Kunihiko Ikuhara, director of the popular anime Revolutionary Girl Utena, sought 4.4 million yen in compensation from a woman who repeatedly made baseless plagiarism claims.
On December 13, the Tokyo District Court ordered the woman to pay 1.21 million yen for defamation and obstruction of business.
“I’m scared,” Ikhuara said frankly at a press conference after the verdict, adding that the woman’s actions reminded him of the Kyoto Animation arson incident. Since the case, the police have been patrolling the area around Ikuhara’s home twice a day.
The female defendant claimed that an illustration posted by a voice actor was a stolen work that traced one of her own illustrations. She sent several emails to Ikuhara and also filed for DMCA complaints.
Ikuhara and the voice actors formed a band to perform for a concert commemorating the release of a CD album, but the event had to be canceled due to security concerns.
Ikuhara filed the lawsuit in June 2022, but the woman continued sending similar emails to the publisher. She also claimed in court that X, Google, Instagram, and Harvard Law School had examined the image and found that they infringed copyright.
While the court considered prohibiting the woman from posting any of her work, the lawyers deemed that it would be difficult as doing so would go against her ‘freedom of expression.’
Dude…. they are not similar at all. ALso this stupid woman should think again, she this anime is almost 30 years old!
lol I love the fact that a deranged woman was harassing this dude that makes nothing but pandering feminist animes.
Definition of a woman moment.
Bitch they arent similar at all.
Is kinda similar to the kyoto animation incident a deranged makes claims despite the others doing said content way before they even did their work.
For example i can say something was stolen from me but i laugh of it,the first thing was part of the vessel of despair which was a set of short stories i made in 2000 with two works using it as base Sayonara zetsubou sensei and danganronpa,after that my mangas made on early 2000 which have my style yet since i suck at doing endings it was always genocide ending ,explosive ending and so on with some stuff like foreigner immigrant doesn’t wear panties,blonde sexy girl is just fanservice character and so on which got used in sayonara zetsubou sensei yet i won’t care or mind i am quite pleased of my ideas being used on anime.
Doing 3/4 drawing is now plagiarism? Didn’t see this one coming XD