

The basic premise of the anime _Re:Creators_ is that when someone writes a
book or scriptwrites a video game or something, they create an actual world
where the events of the book/game/etc actually happen. Then, at the beginning
of the show, some of the characters from those created worlds get transported
into the "show world" (the world in which the main character [Souta] lives and
in which the created worlds are works of fiction) by a Plot Device (the
princess).

All of the created worlds are works of fiction that exist in the show world,
but do not exist in the "real world" (the world in which you and I live), like
_Avalken of Reminiscence_ and _Vogelchevalier_ and _Magical Slayer Mamika_.

I have noticed talk of a rumor (see e.g.
[here](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/689wj7/spoilers_recreators_episode_4_discussion/dgwz9uj/))
that the created worlds were originally planned to be works of fiction that
_do_ exist in the real world, but that this plan fell through for one reason
or another.

What is the source of this rumor, and how veracious is it? It sounds very
_truthy_ , almost to the point that I have to wonder if the source is some
random guy who thought it would be cool if it actually played out that way and
so originated the rumor.


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Was Re:Creators originally planned to feature fictional works that actually exist in the real world?


As cool as it sounds, I find it highly improbable. Someone might have gotten
the idea at the start of the production, but simple thought about it makes it
extremely difficult to pull off.

The major hurdle is licensing. Getting licenses to all the shows and
characters would be massive undertaking and would take massive amounts of
time, effort and money.

Next is getting authors of other works agree to have someone else write
official story with their own characters. I'm sure most authors would not be
fine having their own characters being written by someone else.

There is also a problem of fitting the characters into the story. Many popular
characters have clearly defined personality and fitting that personality into
the story might not be easy. And while many characters are clearly influenced
or based on other fictional characters, there are none who would fit into the
story exactly.

Another thing is fan perception. If characters from existing stories would be
used, it would change canon as seen by fans. And it is not something authors
of the originals might want. And it might take some twisting of the
character's personalities to fit them into the story, resulting in outrage of
fans at clearly out-of-character depiction of their favorites.

So no, I don't think this was ever a worthy idea during production of
Re:Creators.


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