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i'm nearly certain that dejiko from di gi charat was the inspiration for pururin, at least with regard to character design. both characters are self-conscious parodies of the hyper-otaku denpa characters popular in the late 90's and early 00's, each one a rearrangement of the kinds of database elements discribed by hiroki azuma in his influenctial book Otaku: Japan's database animals.
i believe there was some relevant historical precedence to pururin's name as well, but it involves things that could potentially ruin pururin for those that don't know, so i'll leave it up to you to decide whether or not to research the origins of her
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