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A Comprehensive List of Mihoyo’s References
This is an ever-growing list of Mihoyo’s references and copying, hosted here on my very own site. I do not trust twitter. It could be gone from there at any time.
I made this list because I firmly believe my dragon book was copied in some form, so I am documenting all of their references and copies so people can understand I am not basing this on nothing.
This list is growing! If videos do not play, it is because I could not afford my website’s plan this month!
All of this info was pulled from Twitter!
Featured photo is from Teyvat Times.
Silent Hill F
I don’t know what game this is
Star Wars
The dragon spaceship (Eugh) is designed exactly like Kylo Ren’s ship
The dragon moon functions exactly like a Death Star
Freiren reference
An indie developer had his game copied by Mihoyo
Bloodborne:
A user on Twitter told me this:
They copied entire quest series of a little girl asking player to find her family members, even including elements of dialogue behind window, music box, finding belongings near a monster pig.
Could someone provide screenshots maybe? Or confirm this?
Kingdom Hearts
Kinich mimicked Sora’s drive attacks
Rifthounds and KH wolves (?)
I can and can’t see it, because it’s blended so well but I also can see it. I can see it in the big mane, wispy body, and floaty things.
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Yeah, ok, I do love the new spooky girls in Zenless Zone Zero, but I need to save for Sunbringer.
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Nodusfall First Reveal Trailer: "Wield Divinity, Sever the Dreadnodus"
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https://www.wacoca.com/games/1441603/ 『原神』新キャラクター「ヴェスナ」のキャラ紹介が公開。担当声優は平野綾さん – 電ファミニコゲーマー ##GAMING #FAB #Game #GameNews #games #GamingNews #HoYoverse #ヴェスナ #ゲーミング #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報 #ニュース #原神
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7.0 Archon Quest completed. Probably the quickest I have finished an Archon quest since I started playing. Overall, it is a great start to the Snezhnaya story, even if I want to side with Ronova (because hot).
Now, the work to explore the map begins.
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https://www.wacoca.com/games/1438763/ G-STAR 2026、ゲーム会社ではなくAIプラットフォーム「Crack」がメインスポンサーに…中国ゲーム会社が大挙参加 — BigGo ファイナンス ##GAMING #BEXCO #bilibili #CenturyGames #crack #GCON2026 #GSTAR2026 #GSTAR組織委員会 #Game #GameNews #games #GamingNews #GooglePlay #HoYoverse #NeteaseGames #Webzen #WrtnTechnologies #ゲーミング #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報 #チョ・ヨンギ #チョン・スンウ #現代自動車
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Happy "HOLY SHIT WE'RE FINALLY GOING TO SNEZHNAYA!" to all who celebrate.
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I am sorry, what? This is absolutely wild.
CoD Mobile + Honkai Impact 3rd in September
Teaser: https://youtu.be/4VGdBCFUlys
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Genshin Impact llega por fin a Snezhnaya, la séptima nación de Teyvat, el 12 de agosto
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https://www.wacoca.com/games/1428315/ 『ゼンゼロ』×「ウェンディーズ・ファーストキッチン」コラボの最新情報が公開 – 電ファミニコゲーマー ##GAMING #Game #GameNews #games #GamingNews #HoYoverse #ウェンディーズ #ウェンディーズ・ファーストキッチン #ゲーミング #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報 #ゼンゼロ #ゼンレスゾーンゼロ #つばきマン #ニュース #モエチャッカファイア
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https://www.wacoca.com/games/1426385/ 『ゼンゼロ』ヒューゴ、狛野真斗（、ライト、セヴェリアンの4人が歌う「モエチャッカファイア」が公開 – 電ファミニコゲーマー ##GAMING #FAB #Game #GameNews #games #GamingNews #HoYoPlay #HoYoverse #ゲーミング #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報 #ゼンゼロ #ゼンレスゾーンゼロ #ニュース #モエチャッカファイア
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https://www.wacoca.com/games/1423990/ 『ゼンゼロ』ヒューゴ、狛野真斗、ライト、セヴェリアンの4人が歌う『モエチャッカファイア』が7月25日リリース – 電ファミニコゲーマー ##GAMING #Game #GameNews #games #GamingNews #HoYoFair #HoYoverse #ゲーミング #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報 #ゼンゼロ #ゼンレスゾーンゼロ #としあど #ニュース #モエチャッカファイア #森川智之 #福山潤 #興津和幸 #高橋広樹
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Natlan’s Dragons Make Me Uncomfortable but Not For the Reasons You Think
It Starts
When I was watching someone play the last parts of the Little Buddy quest, it felt too familiar. All throughout the quest I was praying it wasn’t going where I thought it was going, and it did. It felt a little bit like my lore but repurposed.
