Glad you mentioned 5 Centimeters Per Second , Just want to say that if you guys ever get a chance to see it, its possibly one of the best animated movies ive ever seen, art-wise.
China would like to point out that it is pointless for normal citizens to concern themselves over international matters which your UN will not and cannot rectify.
China is one of the biggest economies in the world with plenty of help from America and friends. The UN condemns China publicly but behind closed doors billion dollar business deals are being struck.
China urges you again to not concern yourself with trivial that your UN sweep under the carpet.
Instead please look forward to our
future cartoon production called Bull-leech it is about a boy who becomes a Death Saint with bull and leech powers whilst driving a big robot called Evagundamlion Z Kai.
Based on those images (I obviously can't say anything about the plot), I'd say at least some of those copying accusations are a huge stretch. The similarities seem to be extremely minor.
Look at the dinosaur in the lower-left. How does it compare to the Digimon? Well...they're both dinosaurs with a T-rex-like design? Red and orange are pretty close, I guess...
And how about the proposed Sasuke clone? His physical design is completely different, save for the fact that his hairstyle is similar to Sasuke's. There are only so many hairstyles to go around in the anime universe; it's not like Sasuke's hairstyle wasn't done tens of times before his character was even conceived.
The only things that genuinely appear to be copies are the boy at the top and the Pokemon in the lower-right. Everything else just seems to be a field day that critics are having to try to make the entire thing stink of far more corruption than is actually there.
Maybe you don't actually follow Naruto in any way, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. But if you actually watched the show or read the manga, you'd realize that the protagonist does look exactly like Sasuke (the hair, the same depressed look) and not only that, but the villain looks just like cursed seal Sasuke!
In addition, this country is best known for two things: Communism and plagarism. So the people that you think are exaggerating, I would say are being realistic.
I'm Chinese and having grown up both in a strong Asian tradition, I gotta say that it's embarassing how Chinese people are concerning stealing/borrowing/taking ideas of any sort.
Typical citizens are brought up on "taking whatever you can get". Walking by an Asian DVD kiosk in the mall yesterday, I saw a movie that ripped off Batman Begins/Dark Knight. The gliding cape, etc.
And they have no problem with it. Because they believe it's their way of competing/staying competitive, riding on someone else's coat tails. It's their way of making a quick buck. It's really all about the bottom line, and a lot of them act like/come from the working class level, and in their eyes, it's about making money to look good in other people's eyes. They don't KNOW about respecting other people's ideas, or developing culture, or keeping their (our) own culture just because they've lost so much of it already.
It's a joke now. 99% of the Chinese population doesn't care what anybody thinks. They're perfectly content living with their own world and thinks the rest of the world is behind in technology, thinking, and money.
They simply don't realize not everybody thinks the same way.
If the goal was to improve the domestic anime industry. I think heavily imitating existing animes or media shows that the protectionist policy against foreign anime is a failure. Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
Even outside of China, TV show concepts and scripts are copied or sold all the time between countries. But in this case they should have done more to make it original or should have gotten premission from the original artists.
You people are hypocrites. You love to associate my country with negative things such as the so called human rights abuses and piracy, yet turn a blind eye to our achievements into transforming into a regional power. On the other hand, Japan is unashamedly praised while their atrocities committed in WWII such as the Nanjing Massacre, Unit 731, Comfort Women etc which even today they have trouble owning up, are always ignored.
Considering that Japan stole most of their culture and writing system from China yet repaid us by waging a war that killed millions, I see no problem with ripping off Japanese animation. As for you people complaining about Tibet, keep in mind China was long there before the US was even founded. Go clean up your own country, deal with the Native Americans and Ainu people in Japan, before you bitch about Tibet.
@astrixzero: I think you are confusing American opinion with long standing research by humanitarian NGOs (non-governmental organizations).
Also, don't even try to compare China's dilution of minority populations and denial of sovereignty to America's treatment of the American Indians. At the very least America has given the American Indians their own land, something which the Chinese government would never do, even for its own people (the Han).
@astrixzero: The fact that you would compare genocide committed against your own country to your media broadcasting animated cartoons that heavily borrow ideas from an author who is native to another country makes me think you cannot be taken seriously.
