User blog comment:JERealize/Similarities Between THG and Other Popular Culture/@comment-4943190-20120629061640

The hit Anime Naruto had a competiton called "The Forrest Of Death Chunin Exams" in witch a ninja team of 3 has to defeat another team in combat in order to get a scroll depending on what they have, theres the Heaven, and Earth scroll, the goal was to get both and make it to the center of the arena in order to proceed. yes the plot of the arena is different but its throwing the characters in a life or dead situation.