The other day I was out shopping for movies with a couple of friends. My one friend was looking specifically for these Blu-Rays that have a book in the front, giving you all kinds of information about the film and the actors involved. One we found was The Matrix, and it had a section which talked about the influences on the film. However, (unless I somehow missed it), it failed to mention the film's single biggest influence, 1995's Ghost In The Shell. The Wachowski's literally showed the film off while pitching The Matrix and said: "We wanna do that for real". We also started talking about the recent Tom Cruise movie Edge of Tomorrow, which is a film adaptation of the manga All You Need Is Kill (which, in turn, gets inspiration from Harold Ramis' GroundHog Day). My one friend suggested, somewhat jokingly, that people are "afraid to admit that they're taking ideas from anime". I think there are lots of times where people are unaware of the influences of the movies they watch, and perhaps anime is a bit more overlooked as an influence on western media than western media is on western media. The Matrix is a prime example because it is considered so groundbreaking, yet a lot of people aren't aware of how heavily it borrows from other sources. What do you all think? I just wish people were more interested in the influences of the things they watch in general. It is an important part of the conversation of any movie/book/show in my opinion.tl;dr Do you think anime and manga are overlooked as an influence on western media, and/or do creators purposely refrain from admitting when they are influenced by anime/manga?EDIT: Edge of Tomorrow is an adaptation of the light novel series All You Need Is Kill. The manga version of AYNIK was published in Jump in 2014, around the same time that the Tom Cruise film was released. http://ift.tt/1S2oHGp
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