Bleach Ripped Off by American Comic Artist Nick Simmons

His Artistic career is probably over now. It's one thing to use similar characters, but stealing poses is just lazy.

I'm more surprised we beat the Chinese in the Bleach plagiarism race.

"Bleach has nice art and originality"

Please. You call parallel lines, ink spillage, and lack of backgrounds nice art? Also, Kubo is quite guilty of plagiarism himself. The ending of the Ichigo/Ulquiorra fight was almost exactly like the Yusuke/Sensui fight in YuYu Hakusho.

He couldn't even copy Bleach correctly. His artwork is all over the place and inconsistent. He's like a modern Rob Liefeld.

@ "Kubo copied YuYuHakusho"
Firstly, this was a single fight scene,
whereas apparantly this guy has copied ad infinitum and from multiple sources.

so yeah, the degree of plagarism is vastly different.

not that im sayin Kubo should plagarise.

I see now other nations are joining the Chinese trend...

Yeah, Bleach is an otherwise original series about a tough delinquent forced into a temp job as an agent for the afterlife, where he's partnered with some (mostly useless) chick in a kimono who uses a fake body when she needs to interact with other humans. And in the second movie gets a mcguffin gem pulled out by a villain. But it's just one fight scene!

Still, at least Bleach sticks to being conceptually unoriginal instead of copying so many panels.

and the guy who did YuYu Hakusho copied off of Dragon Ball. Isn't it just the "idea" of the world that was used for bleach. I watched both series and the big differences between bleach uses "swords" and yuyu hakusho uses "techniques" to power up.

I mean for crying out loud if Kubo is plagarising then the whole freaking comic industry is plagarising with super heroes from all different companies. I mean how many different superman-like, batman-like & wonder woman-like stories till we say it's plagarism or its' not plagarism?

There's a difference between borrowing ideas and blatantly copying one-to-one.

lol, nice art? it just fighting and no back ground, want nice art? read otoyomegatari or Emma

When I read 'Bleach ripped off by...', I expected it to be China. Then When I read '...whose only claim to fame is being the son of...', I expected it to be Richard Simmons. I am now very disappointed.

There's no excuse for ripping off another artist.
In the eyes of many, Nick's career as a mangaka was over before it began.

LOOOOOLL, calling shovelware manga (for foreigners and jp kids) ART is a crime. seriously, die now.

that person should die.

also another reason why I'm not using deviantart anymore >_>

Yeah wishing someone's death is real fucking mature. I don't like him too much either but that's not cool even on a joking level.

And how is deviantart the reason? Shouldn't we be complaining about the root of the problem? D: That being, people are copying each others work in the manga industry deliberately and if it's popular no one will say anything

That's nothing the guy has completely ripped of Alucard from Hellsing. Just see this picture.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/images/previews/radical/incarnate/INC1_40_Color.jpg

http://www.comicbookresources.com/images/previews/radical/incarnate/INC1_05_Color.jpg

Well I think he's high most of his time while making his comics.C'mon guys,give him a break he's the son of GENE "ALWAYS HIGH MOST OF HIS TIME" SIMMONS for cry'n out loud.

You do realize that the moderators of DA have been known to use stolen materials as well right? Not to mention they never ban people who conduct art theft even if it has been blatantly proven to be stolen. Sometimes they won't even investigate a report of an art theft and claim the report as false. I have dealt with DA moderators more than enough to know they're nothing but hypocrites.

From what I've heard, the only ways to get banned on DA is to either post porn or by insulting the website or the mods.

I never said "All DA artists steal!", they're just the majority.

I've been on DA for years. They made tracing perfectly fine by their rules. That is theft.

The only ways to get banned are to say 'mean things' about the admins, Say a few words to a popular artist that don't amount to 'Oh, you're AWESOME!', or post porn.

In the anime sections of DA there is so much copied trash that the few of us that DO draw our own work from scratch have started calling it "Deviant Trace" because you go into any anime based gallery and you're looking at 3/4th a page of poorly traced SHIT.

Another thing, I didn't blame his stealing on DA, I said he'd fit right in. Don't be a dick and assume that I believe DA is the source of the issue. HE chose to steal. HE is the one that published the stolen work. DA is just a place where he'll find kindred spirits.

And, lastly, stupidity is no excuse.

I'm intrigued by what you mean by "culture" when Japanese comics are known to be historically based off of Western(and especially Disney) art styles. So, it's a mix of American and Japanese culture coming together right?
If you're talking about how manga has katana and kimono I fail to see how that makes it different from other comics/animation that also use cultural imagery.

The person might be refering to "culture" as in character development, sketching. Although it was first influenced by Disney, as the year progresses, the characters progresses, become more and more human. Even the monsters, you can't really call them monsters anymore, additionally, you get to sympathize with the bad guys (am so reluctant to use this word because there really is no bad guys (people led astray is a better term).
However, American comics are detached, not cohesive, it doesn't have a culture of it's own. Family guy, Simpsons, and all those marvel comics are different from each other. Manga, anime on the other hand, the overall drawing style remain the same, just that some looks more expressive (nyan! koi, Hatenko Yugi, Fullmetal panic), others looks more human styled (moyashimon, mushishi), or CG enhanced(aquarion),and so on. However, despite that, they have complex character development. It's like the characters are alive. It's like what's fiction and non-fic is as thin as paper. If let's say you are watching magic themed anime,take out the magic and you are left with the core. Once, people start observing the core, they might realize that it does have a culture of it's own. It's also written a book once, where, anime, manga are reflective of real life japan. Not that in japan there are vampires running lose. It's just that if you read manga and watch anime, you get a feel of Japan. I've only been to Japan for 1 week and it feels like 3 days, and the funny thing, is that the scenery is somewhat nostalgic. Funny right?

there's such a thing called lack of talent. it's people who think that they have talent and are overly confident however, when they are pointed out by people, their shortcoming (makes you human), they become defensive, refuse to improve, and continue doing useless things. They don't seek references, if they seek for reference, they take it block out, instead of experimenting with it. Since, this world has come a long way, it is becoming harder to create something that is purely original. So how does one define what is copied and what is real? the plot, the drawings, the character development. If a fight scene is similar to another series, is the character development similar? why are the characters fighting in the first place? is the characters drawn the same? what is the motive for the fight and so on. So technically, it is not wrong to copy others directly, per drawing, per word, per panel, but once you said oh it's mine, now that's plain wrong even though it's sewn together from different parts.
So yeah lack of talent do exists. For example "Shao An" (cooking master boy). He's an example of someone who has no talent. Because in the end, although he was able to attain some kind of new technique, he was going around in circles because he was ignorant to details. The same with copying. You can copy but if you are ignorant of the details, it's just going to be the cheap version of the whole gimmick.

Agreed!

then move it

Move America? No! We don't want them.

you're just a hater

You're just a baiter.

09:46 25/02/2010, as much as I dislike "ZOMG, HAET THE AMERICANS!" talk, that comment made me laugh so very hard. If I were there, I'd give you a cookie.

one has to realize that when this issue came up it was not just the Japanese and other people that called this plagiarizer out but Americans as well. Not all Americans are dumb bastards just some (although that can be made about EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD

Oh you.

wat... ?

What Internet have you been looking at?

last i checked, most people hate americans, including americans themselves. but there's a difference between hating something and just being a complete jerk. i mean, i hate clowns but i don't try to get them thrown out of the circus whenever i go there... which isn't often. seriously.. ban americans? it's the internet, camper, so lighten up and chill out.