History OlderThanTheyThink / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'': Gojo's BadassBoast of "Throughout the Heavens and earth, I alone am the honored one" is appropriated from the traditional first words of [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Siddartha Buddha]].

** This also applies to anyone who thinks Jiraiya, Orochimaru and Tsunade originated in ''Naruto''. They're characters from a 19th century-era Japanese folktale. And they have been associated with frogs, snakes, and slugs since back then.

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' was virtually unknown in the US until the 1997 anime fansubs gained a cult following. Because of this, it and the [[UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast licensed game]] were often described as taking elements from [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII other]] [[Manga/RurouniKenshin works]] with [[{{BFS}} giant swords]]. It was actually their inspiration.

* Fans of the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' video game series tend to treat [[Manga/MetroidManga the 2003 manga]] as the first piece of media to explore protagonist Samus Aran's backstory. While it ''is'' the origin of [[AdaptationOriginConnection her personal connections]] with some of the series' recurring antagonists, her backstory was first established in Western comics. All the key details of her childhood (orphaned by a Space Pirate attack around age 4, [[InterspeciesAdoption adopted by the Chozo]], [[HalfHumanHybrid imbued with their DNA]] and raised as a warrior) was first revealed in the 1994 ''ComicBook/SuperMetroid'' comic, while her being the youngest member of a Federation police/military squad before going solo as a bounty hunter in her late teens was cemented even earlier in 1991, in the second issue of ''ComicBook/NintendoComicsSystem''.

* Fans of the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' video game series tend to treat [[Manga/MetroidManga the 2003 manga]] as the first piece of media to explore protagonist Samus Aran's backstory. While it ''is'' the origin of [[AdaptationOriginConnection her personal connections]] with some of the series' recurring antagonists, her backstory was first established in Western comics. All the key details of her childhood (orphaned by a SpacePirate attack around age 4, [[InterspeciesAdoption adopted by the Chozo]], [[HalfHumanHybrid imbued with their DNA]] and raised as a warrior) was first revealed in the 1994 ''ComicBook/SuperMetroid'' comic, while her being the youngest member of a Federation police/military squad before going solo as a bounty hunter in her late teens was cemented even earlier in 1991, in the second issue of ''ComicBook/NintendoComicsSystem''.

* Fans of the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' video game series tend to treat [[Manga/MetroidManga the 2003 manga]] as the first piece of media to explore protagonist Samus Aran's backstory. While it ''is'' the origin of [[AdaptationOriginConnection her personal connections]] with some of the series' recurring antagonists, her backstory was first established in Western comics. All the key details of her childhood was first revealed in the 1994 ''ComicBook/SuperMetroid'' comic, while her being the youngest member of a Federation police/military squad before going solo as a bounty hunter in her late teens was cemented even earlier in 1991, in the second issue of ''ComicBook/NintendoComicsSystem''.

* Fans of the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' video game series tend to treat [[Manga/MetroidManga the 2003 manga]] as the first piece of media to explore protagonist Samus Aran's backstory. While it ''is'' the origin of [[AdaptationOriginConnection her personal connections]] with some of the series' recurring antagonists, her backstory was first established in Western comics. All the key details of her childhood was first revealed in the 1994 ''ComicBook/SuperMetroid'' comic (and the official Japanese strategy guide released that same year), while her being the youngest member of a Federation police/military squad before going solo as a bounty hunter in her late teens was cemented back in 1991, in the second issue of ''ComicBook/NintendoComicsSystem''.

* Manga/JujutsuKaisen: Gojo's BadassBoast of "Throughout the Heavens and earth, I alone am the honored one" is appropriated from the traditional first words of [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Siddartha Buddha]].

* Among ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'' players, knowledge of “[[ShoutOut Lina Inverse]], [[Literature/{{Slayers}} The Slayer]]”'s origins is sparse enough where fanart (her appearance is a reskin of ''[[VideoGame/WarcraftIII WC3]]''[='s=] sorceress unit) and fanfic has been created with no connection whatsoever to the original character.

** A crossover between Sherlock Holmes and James Bond? This already happened before with Creator/AlanMoore's ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. Moriarty is also the "M", the head of British Intelligence, has Bond as one of his agents, specifically an ancestor of James Bond, and survives his final showdown with Holmes. [[spoiler:However, he dies at the end of Volume 1]] and Mycroft Holmes takes his position instead.

