Is this really the reason the Japanese publishers kicked up a fuss? Is there something more? Because, either wittingly or unwittingly, they’ve thrown fuel on the fire of Japanese Otaku cultural-appropriation butt-hurt, causing this stir we see here. I can’t measure the damage this has done to international Otaku relations. While I see many comments [...]

So… because you see in the credits the names of people of nationalities other than japan involved in the production of the anime, freeloaders from these countries have more of a right to pirate than English speaking fans? You know that the reason that anime is out-sourced to countries like Korea, China and Singapore is [...]

Because the issue isn’t as simple as just saying “pirated manga is still stealing”. Reaching this conclusion without considering the context leads to the kinds of comments we are seeing from the more extreme 2ch posters.

Thank you for your post. I hope this gets over to the 2ch guys.

Getting someone to pose for you is the best option! “Hey sis, I got a drawing to do so can you cross your arms under your breasts and step on my dick? Now pretend I just jizzed on your foot…”

He studied a very stylised form of Western animation and was inspired to create his own unique style based on the original. How is that plagiarism?

Disney stealing the concept and plot of The Lion King from Tezuka is another matter.

Some of these are borderline, much of it is just using the photos for reference (as most illustrators do). A lot of these aren’t problematic, even if she was tracing, because there’s enough original content in them to become something sufficiently different from the original. It’s not very creative, of course, which is a shame [...]