Technologically advanced dragons isn’t anything new, but it’s something that is rare. Sure, paranormal romance authors have tackled this, but none have gotten as expansive as mine (and now Genshin‘s).
I think Mihoyo might have searched me and found my works and the lore of my dragons that I’ve talked about in online spaces. Now, ‘why would they do that‘ and ‘they don’t know you,’ you ask? I’ve messaged them before.
Source: Genshin WikiMihoyo has responded personally to my messages before. It’s not pre-written like it is now when someone messages them. They thanked me for my dragon scaramouche idea and said it was very interesting. The message I sent regarding that included me asking them to give Scaramouche a dragon pet or have part of his body ingredients come from the electro sovereign.
Being thanked for Scaramouche dragon suggestionsBeing thanked for character lore suggestionsA typical bot messageBeing thanked for so many Natlan suggestionsThat wasn’t my first message to them that got a response. My very first message to them was a loooooong message about what African cultural references they can include in Sumeru and Natlan. I included many African references and they thanked me for “writing so much.” It’s not far fetched to think they googled my name and found my work.
Comparisons
Kukulkan, the architect behind plans to annihilate the dragon race (?)Here’s a rough comparison of my dragons and theirs:
- My dragons used to rule on earth and arrived in the pre Cambrian time, as detailed in one of the short stories. Mihoyo’s dragons have been on Teyvat since the beginning as well.
- In EOD, it is implied through art that dragons created humans, because one of the first dragons to land on earth had a human form. I suspect Genshin lore will do this.
- My dragons have their own AI, androids and cyborgs. No dragon-made cyborgs in Natlani dragons but they have their own little bots and AI. Ineffa somewhat counts because her core is one of Xiucoatl’s management AI.
- A short lore piece of mine released in December 2, 2022. A flash story detailing the total annihilation of a planet, but careful enough not to create a void via chain reaction. There is a similar weapon in the ending of the Natlan dragon/Little Buddy quest.
- dragons going to war with humans, but mine ‘win’ and an uneasy peace treaty is signed. The planet is taken over by them. In Genshin, dragons and humans fought in the Funerary War.
- One of my dragons, Rin, is left behind at the end of the universe and lives into the next one. The same happens to Little Buddy in Natlan if you choose to phlogistoize Teyvat.
- My dragons have made worlds similar to dyson spheres. Tollan itself seems to be a world within a contained area like a Dyson sphere.
- My dragons have metaphysical connections to the knowledge within the universe (some of these lore tidbits are in the ebooks/short stories I made, as well as scattered across my old author twitter), and Tollan’s phlogiston pools seem to grant dragons metaphysical knowledge and memories.
- Phlogiston seems to be like Substance in my world, where my dragon characters have it in their bodies to help them shapeshift and stay alive beyond death.
How Could They Do It?
I hear you over there saying, “Mihoyo is Chinese! They don’t have access to American bookstores!”
WRONG.
I stupidly put my books on a Chinese bookstore (or pirate site I think). Two of them: The Love of an Italian Dragon and il cyborg divina. They’re both unavailable as-is on current bookstores due to bad reviews they were getting (I was a teen when I wrote them), but they still exist on that bookstore.
These could show up in a Chinese search engine, and therefore open a rabbit hole that will bring them to my blog, where all of the Dragon’s War stories existed.
Also, I am pretty sure VPNs exist in China, and my books may be on more pirate sites that I don’t know about.
Lastly, my site is very much accessible in China. I still get views from there. Heck, the past three years, Hong Kong SAR China is ranked 4 for visitors regions to my site from the last three years. China itself ranks a little lower.
This is Not Their First Rodeo
Mihoyo has also taken before from little people. A small Korean artist had their OC used as a reference for Lion boy Ga’ming, and there’s Korean blogs about many things they took from/referenced. For example, it was a huge controversy that the Aranara plot line was lifted from the game Kena: Bridge of Souls.