* There are ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' fangirls who seriously think ''Manga/VampireKnight'' is a ''Twilight'' rip-off. It's hard to say, really, because both of their source materials were published in 2005. but it's safe to say mangaka Matsuri Hino began working on ''Vampire Knight'' before the ''Twilight'' book was actually ''published'', and translated and reprinted in Japan. Although this is still debatable, ''Twilight'' fangirls took it a little too far when they targeted ''Manga/{{Karin}}'' (because, you know, ''Karin'' has [[DaywalkingVampire vampires that can walk under sunlight]]!).

* Among ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'' players, knowledge of “[[ShoutOut Lina Inverse]], [[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} The Slayer]]”'s origins is sparse enough where fanart (her appearance is a reskin of ''[[VideoGame/WarcraftIII WC3]]''[='s=] sorceress unit) and fanfic has been created with no connection whatsoever to the original character.

* It is often thought that ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' was inspired by the ''Franchise/DotHack'' series, when in fact, both had started around the same time. Author Reki Kawahara had started SAO back in 2002, but was actually a web-novel series until 2009 under a pen name.

* ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'' did the iconic Shaft [[http://41.media.tumblr.com/7496154295bbd8796127be30dccd6a29/tumblr_n4int0hE281tvqnm6o1_1280.jpg head-tilt]] first before ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' and ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''.

* ''Anime/YuriOnIce'' is considered groundbreaking for portraying [[spoiler:a QueerRomance between the two male main characters as of episode 7 (in a non-[[YaoiGenre Boy's Love]] series)]] and while this is true as far as mainstream and sports anime goes, ''LightNovel/No6'' had already done this years prior, [[spoiler:making an OfficialCouple out of the Shion and Nezumi duo]] in a dystopian setting. ''No. 6'' though never got much attention outside of a relatively niche group while ''Yuri!!! on Ice'' became an anime with a gigantic fandom that attracted YaoiFangirls, LGBTFanbase, [[JustForFun/OneOfUs professional skaters]] and basically most anime watchers, being very likely one of the most popular anime of 2016.

* [[WaterfallPuke Throwing up]] [[EverythingsBetterWithRainbows rainbows]] became a [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/puking-rainbows meme]] in the West around 2006 before gaining noticeable, mainstream animated examples in the 2010s. Except when anime and other Japanese works like ''LightNovel/KonoSuba'' do it, it's as a decades old sight gag parodying ''[[Manga/TomorrowsJoe Ashita no Joe 2]]'' from [[TheEighties 1981]], with its over the top beautifying of upchuck using vibrant colors and sparkles. As an old method of [[CensorshipTropes censorship]], luminous barf still gets played straight sometimes like in a scene from ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders JoJo]]'''s TV adaptation.

** The trend is often believed to have started in the early [=2010s=], with high-profile series such as ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' exposing the genre to the world. In fact, examples of the genre date back almost thirty years prior, with ''Anime/AuraBattlerDunbine'' (1983) being the first anime series to revolve around a character being TrappedInAnotherWorld, and TheNineties saw further examples such as ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld'' (1995), ''VisualNovel/YuNo'' (1996), ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' (1996), and ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere'' (1999). Even looking just at isekai light novels, ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', which started in 2004, predates the trend by almost a decade.
** Isekai stories starring female protagonists and aimed at women, such as ''Literature/AscendanceOfABookworm'' and ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'', are thought to be an even more recent trend that originated in the late [=2010s=] and early [=20s=], but in reality they're mirroring trends in {{Shoujo}} manga of the [=1990s=], when isekai series such as ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' (1992) and ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' (1993) were released.

* There are ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fangirls who seriously think ''Manga/VampireKnight'' is a ''Twilight'' rip-off. It's hard to say, really, because both of their source materials were published in 2005. but it's safe to say mangaka Matsuri Hino began working on ''Vampire Knight'' before the ''Twilight'' book was actually ''published'', and translated and reprinted in Japan. Although this is still debatable, ''Twilight'' fangirls took it a little too far when they targeted ''Manga/{{Karin}}'' (because, you know, ''Karin'' has [[DaywalkingVampire vampires that can walk under sunlight]]!).

