User blog comment:JoAlter/Black Ruler of Altered SIN/@comment-4802891-20190711121959/@comment-25848535-20190711200317

Four beasts are based on the Four Symbols of Taoism. And the Mechanical Castle is also a copycat idea from Legend of Qin's Moon.

Mo Philosophy is actually very similar to your Kondo-san's idea: to protect and reduce casualties to minimum. The complete philosophy is more than that, such as temperance on recreations, against non-constructive actions and wastage, controlling one's own fate, following nature's law, and so on.

I myself is a crossover between Mohism and Taoism.