Lucky Star Ripped Off by Chinese
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 28, 2010 03:37 JST
- Tags: China, Copyright, Lucky Star, Made in China, Marketing, TV
Lucky Star has finally had the unwelcome honour of being ripped off for use on a Chinese public service advertisement.
Admittedly, about the only surprising thing about this is that it took so long.
Chinese otaku are apparently disgusted, but it seems no amount of disgust, internal or external, will discourage China from doing what it apparently does best.
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Yeah, it's China, again !!
Shameless !!
Oh LOL China.
Will watching it also cause the fake protein crystals to form in our livers and kidneys and will we get lead and chromium poisoning as well from viewing it? Do we need to wear gas masks to be safe watching videos from China?
Actually its being used for non-profit public initiative purposes. I see nothing wrong with this, in fact I would be honoured by it if I were in this situation.
Silence, you fools!
China, as our new master in the fututre, has the right to do everything they won't!!
America, Japan, Europe, India, Russia...nobody cant stop China.
Its heavens decision.
victim of its own success....
Proves the series still has popularity in other countries still..
Japan, don't worry, you guys are learning this trick quite well and fast. But too bad your Sharp got discovered for stealing LCD info from Samsung, try harder...
in fact Samsung got discovered for stealing LCD info from sharp you korean dick
本当に民度が低いな・・・
Srsly... does China EVER do anything original?
They realised a couple dynasties ago that originality is overrated.
It's not a commercial, but a public-interest ad
This is why China deserves to be slapped around like a little bitch. They are thieves, and the government protects thieves. Dirty yellow niggers.
ROFL
Kagami: Oh no a speeding car is going up too fast for it to stop.
AIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
what about you guys selling legal ripoff manga of Naruto with the name Naburo
that happens in Indonesia, I believe. So what's your point ?
This is what happen when there is no second season they migrate and start working in another country
要轰炸中国？如果你们有胆量的话。
Just using Google translator tool it's easy and quick to see what is the meaning. lol.
只要你把你的痛苦了，当然。你们国家是这样的污染和有毒这将是怜悯。
I'll attempt to translate those posts:
10:39 - We are so sorry for doing such a thing, as a representitive of entire China, I apologize. I will personally hunt down the person in charge of such foolishness and rape his son, eat his dog (I assume it's a "he" because we kill new born daughters) and burn his house.
11:52 - To sum it up, watch this Saturday Night Live skit. We love President Obama and we want his hugs and kisses and XXX's.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/110317/saturday-night-live-china-cold-open
I'll help.
10.39 - Wanna bomb China? Do it if you have the guts.
11:52 - Just end your misery. Of course, your country is so polluted that it's almost pathetic.
whoa wait, they get SNL there?
China must be liberated
*sigh* Dammit, China.
认真你就输了
Exactly!
I thought service announcment propaganda was something the mainland communist government could actually do?
To rip off Lucky Star... that's just sad.
CHINA IS WAY MORE MORE FUCKING WORSE THAN LIMBO OF THE LOST!!!!!!!!
(By the way, Limbo of the Lost is a point and click adventure game made by small-time gamblers and drunkards led by Steve Bovis, and has CHINESE quality!)
By the way, if there's WWIII, China will be the candidate of depopulation...
ok, so when a company in China rips something off, the whole country gets blamed. When a company in the U.S. rips something off, only the company is blamed. Is there something wrong here? screw the people who ripped it off but you idiots need to stop blaming every thing that a group does on the whole country. otherwise, a lot of other countries should have crap reputations just like China.
....The chinese love to do what they do best...be cheap and if not cheap find a way to be cheap and etc....
ah, China. never fails to amuse us.
Christ, talk about overreacting.
"China should be nuked! Death to the evil copyright-violators!"
...
I fail to see why this is such a huge issue. I just find it funny they chose to use Lucky Star.
Trolling racists. You'd do well to ignore them.
Yes, China does rip off a lot of things. But who exactly is doing so? Would the average Chinese citizen even know about Lucky Star - aside from the typical otaku?