@astrixzero: I'm sorry you feel your country has been short-handed. I honestly feel for you in the sense that I get when my pride is hurt. I do think, however, that you should reconsider your verdict of hypocracy. Though the media tends to enjoy a one-sided aspect against such a different culture, you must take each issue case by case. If you generalize a situation into something as out of proportion as your suggesting, it will hurt more then harm.
The nation of China has been key in this economic struggle, if it weren't for your regional power and aid to the global GDP, we would be in a bigger rut. As for the atrocities you mentioned, nobody even opened that can. Your bout is a historical jest to two nations that, frankly, this site doesn't even cater to. Now, I don't think the images are that ground-breaking; but, I think there is more to the story then was originally released. Stop thinking of "this can't be true, you all must be lying to defame my country" and start thinking "yeah it IS possible that they could have ripped it off." Any good debater will tell you that the key to a good argument is understanding it's counter-argument.
@astrixzero: Can we bitch about the Tiananmen Square massacre? Or forcing Google and Yahoo to self censor? Or Mao, his cult of personalty and his little red book? Or the religious crackdowns? Or the hackers you've got attacking anyone you all remotely see as a threat, save for Russia, because Putin would have no issues nuking you all? What about the Ürümqi riots? I mean if your going to reach back in time and throw Nanjing and Unit 731 in Japan's face, what about more current hiistory, some of which just happened a few months ago?
@NeoAkira: He's got his own taste, I find that enough. I liked Pokemon before it got repetitive, and Digimon's first season wasn't as good as the two that followed.
China has the rights to "rip" anything off because China is exempt from all UN laws never mind copyright law.
International economic sabotage and nuclear weapons are mightier than your pens.
China is pleased that it has been given special rules to govern itself whilst having major influence on the international community.
China thoroughly likes the cake that it has been given by the world and next time would like to request a more varied selection than the usual.
China understands the worlds concerns over Tibet and so would like to assure you that once plans are in fruition (which is very soon)
the native Tibetans will be treated just like the Native Americans of America.
This is something that really pisses me off about China. They assume they deserve automatic entry into the global community but don't want to accept any of the responsibilities.
The last 19 out of the previous 20 centuries, China had the highest GDP in the world. China is around 1/5 - 1/4 of the world's population (and this is a low relative population for China, historically they once made up 1/3 of the population). Who are YOU to deny entry of the largest single chunk of the planet?
Many Japanese IPs also use other properties for their things. IE: Suikoden, Journey to the West, Houshin Engi, etc. It's just that since Japanese stuff is so popular nobody ever really complains about it.
@Leyviur: There's a huge difference between openly basing your show/game on an ancient legend or novels and actually stealing someone's intellectual property and claiming it as your own, such as copying character designs.
@Phlogistic: Well, there's still a line between plagiarism and ripping off. For example, people call card game shows rip offs of yu Gi Oh and in many cases there are incredibly similar parallels, but a company can't copyright 'card game anime.' I think it fits here; it's a rip off, but calling it plagiraism is a bit overboard, IMO.
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With this in mind, I don't see how anyone could be happy about more Digimon news.
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.....guess I should quit....
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Think of it! It's a digital monster you caught in the real world that can use jutsus!
I'm sold, where can I find my copy.
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@dlenoxx:
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China would like to point out that it is pointless for normal citizens to concern themselves over international matters which your UN will not and cannot rectify.
China is one of the biggest economies in the world with plenty of help from America and friends. The UN condemns China publicly but behind closed doors billion dollar business deals are being struck.
China urges you again to not concern yourself with trivial that your UN sweep under the carpet.
Instead please look forward to our
future cartoon production called Bull-leech it is about a boy who becomes a Death Saint with bull and leech powers whilst driving a big robot called Evagundamlion Z Kai.
Long live Mother China.
09/14/09
Look at the dinosaur in the lower-left. How does it compare to the Digimon? Well...they're both dinosaurs with a T-rex-like design? Red and orange are pretty close, I guess...
