Attention Blade of the Immortal Fans!

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I'm trying to figure out how many poses from this year's Rising Stars of Manga finalist Samurai Zombie were ripped off from Blade of the Immortal. In the first three volumes of BoTI I found this one, this one, and this one

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I like how he's copying poses from Blade of the Immortal in a comic about a zombie samurai who must kill one thousand men to end a curse, as if it weren't obvious enough on its own.

REPOST, grammar

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telophase pointed it out in her RSoM reviews ( here and here), although I like to think I would have noticed anyway. According to her, at least 25% of the poses are copied. She also says using poses in other manga as a partial reference is one thing; copying the most memorable poses from Blade of the Immortal wholesale and then writing a manga called Samurai Zombie is just dumb. It's a miracle the Tokyopop editors didn't catch on.

Yeah! Like a treasure hunt! (Although now I wonder if I shouldn't have made this its own post, if you're going to link it... ah well, hindsight.)

Re: REPOST, grammar

[provetheworst]

... Is anyone reporting this/going to report it?

I mean, just wonderin'. (Er, I'd actually look at the other posts you've linked, but that'd take EFFORT ok!!)

this not being able to reply by email this is BLOODY ANNOYING

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At least one person who works for Tokyopop (greenapple2004) reads telophase's journal, so I think it's safe to say they know about it. I might email them with a side-by-side panel comparison after I get clearer idea of exactly how many of the poses in that comic are from Blade of the Immortal.

[apintrix]

saw telophase's post, but nice to see reference photos... dude, the woman with the pipe-- can't even bother to alter the reference a *little*?

From someone who spends a great deal of time practicing drawing original poses from scratch, SMACKDOWN.

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It is changed! Now she's Evil!

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There's something Not Right about that panel, the way her head connects to her neck. Twisting your head while smiling evilly puts a lot more strain on the neck than twisting your head while staring pensively off into the middle distance, and yet except for the expression everything's been kept exactly the same, even the hairpins. Which sort of shows that (in this panel, at least) the artist copied the pose without really thinking about what went into it.

[apintrix]

Yeah-- it's not just the difference of the evil smile contrasted with the copied sameness of the pose. It's simply a lousy job-- the drawing's out of proportion. Definitely copied, and sloppily copied, without understanding the underlying structure of the face.

[amei]

whatthefuckkityfuck T^T

And this is a legit entry. Ass. T^T WHUT DID THEY DO TO MAKIE

T^T Man, you'd think they'd rip off Samura's, yanno, AXXION panels, but I guess that'd take too much artistic skill. D: This makes me a sad meimei. D:

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The action panels would have been TOO OBVIOUS lol.

[telophase]

From the first chapter in Last Blood. Compare last panel page 10, first panel page 11.