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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
11th Apr, 2016 02:45:13 AM
Spiritual Successor or Spin-Off?
Edited by eroock
SamCurt
Since: Jan, 2001
11th Apr, 2016 05:10:34 AM
^ Does the fact that Seminar's author doesn't write Note affects the evaluation?
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Scorpion451
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11th Apr, 2016 06:12:37 AM
Nope.
This really sounds a lot like you're describing Spiritual Successor.
The situation is as follows:
In 1993, there was a Light Novel series called KZ Shonen Shoujo Seminar (Seminar), which last only a year—in LN terms it can be seen as Cut Short.
Some 18 years later, with Seminar's author's agreement, the basic premise of Seminar was used to write a series of Children's Literature, known as Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note (Note).
While the two series share the same basic premise and characterizations, they're considered unrelated works, especially given an inverted Age Lift was applied to Note so that the cast as an age closer to the new readers.
The Japanese call that a "rewrite," which is also the terminology used in Note's article in this wiki. But obviously this is not rewrite, the trope. In troper-speak, what can be used to characterize the relation of Note in relate to Seminar? Retool or just adaptation?
Edited by SamCurt