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!
Chinese anime should take Endless Eight and make spin-off of it...
They've already done that for years. It's called "Re-education" propaganda.
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
Japanese quality is better too...
ah well, i'll still watch it anyway
China....sigh them again -.-
Die..die your sister!
It's the critical that the limition between the copy and copycat
HOW THE FUCK IS THAT NOT A RIP OFF OMGWTFBBQ
They have no shames do they.
lots of ignorant blatant racism here.
fuck communism.
oke. more intelligence here.
Come on. Burn baby burn.
having fun yet ?
come on more comments.
CHINA IS PIRACY!!!!!1
smooth china real smooth
fuck smoothies.
best comment ever.
more burning please.
Smart comment from a guy ? with a IQ of 2000 ?
Does it make you feel good ?
Do you feel superior than others.
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!!!
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.
Get a live and a girlfriend.
Grow up and throw away your toys.
fuck soul window
fuck communism
fuck racism
fuck ignorant white/black/yellow racist
fuck trolls
fuck me
china. they are born for copy and paste.... becos they havent brain in their skull.... just some shyt >"<
*Mandarin facewall*
Trolls live under bridge.
Trolls live in blogs
Trolls = Everybody
Age < 10
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
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.
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
fuck china
fuck CCTV
fuck Mao chairman
fuck Soul’s Window
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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.