Talk:Hideo Kuze
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Is the claim about the literary reference really substantiated? Obviously, since nothing like that can explicitly be mentioned in the show, I think that this assertion needs to be backed up. This part,
"Elements of Motoko and Kuze's relationship resemble Haruki Murakami's story On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning."
was added by someone/some users with the IP address 24.7.66.201. I can see in the person's/persons' history that some other Ghost in the Shell material on Wikipedia was worked on, but I still can't help but think that the "Literary References" section was incorrect and/or original research by the user(s). As a result of such conditions, I removed this from the entry from the article on Kuze.
After some research, I found that this story is from The Elephant Vanishes, which is an originally Japanese collection of short stories (which includes the one in question). This makes at least a little bit of sense, seeing how the first season of Stand Alone Complex contained many explicit literary references to The Catcher in the Rye and from Nine Stories (Salinger) by author J. D. Salinger, and Flowers for Algernon, the latter two being of the short story variety. Still, it needs verification of some kind that there is a literary reference in 2nd Gig to this short story in question. Tachikoma's All Memory 04:41, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