Whenever you hear about these stories in China - be it stolen copyright material, shoddy construction work, or toxic materials in toys, 19 out of 20 times it's the decision of either a single individual or a small group of people. While not much can be done about foreign copyright, those who fall into the latter categories get executed if they're caught (and most flee to Canada or the US for just this reason).
Regardless, it's just ignorant to criticize an entire population for the acts of a few, especially when the population is as big as China's.
+1
not mentioning the TV station people are too ignorant to know what Lucky Star is anyway.
http://bbs.saraba1st.com/viewthread.php?tid=539811&extra=&page=1 [http://bbs.saraba1st.com/viewthread.php?tid=539811&extra=&page=1]
Apparently, the illustrator for this commercial is a part-time doujin artist called Zixia (紫� sounds feminine, so I'm gonna use "her"), who she claims was hired/coerced by the Party bigwigs for her skills.
Here is her confession (with rough translation)
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Now I'll be damned, the bloody encoding for Chinese simplified characters that I copied and pasted didn't work. Oh well, at least the (rough) translation's intact.
Didn't realize until now as for some odd reason, my posts are sometimes held back by the spam filter, thus the delay.
1 china sucks ass and rips off every single movie/game/etc
2 china is a land fulled with crap and bridges are made of shit quality better said trash..
3 china worlds most awfull country no matter what.. love me hate me or what ever.
4 they should fuck off and play with their small dicks..
it's just a MAD made by a silly man...
OH btw some of u think that the Chinese have never been inventive BUT, heres some tidbit 4 u, many items noodles, ice cream, canon, long rifle, fireworks, CHOPSTICKS, silk, coins...etc, were all invented by, u guessed it, CHINA. FUCK we invented enough of yer daily shit that we no longer need to fucking create. hell we had an established empire before the greeks and roman erected there first fucking town. we had sailed most of the ocean whilst any of u european shits thought the world was a FUCKING SHEET OF PAPER. so font dis china, we can and will do what ever we fucking want u retarded fags!
oh PS. im not a fucking yellow nigger, IM A FUCKING CHINK! SUCK ON THAT U DIRTY WHORES!
As a Chinese,I want to say...
This is not the fault of the Chinese people.
This is the Chinese government's fault.
We can make our own animation,but we are controlled by Chinese government[usually].
so,I want to say sorry to the people whose works are copied.
Excuse us!This is not the result we want.
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My English is not very good.Thanks Google translation.
I think you are not supposed to apologize here. It is so weird...
u don't need to apologize, this isn't ur fault.I mean just ignore those foolish people's comments,they like picking up some trivial stuffs and make a big fuss about it.
you idiot sir
explanation only lead more misunderstanding
I'm well aware it's the government's fault, it's really not like the people have too much of a choice in this manner that much.. Sure there are exceptions to these rules but yeah, I have faith that not all chinese people are like this or support this sorta thing but hey, atleast it's anime.. XP
of course china will get every chance it gets to make a fake of it and try and pass it as their own.
The commercial is about "Civilized lifestyle Begin With Me". It suppose to promote the practice of good manners & upholding high morality, by reduce unnecessary loud noises in public area.
Yet, the commercial itself committed an even worst crime: Plagiarism!!! This is the hypocrisies of China Government's regarding morality.
I hate it, japanese animation aren't going too well... and, those chinese just steal others good ideas T3T
Good ideas, I see none.
just like most of us steal their animes by watching it for free as well right?
yea but we do it bcause we like it not to make money
thats not the same
No I don't pirate my internet, I do however enjoy testing things before I decide if i'll buy it.
What about steam? Do you think if steam ever got closed down all their DRM would magically disappear? Nope all the games people bought over steam would be useless.
I'm sure you've stolen things off the internet with and without knowing it, so stop whining.
Piracy and making a profit from piracy are two very different things.
Fansubs have increased knowledge of these animes to regions japan doesn't really care about sending anime to, despite the publishers whining about how fansubs steal there pretend money to a region they never bothered to care about.
