China Rips Off Naruto, Pokémon: “Imitation is Not Plagiarism”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Sep 13, 2009 07:17 JST
- Tags: China, Made in China, Naruto, Plagiarism, Pokemon, Production Controversy
China’s top state run broadcaster is being accused of plagiarising elements of Pokémon and Naruto in its latest children’s anime, not long after it was discovered to have shamelessly copied 5cm Per Second wholesale; the broadcaster obstinately denies the charges, saying there is a difference between “plagiarism” and “imitation.”
Chinese Central Television (or CCTV), under the direct control of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Propaganda Department, recently began airing 恐龙宝贝之龙神勇士, loosely “Dinosaur Baby Holy Heroes,” but Chinese anime fans soon spotted the fact that the anime was copying character designs, story and music from a variety of Japanese anime, most notably Pokémon, Digimon and Naruto.
The director of CCTV’s Children’s Channel was soon confronted over the issue, but he angrily denied all wrong-doing, saying it was a matter for the studio responsible, and then asking those doubting the work to “consider the difference between imitation and plagiarism.”
With the government having banned non-Chinese anime from TV due to fear of foreign influences and to foster homegrown anime, domestic producers have struggled to satisfy demand, generally producing anime of very low quality, loathed by many Chinese for its highly propagandistic nature.
This difficult position, coupled with the lack of respect for copyright the mainland is notorious for, seems to have led many studios to simply plagiarise Japanese anime, frequently passing it off as “100% domestic,” and often doing so in direct collusion with the state.
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Not even 4Kids would want to dub this series.
That sounds like a challenge.
more like mission impossible
At the Mission Impossibles were cleared. This...
The Chinese animators are so jealous of the Japanese, it's not even funny. The Chinese animators should be ashamed of them self for making a ripoff of good old Anime series from the 1990's which is Pokemon and Digimon. And a series which is based on a hit Manga seies, which is Naruto. And a bunch of newer Anime series that are for children.
chinese way of thinking:
WE build an empire of low quality & no human rights
...or shit'n'crap
Don't generalize the Chinese based on a few petty examples.
Look at the whole and you get the same conclusion (except panda express)
That's what a lot of people like to do though.
Generalize the Chinese based on a few petty examples.
Nooo that's too highly for them. It's more like "WE copy an empire with the lowest quality material and people have no rights"
the watch reminds me of megami tensei imagine
"China Rips Off Naruto, Pokémon"
And nothing of value was lost.
+1
but if they rip off lucky star we must nuke them
What's sad is we all know that the chinks are fully capable of creating awesome original shits from the few impressive creations that was posted here in Sankaku before, instead of doing these cheap copies... But the nature of their present day society discourages these orignal break throughs, now they prefer the safer route of stealing ideas instead of coming up with their own.
Chinks used to be innovative, but the commie system has pretty much sat them back 500+ years.
wow,racist much?
Nope, truth much.
So tru
They're able to create something original? I missed that. From the crap they produce usually you'd think they're a race of copy-machines, incapable of independent thought.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/wp-content/gallery/misc-images-xxviii/china-rips-off-naruto-pokemon-digimon-2.jpg
the girl whit red hair and hairband reminds me a hell lot of Akiha from Tsukihime
China = Malaysia
Both of them are a fuckin thief.
nuff said
Another
Indonesian patriot
U FAIL!
Zynix0:
Man I feel disgusted, to censor some people and then copy from them, the Chinese government ain't got no shame.
I mean they don't even respect their own people, they take them for idiots. they don't give a damn about how they would look like in the eyes of the population when they find out about what they are presented with (not that it will any time at all). that's the Chinese government for you alright, to hell with censorship, with that censorship crap it doesn't feel like we're living in the 21st century at all, thank god I'm not Chinese, even though I sympathize with the poor guys.
Stay classy China!
Gawd, do China animators really have no originality, creativity, idea and not to mention shame..?
Oh well, several Malaysian animations suffered the same thing too; Sang Wira ripping off Doraemon, Along comics 99% plagiarised Doraemon's manga, Keluangman ripping off Batman, and GAR ripping off Incredible Hulk..
Keluangman
-A crazy guy found a batman suit & became a super hero is not original.LOL!
this is some fail shit right here.
Anybody have a torrent for this or some kind of link.
I just have to see it for myself.
Chinese Central TV = Closed Circuit TV
you know this reminds of the time when in Japan some company released Numa Numa as a cd, the record company ripped off a 2ch character, and said some shit like "we're only 'borrowing' the concept". now that compared to this? well i don't know which is bad. Just some companies are asses
the next frontier of chinese knockoffs
There is no defence for failure. Such epic failure as this just validates how stupid they are. Anyone that knows digimon can see the clearly copied designs.
I bet the final boss is capitalism.
Lol haven't we noticed that sankaku in itself is propaganda against China?
I mean I travelled there two months ago and its quite a civilised place, and I'm pretty sure I saw dubbed Japanese anime.
Yes,it is very civilized nation.Women can now travel on inside of bus and homosexuals no longer have to wear blue hats.
I wont call that plag but fugly "inspirtation" from digimons
china can only imitate other country products
just look how many imitation products from china
china can't make something new.. they just sucks
sorry for bad english
and I HATE CHINA
china freaking fail.
It's not that they are being rip-offs, or their self-righteousness, its the cheesy, lame-ass epic FAIL the show is.
Does SC staff recognize the difference between Pokémon and Digimon? Well, I do. These are mixed.
Oh God, FUCK YOU,China! You make the Chinese across the globe look bad in general! Awful art! Copycats!
heck it is still better than those awful Cartoon Network
Cartoons!
what u expact....china product =.="
Yeah, I saw that one too.
What did they do to mai waifu ;_;
Haha china faill big time... even though i am chinese i dont really support china ^^ after all singaporean are realistic..
What the fuck is this shit?
"dinosaur baby holy heroes".. thats a dumb name.
China:HEY GUYZ ITZ ORIGINAL
I still wanna see this, if I could..... It looks cute.
you barbarians cannot appreciate celestial dynasty's animation!
China sucks dick and so do you.
you celestial dynasty appreciate plagiarism