

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).
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Some remarkable similarities in certain scenes from K-ON! and their apparent real world counterparts have been discovered, most notably these suspiciously similar cumulo-nimbus cloud formations.
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Kuroko has been spotted advertising, of all things, a lesbian brothel.
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The cover of the latest release of Girls Dead Monster, the girl band featured in “Angel Beats!”, has caught the attention of music enthusiasts due to its uncanny resemblance to the cover of a famous rock album…
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Major publisher Dengeki have apologised and withdrawn all copies of a light novel which 2ch discovered plagiarised “Baka to Test” in the most egregious manner imaginable, reproducing entire passages with minor changes in wording and even copying the author’s postscript address to readers.
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Chart topping rapper “Soulja Boy” has been accused of flagrantly ripping off the Death Note OST in one of his latest releases, imaginatively called “Death Note.”
He is but the latest in a series of minor American celebrities caught plagiarising the works of Japanese artists with the evidently misplaced hope that nobody will notice, a practice since termed “Simmonsing” in honour of its foremost and most shameless practicioner
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Se.kirara, the free-to-download eroge recently released and then pulled after a minor scandal erupted when it transpired the artists had been freely tracing copyrighted images easily found via Google, has been re-released with the offending scenes entirely re-done.
The changes are collated in the below image, with the originals on top and the desimmonsed version underneath:
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Japanese web MMO sim “Destare” has earnt itself notoriety for some unusually cheeky plagiarism – rather than go the trouble of making their own backdrops, the designers opted to sneakily take screenshots of Oblivion and use those in the hopes nobody would notice.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Apr 23, 2010 16:11 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Dating, Internet, Otaku, Pixiv, Plagiarism, Relationships, Sites, Stalkers

A guide detailing how to seduce girls using top Japanese artist community site Pixiv was recently published.
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Eroge se.kirara, formerly distributed free on NicoNico Douga, has been pulled over plagiarism concerns.
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Japan’s top clothing retailer UNIQLO appears to be facing competition from a gleefully Simmonsing competitor, UN!PRO.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Mar 29, 2010 15:09 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Dream C Club, Eroge, Image Gallery, Maids, Oppai, Pantsu, Parody, Plagiarism

Hostess sousing sim Dream C Club now has some more than coincedentally similar eroge “tribute” action emerging in its wake in the form of “Cure Mate Club,” released recently.
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