Identifying inspiration among Black Mirror episode and Sword Art Online
I just watched 'Black Mirror' episode 4 of season 3 (11 episode of whole) titled 'San Junipero'
Lots of concepts were similar to the last quarter of 'Sword Art Online' anime 'Mother Rosario'
- Using virtual reality for therapy or rehabilitation purposes.
- Spending huge part of one's own life in VR due to health issues.
- Homosexual relationship among protagonists in Black Mirror which resulted in marriage compared to a joke said by Yuuki to Asuna about inability to get married with her because she would change her name into Yuuki Yuuki (Asuna's surname)
My question is: Is it possible that these productions were somehow influenced by one another? Or is it common trope in SciFi or simple coincidence?
Best Answer
As far as I know, the origin of the 'meme' is Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (1992) though you could make strong representations for the online world Second Life (2004) to be a more contemporary origin - in as much as it 'exists', unlike the world of Snow Crash [the Metaverse] which was only ever on paper.
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