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Ryo Hazuki
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Which Jojo characters look like their name sakes? How is AC/DC not appropriate for a cartoon character, which looks nothing like any band member but it's fine if some other band uses almost similar name like AC×DC? |
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gedata
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A nice gesture, but it's a little too late with the season set to end in a week. It won't really matter to anyone that's already up to date on the series.
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Zalis116
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Posts: 6867 Location: Kazune City |
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That said, you don't seem to disagree with Pikabot's conclusion that CR has made these changes out of a reasonable fear of facing legal action. And I have to think their lawyers know more about the risks than we do. Whether the law actually supports that legal action isn't as important as the fact that CR faces the possibility of unacceptable financial losses fighting against it. So if you think I was wrong about "for copyright reasons," fine: insert "for legal exposure reasons" instead. We've seen similar changes with the Bastard!! OVA, as well as other JJBA adaptations, as omegafinal points out. This is not a onetime, isolated incident of CR being exceptional scaredy-cats. From what I've seen of JJBA, the name changes don't materially affect the story or the action. But the fanbase would rather blame companies for taking steps to protect themselves than blame their esteemed manga creator for throwing those names into the work for no real reason.
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enurtsol
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It doesn't have to look like them - it just has to worry those artists that they may be falsely associated with. And then they'd have to fight it out in court - may the best expensive lawyers win. |
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BadNewsBlues
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Except two things the people complaining are people who're already familiar with the series due to having read the original manga. Secondly a good portion of them still watch the Crunchyroll subs in spite (along with playing the video games) not liking the changes. Which isn't too dissimilar from people who know the DuWang translation of DiU shit but like the So bad it's Good aspect of it. I mean unless you're a big fan of the artists and albums that get referenced in this series the whole gimmick of characters and stands being named after those things isn't going to be of much importance. |
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GATSU
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I can tell the Notorious B.I.G. ep gave them the biggest headache to the point that they even just changed it to ‘Chase’ in the JP text. Fatburger had a similar problem and had to allude to him only, even if he mentioned the chain in one of his songs. Anyway, that and Spice Girls must’ve been fun for CR.
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