Influences in Other Works
The "End of the World" narrative is one of the inspirations for Yoshitoshi ABe in creating his Haibane Renmei, originally produced as a manga and later adapted as an anime series. Both works contain a city people are not allowed to leave, a wall, a river, a library and a clock tower.
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