VGFacts

One day, while I was waiting for my trivia submissions to be denied or accepted, I was looking at interesting gaming trivia. One was about A Boy and his Blob (http://www.vgfacts.com/trivia/7642/), which was about the japanese version having a more cartoonish character. When I looked at the japanese version of him, it reminded me of something...oh yeah! Now I know! Ness! The JP version of the boy looked like Ness. Pretty interesting since they both wear a cap and carry a backpack.

Proof 
The Boy JP Version: http://tcrf.net/images/3/31/Fushigi_na_B...ki-Kid.png
Ness: http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090...Sprite.gif

To be fair, Ness is pretty generic in his own right.

Not only are both pretty generic, but the colors don't really match. I don't think it was intentional.

Agreed. The boy was designed to look like a generic Japanese schoolboy in his school uniform.