The summer 2012 anime season is off to a less promising start than might be hoped – one of the most anticipated upcoming series, “Muv-Luv Total Eclipse,” is already facing tracing accusations after it emerged some of its sexy pinup art looks to have been blatantly plagiarised from not one but two different sources in the same picture…
The purported similarities were discovered by 2ch’s plagiarism task force of otaku with far too much time on their hands – as usual, how they discovered these similarities is almost as pressing a question as why some illustrators still think they can get away with it.
From a popular Infinite Stratos pin-up:
And on the left an obscure Ikki Tousen artwork:
A limit break is promised to anyone able to identify the third girl as unoriginal, as unfortunately seems less than improbable.
An alternative, more generous explanation has also been put forward – “perhaps they all copied their girls from a collection of poses?” – although this is none too reassuring either.
“Good artists copy. Great artists steal.”
Have good skills
> Draw something that looks great
>>Turns out it looks a lot like something else drawn by another person with great skills.
>>>Plagarism hilarity ensues
>>>>Many sads are had.
It’s unfortunate they see the need to trace – seems really cheap of them. But at the same time it doesn’t bother me much since this is only series promo art work. If they start plagiarising other anime series frame for frame.. then there is a serious problem here.
Find the original 3D photo and the truth will really be revealed.
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