Soul’s Window: China Rips Off 5cm Per Second
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Sep 2, 2009 19:34 JST
- Tags: China, Copyright, Made in China, Photoshop, Plagiarism, Production Controversy
China’s reputation for originality and respect for copyright is once again cemented with the news that a Chinese company, working in partnership with a state propaganda department, has plagiarised wholesale Makoto Shinkai’s popular and visually striking anime movie “5 Centimeters Per Second.”
You can see much more of it below (the Chinese version is on top):
“Soul’s Window” (心灵之窗) is ironically enough billed as a “moral anime,” a genre which dominates China’s heavily censored animation industry. Exciting themes of selfless dedication to party and state promised, and the heroic actions of the People’s Liberation Army play a central role.
The hatred of viewers toward just this kind of tedious preaching in anime is cited as one of the problems faced by the industry, coupled with a complete lack of artistic freedom, and the inability to export such naked propaganda.
Even more notable is that fact that the anime is apparently co-produced by the local Communist Party propaganda department, showing just how deeply the Chinese government cares about such matters.
State censors have approved its “healthy ideological content” for nationwide release on TV and at cinemas, with 52 episodes planned.
Rarely has anime plagiarism been so bold.
The original work made heavy use of photographic reference, but of course these were taken in Japan by the original studio, so it is curious to see them crop up in a Chinese production.
Voices have been raised in China calling for the development of a domestic anime industry, and the removal of pernicious Japanese anime from China; it appears one response will be to simply copy parts of Japanese anime and call it domestically produced…
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Well they don't have a damn shame those bastards! No like japanese animes? They copy them at 100% and claim it's them who did it! Yeah right! CHINA QUALITY!
All of these comments are fucken hilarious when you read them with a chinese accent...
No A faka U! China Quality! 2 dolla! no MORE!!!
"Made in China"
Fuck you, China.
别给我扯什么"已经有创造力"，就算你有创造力没有基本功等于0，牛顿不学基本代数能弄出3定律么，，，
现在的中国还是老老实实的copy吧，山寨才是王道
Newton would never invent/discover his theories before mastering basic maths, so just get the creativity shit out here,,for now, and do the copy diligently,,,
btw im chinese from mainland,囧
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where's my posts posted in the mainpage,
must i have to post here to make it shown?,lol
irony？
nope,,,im serious like hell
tho i know it's illegal
dont go embarrased just because of one single guy, (tho i cant find who are you talking to and no idea what you're talking about),,
otherwise you'll die from shamefullness `cause china has the largest population and lowest edu rate.囧
"lowest edu rate"??? Oh my, aren't you a fine example ???
this only shows how much better the original is
Die..die your sister!
It's the critical that the limition between the copy and copycat
They have no shames do they.
China....sigh them again -.-
Japanese quality is better too...
ah well, i'll still watch it anyway
Only China...
*Mandarin facewall*
HOW THE FUCK IS THAT NOT A RIP OFF OMGWTFBBQ
oke. more intelligence here.
Come on. Burn baby burn.
having fun yet ?
come on more comments.
CHINA IS PIRACY!!!!!1
Smart comment from a guy ? with a IQ of 2000 ?
Does it make you feel good ?
Do you feel superior than others.
smooth china real smooth
fuck smoothies.
best comment ever.
more burning please.
EVERYTHING existed in their own originality.
The copy cat of it are ALL made in CHINA. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
China for the win. NO FUCKING ORIGINALITY.
Fuck UP!!!
Fuck Mao
Fuck Hirohito
Fuck Stalin
Fuck Hitler
Fuck Joseph McCarthy
Fuck George W Bush
Fuck Bernard L Madoff
Lots of fucks.
Fuck Ishihara
This list is now complete.
fuck soul window
fuck communism
fuck racism
fuck ignorant white/black/yellow racist
fuck trolls
fuck me
địt mẹ bọn tàu khựa hãm lồn
With all dual respect,please don't spit your shit here and disgrace our people, my dear countryman. If you wanna say something please use English.
china. they are born for copy and paste.... becos they havent brain in their skull.... just some shyt >"<
lots of ignorant blatant racism here.
fuck communism.
fuck china
fuck CCTV
fuck Mao chairman
fuck Soul’s Window
Get a live and a girlfriend.
Grow up and throw away your toys.
Trolls live under bridge.
Trolls live in blogs
Trolls = Everybody
Age < 10
Communication is a art.
Those who ask others to shut up.
Are not able to communicate
http://bookcoverarchive.com/images/books/chairman_mao_would_not_be_amused.large.jpg
Please turn on the hate.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
We will all be toothless and blind.
shut the fuck up
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well what a party,,,
lol,
long time no see, SCcommoners,,
guys calling to burn down the governer, just calm down, you know nothing about politics so just shut the fuck up,
copy/pirate/mimic/plagiarize(whetever you call it) is the best thing to do before you're capable of creating things your own,,this is true for any learning progress,
so the copy in today is just the mother for tomorrow's creativity
so just calm the fuck down before fire your fuck out,and watch with anticipation
lol
Acturally,we have waited too much time and given them most sufficient chances.Yes,perhaps i really know nothing about politics and being out of control somehow.Just don't mention that,= =|||
In fact,we Chinese never lack creativity,some anime works(as well as some other things) made by some anime university graduantes are all directed by themselves and very special in virtuosities.
This is also a kind of bad side-effect by the copy scandal,I mean,making foreign friends take our lacks of creativity for granted.
别给我扯什么"已经有创造力"，就算你有创造力没有基本功等于0，牛顿不学基本代数能弄出3定律么，，，
现在的中国还是老老实实的copy吧，山寨才是王道
Newton would never invent/discover his theories before mastering basic maths, so just get the creativity shit out here,,for now, and do the copy diligently,,,
btw im chinese from mainland,囧
So you come from the mainland eh? Guess the government there make a nice work with your head so no wonder why it's full of shit.
that must be a nice work since
looking at you just made me feel mercifully blessed and relieved that i came from the mainland,not your place
"you know nothing about politics so just shut the fuck up"
Ad hominem does not make a convincing argument for your point.
IMITATION is all good and well, however, imitation never accounts for more than 50% of another work, when it does it's called "COPYING". When the creator does not admit to his "inspiration" is called "PLAGIARISM". When the creator makes money off his plagiarism it's called "PIRACY". Can you not see the difference? or are you just unwilling to?
Its the ignorance and less sense of justice off the chinese ppl. They cant get that piracy is morally wrong and that its disrespectful to copy art. No wonder is the web for example ebay full off copied merchandise which is presented or even named as geniune.
Its also wrong to generalise but thats why ppl dont like the Chineses or be careful with them.
I don't like how these comments have ended up.
Yes, this is very shameless and to many artists insulting plagiarism. But please avoid blanket terms for the chinese people or China in general. There are probably 2 or 3 half brained execs who ordered this disgrace and are responsible for it.
Exactly
So you think that the people who just sit on their asses and do nothing when they know shit happen in their homeland are innocent ??? I wonder it's ok if their tax be paid for things like this, eh ???
No actually most people there feel ashamed of what the Chinese animators are doing. I understand Chinese so I know.
I agree with both, because I have seen both.
Right now the majority of the people there are feeling ashamed because this anime hasn't accumulated any fans. Otherwise, there would have been idiots who say "They invaded us back in the days, so this is okay", "The company did a great job putting all this wonderful art into one show", "Makoto Shinkai isn't famous at all", "Makoto Shinkai should be grateful that the Chinese company decided to use his drawings."
One thing for sure, the smart ones and clear-minded ones know this is so wrong. But seriously CCTV, being a State television station, you are practically insulting people's intelligence.
That dude that 2ch made quit should work for them.
我日 这CCTV太垃圾了吧 瞧这抄袭的。。。几乎没改啥东西。。。
Every Chinese anime fans with conscience,don't be so sad,the scandal is all done by one company and Chinese communist party.AND DON'T WRITE DOWN YOUR OPINION IN CHINESE WHICH JUST SHOWS YOUR IGNORANCE.
And foreign friends,please don't regard the piracy behavior by so-called people-stand-for Communist Party as the opinion from ordinary Chinese with conscience.
If this were an exception, then one could say it was an isolated case of a small-time anime "production" company trying to con state funds.
However, we all know that "entrepreneurism" in China typically involves imitation at best or outright copying of other people's work. This could be the Hongqi (Redflag) official limousines which look so much like Lexuses, the "Buckstar" coffee shops and "Pizza Huh", or even the numerous shops around Shenzhen selling counterfeit Gucci or Loius Vuitton. Just take a look at the Meizu8 and the Iphone for example.
That's not to say that Taiwan and Japan didn't do the same thing back in the 80s and 50s respectively, which is just about the only reason that the Chinese can probably throw up at the moment. At some point in time however that excuse will get pretty old.
More counterfeit cars: http://gemssty.com/2006/10/29/top-10-copycat-cars/
It's the CCTV...the anime lovers in China get pretty pissed off too
I did have some respect for China. As a matter of fact, I've been there a few times. The people were nice, the food was okay but after seeing all the racist shit and plagiarizing stuff, I began to lose my respect. I really fail to understand why we can't let go of the past. We may be in 2009, but people still act like we are in the 1940's.
Well, at least we remember our past..did you know the British burned white house during the war of 1812? While I don't dislike foreigner, (from my perspectives anyway, what mean you...Europeans and Americans)...I've seem good people but I've also seem bad ones..when ever some one bring it up as mere history and should just let go..that just means you do not understand your own as well as other's history.
I think violating copy right is such a small violation compare to destroying other people's cultural artifacts, and burning and ransack other people's capital like the French and British done in the 1860s....
heck like I post before, the European Missionaries stole the secrets of making porcelain from Chinese using underhand tactics.
And I haven't even begin on explosive and paper yet, should the Chinese gets copy right protection from these????
you could argue they are different formula from original and you guys perfects it...but in many ways, when Chinese copy stuff, they add their own ingenuity into it. I've seem some pretty crazy looking cell phones in china...It's not a 100% copied..so what's your problem?
What the fuck is up this thinking of yours, china anon guy?The british burned the white house in 1812?So what?Cultural artifacts get destroyed all the time throughout history.What about when Gengis Khan conquered china?Why don't you go destroy mongolia right now?You don't understand the basic concepts of copyright at all and talk about shit from the past when copyright never existed in the first place.This dumbass mentality is why I am embarrassed so acknowledge my chinese heritage sometimes.
Oi, you got a point there. Being put together with pack of idiots make no one feel at ease.
"...like the French and British done in the 1860s..."
Your argument is "you wronged us in the past, therefore we are allowed to wrong you in the present", which only leads you to acts that would have been acceptable in the 1860s, over a hundred years ago and you still haven't learned to what such mentality leads to.
"It's not a 100% copied..so what's your problem?" The problem is they claim it to be a 100% original production of theirs, which you admitted is not. A film about morality built upon deceits does not make for very convincing propaganda.
And gunpowder and paper are a different matter altogether because no one in the west has a "copyright" on paper or "gunpowder", if you can manufacture it, there's nothing stopping you.
For the record, where I live history school books always teach you that paper and gunpowder are chinese inventions.
"you wronged us in the past, therefore we are allowed to wrong you in the present" fuck, do I have do die now because Im German and the Nazis killed so many ppl? Idiot -_-
From what I could tell. In the Chinese discussion board regarding to this matter turned into the predictable "They invaded us back in the days, so this is okay." circle jerking. *yawn
Why does china always do noticably crappy imitation goods? Its like noticably crappy imitation is how they roll.
at least they can do is a 1:1 perfect imitation.