And how about the proposed Sasuke clone? His physical design is completely different, save for the fact that his hairstyle is similar to Sasuke's. There are only so many hairstyles to go around in the anime universe; it's not like Sasuke's hairstyle wasn't done tens of times before his character was even conceived.
The only things that genuinely appear to be copies are the boy at the top and the Pokemon in the lower-right. Everything else just seems to be a field day that critics are having to try to make the entire thing stink of far more corruption than is actually there.
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Maybe you don't actually follow Naruto in any way, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. But if you actually watched the show or read the manga, you'd realize that the protagonist does look exactly like Sasuke (the hair, the same depressed look) and not only that, but the villain looks just like cursed seal Sasuke!
In addition, this country is best known for two things: Communism and plagarism. So the people that you think are exaggerating, I would say are being realistic.
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Typical citizens are brought up on "taking whatever you can get". Walking by an Asian DVD kiosk in the mall yesterday, I saw a movie that ripped off Batman Begins/Dark Knight. The gliding cape, etc.
And they have no problem with it. Because they believe it's their way of competing/staying competitive, riding on someone else's coat tails. It's their way of making a quick buck. It's really all about the bottom line, and a lot of them act like/come from the working class level, and in their eyes, it's about making money to look good in other people's eyes. They don't KNOW about respecting other people's ideas, or developing culture, or keeping their (our) own culture just because they've lost so much of it already.
It's a joke now. 99% of the Chinese population doesn't care what anybody thinks. They're perfectly content living with their own world and thinks the rest of the world is behind in technology, thinking, and money.
They simply don't realize not everybody thinks the same way.
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Even outside of China, TV show concepts and scripts are copied or sold all the time between countries. But in this case they should have done more to make it original or should have gotten premission from the original artists.
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Considering that Japan stole most of their culture and writing system from China yet repaid us by waging a war that killed millions, I see no problem with ripping off Japanese animation. As for you people complaining about Tibet, keep in mind China was long there before the US was even founded. Go clean up your own country, deal with the Native Americans and Ainu people in Japan, before you bitch about Tibet.
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Also, don't even try to compare China's dilution of minority populations and denial of sovereignty to America's treatment of the American Indians. At the very least America has given the American Indians their own land, something which the Chinese government would never do, even for its own people (the Han).
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The nation of China has been key in this economic struggle, if it weren't for your regional power and aid to the global GDP, we would be in a bigger rut. As for the atrocities you mentioned, nobody even opened that can. Your bout is a historical jest to two nations that, frankly, this site doesn't even cater to. Now, I don't think the images are that ground-breaking; but, I think there is more to the story then was originally released. Stop thinking of "this can't be true, you all must be lying to defame my country" and start thinking "yeah it IS possible that they could have ripped it off." Any good debater will tell you that the key to a good argument is understanding it's counter-argument.
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I don't think you could be more off-topic or melodramatic.
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Assuming you have bad taste? Then sure.
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Naruto... Naruto has good 2D fighters on PS2.
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The third season of Digimon was vastly inferior to the first two, but still good.
Pokemon was good until it got repetitive.
Up until the fillers, Naruto was a very, very good anime. It had all the esentials: Good action, well thought out story, fun music, etc.
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You don't even need to look into the history books for this one. Just look at the 2008 Olympics.
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China really cares about what all of you think.
China has the rights to "rip" anything off because China is exempt from all UN laws never mind copyright law.
International economic sabotage and nuclear weapons are mightier than your pens.
China is pleased that it has been given special rules to govern itself whilst having major influence on the international community.
China thoroughly likes the cake that it has been given by the world and next time would like to request a more varied selection than the usual.
China understands the worlds concerns over Tibet and so would like to assure you that once plans are in fruition (which is very soon)
the native Tibetans will be treated just like the Native Americans of America.
A Disney World China will be built over Tibet.
Long live Mother China.
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Bloody commies.
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Counter-point:
The last 19 out of the previous 20 centuries, China had the highest GDP in the world. China is around 1/5 - 1/4 of the world's population (and this is a low relative population for China, historically they once made up 1/3 of the population). Who are YOU to deny entry of the largest single chunk of the planet?
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Get a fucking clue.
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