Maybe there will always be overlap in the thinking of geniuses in a field?
Naruto's author Kishimoto Kishimoto and Pirate's author, Eiichiro Oda, more than once had the same inspiration in the process of creating manga.
For example, as we said last time, Yamaji was actually called "Naruto" in Oda's original conception, and this Naruto's name was taken from the pattern of the fish board in Japanese ramen - a rolled circle, and as a result, after Naruto began to serialize, Oda found that the names overlapped, and then changed it to Yamaji's:
Another example is the following:
As many people know, one piece's three major generals, "green pheasant, red dog, and yellow ape", are taken from the famous Japanese actors Yusaku Matsuda, Suga Bunta, and Tanaka Kuniyoshi.
But few people know that the material about the red dog, in so many of Suga's original acting works, what really inspired Oda was the series of movies "The Battle of No Mercy".
The idea of one piece war on top also comes from the 1974 work of this series of movies "Battle on top of the unkind".
It can be said that the prototype of the Red Dog is the role played by Suga Bunta in the "Battle for No Mercy" series.
Let's talk about Naruto.
The character archetypes in Naruto are rarely taken from real-life characters, so the evidence in this regard is not as detailed as that of One Piece.
But what is certain is that the realistic prototype of Naruto' psychic beast, Toad Funeta, is also Suga Bunta, also taken from the "Battle of The Inhumane" series of movies!
Not only is the name "Bunta" exactly the same, but even the setting is the same: Toad Bunta's appearance is designed in the form of a Japanese gang boss, such as pipes, costumes, and tone.
It is precisely this image that Sugamotota is popular in Japan, and in "The Battle of No Ren", Sugamotota plays such an image.