
Se.kirara, the free-to-download eroge recently released and then pulled after a minor scandal erupted when it transpired the artists had been freely tracing copyrighted images easily found via Google, has been re-released with the offending scenes entirely re-done.
The changes are collated in the below image, with the originals on top and the desimmonsed version underneath:

The large number of images replaced is apparently due more to the scrupulous caution of the developers than wholesale plagiarism – they report changing any image they had doubts over, rather than just those they could verify as being an infringement of someone else’s copyright.
The game can once again be freely obtained from their homepage (download page – a NicoNico Douga account is required along with agreeing to join their channel).




More can be seen in the previous article.
The house in the bottom-middle now looks just like the apartment building in Welcome to the NHK.
This is why anime artists go and take pics THEMSELVES and then trace them
One thing I don't understand is why there are so many AB and O blood types in games. Aren't they supposed to be rare types? With AB being the rarest of all?
Are you kidding? O is the most common blood type in the world.
The reason for AB being common is probably because of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_types_in_Japanese_culture
This is not "Desimmonsed". It is "Degraded".
needs more yuri
Can't expect too much from a free game. Those otakus should be on their hands and knees giving thanks they got a free game, instead of finding fault with it.
I just finished the game and ends up with the blond girl
Lucky!~ I have a NicoNico account
seed please ...
Since it's free...
English translation where?
Patience, young pedowan...
Soon the fap will be with you...
Green hair Tenshi.
This was simmonsed? That's a fucking joke.
Reproducing a 3d drawing into 2d isn't simmonsing.
Simmonsing is submitting a 3d photo which is just another persons 3d photo with a different name.
Or tracing over a 2d drawing and recoloring it.
Taking a 3d and drawing it in 2d is NOT simmonsing.
That's like saying all of the famous landscapes by the master painters were just simonized art.
The guy that painted waterlillies? Totally simmonsed the lillies, and that painting of the people playing by the lake...simmonsed reality...
2ch are idiots if they believe that.
Legally speaking however, it is ‘simmonsing’ although an IP lawyer would use different phrasing, like say, derivative work.
Fact of the matter is that when a photograph is taken, real artistic decisions must be made regarding e.g. composition and perspective. The replacement artwork is unfortunately ample proof of how important these can be.
What you expect? It's 2ch
what do you call "3d drawing" exactly?
I typed without thinking, I meant a drawing of something you saw in a picture or something you saw in the real world isn't plagiarizing the drawing or plagiarizing nature.
so.. what about tracing a photo?
Well, as long as it's your own photo, you can do as you please. Purists will bicker about whether it's still art and all that, but in practice artists do it all the time.
But the game artists were tracing other's photographs without permission, and that's a no-no.
Downloading :D
"a NicoNico Douga account is required along with agreeing to join their channel"
Goddammit!
And I bet there's no english text to select from either....
http://mmcafe.com/nico.html
Copy the NicoNico video URL and watch. No need to bother with registering.
any nicovideo links you can add /am/ after .jp and before watch/sm and you can watch them without an account.
e.g.
http://www.nicovideo.jp/am/watch/sm1234567
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Was unexpectedly easy to create an account in nico, even just knowing basic words, hiragana and katakana. W/out evem knowing any complicated kanji. ^^"
The only things I can say in Japanese are things like "It hurts!", "No, not there!" and "You're tearing me apart!" But I don't know how to write it. Is that enough Japanese to create a Nico Douga account?
Yeah something like that :P
*downloading*
Too bad they got into the eyes of 2ch, the old backgrounds actually looked nicer.
Yeah, I agree. Some are okay, but a few of them are just so... oh I don't know... generic?
Especially the entrance to the hospital or whatever it is, the beach, the house and the bedroom don't resonate with me. The real places had character where the new artwork doesn't. Wasn't the hospital designed by an architect, built and then used? Is that house uninhabited? Is that a bedroom - or a room in a motel? The new artwork looks sterile.
Looks pretty good! Nice re-doing, I could try this out...
Somebody needs to make an english patch for this immediately.
I don't speak japanese, so i dont understand what the site is about... someone tell me what to click when making acc and to dl
google translator and common sense should be more than enough
anyhow, that's how I did it
Lets hope that the girls are 'legally' good or Retardness-God-Agnes-Feminazi-Chan will appear again... =P
Since when did we add the "God" tag to her name? Ewww...
There are evil gods out there too, you know.
Game needs moar rape
Yuri rape.
No, yuri rape is not real rape D:<
Fear the Agnes! At least until she is just a senile voice...
Oh please, I had have enough with that dumb bitch already.
too late she is already senile
nah, both senile & retarded
you shouldn't say things like that!
she's just retarded!
how about free sex?
So... Is it possible to go all the way with that green hair loli-like little sister character?
yessir
This should get the 2channers a little busier..
Now hurry up and release the other girls' figmas...
Hmm, it was kind of stupid to rape copyrated images but I actually like the unchanged better but w/e.
Now I can get an unpirated eroge online: Awesome
Only problem is that there's characters who would be considered lolis and that is illegal in my country :(
But fuck that!!
*downloading"
get out of Australia
prepare to be b& & v&