Hh Antigen System - Popular Culture

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• In the horror manga Reiko the Zombie Shop, the character Midori Yurikawa, a friendly, but temperamental young girl who becomes homicidal when assaulted and her more malicious older sister Saki Yurikawa (who died in volume one and came back as a zombie) is revealed to be a carrier of the Bombay blood type and is searched for by Reiko after Dr. Akiyama (the doctor who watched over Midori) committed suicide by slitting her wrists.

• In the cooking anime Yakitate!! Japan, Pierrot was revealed to have Bombay blood, and so was the King of Monaco, who was related to him.

• In the detective anime Get Backers, the protagonists Ban and Ginji are sent on a mission to retrieve Bombay blood for a terminally ill girl named Yumiko. It is later revealed that one of the antagonists possesses the bag with the said blood type and they are forced to fight them to acquire the blood.

• On the daytime soap opera General Hospital, it was believed that Monica's husband Alan could not have been the father of her child, as Alan's blood was AB, Monica's was A, and the child's was thought to be O. However, it was eventually revealed that Alan was indeed the father; he and Monica were both recessive carriers of the h gene and the baby had the Bombay phenotype.

• In the 2007 Telugu film Okkadunnadu, both the protagonist Kiran (Gopichand) and the antagonist mafia don Sonu Bhai (Mahesh Manjrekar) are the only two carriers of the Bombay blood type. Kiran's heart is sought after by Sonu Bhai's henchmen for an urgent heart transplant required by Sonu Bhai.

• In real life, the actor Charlie Chaplin was accused in a paternity suit naming him as the father. Upon investigation it was revealed that the resulting child had the Bombay phenotype, and therefore Mr Chaplin could not be the father because he was found not to be a carrier of the gene. Unfortunately, he was still found guilty and ultimately he provided support to the child. It was said that he lost his case because so very little was known at the time about the workings of genetics, which affected the jury in their determination of the outcome of the case.

• In the 2012 Japanese television drama Seinaru Kaibutsutachi Mie Arima which has Bombay blood is killed by the chief nurse Yuka Kasugai with a 0+ blood transfusion while undergoing a Caesarean section.

• In the 2010-12 Canadian TV series My Babysitter's A Vampire, Ethan, one of the main characters, is said to have H-deficient blood which the vampires of the story consider a delicacy.

• In the movie Get the Gringo (2012) the villain (Javi) also has Bombay Blood Group.

• In the hindi movie Kahaani (2012) the main antagonist Milan Damji has Bombay Blood Group and this fact was one of the evidence in the thriller movie.