Dengeki Still At It
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jul 18, 2010 11:56 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Copyright, Dengeki, Light Novels, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, Plagiarism
Dengeki’s unrivalled reputation for employing and even awarding prizes to flagrant plagiarists continues to worsen, with yet another major incident – in this case actually involving a well known title, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu (pictured with a pool cue above).
The cover of the 12th volume of the light novel, illustrated by Shaa, bears a more than uncanny resemblance to an unconnected illustration of pachinko mascot Rio, usually illustrated by Koutaro.
In fact, this is the third time complaints have been raised about Shaa tracing or otherwise appropriating the art of others – including at least one formal apology, it seems.
His previous efforts, with his versions on the left:
Dengeki appears to be garnering quite the reputation for such antics – Japanese publishers are apparently unable or unwilling to sue them into line, and despite the usual Japanese theatre of bowing and scraping little has changed.
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The detectives at 2ch never cease to amaze us.
Their eyes never seem to miss anything off...
maybe they use some software that even FBI lacks...
Yes I believe it's called ROW ROW OTAKU POWA!!
Maybe they are just complete retards?
^ Maybe you are the retard.
Well, the 2 Channers got a future as investigators.
No it's something they have which is holding them back.
A LIFE!
This is a shame, because character design-wise, I think Shaa does a great job with the Nogisaka art. Shame the artist copied off poses.
I believe that software is called "Eden"...
I suspect theres just so much careful plagiarism in japanese media that 2ch finds some whenever they look in a generic direction... it's all about having time to look, maybe?
ARE YOU ALL FUCKING RETARDED?! USING SIMILAR CLOTHES AND POSE ON COMPLETLY DIFFERENT CHARACTER ISN'T PLAGIARISM.
Anon is correct. Similar clothes and pose does not mean plagiarism.
Exactly. The poses a body can produce are limited. I bet every possible pose has been done multiple times already.
Same for clothes. Fantasy uniforms aside every possible combination of clothes has been done.
You will find lookalikes for everything if you just search hard enough - and the guys at 2ch seem to search really hard. I guess they have too much free time. ^_^
I agree with shouting anon, copying poses isnt plagiarism(clothes mebbe) else we wont be able to see our favorite characters making the pose we want, not officially at least if even one renowned artist did it already, or fanart from famous ppl
In fact if it werent for 2ch we wouldnt care at all, and dengeki could be just one of many other publishers that award plagiarism on clear knowledge of it.
Otakus at 2ch are just retarded hikikomori, or office men playing hooky, or just NEETS.... Poor souls!
byakugan!?!?!?
It's the power of slantiness.
The faggots at 2ch never cease to amaze us.
There fix'd that for you.
^ faggots never cease to amaze us.
*fixed*
It seems that when 2ch'ers band together, they can function like a supercomputer. Maybe NEETs have an untapped potential after all.
yea, i heard that if you gather 20,000 naked NEETs in one place they become the ultimate missile defense system (eden of the east, anyone?)
I agree.
.since our brainwaves are unconsciously linked together by the AIM fields that we are constantly emanating,we are instantaneously sharing thoughts and ideas from one brain to another, making us into the fastest and most efficient (we're organic, so fck yeah!) super computer ever since the Railgun series!!
..oops. ^^;
oh come on man...don't get so carried away....
@美味しいケーキ。Delicake!
Super Computer NEETwork at full capacity...
ENHANCE!
What amazes me is that one would have to assume plagiarism on -everything- to catch all this stuff right?
coincidence. the lines never even meeet once. the are just similar poses. i'll bet i can get on google and find a dozen in similar poses.
And it's creepy.
sniker
Shall the simmonsing never end x_x
Where did this news come from ?
I guess from the Japanese Internet police ... also known as 2ch
I guess from the Japanese Cyber police ... also known as 2ch
There fix'd that for you.
They may be guilty of copying the pose or composition, but it's not a 1-1 trace. Besides, the artwork is also very well done. As for tracing another artist's artwork, I would rather accept a well-drawn copy, rather than an original-but-ugly drawing.
He must be related to Gene Simmons, must be one of his kids from some concert in the 1970s in Japan. Simonizing specialist.
I don't like artists or companies Simmonsing, but... I love the looks of _both_ the characters in the topmost image in this article!
Looks more like a coincidence rather then blatant plagiarism to me...
Don't look at the details, they've been changed a bit. Look instead at the general shapes and the outlines. They match way too much to be coincidence.
But there are only a limited number of poses and facial features available in existence.
How many different ways can you show a person sitting on a chair?
-open legged
-close legged
-lying back
-etc..
How does the phrase go?
Once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, three times is...
@ Anon 13:23 :
It's "... three times is enemy action."
Ripping off Carnelian? For shame!
My thoughts exactly.
And once again, I still don't understand what is wrong with doing this. Whats wrong with just stealing a pose? The art and story is completely different! This world revolves around reusing stuff that already exists to create new stuff. I don't get it...
wow no originality really? at least make it more different than similar.
lol, it's just a sitting girl.
There is no copyright on how to sit.
2ch are just ronery lolicons that want to feel better by making others life worse...
2ch-nners should be happy that they have at least something to do by looking for something that no one cares about :)
am starting to think that 2ch is working under the CIA, to bad they don't go out so people can see them in those cool black suites.
Mehh,.. I still don't care. It's not like the exact same image was used, so that makes it a OK. Imitation, flattery, anyone?
S-I-M-M-O-N-S-I-N-G
Simon! Your drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens!