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* Kinkotsuman & Iwao from ''[[Kinnikuman]]'', parodies of stereotypical [[Toku]] villains introduced when the series was a straight up spoof of [[Ultraman]] continued to show up long after the [[Genre Shift]] to [[Pro Wrestling]].
* Main character Ginko from ''[[Mushishi]]'' wears recognizably modern clothes despite the story's setting suggesting a [[Pre Meiji]] Japanese location. The author eventually admitted that Ginko was made during the early design period where the story was supposed to take place in modern times, with him simply being left unchanged.
* Likewise Chrono's very distinctive outfit in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' is back from when he was designed to be a more important lead character -- and a villain -- rather than a side character. There [[
** The name of Raising Heart also qualifies, since [[media:Nanoha.jpg|its original design]] was a fairly normal-looking [[Magic Wand]] with a [[Heart Symbol]] on it.
* Although ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' was the first [[Real Robot]] anime, it still carried a lot of baggage from the [[Super Robot]] genre, mainly the design aesthetic for Zeon vehicles and an [[Aerith and Bob]] naming scheme for their people that evokes the Alien invaders common to Super Robot antagonists, and a number of gimmicky weapons and [[Merchandise-Driven|accessories]] for the Gundam like the G-Armor, Beam Javelin, and Gundam Hammer. The latter were quickly retconned out of existence in the Movie adaptations, and later Zeon designs have tried to evoke a image closer to [[World War II]] Germany.
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