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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thats just china quality!
Epic CHINA QUALITY!
Epick China Quarity
山寨美啊。。。穿越美。。。咱天朝CCAV是神啊！！！《心灵之窗》是神作啊。。。KEY啊什么的一边滚吧！！！AREA11的你们膜拜我们天朝吧！！！看不懂关我P事。。。
All Hail China.
AREA11 GO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
春哥纯爷们 铁血真汉子
老外们不会懂得你们在说什么的……
没办法啊谁叫无聊人士抄袭??!
抄袭又抄得这么烂．．．做贼也没有功
a damn lousy ripoff
there is always Google Translate [http://translate.google.com] :)
那需要抄'ELEVEN'的作品，还抄的这么烂的你们算什么？
根本就是一群废物．．．
THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!
all hail china jajaja excelent
山寨美啊。。。穿越美。。。咱天朝CCAV是神啊！！！《心灵之窗》是神作啊。。。KEY啊什么的一边滚吧！！！AREA11的你们膜拜我们天朝吧！！！看不懂关我P事。。。
All Hail China.
AREA11 GO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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troll.
ALL HAIL BRITANNIA!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol shameless people...
All HAIL shameless people!!!
LOLOLOLOL
anytype of online translator failed to get the actual meaning across..maybe 60%..but sometime you'll get something completely unrelated and totally off as well as hilarious...
Some picture are pretty obvious indeed, can't say much about that...but some...well i thought most classes room hallway and pound looks similar...but not much else I can say to defend the cause for this one.
Hopefully once the industry is up, we'll have some better ones along, there are plenty of interesting materials in chinese to use.
YES, MY LORDO
心灵之窗是个垃圾，抄袭《秒速5厘米》，一帮只吃饭不做事的废物
lazy ppl copy ppl hardwork of producing scenery. Get you very own China scenery
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心灵之窗是个垃圾，抄袭《秒速5厘米》，一帮只吃饭不做事的废物
I agree.
man y are we here discussing kids stuff man. like y do you give it a shit about it. to my this topic is load of shit.
Yis! Yo-ah Majestee!
*sighs*
Okay, we need originality.
Copya paste quality
I'd say copy & paste will be better than that manヾ( ˇДˇ)ﾉ
Blasphemy! Makoto Shinkai is a god!
AGREE !!!!!
well it was made in china
Fucking Chinese
China, I am disappoint
oh damn! should i watch?!
fucking commie chinks who couldn't come up creating their own original animated film
中华人民共和国万岁!
中華人民共和國萬歳!
Zhongua Renmin Gongheguo Wansui!!
then y are u chanting long live the people's republic of china? -_-
Learn to detect sarcasm first before asking me why I chanted it. =P
sarcasm is not supported on teh internets
fucking vietnamese fucking go grow your crops.
fuck china quality
Hell yeah!
Fucking hell... How dare they copy one of the best movies I've seen of all times. Fucking china (fuck the fact that I'm chinese... China is one place I'm not interested in...)
+99999999999
YEAH . FUCK YA CHINA !!!
yeah!! fuck it... damn!
fuck china but the movie really wasn't that good, just looked pretty.
the anon above me is an epic phail as an otaku
山寨美啊。。。穿越美。。。咱天朝CCAV是神啊！！！《心灵之窗》是神作啊。。。KEY啊什么的一边滚吧！！！AREA11的你们膜拜我们天朝吧！！！看不懂关我P事。。。
All Hail China.
AREA11 GO DIE!!!
你的penis好小.
LoL, looks like google translator fails xD
it means "your penis is so small."
哈哈哈~ 你丫SB
FUCKING CHINKS RYDE BYCYCLE DYWN CHYNA TYWWN
HAHAHA if they had used the full picture 11 and just changed some parts, the Chinese community would be like "HEY we don't have apartments like those in China! That's definitely Japanese in design!"
5cm per second was epic and this is truely epic shyt China alright, fuck you China, fuck you.
WO CAU!!!!
我操！！！
as a chinese..I feel shame..
as a Japanese.. I feel hate for CCTV
That's why when people ask me if I'm chinese I said "Sorry I'm Japanese" lol
I am feel shame to be a Chinese, we insult 5cm Per minutes
cheap ripoff. >@
If I was chinese I'd be ashamed to be chinese.. not just because of the lack of care of the chinese government for; human beings, common sense, hygiene, compassion, justice, anything not chinese, freedom of speech, and respect for other people's ideas. But- Oh wait, I already mentioned that?