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10. Yuno Gasai from Mirai Nikki.
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1. Charles Manson from Mirai Nikki.

— Gigguk's Top 10 Yandere Everyone Needs to Know

Although it didn't invent the genre — contrary to its claims — Battlegrounds undoubtedly had the biggest hand in turning the battle-royale-style game into a global hit.

—Jim Sterling

There's lots of bands who could claim to have invented metal, but there's no-one who could claim to have done it after Black Sabbath.

—Polyphonic

"The movie that spawned a genre."

—Tagline for Django

By 1975, Go Nagai had singlehandedly defined almost all of modern mecha's gimmicks: Piloted robotic vehicles, mecha whose command modules could serve as mini-vehicles, vehicles which combine to form a mech, and Mecha which could be "powered up" by add-on parts (Mazinger Z's Jet-Scrander backpack and Grendizer's UFO-like Spazer Booster). The only vital ingredient that Nagai didn't personally add to the mecha recipe was transformation; that honor belongs to 1975's Brave Raideen, which could shape-change into an avian God-Bird mode.

— Animerica magazine, "A History of Mecha Anime"

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