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zawa113
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Waaait wait wait wait, Akiko Higashimura made a manga, about a detective, who likes food (presumably also pancakes) AND his name is seriously "Goro Akechi"? This is starting to sound like a really strange AU Persona 5 fanfic or something 
Or, it would have, had the manga not started in 2015, over a year BEFORE Persona 5 was released. So now it's sounding like exactly the opposite!
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Llyud
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 6:47 pm |
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| zawa113 wrote: | Waaait wait wait wait, Akiko Higashimura made a manga, about a detective, who likes food (presumably also pancakes) AND his name is seriously "Goro Akechi"? This is starting to sound like a really strange AU Persona 5 fanfic or something
Or, it would have, had the manga not started in 2015, over a year BEFORE Persona 5 was released. So now it's sounding like exactly the opposite! |
Both characters were named after Kogoro Akechi, a fictional private detective:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogoro_Akechi
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mulletZERO
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 8:26 pm |
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| Llyud wrote: | | zawa113 wrote: | Waaait wait wait wait, Akiko Higashimura made a manga, about a detective, who likes food (presumably also pancakes) AND his name is seriously "Goro Akechi"? This is starting to sound like a really strange AU Persona 5 fanfic or something
Or, it would have, had the manga not started in 2015, over a year BEFORE Persona 5 was released. So now it's sounding like exactly the opposite! |
Both characters were named after Kogoro Akechi, a fictional private detective:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogoro_Akechi |
Interesting! I did not know that. Definitely had to do a double take at the headline. So essentially he's like a Japanese version of Sherlock Holmes that is referenced in popular culture.
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zawa113
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 9:38 pm |
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I did not know that either! Interesting that they both dropped the "Ko" and went with "Goro" though!
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OtherSideofSky
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 10:24 am |
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| zawa113 wrote: | | I did not know that either! Interesting that they both dropped the "Ko" and went with "Goro" though! |
Goro is (or was, anyway) a common name, and you get it by dropping just one character from Akechi Kogoro, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are older examples as well.
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