In mixing my recent streak of Megaman posts with my persisting fondness for anime, here’s a Megaman AND anime-related post.
I recently obtained the “Rockman 20th Anniversary Design Book” (or whatever its official title is), and in it I found out that the big blue dogs from Woodman’s stage in Megaman 2, called “Hot Dogs” In English, have a different name in Japan.
In the world of Rockman, this dog is called “Friender,” which is a very obvious reference to another blue, fire-spitting robot dog, only this one isn’t from the wrong side of the tracks from the series Neo-Human Casshern and its remakes.
It’s kind of funny realizing just how many of those games from childhood before you discovered anime turn out to have taken inspiration from anime.
OGIUE MANIAX 
Casshern happened before Megaman did?
Come to think of it, the only true dogs I remember is Rush… orz.
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In the original Casshern anime Friender could indeed turn into a jet.
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Yeah, Neo-Human Casshern is from the early 70s, well before the NES. That world has a little more influence on the X era than the Rockman one, but that’s still a neat detail.
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