{"id":737,"date":"2003-08-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/08\/22\/ask-john-is-dual-an-evangelion-rip-off\/"},"modified":"2003-08-22T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-22T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-is-dual-an-evangelion-rip-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-is-dual-an-evangelion-rip-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Is Dual an Evangelion Rip-Off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nIs Dual a rip of Evagelion?  I was wondering since the mecha in Dual looks almost identical to that of the Eva&#8217;s from Evagelion.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nDual! Parallel Lun Lun Monogatari is not a &#8220;rip off&#8221; of Evangelion.  It is creator Masaki Kajishima&#8217;s intentional parody\/homage to Evangelion. A rip-off tries to directly imitate its predecessor without acknowledging the influence. Dual is slightly different because it doesn&#8217;t try to obscure or hide the fact that it&#8217;s intentionally recreating Evangelion with a slightly different &#8220;feel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Is Dual a rip of Evagelion? I was wondering since the mecha in Dual looks almost identical to that of the Eva&#8217;s from Evagelion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}