of the original game.
* ''[[Super Robot Wars W]]'' for the [[Nintendo DS]] is the [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Super Robot Wars Judgment|Super Robot Wars J]]'' for the [[Game Boy Advance]]. Despite being in separate continuities, they both share many of the same series' (''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'', ''[[Gundam Seed]]'', and ''[[Tekkaman Blade]]'' are the standouts), with units even using the same sprites and attacks. W also has many of the same features as J, such as Unit Switching with battleships, altering background music, and series favorites. A common [[Epileptic Trees|fan theory]] is that the other race ''J's'' Fury mention they're avoiding is in fact ''W's'' Database, or at least will be once their storylines come up in the Original Generation series. Similarly, ''K'' has a similar engine and graphics, but series-wise it really only shares ''SEED'' This all culminates in ''[[Super Robot Wars]] High School'', which combines all three.
** Similarly, the original mecha of ''[[Super Robot Wars Advance]]'' are descended from the mecha of [[Super Robot Wars 64]], and [[Super Robot Wars MX|SRW MX]] is considered to be a successor of the Compact/Impact series.
** ''K'' is actually a successor to ''Z'' - created out of all the content the devs wished they could have put in the latter, and sharing a few series and several themes.
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** As are ''[[Cute Knight Kingdom]]'' and ''Spirited Heart'', and the Flash game ''Project Princess''.
* The ''[[Boktai]]'' series (including ''Lunar Knights'') can be considered a spiritual successor to ''[[Metal Gear|Metal Gear: Ghost Babel]]''. The game engine is very similar, and Ikuya Nakamura, the director of all the ''Boktai'' games, was also the character designer of ''Ghost Babel''.
* The ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' series seems like a [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'', where they took everything that set that game apart from the earlier Mario games and expanded on it, and the gameplay was even reminiscent of a Mario game. Keep in mind that ''[[
* Nintendo recently announced a Chinese company is developing an MMORPG featuring all of the Disney franchises separated into different worlds that the players can visit called "Disney Fantasy Online". That's right, it's an MMORPG version of [[Kingdom Hearts]] with the Square elements subtracted. [http://dsn.91.com/ The website] really screams it out, since the Disney characters are wearing the same outfits they do in [[Kingdom Hearts]].
* The Wii's menu system (including the default channels and at least part of ''[[Wii Sports]]'') is a Spiritual Successor to ''[[Mario Paint]]''. The music is too similar to be a coincidence, and the Wiimote works a lot like the old SNES Mouse did.
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** A more closely-related successor to the GP2X is the Wiz, made by the same company (Gamepark Holdings). The Pandora, it should be noted, is made by a separate group of developers though its underlying philosophy is very similar to the GP32, GP2X, and Wiz.
* The ''[[Age of Wonders]]'' series is a spiritual successor to ''[[Master of Magic]]''.
* ''[[
* ''[[Dawn of War]] 2'' plays more like ''Company of Heroes'' than ''Dawn of War 1''. It largely abandons base-building, which was a major part of Dawn of War 1.
* ''[[Battle Garegga]]'''s spiritual sequel is ''Armed Police Batrider'', which inherits many of ''Battle Garegga'''s mechanics, such as [[Rewarding Vandalism|bombing the scenery]] for powerups and medals, as well as the medal chaining system, and even has [[Guest Fighter|guest appearances]] by the ships of ''Battle Garegga'' and the ''Mahou Daisakusen'' series. ''Batrider'' in turn had a spiritual sequel in ''Battle Bakraid'', which borrows ''Garegga'''s option changing feature, has a somewhat modified medal chaining system, and the "tickle laser"-cum-charge-shot from ''Batrider''.
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* ''[[Sigma Star Saga]]'' is considered this in regards to ''[[The Guardian Legend]]''. While both games are hybridizations of the [[Action Adventure]] and [[Shoot'Em Up]] genres, ''Sigma'' is more story-driven.
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]] [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|OG Saga:]] [[Endless Frontier]]'' is considered a [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Namco X Capcom]]''. Both games are developed by Monolith Soft, and shared a similar action-styled battle system, even though the latter game was structured like a [[Turn-Based Strategy]] game, and the former being more a [[Eastern RPG]]. The kicker is though that the protagonists of ''[[Namco X Capcom]]'', Reiji Arisu and Xiaomu, get caught up in the events of ''[[Endless Frontier]]'', while chasing down the [[Big Bad]] [[Not Quite Dead|they thought they had killed]] at the end of ''Namco X Capcom'', thus making the two games in continuity.
* ''[[Persona (video game)|Persona]]'' is an obvious spiritual successor to one-off [[Mega Ten]] [[Gaiden Game]] ''[[
** ''[[Digital Devil Saga]]'', was, meanwhile, a [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''Persona'', featuring some noticeable similarities in story and gameplay... although the ''Persona'' series later ended up getting true continuations in ''Persona 3'' and ''4''.
** ''[[Devil Survivor]]'' is a Spiritual Successor for the ''Majin Tensei'' spinoff series, although this statement is based only on the fact that they are strategy games.
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* The Konami arcade game ''M.I.A.: Missing In Action'' is pretty much an unofficial official sequel to ''[[Rush N Attack]]'' (aka ''Green Beret''), using what is essentially a more advanced version of the same engine, but with a different setting (being set in Vietnam instead of Russia).
* Irem's ''[[Vigilante (video game)|Vigilante]]'' is pretty much a more advanced version of their earlier single-plane [[Beat'Em Up]] ''[[Kung Fu Master]]'' in a different setting, although there was an official sequel for the Family Computer in Japan titled ''Spartan X 2''.
* ''Tear Ring Saga'', a Japanese-only strategy RPG for the [[
** One of the games in the series ''[[Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones|Sacred Stones]]'' is a successor to ''[[Fire Emblem Akaneia|Fire Emblem Gaiden]]'', featuring [[It's Easy, So It Sucks|unlimited XP, branching paths and a world map]]. The games have no connection in storyline, but are technically part of the same series, so this may or may not count.
* ''[[Gunstar Heroes]]'' was considered a spiritual successor to ''[[Contra|Contra III: The Alien Wars]]'' due to the fact that two of its main programmers worked on both games. In fact, it was the closest thing to a ''Contra'' game for the [[Sega Genesis]] before Konami decided to release ''Contra: Hard Corps''.
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* The 1995 pinball machine ''Attack From Mars'' turned out to be a huge seller, but didn't get a proper sequel until the Pinball 2000 machine ''Revenge From Mars''. In the meantime, the 1997 pinball ''Medieval Madness'' was created by the same developers and, despite the different premise, was far more similar to the original game's structure than the sequel was.
* Konami's ''Dance Masters'' is sort of a spiritual successor to ''Para Para Paradise'', and even has several parapara/eurobeat songs, including the famed "Night of Fire".
* [[
* [[Bulletstorm]] is this to the [[Painkiller]].
* In Japan, [[Hudson Soft]] produced the NES and MSX ports of ''[[Video Game/Star Force|Star Force]]'' and ran a nationwide tournament around it. But ''Star Force'' was a [[Tecmo]] game, and so Hudson developed a rather similar game called ''[[Star Soldier]]'' to feature in the next year's tournament. ''Star Force'' and ''Star Soldier'' each had their own line of sequels.
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