- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Mar 13, 2010 04:30 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Artists, Comparison, Copyright, Dengeki, Image Gallery, Photoshop, Pixiv, Plagiarism

Award-winning illustrator Shirokitsune has been found guilty of first degree Simmonsing by 2ch’s Plagiarism Police.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Mar 9, 2010 01:46 JST
- Tags: Character Design, Comparison, Eroge, Fault!!, K-ON!, Mio Akiyama, Plagiarism, Tony Taka

Eroge illustrator don Tony has apparently come to the attention of 2ch’s Plagiarism Police, who compare his Mio Sugiyama, of eroge Fault!!, to Mio Akiyama, queen moeblob of K-ON!
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Noted plagiarist Nick Simmons has denied accusations that he shamelessly ripped off Bleach and other works in his “Incarnate” comic, saying that he was merely “inspired” into an act of “homage.”
His publisher felt inspired to suspend sales of the comic.
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Bleach fans have been outraged to learn that the comic has apparently been the subject of shameless plagiarism in the American comic book “Incarnate” by Nick Simmons.
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The winner of a newly instituted prize for disabled artists was stripped of her title after it became apparent she had plagiarised a Studio Ghibli character; the judges, including an art professor and two gallery bosses, apparently suspected but awarded the prize anyway, whilst the organisers pointed out that they had not actually explicitly prohibited plagiarism.
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Top Asian micro-blogging service Plurk has apparently been subject to brazen plagiarism by Microsoft China, in a case which raises unsettling questions about the business ethics of both Microsoft and its Chinese developers.
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China’s unique grasp of intellectual property once again courts controversy with the allegations that “Dinosaur Planet” in fact heavily plagiarises Nintendo’s Super Mario Galaxy, for the Wii.
Decide for yourself in the below videos:
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2ch’s elite plagiarism detection units have over time uncovered a variety of “suspected tracing”, collected below:
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Manga, News
- Date: Sep 17, 2009 20:09 JST
- Tags: Artists, Food, Hokkaido, Illustration, Marketing, Moe, Plagiarism, To Love-Ru


Hastily concluded oppai manga To Love-Ru seems to have retained enough popularity to create some entertaining tracing controversy centred around an amusing attempt to cash in on the moe boom by selling moe seaweed using traced To Love-ru imagery…
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China’s top state run broadcaster is being accused of plagiarising elements of Pokémon and Naruto in its latest children’s anime, not long after it was discovered to have shamelessly copied 5cm Per Second wholesale; the broadcaster obstinately denies the charges, saying there is a difference between “plagiarism” and “imitation.”
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China’s reputation for originality and respect for copyright is once again cemented with the news that a Chinese company, working in partnership with a state propaganda department, has plagiarised wholesale Makoto Shinkai’s popular and visually striking anime movie “5 Centimeters Per Second.”
You can see much more of it below (the Chinese version is on top):
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Top ero-mangaka Ishikei seems to have been the subject of some not so subtle tracing in the unidentified ero-manga above.
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