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PrincessAcedia wrote: I don't see why Kokuan can't be based on both Momotaro and Kaguya-hime

Yes most of the inspiration comes from Momotaro but you can't really say mothy never intended for Kokutan to also have similarities with Kaguya-hime because it's not like he has outright said that Kokutan is exclusively based on Momotaro.

Yeah I totally agree. It's not the first time mothy used a couple of fairy tales for a character; he stated that the inspiration for Gift came from Sleeping Beauty, Snowhite and even Rapunzel.

So far the parallels with Kaguya are: having been found in a tree by an old man, who also saw a faint 'kaguya'(=shining) light in the special tree, being raised by an old couple in a village, and being born from the tree because of the gods' will. And there is also the same vague line of the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, saying that Kokutan/Kaguya "grew up quickly". So I really think this has a number of parallels to Kaguya and for me that also was an inspiration for Kokutan-douji.