But I don't appreciate people who just take take take and never give anything back to the creators.
Stealing is stealing regardless of what you do with it. Just admit you're an internet pirate like almost everyone else on this site.
It's official, China sucks dick.
I once saw a Chinese cartoon:
they used the backgrounds of Clannad, the part when Nagisa was about to "confess" to Ryou.
They also used Kotomi's theme while they were at it.
Then, they would just put their character over it.
After that, there was some sort of space battle, and I thought I recognized some Macross themed buildings.
Really, even though I'm a Chinese myself (Hong Kong), I hate them so much. I wonder when they're going to do something about their attitude...
That reminds me of a mascot of a Bank (iirc) in my country back when in my childhood named Along. They actually released a few volumes of comic books of that mascot character which apparently were nothing but just a complete trace-off from random chapters of Doraemon; the storyline, the settings, the positions, the poses.., all were replaced by their own characters doing the exact same thing.
Oh, of course they didn't (and won't trace) Shizuka's daily bath scenes..
I find it hilarious that the Chinese "hate" anything Japanese, but end up plagiarizing them over and over again.
Irony ftw.
Bet they're not going to show Akira's bipolar side or Hiyorin's dirty intuition, or else those are going to pollute the pure mind of the children of China..
How could they.........
This is why everyone hates lolchina. They just copy/paste everything they can get their hands on, just like they do with their citizens.
For a Lucky Star rip-off, I'm surprised they didn't include Konata in it.
why is this put down it's true
What are they advertising?
looks like a car alarm
It's advertising:
"Civilized living starts from me"
Probably the funniest part of the public service announcement. It advises viewers to not raise loud ruckuses or wantonly honk as a part of living a civilized life.
Oh CHINA.
The irony of that statement is lost on them, I guess.
what i have been asking myself what product are they displaying in the commerical?
Hmm something that fits to luckystar ...
Gundam,Macross and 20 I can handle but lucky star?
FURY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In your ass?
with a cock
What are they selling?
"what are you buying?"
"what are you selling?"
- RE4
"Ahhhhh, I'll buy that at a high price!"
"Stranga Stranga, now that's a weapon."
".., come back anytime.."
From the pics I can swear they are selling small soaps for hotels :3
Get off it artefact. The japanese in the 70s did the same thing. You damn hypocrite.
was he alive in the 70s? was the internet invented in the 70s so he coould blog about it? your argument cannot stand on its own two feet.
Oh... China.. Miko ill rage.
Why am I not surprised?
Yeah....China....again
Ripping off? Why, It MUST BE China!
Rape is legal? Why, It MUST BE Middle East!
wow. the news are catergorizing countries already.
Ridiculous bans? It MUST BE Australia.
Female domination? It MUST BE Soviet Russia.
Bizarre conviction? It MUST BE USA.
Bizarre chikan cases? It MUST BE Japan...
Hei friend, did you have one for Brazil to? I'm a litle curious...
All of the above? It MUST BE Brazil...
Wow.... Why can't they at least make it look like the characters are different?
The background in all the image looks like something taken from a children`s book.
Can't blame them Lucky Star is famous LOL...
So that's pretty much chinese philosophy @ anon 10:39 if it's not chained or protected its okay to be a lazy ass and steal someone else's work ,niiiice, no wonder chinese are such a fucked up people. but that's okay after all you are meant to build cheap crap of dubious quality not to actually think and invent.
I still can't see how they can get away with it, can't Japane file complaints of copyright, surely they have patents in their anime concepts.
So not only are you laboring under the painfully asinine notion that regional copyright law applies internationally, but you also ascribe "patents" to "anime concepts" in some sort of fictionalized conception of the intellectual property infrastructure as being broadly protected by "patents."
Moreover, not only does "Japane" not hold the IP rights to these characters, but it isn't anything in any pertinent sense.
To sum up: *Japan* has no legal recourse because it isn't the IP holder of these characters. Furthermore, the legal owner of these concepts has no legal remedy because of the lack of any supportable framework for protecting intellectual property internationally.
