{"id":17825,"date":"2009-09-02T13:12:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T17:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=17825"},"modified":"2009-09-02T13:23:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T17:23:18","slug":"latest-anime-rip-off-from-china-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/latest-anime-rip-off-from-china-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Anime Rip-off from China Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2009-09-02-155056-450x425.jpg\" alt=\"2009-09-02-155056\" title=\"2009-09-02-155056\" width=\"450\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2009-09-02-155056-450x425.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2009-09-02-155056-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2009-09-02-155056.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sharp-eyed Chinese viewers have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tianya.cn\/publicforum\/content\/funinfo\/1\/1601020.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">noticed<\/a> that scenes from the currently airing Chinese government sponsored animated television program <b>Xin Ling Zhi Chuang<\/b> (Spirit&#8217;s Window) bear an uncanny resemblance to scenes from director Makoto Shinkai&#8217;s 2007 anime feature film 5 Centimeters Per Second. Ironically, the show&#8217;s introduction describes it as, &#8220;Animation to raise wholesome minds and teach a noble view of life.&#8221; Reportedly, the Lanhai Technology animation studio that produces the show has refused to comment on the accusation of plagiarism. Japanese websites <a href=\"http:\/\/www.narinari.com\/Nd\/20090912230.html\" target=\"_blank\">Narinari.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gigazine.net\/index.php?\/news\/comments\/20090902_china_5cm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gigazine<\/a> have posted numerous screenshot comparisons of the two productions.<\/p>\n<p>Other similar instances of apparent Chinese copies of anime have surfaced recently.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/china-begets-its-own-blue-dragon.jpg\" alt=\"China Begets its Own Blue Dragon\" title=\"China Begets its Own Blue Dragon\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/china-begets-its-own-blue-dragon.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/china-begets-its-own-blue-dragon-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This past January the Chinese produced fantasy RPG and animated series <b> Kou Dai Xi Yuu<\/b> drew attention for its remarkable similarity to the Japanese Blue Dragon game and anime franchise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/chinese-haruhi-318x450.jpg\" alt=\"chinese-haruhi\" title=\"chinese-haruhi\" width=\"318\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/chinese-haruhi-318x450.jpg 318w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/chinese-haruhi-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/chinese-haruhi.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An informational pamphlet about the 2008 Bejing Olympics distributed to Chinese secondary school children featured a cover illustration character bearing a striking resemblance to Suzumiya Haruhi.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;m encouraging video piracy, but for the purpose of informative enlightenment, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicovideo.jp\/watch\/sm8115090\" target=\"_blank\">first episode<\/a> of <b>Xin Ling Zhi Chuang<\/b> is available for viewing on Nico Nico Douga.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2009-09-02\/chinese-tv-animation-accused-of-copying-5cm-per-second\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/zepy.momotato.com\/2008\/01\/26\/haruhi-in-the-beijing-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canned Dogs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharp-eyed Chinese viewers have noticed that scenes from the currently airing Chinese government sponsored animated television program Xin Ling Zhi Chuang (Spirit&#8217;s Window) bear an uncanny resemblance to scenes from director Makoto Shinkai&#8217;s 2007 anime feature film 5 Centimeters Per Second. Ironically, the show&#8217;s introduction describes it as, &#8220;Animation to raise wholesome minds and teach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17847,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17825\/revisions\/17847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}