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  • In Shirobako, resident Bookworm Midori gets so into reading Crime and Punishment that she pulls an all-nighter to finish it.

Literature

  • Young Yoo from Miracle Creek wrote her unfinished master's thesis on Rawls, Kant, and Locke as applied to Raskolnikov. She stopped at her mother's insistence ("No husband wants a wife more educated than him; it would humiliate him!").
  • In Mindblind, Nathaniel remembers reading Crime and Punishment for his World Lit class. He usually thinks of fiction reading as a waste of time, but not when it gets him his diploma.

Live-Action TV

  • The Expanse: One of the UNN ships in the fourth season is called "UNN Raskolnikov", the name of the protagonist of Dostoevsky's famous novel Crime and Punishment.

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Video Games

  • Limbus Company: All of the main characters are named for literary characters, including Rodion, a genderbent version of Crime and Punishment's main character. She worked for her friend Sonya (a genderbent version of Sofya) in hopes of starting a revolution, only to become disillusioned at the inaction of her partners.
  • Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story reveals that Crime and Punishment is one of Oriko Mikuni’s favorite books growing up. It’s interesting to note that Oriko herself is one half of a pair of serial killers alongside her best friend Kirika.

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