No legal rights to hold the characters? Then how come certain anime videos get takin off of youtube? Must have Legal rights to the characters somehow.
10:39 anon, of course they should have legal copyrights of the animes. Anything invented for the most part has a copyright and or patent of sorts, even then famous people are still renowned for their work otherwise we could all claim Einsteins or Newtons theories and work was all 'our' (anons) idea.
Fucking naive thinking you have imo, why don't we all just copy each other and lose totally everything that makes us actually think.
China ripped off stupid amount of things, i mean 5cm per second is a movie as well, an anime movie, but still a movie, and they have fuckall right to copy anything.
I think it has something to do with Japan's and China's relationship. It's always been a bit edgy, and i don't think Japan wants to start anything serious over it because they don't want any confilcts. Fucking communists, think everything belongs to them. 'Yeh we all share stuff and are a happy government, except we actually control everything and nobodies equal'.
agreeing with Evofoo, its more the backgrounds that are beyong pathetic. the act of ripping off Lucky Star itself is China's apparent way of marketing.
For all that "fame" I don't see anyone else ripping off characters for commercials. So, your damn right I'm blaming them. It's pathetic.
Given the obvious resemblance, it's beyond pathetic...
They took my job
It fits better with the character designs
why am i not surprised..... >.<
China rips off everything.
China builds bridges out of trash.
China makes jewelry out of toxic waste.
China sells organs from executed "gangsters".
In short: China needs to be destroyed.
Lol Schrobby is absolutely right, why the fuck do you rate his comment down you stupids shitheads ? O.o
I swear, everytime I read your comments schrobby, you seem to manage to do yourself one better in making yourself look stupid.
I don't think it should be destroyed, just needs a reform within itself. Better government, better housing, and better paying jobs. That way they don't have to resort to being the nation with the highest piracy rate.
china must be destroyed to protect the puppies and whatever else they eat, and our children from their toxi crap that they try to pass as either toys or jewels
I must disagree, his supporting points are perfectly serviceable.
However, I'm troubled by the lack of context for
"China must be destroyed".
Should it be split into little citystates like renaissance Italy?
Or can it be left whole, if it changes its name (Han-istan?)?
Failing that, are you suggesting rendering the entire chinese landmass
totally uninhabitable?
China must be destroyed.
For peace and love and world safety.
Remember safety always first.
And yeah China should lose some not han territory and rest should be divided.
BTW Russia Germany and USA should be divided too.
For the sake of peace and love.
And India need to be nuked for bolllywood films.
China after all these years isolated from god knows what.I guess creativity in China is lacking In the Advertisement Industry.
@Sarissofoi: Germany still is divided, it's called Eastern Prussian and it was stolen by the Polish.
"I swear, everytime I read your comments schrobby, you seem to manage to do yourself one better in making yourself look stupid.",i agree 100% with that
i stormy agree with 1st anon
china needs a revolution cast off the old corrupt ways and welcome the new corrupt ways!
i lol'd.
In short: China is win.
Winning for sure, but not alot of credit there in this case...
Damn right.
If the people see they get gifts from China they'd instantly toss it back to them telling them they don't want fake [insert anything here].
So go back to that thing you call China and rebuild that wall so it's unbreachable so that we never see or hear from you again.
i dont know how they do it, but it appears that the whole friggin 1.3 billion nation is populated by bond villains
seriosly, if i read about such a country in fiction id say the author watched too much escaflowne and read too much tolkien
whatever they do, its just wrong in the purest sense of the word
i demand they be called the "Evil People's Republic of Wrong"
Hey, hey. Chinese must be destroyed, just because they're stupid? Face it, if all stupid people dies, noone remains on this Earth.
The government isn't (usually) the one making all these products.
@anon 5:24 the 1.3 billion people nation is like that because of their financial state.
the country is big and industry is booming, but labor there is cheap and the nature of an industrial intensive economy backfires on them.
china doesnt need to be destroyed, but the government.
China makes the vast majority of everyday goods in developed countries