*** Speaking of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', while it is commonly viewed as {{Deconstruction}} of old idealistic Super Robot shows, a good chunk og the supposedly "original" deconstructive elements have actually been done before. Most notably, the idea that giving a teenager the power to destroy the world will have bad consequences was used in ''Anime/MazingerZ'', right during the second chapter of the original manga all the way in the early 1970s, making it very much an UnbuiltTrope. Also, Tetsuya Tsurugi from ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' deconstructed the arrogant, {{Hotblooded}} AcePilot archetype long before Asuka Langley Soryu. Also, ''Anime/Zambot3'' deconstructed the whole genre including the KidHero trope - in the late seventies, and ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon'' destroyed all semblance of limit for what a MechaShow can do with its' ending being a GainaxEnding before Gainax even existed in the early eighties.

** This also applies to anyone who thinks Jiraiya, Orochimaru and Tsunade originated in ''Naruto''. They're characters from Japanese folklore.
** The concept of a ninja named Sasuke is also far older than ''Naruto'', and it's pretty much the standard "ninja name" in Japan, this is due one of the most famous Ninja of the [[JidaiGeki Bakumatsu Period]] was UsefulNotes/SarutobiSasuke.

* Believe it or not, Creator/CartoonNetwork has shown adult animation prior to Creator/AdultSwim. In the early 90s they showed the original ''Anime/VampireHunterD'' movie.

* A lot of western anime fans think the phrase "{{Moe}} Moe Kyun!" originated from ''Anime/KOn''. In actuality, it's a StockPhrase said by maids in {{Maid Cafe}}s while stirring drinks, [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext as an incantation to make it more delicious]].

** Isekai stories starring female protagonists and aimed at women, such as ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'' and ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'', are thought to be an even more recent trend that originated in the late [=2010s=] and early [=20s=], but in reality they're mirroring trends in {{Shoujo}} manga of the [=1990s=], when isekai series such as ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' (1992) and ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' (1993) were released.

* There are ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fangirls who seriously think ''Anime/VampireKnight'' is a ''Twilight'' rip-off. It's hard to say, really, because both of their source materials were published in 2005. but it's safe to say mangaka Matsuri Hino began working on ''Vampire Knight'' before the ''Twilight'' book was actually ''published'', and translated and reprinted in Japan. Although this is still debatable, Twilight fangirls took it a little too far when they targeted ''Manga/{{Karin}}'' (because, you know, ''Karin'' has [[DaywalkingVampire vampires that can walk under sunlight]]!).

* Creator/StudioTrigger's ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2013'' is the story of a human girl who loves magic so much she wants to become a witch. Her beliefs about magic and being a witch go heavily against what "real" sorcerers had held as a tradition for centuries, so naturally, she becomes the black sheep among the magic community. In her misadventures, she's always accompanied by two apprentice witches who befriended her despite even them barely sharing her enthusiasm. What many people may not know is that this exact premise had already been used back in 2004, in Creator/Studio4C's ''Anime/TweenyWitches''. Even earlier, it parallels ''Literature/TheWorstWitch'', written in the 1960s.
** Western fans were surprised upon Andrew's introduction in the 2017 series due to being an important male character in a show about witches, alongside the confirmation that Wizards existed in the very last episode in said series. In Japan, [[https://little-witch-academia.fandom.com/wiki/Little_Witch_Academia:_Tsukiyo_no_%C5%8Ckan a Shojo manga]] was released in 2015 which featured a Wizard that was a childhood friend of Akko, who she even appeared to fawn over, and attended the same Shiny Chariot show as her, ironically becoming a success in magic unlike her. The lack of western release likely contributed to the surprise of Andrew's character, subtext with Akko and the appearance of Wizards in the finale.

* Before the 2000s series ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}'' was released in Japan. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPJjA0FnnuY&feature=emb_title There was a short OVA adaptation]] called [[https://lostmediawiki.com/Tottoko_Hamutaro:_Anime_Dechu!_(found_%22Hamtaro%22_anime_series;_1999) "Tottoko Hamutaro: Anime Dechu!"]] which features [[ArtEvolution different designs for the Ham-Hams]] and an older version of the show's theme song. This version faded into obscurity, [[MissingEpisode and was lost in Japan for 18 years]] until it resuraced online in July 20, 2017.

** Many so-called ''Dragon Ball'' "purists" insist on not using the term "Saiyan", the anglicized form of ''Saiyajin'', since it's a purely American invention according to them. What those people don't know is that the Anglicization of "Saiyajin" to "Saiyan" was first used by Bandai for their ''Dragon Ball Z'' toys, such as the "Super Battle Collection" action figures, which predated any of the American adaptations.