| According to Hayakawa Shobo and Square Enix, the winner of the 18th Square Enix Manga Award Special Grand Prize was found to plagiarize Ubukata Tow's short story "Mardock Scramble -104". Hayakawa Shobo, the publisher of Mardock Scrumble series, officially made a protest against the violation of copyrights. Square Enix and the author of the manga titled "Compliance" admitted plagiarisms and retracted the award. The author was a rookie mangaka and obtained a chance to serialize his manga on Shonen GanGan magazine by the award. The author announced in his blog that he will return the prize money and will self-restrain creations. The common story line of the novel "Mardock Scramble-104" and the manga "Compliance" The protagonist is an agent of the judiciary. He tries to save a female whistleblower, who has been chased by hitmen hired by the accused company, but he cannot open fire until permission from the judiciary is issued. He gets the permission and shelters her in a hotel. The accused company purchases up the whole building of the hotel and designates the place as a military exercise ground in order to make gun-shooting legal and disguise the assassination. The protagonist opposes to the company by attempting to purchase back one of the rooms and the two sides compete with each other over the ownership of the room The protagonist suspend the whole legal process by suing the hotel for causing the whistleblower's burn in the room. The protagonist succeeds in repelling the hitmen. Differences between the two works 1. The three main characters of Mardock Scrumble (Boiled, Oeuf Coque, and Dr. Easter) were merged into one character in the manga. 2. In the novel, Dr. Easter ordered the whistleblower to put her hands in the hot water to cause the burn. In the manga, the whistleblower accidentally burnt her hand by cigarettes. Sources: Hayakawa Online, Square Enix |
SnowMar 15, 2016 11:50 AM
| That's their potential career gone. |
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| Those are pretty specific similarities, haha. |
| OOooooohhh... Bad luck, they really could have used that for their future.. |
| they're both plagiarizing, i came up with that story ten years ago. |
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| i wonder if the ease of "borrowing" materials in the internet has made people consider "borrowing" things when coming on with what would be original work. in recent years high profile plagiarism cases have been prevalent. |
| Another mangaka's life destroyed this time before it even went full circle due to plagiarism. |
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| Well that sucks ... i dont even know "Compliance" .. |
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| Wouldn't that be "Heavily Influenced" not "Plagiarized"...... That's some hardcore bullshit there. Get fucking Naruto off the shelves boys, it's "Plagiarism." Clearly the fact it's based off a common legend and mythology isn't enough to defy the fact Far East of Eden had a character summon frogs, and had characters named Orochimaru, Jiriya, and Tsunade. |
| Yeah, this sounds like it's definitely past the "heavily influenced" line. And regarding the Naruto example, it's fine to use elements from old works. Hence all the remakes of things like Shakespeare's plays and such out there. Or fairy tale retellings. So many anime are surely basing things off Japanese legends and mythology, but nobody will get on anyone's case as long as they're not stealing the new storyline or characters from each other. |
| Didn't they teach this guy that plagiarism is bad in elementary school? /facepalm |
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| What a lame move they made. |
| -Fixing- |
| damn why do people make things hard for themselves |
| Sucks for that person. |
| who still believe in originality? |
| wooow... |
| Well....That's an utter failure on Square Enix's part. |
| It's a really good plot outline... I'd steal it too if it could make me right in the process :D |
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| Ouch. That's why you should first check other stuff out there before to avoid this problem. Surely he didn't believe he was the first person to come up with a plot like that, right? |
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