In which animanga fandom produces much LOL WOTery

[drakyndra]

The world of animanga provided me with much WTFery today. Some of which was good WTFery, but still...

- In April, an excerpt from the 10th Haruhi Suzumiya novel will be published in a Japanese magazine.

Yes, the 10th novel actually appears to be seeing the light of day sometime soon. Wonders never cease. But where will I go to look for fan translations of it, now the last site got pulled down?

- So, apparently there is an "American Manga" written by Gene Simmons' son (!). Nothing special, right? Well, apparently large chunks of it were inspired, copied and downright traced from a number of notable manga, Bleach most obviously. Cue epic shitstorm.

ETA: Now also on Fandom Wank.

I don't even read Bleach (though I know some people on my flist do), I'm just boggling that he thought he could get away with something that blatant. I mean look at the comparisons. That's not even subtle plaigarising.

In other news, I am attempting to get myself back on a remotely normal sleeping pattern before my classes start up again. Because, well, I fortunately don't have any 9am starts. But there are always morning classes. Joy.

Comments

[khallandra.livejournal.com]

Yeah I saw that copied comic. If he wanted to go base his characters off of others go ahead, it is pretty hard to really make too many changes to a design but you can make it original enough. But stealing entire manga panels? That's just crazy to then try and pass it off as original enough to market.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I mean seriously, fanartists get stomped on for copying entire panels and then claiming them as their own, and this guy tried to sell them for profit.