For many Japanese, they will feel that China is a "copying paradise and copycat country". But recently, some Japanese media wrote that in fact, Chinese anime fans are more concerned about plagiarism than Japanese, and even reached the point of "cleanliness".

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★ The case that caused the commotion

Recently, there has been an uproar over TV shows broadcast in China that have been accused of plagiarizing the Fate series, when in fact there have been Chinese works that have been criticized in the past as plagiarizing "Chess Soul" and "Five Centimeters per Second". It can be said that in China, every once in a while, there will be a criticism of "domestic works plagiarizing foreign works".

However, if you look at it from the perspective of the Japanese, there is nothing wrong with those Chinese works that are considered plagiarism, but despite this, these works have been fiercely attacked by Chinese anime fans. For example, although the "copycat "Five Centimeters per Second" incident is indeed more severe, the so-called plagiarism of the works of the "Fate" series, according to the information obtained by the author, people believe that the plagiarized parts are:

1. The "Dream Battle" held every 300 years around the "Jade Seal" that can realize any dream;

2. Using the name of the legendary hero, he can use amazing powers;

3. Those who bear the names of legendary heroes are selected as participants in the "Battle of Dreams" and fight to fulfill their wishes.

If you look at the content of "different characters throw themselves into battle in order to realize their dreams that they can't give up", there are indeed similarities with "Fate's Holy Grail War", but just because of this, it has been bombarded by Chinese anime fans, and I think it's still a bit too much.

Regarding the judgment benchmark, the author also asked Chinese anime fans and came up with this answer:

1. If it is under the banner of paying tribute to a certain work but has not been recognized by Chinese fans, OUT;

2. If it is not clear that this is a "tribute", OUT;

3. The scope of plagiarism involves characters, plots and settings, and the requirements for any one are very strict. However, magical girls and the like have become "conventional" types, so some kind of Cheng dù may be spared......

Fourth, even some settings that are no problem if they are regarded as fanfics, once they become commercial works and are marked with the author's name and appear as original works, then they will immediately be criticized.

As can be seen from the above conclusion, if "respect for the original work" is not clearly expressed in China, then it is basically OUT, and if a work does not encounter such criticism, then it is only "undiscovered".

★ Fan reactions and a phenomenon unique to China

The fact that fans have such a harsh reaction to plagiarism may be related to the current Chinese belief that "masterpieces are not allowed to be altered or insulted". Nowadays, China has an aesthetic consciousness that regards the recompilation of traditional literary works and classics as a "taboo", and this is also used in the Chinese animation fan world. When some of them think that some works use elements of anime fan classics or pay homage to them, then they will think that this is a kind of tampering and desecration of "masterpieces".

In addition, "some Japanese works similar to those works have not made much progress to China, so most local anime fans and fans have less knowledge of 'works are mutually influential' than Japanese otaku." Therefore, works that have gained popularity and fame among Chinese animation fans are very easy to be considered "sacrosanct".

In addition, complicating a matter is also a phenomenon unique to China, and a position that Chinese anime fans have.

In today's China, if you make it clear that you like Japan or Japanese works, you are sometimes attacked by those around you. And from the standpoint of anime fans, once something that is considered to be plagiarized from Japanese works appears, then there should be many people who think, "I will be attacked by Chinese and Japanese, both sides!" ”

According to Chinese anime fans, even if no one explicitly expresses this negative attitude towards themselves, they can't help but think of these questions:

"This thing will definitely be considered plagiarism in Japan, and then it will be sprayed by the Japanese again."

"It's painful to be denied and attacked by both Japan and China at the same time, ......"

For this reason, they will attack those copycats or suspected plagiarism in a radical way.

In addition, even ordinary Chinese who are not fans of anime will find it difficult to accept the phenomenon of plagiarism of Japanese works. If the object of plagiarism is a work of Western culture, then leave it alone, but if it is a work of Eastern culture......

The phenomenon of "China, which is the origin of oriental culture, actually plagiarized Japanese ......" also makes it unacceptable for ordinary people to plagiarize Japanese works.

★ Chinese works are made in the environment

Finally, please allow me to briefly introduce the situation of the zuò formula. One of the reasons why copycats continue to be born in China despite the fact that fans hate plagiarism is that "sponsors or people with decision-making power don't care about plagiarism, and even encourage it." ”

For this reason, instead of trying to make original works in order to avoid the risk of being sprayed, they made it clear that they "want to plagiarize", so there are many works that "don't say it's a copycat, it's a complete copy".

According to some practitioners in the Chinese animation fan circle, even when they come up with "works and settings that are not considered plagiarized in terms of impact", they will be angrily denounced as "different from Japanese XX works!" "Give me exactly what to copy!". In order to meet the above requirements, there is a situation of "only plagiarism".

From the above introduction, it can be seen that for Chinese anime fans, the problem of plagiarism of Chinese works may become a very troublesome thing.