Links
To preface, I don’t know if some of these can be pushed as references or not, a lot of these (like the Elden ring pony) are frame for frame animation yoinking.
- Hoyo and JJK, and Dr. Stone: https://www.inven.co.kr/board/webzine/2097/2168800
- Hoyo and Zelda but with more things people haven’t caught like Monster Hunter, Eula’s moveset being taken from another game, etc: https://bbs.ruliweb.com/etcs/board/300780/read/53681697
- This is old but Hoyo and Nier Automata: https://www.dogdrip.net/283264592
- Nier dashing animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y763xuJqNq8
- Vergil’s DMC5 move set on various characters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OP_rKc3dAs
- Itto and Dante: https://arca.live/b/genshin/40383801
- Aranara quest using similar storyline to the indie game Kena: https://arca.live/b/genshin/59876455
- Ei literally using the same time stop attack as Vergil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w7h1S5bX60
- Scara’s move set: https://m.dcinside.com/board/aoegame/23612738
- Elden Ring pony prance: https://x.com/shincry/status/1692666496613249216?s=46&t=udoc7y1aLMkQD8fC0yzjYA
They also traced Oumi Janta’s dance and her mannerisms, but they ultimately removed it. People claim what she did was a common dance move, but they traced her mannerisms like the way she moved her hands.
Also, they love heavily referencing obscure media, like the manga Edo Never Sleeps. You can find comparisons and analysis here: https://x.com/candlenara/status/1931440726770168051
These links were sent to me by an excellent Korean artist who quit Genshin after finding out these controversies.
A writer I knew who quit Genshin had also done so due to the extreme similarities to Final Fantasy 14 (the online one). Basically:
- Fandaniel pretends to be an ally to the player (Scaramouche does the same in Unreconciled Stars)
- Is part of a group of 11 baddies (Scaramouche is part of the 11 Fatui Harbingers)
- Suffered bad trauma and thought ascending to godhood was a way to cope with it (Scaramouche tries to become a god after suffering much trauma caused by Il Dottore)
- Tried to kill hi self and gets the main character to help him by going to ‘a representation of the Moon.’ (Scaramouche tries to ‘kill himself’ by going through Irminsul, but it doesn’t work the way he wants)
The latest moon map has also been compared to Mare Lamentorum. I’m not sure in what ways, since I do not play FF 14.
Conclusion
Source: https://www.hoyolab.com/article/33629460Someone said the scifi elements is a retcon, because the twins were summoned to Teyvat. I remember this being part of the lore. Defenders will argue and claim “everyone is an unreliable narrator, just like real life.” You all forget, real life has historians for a reason.
A friend of mine said they are abandoning the fantasy concepts because all of the popular Gacha that are out right now (like Wuthering Waves) are Scifi-Fantasy or Scifi. I can see that happening. Mihoyo chasing a trend is nothing new, but it is a little upsetting because they used to be trendsetters, not followers. I actually love the scifi elements being added to Genshin. I just… hate when it involves dragons.
If they added a reference to my work, like maybe an NPC named after Ashuton Karrucci, I would possibly forgive this. Possibly.
I guess if they had put something African in Ochkanatlan, I would’ve had more ground to be extremely weirded out, because my dragons’ top rulers and most powerful bloodline have African names, and the earth kingdom’s bloodline has African roots.
The thing that also upsets me is that the dragons and their tech are not even African inspired. We already have many tropes about the advanced South American civilization. Mihoyo could’ve kept it mixed with South American and African inspirations in the dragon tech. Africa barely gets a spotlight in these gacha games (or anime games in general because of their fascination with Europe). A society of African or Afro-mixed dragons in a big game like this would’ve helped encourage the youth of today to explore more about Africa.
I guess if they had put something African in Ochkanatlan, I would’ve had more ground to be extremely weirded out, because my dragons’ top rulers and most powerful bloodline have African names, and the earth kingdom’s bloodline has African roots, but I also feel like I would’ve felt proud? Significant African representation was all I wanted in Natlan.
It feels so uncomfortable now to play Genshin. They don’t care about losing me. I am just one person whose lore helped them be inspired.
I just want them to say it. Or thank me by letting the world know, with an NPC.
