The amount of people who can't seem to understand how time works when comparing works of fiction really astound me. Like, I keep finding people who think that a character of a series of mystery novels that was published in Japan starting in the 1940s (the first book was, I think, 1946)...
Was inspired by an American TV character whose first show aired in 1968.
I'm pretty sure that's *not how time works*.
I'm not the first person to say that Yokomizo Seishi's character Kindaichi Kosuke "reminds me of Columbo" (because I saw Columbo first and then read what few translations of Yokomizo's works exist and have been coming out for the past few years).
But... it's also very easy to recognise that Columbo could not have inspired Kindaichi because... Kindaichi existed first.
@whatanerd been thinking on and off about how history would be different if Nintendo hadn't been cowards and published Yuji Horii's Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken in the West back in the '80s
the wind it woulda taken outta BioShock 1's sails, yo