I mean they should at least try a 1:1 perfect imitation.
Same here.
same here as well.
I feel embarrassed for being Chinese after this.
sue the bitches
Jesus fucking christ. I can't believe they can get away with this.
lmao why is it that everytime i see something assiciated with china i can always expect to see 250+ comments with 3/4 of them being hate comments ? xD
because they always do overboard board things that really get people annoyed. Just like now, they defiled and copy_and_paste Makoto Shinkai's divine 5cm per second, ripped/plagiarised/copied his work and now is proclaiming it as their own! that is very annoying right?
好热闹呀
well what a party,,,
lol,
long time no see, SCcommoners,,
guys calling to burn down the governer, just calm down, you know nothing about politics so just shut the fuck up,
copy/pirate/mimic/plagiarize(whetever you call it) is the best thing to do before you're capable of creating things your own,,this is true for any learning progress,
so the copy in today is just the mother for tomorrow's creativity
so just calm the fuck down before fire your fuck out,and watch
lol
Yeah, like your average chinese has seen 5cm per second. Obviously, they don't care less.
压力(-_-b)
I am Chinese and clicked on this post to state my displeasure about having my country singled out by your blog until I saw all the comparison pictures. now i'm kind of just sad.
seriously shameful.
Friends，don't be shame that‘s not done by us， Chinese with conscience.
And I just reiterate to all foreign friends，don't loss your confidence in ordinary Chinese.The scandal is due to government.If you really konw China,I mean,the Chinese government nowadays is not standing for its people.
We want to change,we want to burn them down,we want to show a clean China to world.But,for the Party regard itself as GOD,yes,they control and rule everything.
I feel hopefulless for my weakness.As an ordanary people in China,just like a bird in cage which is likely impossible to be broken.
yeah, i agree with u, but u kno what, u CAN'T blame government for a goddamn anime
you can if it's an oppresive government, and I'm glad there's chinese people who realize how wrong things like these are
we should do our part and stop insulting them in general
if you want to copy sth then copy the revolutions in the Middle East :D
btw, why do chinese ppl call foreigners all the time "friend"?
I too support China in many ways, but it's at times like this where I frankly feel embarrassed.
Same thing, only with longer skirts.
使用Google翻译的天朝不明真相群众，纯粹打酱油路过三卡裤~~~
不要路过啊，英语站就用英语说话，用汉语说是不尊重别人，要被bs的。（the Chinese sentence is to remind the one not to write down in Chinese among sankaku netsite）
Seriously, wtf?! O.o
Lawsuits. The fastest way to earn money.
Shinkai will have some dough coming his way.
it's not copying as long as they use the location as a reference
try finding some photographic proof that such locations exist in China then...
Good to know that China values honest work. Shouldn't this be some serious international relations HEY YOU"RE FU*KING WITH OUR POPULAR MEDIA INDUSTRY kind of thing? Ah well, maybe we have to glass China over.
We didn't need the red circles.
And LOL to the skirt length.
im having copypasta for dinner.
How stupid is China?!
I'm Chinese and I can already see this is a stupid-ass idea.
You take an existing anime, take huge amounts of TIME and MONEY to reproduce the exact same thing complete with all the details, and call it a different movie?
Seeing as how the average citizen knows about all the bs the govt is dumping on them, why didn't they just completely buy out the original smack some Chinese credits on it?? Surely that would have been easier and cheaper... AND there wouldn't be this kind of internet backlash.
I'm completely ashamed that my people (nay, government) can be this stupid.
I isht be ashamed to being teh chinese too... :-(
Dear China, if you wanna blatantly rip off Japanese anime, do it right, and not just make lame bullshit that just makes you look even more pitiful.
Bootleg much?
its kids channel why do i care
PUTOS CHINOS, ME CAGO EN SUS MUERTOS!!
Fuck China!
不要骂人 你素质也不高哦！
带我问候你母亲