John UM
The Flower and Dream magazine, which was released on June 20th, published the short comics of “Yu He Ye”, “Roman History and Combat”. The work tells the story of the heroine’s heroine on the second page, which was killed by a truck and reborn into the world of juvenile comics. It is a challenging story to boldly play around in the two types of comics. Comics. After the publication, it was quickly noticed by many netizens
In addition to the theme of comics, there is a discussion of comics
In order to express the heroine and her juvenile comic world view, the comics also intend to use two different styles at the same time. The heroine’s person is a typical 90’s girl comic style – or, the village has a dish style
Author Yu Heye has completely imitated the style of the village in this work. Even after some readers took photos of the magazine and sent it to Twitter, some netizens mistakenly thought that the village was serialized in “Flowers and Dreams”
But as the tweets are spread, they start to have different sounds: Is this cartoon in the copying village?
Even, there are people who deliberately @了村村人. The village also expressed surprise at this, saying that she did not know the author at all
(https://twitter.com/arinacchi/status/1141557381286879232).
What happened next, we have no way of knowing. This month, “Flowers and Dreams” issued a statement on the issue on the official website of magazines and publishers, saying that the editorial department actively induced the author Yu Heye to imitate the style of the village. “Despite the fact that it seems to have to stop publishing, it is still published in magazines.” This has caused confusion among readers, which is entirely due to the lack of awareness and understanding of the editorial department. The editorial department apologized to the village and her fans and the author for this matter, and announced a thorough awareness reform inside, in order not to make such mistakes in the future
(https://www.hakusensha.co.jp/information/55225/).
At the same time, the comic has been removed from the official comics website, and the comics are not published in the electronic magazines sold
Although we don’t know whether plagiarists are satisfied with this response, we can know that the attitude of “Flower and Dream” has caused more people’s dissatisfaction. Regardless of the platform, most of the remarks are about Yu and the wild, and worry about whether this incident will lead to the contraction of the spoof works
Adult cartoonist Shui Longjing sees the news and fears: “Roman History and Combat” is a symbol of “typical girl comic style” in order to spoof and imitate the style of the village. If this practice is guilty, it will mean that all the parody-like jokes will not work
(https://twitter.com/mizuryu/status/1147685657684238336).
CartoonistナガテユカAlso feel dissatisfied: In this case, the editorial department does not protect the writer. This kind of spoof is simply not at the level that constitutes the problem
ナガテmeans that if it is tracing or plagiarism, it is another matter. But if he is a writer imitated by a new writer, it will only be happy and there will be no opinions
Almost all writers’ styles are close to the influence of their predecessors, and many times, even if they pay attention, they will become similar. It is better to say that no matter how much one intentionally imitates others, it will finally reflect their own personality and eventually become a different work. So, ナガテthinks that writers who can draw similarly to others are very high
In the face of such complaints, the editorial department should have ignored it. What is it like to be led by someone?
(https://twitter.com/nagate_yuka/status/1147195144845680640)
The cartoonist Ruo Linyi said that he didn’t know that the style was cool. Others were right or wrong, but the cartoonist Nakayama was criticized in the Pixiv comics because he was criticized by Fujiwara Cocoa and eventually left Pixiv. Later, when Nakayama sold the book, Fujiwara wrote a recommendation for the girdle. If I’m deeply impressed by Fujiwara’s broad mind, I also feel that the editors who talked with Fujiwara are very good
(https://twitter.com/sankakujougi/status/1147741154072395776).
Some netizens recalled that when the cartoonist Chishang Liaoyi was asked what he thought about the painting style and his similar wild, middle and English times, Ikegami replied: “There will be a tributary of his own, indicating that his work is so famous. ,I am very happy.”
No wonder some netizens have come to the conclusion: If “Roman History and Combat” imitates not a village, but other famous girl cartoonists, perhaps it will not cause such trouble
Of course, it is not realistic to ask all people who imitate others to forgive others to imitate themselves. We always inevitably have to deal with people who are not morally perfect
Illustrator Nakamura Yusuke said that unless it is similar to the goods, the situation that “I mistakenly thought that it is the writer’s wrong purchase” occurs frequently, otherwise the style of the work itself is not copyrighted, it can be said that it is in law. There is no problem
However, publishers and cartoonists do not sign contracts like firms and actors, but one party is the client and customer of the other party. Therefore, the publishing house may think that “the writer who is spoofed by the style of painting constitutes a rude.” This is not a legal error, but a matter of reason
But it is because this is irrelevant, so outsiders look at you to apologize, they don’t know what is the problem, what is not the problem, it will cause confusion. Therefore, Nakamura feels that this time does not need to publicly apologize. But after all, it is different for each person (each editorial department and cartoonist)
Especially in Japan, the development of comic culture is based on imitation and secondary creation that can only be achieved by the individual adjustment of the writer. Nakamura believes that this point makes many people feel a little dissatisfied. But as he has said repeatedly, this is a problem between the parties, and the onlookers can only relax their mindset
This is like having a convenience store with a lot of traffic. Other store managers saw it, and opened a new convenience store next door and opposite. Even if the store manager of the original store said, “Please stay in harmony with each other,” the manager said, and he would feel as if he was in the throat: “First of all, you can’t even say hello to me!” In life, we often encounter similar irritability. Nakamura said that this incident is the same
Nakamura hopes that no one needs to be polite, and if he wants to say something, everyone will understand each other and enjoy each other. In addition, greeting is very important. A lot of things, as long as you say hello beforehand, you will be allowed
(https://twitter.com/kazekissa)