Tracing the Influence: Retraced Edition

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Wrath of the Black manta cover (1990) 🔗


It doesn't take a master detective to guess that the main inspiration for the North American cover variant for Taito's Wrath of the Black Manta was probably a Ninja movie. And lo and behold, the ninja's attacking pose was lifted directly from the ninja movie of the 1980s, at least from a Western awareness of the genre standpoint.

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