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A Bleach live-journal community thinks that Richard Simmons' (son of Gene Simmons) comic Incarnate plagiarizes Tite Kibo's original manga.

And they have a pretty strong case. It looks like it's more than just a case of really bad fanfic and almost ripping off character designs wholesale- it seems clear that Richard traced some Kibo's original art.
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Aldric · Anime Connoisseur Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 745

Man, if you're gonna rip something off, pick something a little less well known.
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ZeroRyoko1974 · Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 12:06 am Post subject:

LOL Nick Simmons
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EveryNameTaken · Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:42 am Post subject:

ca_jas · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:02 pm Post subject:

I saw this on another blog and wrote this:

How crappy! I've seen this many times before. But one thing I think needs to really be stressed, in my opinion, is that amateur artists should not have their first series be a professional deal. They need to work their way up the self-publishing ladder until they are ready for a professional series.

I'll use me as and example. If I had the shot at making manga 5 or 6 years ago it would have totally been a rip off of Urusei Yatsura or Akira. I even remember redesigning my main character to have the same hair color as Lum! How stupid! But after years of drawing my own things and so on, that series looks nothing like the anime that influenced me.

So is it plagarism from ill-will or ill-experience?
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