So…Plagiarism works apparently.

Source: animenewsnetwork.com

Okay so, in case you haven’t been keeping up on anime blogs and stuff you would know that the Chinese show Xin Ling Zhi Chuang had copied several backgrounds from Makoto Shinkai’s Drama film 5 Centimetres Per Second. It was even accused of plagiarism in 2009. Problem solved right? Well no. See it just recently won an award. It won an Art and Literature award. Although the show’s production says that they have corrected their plagiarism of Shinkai’s work. This is back in 2009. Why are we still talking about it? Because they were lying. They said there will be strict consequences those who were caught plagiarising. So why not these guys? Just because they say they did something, doesn’t mean they did. I’ve seen these “Edits.” It looks the exact same.

But look, I’m not here to cause hate on the internet. I’m here because I’m here to ask: Why plagiarise? Seriously? There’s probably an extensive list of people copying other people’s work. The only two I can name off the top of my head is Marc Magiori who took a Studio Ghibli background without authorisation for a French film I believe. And Nick Simmons(The son of Gene Simmons) who pretty much added a few lines and coloured Bleach(And other popular manga series) characters for his comic book series known as Incarnate. He of course tried to get out of hot water by claiming homage, but we’re not idiots. We know what we’re talking about. Well most of us do.

Hmm it seems that people with power seem to plagiarise more. I mean, I could go and steal someone else’s blog post and re-post it here. The problem for me is that I can’t hide behind anyone. I’m here and anything you say, I’ll read. which means I will be called a thief and be kicked off the internet. Well not really. But you know what I mean.  Also I reckon Gene Simmons’ kid is safe. He should know all about suing and the like -_- I’m not a KISS fan in case you couldn’t tell. And I’m not a fan of plagiarism either. Seriously people. You were given a brain. USE IT!

By the way sorry this was a short blog post. School has been hitting me hard and it’s kinda gotten me depressed but I’m feeling better. I’ll be writing a new post probably tomorrow.

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