Yor Similarities with Aomame

DemonChicken123 said:
I've no idea how well read MAL users are, but something I noticed throughout season one, and much more so now having watched Episode 5 and seeing the shopkeepers garden, are the copious similarities between Aomame from Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, and Yor Forger. Both are secret assassins that operate with needles and take jobs from wealthy people that reside in mysterious, ethereal gardens. I'm not suggesting that Yor is a ripoff, I think the inspiration is quite tasteful and obviously there are just as many creative differences between the two. I was just wondering if anyone else had had that thought or can see it too.

If you haven't read 1Q84 by the way, I'd highly recommend it.

DemonChicken123 said:
@Hacker075 Brother I know what intertextuality is lmao I've got a degree in English Literature. Is the implication here supposed to be that there's no point in discussing possible inspirations? Because that doesn't make any sense. Inspiration and intertextuality should be celebrated. I'm pointing it out in the same way that one points out how Star Wars holds many similarities to Dune, or how Game of Thrones borrows from the real life War of the Roses.

And, not to call you out too much, but there's not much to look into if the only thing is "intertextuality". You can look into a specific work's intertextuality obviously, but the concept itself without any application is quite dry.