Forum - View topicNEWS: Switch Manga, Rin Yoshii Accused of Plagiarism
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Avatar of Justice
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Maybe she just really liked the picture? |
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MorwenLaicoriel
 Posts: 1617 Location: Colorado |
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Oh, I didn't think of it that way! I really like Fullmetal Alchemist. I think I'll draw it out exactly the same, then publish it and make money off of it! |
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gary leeman
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Way to instantly ruin your career and all cred.
It's stupid. But it is hard to believe that someone would actually do this without thinking of the consequences. There HAS to be a back story. If there isn't, than it is just one of the dumbest things you can do as an artist. |
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BleuVII
 Posts: 672 Location: Tokorozawa, Japan |
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I agree that this is an over-reaction on the part of the biz. Everyone is right, she re-drew the picture exactly. So? If she was trying to steal the poze or something, then she WOULD have changed it. However, I think in this case, she was trying to draw the picture EXACTLY. No more, no less. While the reference should have been in there, it is not something that should end anyone's career.
As for the slam-dunk pictures that were referenced, those don't seem like a big deal either. Perspectives are simply hard to draw. Reference material is, in my opinion, encouraged. I draw also. I have a wooden doll on my desk that I can pose to get help with perspectives. |
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Karala
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OMG!! Nooooo!! I really like Switch... and on top of that, I LOVE her doujinshi where she works under the pen name Naked Ape. She's got some beautiful Naruto doujinshi, this is really sad news.
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LydiaDianne
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I'll buy it from you! What do you plan on calling it? |
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MorwenLaicoriel
Posts: 1617 Location: Colorado |
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Tinfoil Warlock! Yay! I have my first fan!  Maybe you could cosplay as Eduardo Elliot!
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LydiaDianne
Posts: 5634 Location: Southern California |
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Nah...I'll probably go as his brother, Alberto. It'll hide the fact that I can "pinch more than an inch" (yes, I'm dating myself...but do any of you know what that is from?) |
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Murasakisuishou
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Oh man, that seriously brightened up an otherwise crummy day 
Back on topic, I too would be interested to hear the author's side of this. I think if she was trying to actually plagiarize she would have changed something, but there had to be a reason for her exactly copying the picture. |
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GATSU
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BTW, Takeshi Obata swiped one of the panels of Mello eating chocolate in Death Note from Flame of Recca.
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zebedeee
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That's a different Switch. There's at least 3 manga's by the name of Switch. Naked Ape consists of Saki Otoh and Nakamura Tomomi and their doujinshi circle is called Acute Girls. |
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ladykibble
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I don't really know what to think about this, especially after seeing this comparison of the Nana manga (also serialized in "Cookie")
http://community.livejournal.com/blackstones/85219.html While more is changed between the Nana drawing and photo compared to Rin Yoshi's drawing, it still seems like a bit of a double standard coming from Cookie. I imagine since Nana makes them a lot more money, they're more inclined to let it slide, but who knows? |
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tenkado-shujin
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The family name of the manga-ka is Yoshii.
The name of Editor-in-Chief of Cookie is Umeoka Mitsuo. The statement on the Cookie site says, ' 『ＳＷＩＴＣＨ』（吉井凜・作）の扉および予告ページのイラストが、ファッション誌のグラビア写真を模写したものである事が判明いたしました。' This 'グラビア' doesn't signify the name of the fashion magazine. This 'グラビア写真' means a gravure picture or gravure pictures. |
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ArielTsuki
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Maybe, it's because I'm in America but I thought the whole incident was totally out of hand. I mean, maybe the picture is a parody of her favorite fashion picture. If someone were to do that in American comics, it wouldn't blink an eye. One thing that bugs me about the Japanese entertainment industry is that if a manga-ka or a music artist do something slightly illegal or contraverisal, anything of that said artist did gets pull off the shelves. Very much like that Takeshi Obata's (of Death Note and Hikaru no Go) incident with the police because he had a knife in the car that exceeds the legal limit of length of knives in public. They almost pulled all of Obata's stuff and pretty end his career for a small incident.
This case is much clearly different compared to that incident with the manga-ka of Flower of Eden. Yoshii may used the pose, colors or whatnot but the person is clearly her character in her style. |
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fighterholic
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Well that should tell you that when they're pulling everything by somebody, they do things differently in Japan than they do here in America. Japanese are very prideful, and doing something like basically brings dishonor to everything that you've worked to accomplish, so there is no room left to make a mistake, especially when it's coming down to plagiarism. Although, this is the first case I've heard of plagiarism in Japan. |
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