I don't know what life in China is like, but it seems like instead of localizing things, they make their own copy - of specific IPs - from scratch. Clearly meant to be placeholders for the things they're copying, but "the Chinese version."
I don't know why this is, apart from maybe avoiding legal battles. Maybe it really is cheaper to make the whole thing from scratch in China instead of just paying a fair licensing fee and localizing it? My only other guess would be that it's a tradition stemming from official government versions of things that don't have any of the unapproved content of the originals? That's purely speculation though.
It is humorous how the finger pointing is so one sided. If you want to say Chinese copied Blue Dragon, might as well say Akira Toriyama copied Journey to the West when he made Dragonball. Heck, even Jackie Chan should sue him because Dragonball had Master Roshi disguise himself as Jackie Chun.
How about the Lion King? It was a complete rip off of the anime Kimba the White Lion.
@excaliburps: There's nothing wrong with admitting the truth. It's unlike the people of the world who are all "HAHA CHINESE QUALITY ITEMS" without thinking that 90% of the exported goods in the world are made in China.
@resonate: Haha, I'm doing the mechat roaming on disc 3 right now, leveling to make the actual game the least of a challenge as is possible (ok I really want the golden poo achievement), and I actually don't mind the boss music. :(
Nice 'Homage' there fellas. That is to say nice job at perfectly copying the art style of Toriyama San, no really nice job, no sarcasm here. If you must copy, why not copy the best.
@LordThayer: Toriyama would be amoung the best in my opinion. He's got a very unique art style. I find the only problem I have with him is that he tends to overuse certain character concepts.
@FreddieMachete: There are so many goddamn anime and manga based on Journey to the West, you really can't claim anything against them apart from redundancy.
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I don't know why this is, apart from maybe avoiding legal battles. Maybe it really is cheaper to make the whole thing from scratch in China instead of just paying a fair licensing fee and localizing it? My only other guess would be that it's a tradition stemming from official government versions of things that don't have any of the unapproved content of the originals? That's purely speculation though.
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How about the Lion King? It was a complete rip off of the anime Kimba the White Lion.
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*plays Pretendo Vii*
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China is known for their cheap labor and sad as it may be, copyright infringement.
Oh and before anyone gets pissed, I'm Chinese and I admit this is the thing going on there. =D
Well at least Toriyama's a cool icon to steal from.
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That's a coincidence alright.
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"tend" isn't strong enough of a word.
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Queue the Elton John now.
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