Copycats are nothing new in the gaming space. Black Myth: Wukong received one late last year, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom did the year before. Unsurprisingly, NSFW copycats are just as common, with Helldivers 2 the latest victim of the trend.
That's one way to make us feel nostalgic.
A new mobile game, Enigma of Sepia, may have taken things to the next level, though, creating gacha waifu versions of some of anime's most iconic characters, including One Piece's Luffy, Dragon Ball's Goku, and Attack on Titan's Eren.
Reports of the game first appeared on ResetEra, with commenters quick to point out the similarities between Enigma of Sepia's characters and those that exist in the anime landscapes of Jump and Shueisha, and they have a point.
Across the game's social media channels, YouTube channel, and its website, dozens of characters have seemingly been inspired, and we use the word inspired loosely, by existing anime favorites. The character Nova features Luffy's infamous straw hat, Satoria is wearing Gojo's infamous round sunglasses, and Denise has chainsaws for hands, just like Denji from Chainsaw Man.
In the game's first trailer, characters like Evangelion's Unit-01 appear, and across its other...
