User blog comment:Videogamep/The Next Big Three/@comment-1940096-20140606174800/@comment-3986064-20140606194544

Rip off of battle royale? Don't you mean deadman wonderland being a rip off of that? It seems much more conceivable and Btoom is a rip off of Sword Art Online. There was also another game anime with people trapped in a game, but I don't remember if it's older than the SAO novels or not. The author of SAO also made accel world which resembles the concept a little and that is older than the hack franchise. Also if we want to go back to science fiction, why not go back all the way to Frankenstein, the first sci-fi book. Everything is a rip off of everything, because there is nothing entirely original in this world anymore. And yes, I enjoyed Sword Art Online quite a lot, the mood of that day was the best mood ever or maybe the way the characters moved and how the story revolved, not it being original, made the whole anime a great experience...