RIN - Daughters of Mnemosyne (TV)
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Mnemosyne was the personification of memory in Greek mythology. She was a titaness, the daughter of Gaia and Uranus, and the mother of the Muses by Zeus.
Yggdrasil is the World Tree from Nordic (Viking) mythology.
Tajimamori's legend in episode five is based upon a real legend mentioned in Japanese chronicles "Nihon Shoki", wherein Emperor Suinin ordered a man named Tajimamori to bring him the "fruit of immortality" (which was thought to be a mandarin orange) from the "Land of No Aging and No Death".
In episodes 5 and 6, Mishio often refers to herself (and later, to Mimi) as "Holmes". This is a reference to Sherlock Holmes, probably the most famous fictional private detective, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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In episode 4, Ruon's father Katsuyuki Kamiyama is repeatedly compared to John von Neumann, a famous scientist who made colossal contributions to information technology in the twentieth century.
"Project L'Isle-Adam" in episode 4 refers to Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, a French author who wrote "The Future Eve", a novel about Hadaly, a mechanical woman invented by Thomas Edison for his friend. Ruon Kamiyama shows many similarities to Hadaly.
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