So if people come to a point where they bash other people for "Simmonizing" photographs, then what's an artist to do?

Imagination can't be the basis of everything.

2ch! Defenders of the Universe >:P

Prejudice is fine with me, as long as you obey the rules. Everything is fine with me, as long as one obeys the rules. Besides, every human has prejudice against something. And if it is just that some don't want to eat squids in a restaurant because squid looks funny. (But squids are yummy!)

Did I ever claim to have knowledge about genetics? I just see a white and a black father a black or merely a 'not-white' baby for sure. And since blacks are not really black, I call everyone who is not really white a black. Another prejudice on my behalf. (Wouldn't guess how many white are in fact looking black.)

But wait a moment. History of the USA? I was awake in that lesson. Indians never lived on that continent. As far as I know that was just a mistake Columbus made. Than there was this thing about importing black slaves from africa to the 'new world'. But the people who lived in the 'new world' before foreigners kind of conquered it, were most definitely black too. (Or brown. Or simply not white. Who cares..)

And don't worry. Chances are extremely low that I will see a mexican in my life. Your mistake for assuming that I'm from America. Well, I'm not from an english speaking country for that matter. And I'm not incredibly stupid, I just have a few issues with the language. (Don't know if what I write is actually what I mean. For starters I am not so sure about the meaning of xenophobia in english. So you might have a point and I was unwittingly wrong.)

But even that don't matters. Again. Don't be serious about strangers on the net. It's funny, but most likely stupid.

Something I personally noticed, and an issue you have with drawn art and animation, is that characters and (sometimes) landscapes, even when painted in very vibrant colors, are in fact reduces to something quite simplistic.

Madarame laid that out quite well in Genshiken.

One issue that artists that draw this stuff face is usually that dark ('black') skintones carry a lot of visual weight. When the remainder of the art is drawn in a way that compensates, this is of little issue, but on simplified anime or drawings you'll suddenly find yourself constantly staring at the black guy. Which, depending on the situation, might distract and/or not bring the message across that the artist wants to bring across or whatever.

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I was more interested in how 2ch found it....

Never mind that there are still singular images in the screen cap comparisons you posted in that past comparison anyway and that there are yet even more still image comparisons floating around the net that show where real life images were traced over to create the neighbourhood setting for Haruhi.

What I want to know though is simply why you consider one case a possible influence and this one as flat-out no questions asked plagiarism?