(I also got invited to something but that’s all I can say)
Cover image from this YouTube thumbnail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2DKpAgQpnc
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https://www.wacoca.com/games/1420968/ HoYoverseの「gamescom 2026」出展ラインナップが発表『崩壊：ネクサスアニマ』と『プチプラネット』が初出展 ##GAMING #Game #GameNews #games #gamescom #Gamescom2026 #GamingNews #HoYoverse #ゲーミング #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報 #ゼンレスゾーンゼロ #ニュース #ばくらば #プチプラネット #原神 #崩壊：スターレイル #崩壊：ネクサスアニマ #株式会社COGNOSPHERE
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La versión 4.4 de Honkai: Star Rail «El silbato que rompe el silencio» se lanzará el 15 de julio
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https://www.wacoca.com/games/1409317/ 【原神】キャラクタートレーラー サンドローネ（CV：本多真梨子）「新たな自分へ」 ##GAMING #Android #Game #GameNews #games #GamingNews #GamingTrending #genshin #GenshinImpact #HoYoverse #iOS #japanese #miHoYo #PC #PS4 #RPG #TrendingGames #アクション #アニメ #オープンワールド #ゲーミング #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報 #サンプルボイス #ドラゴンクエストV天空の花嫁 #原神 #新作ゲーム #日本
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After 6 Years of Teasing, Genshin Impact Finally Reveals Its Big Bad
https://www.polygon.com/genshin-impact-tsaritsa-reveal-snezhyna/
#genshinimpact #genshin #mihoyo #hoyoverse #videogames #gaming #gamingnews
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https://www.wacoca.com/games/1406179/ 【原神】エピソード サンドローネ「朝の日の温もり」 ##GAMING #Android #Game #GameNews #games #GamingNews #GamingTrending #genshin #GenshinImpact #HoYoverse #iOS #japanese #miHoYo #PC #PS4 #RPG #TrendingGames #アクション #アニメ #オープンワールド #ゲーミング #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報 #サンプルボイス #ドラゴンクエストV天空の花嫁 #原神 #新作ゲーム #日本
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Sandrone & Columbina – UwU Funk Ver.2 【Genshin impact MMD】 #sandrone #columbina #原神 #genshinimpact https://www.playing-games.com/1045014/ ##dance ##genshinimpactedit ##genshinimpactgameplay ##genshinshorts ##mmdshorts ##산드로네 ##콜롬비나 #Animation #anime #Columbina #genshin #GenshinImpact #GenshinImpactMmd #genshinedit #genshinimpact #HoYoverse #memes #miHoYo #MMD #MMD原神 #music #natlan #nodkrai #sandrone #SHORTS #UwUFunk #Vtuber #げんしん #コロンビーナ #サンドローネ #原神 #哥倫比亞 #桑多涅
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Genshin Impact da la bienvenida al regreso de Sandrone como parte de la llegada de la versión Luna VIII
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Honkai: Nexus Anima “Evolution Test” Recruitment Now Open
https://hna.hoyoverse.com/en-us
#hoyoverse #honkainexusanima #gamedev #videogames #gaming #gamingnews
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HoYoverse’s Honkai: Nexus Anima opens closed beta applications for the upcoming "Evolution Test" of their new creature-collecting adventure strategy game.
https://www.broximar.ca/hoyoverses-honkai-nexus-anima-opens-closed-beta-applications/
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https://www.wacoca.com/games/1404128/ HoYoverse、「崩壊」シリーズ最新作『崩壊:ネクサスアニマ』でデータ削除型クローズドテスト「進化テスト」を募集正式開始！ 7月9日よりPC、Android、iOSで開催 | gamebiz ##GAMING #Game #GameNews #gamebiz #games #GamingNews #HoYoverse、「崩壊」シリーズ最新作『崩壊:ネクサスアニマ』でデータ削除型クローズドテスト「進化テスト」を募集正式開始！ 7月9日よりPC、Android、iOSで開催 #social #SocialGameInfo #インフォ #ゲーミング #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報 #人気アプリ #最新情報
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Genshin Impact Version "Luna VIII" Special Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_hU8t3waig
#genshinimpact #genshin #hoyoverse #videogames #gaming #gamingnews
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"Zenless Zone Zero"
Gacha well Made. Impressive movements and art.
Watch my quick review!#ZenlessZeroReview #HoYoverse #ActionRPG #GachaGame #GameReview #IndieGaming #RPGGameplay #FreeToPlay #GamingChannel #indie #gaming #videogaming #videogames