Thread:Virgalyssa/@comment-39596415-20190902160801/@comment-39596415-20190907101434

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.denfaminicogamer.jp%2Finterview%2F181019 That's a link to the interview in Google translate. So the translation will be a little butchered, but it should give some insight as to Toby's love for Kimura's games. The main takeaway points are that Kimura and Fox have been friends since before Undertale. Toby reached out to Kimura to express his love for his games, specifically Moon (1997 Japan-only RPG) which heavily inspired his approach to writing good and evil in Undertale. The interview itself was arranged by Kimura so that Fox and Touhou creator ZUN could meet for the first time, since they are both familiar with the other's works.

As I have said, there is no proof that Fox has played Little King's Story, but when I say "Kimura games", at the time that Fox and Kimura seem to say they became friends, there were, like, 4 games directed by Yoshiro Kimura: Moon, Chulip, Little King's Story, and Million Onion Hotel.

I mostly brought this connection to this wiki because a lot of the LKS community believes that TV Dinnah was likely light inspiration for Mettaton, given the way Fox talks about Kimura. Fox has also talked about this stuff in other places, but I felt the interview was probably the best example of the fact that the two are somewhat close close. Again, I'm not 100% convinced, but I thought that it was something that could have been overlooked by Undertale fans simply because Little King's Story is, well, completely unknown online (until recently, where its community has seemingly appeared out of nowhere).

Fun side note: I made a joke on twitter about whether Fox and Kimura have ever discussed that Mettaton is a ripoff of TV Dinnah and Kimura himself liked that tweet. It's not evidence or anything, but I think it's pretty funny, especially given that at the time I wasn't even aware he had a twitter account.

Hope that's a bit more specific. I still understand if it's not enough evidence to support the claim, but it's something the LKS community kind of accepted a while ago. I'll report any more evidence should it come to light.

Thank you for indulging in my tangeant.