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NEWS: Tokyo Babylon 2021 Anime Delayed From April 2021 Due to Plagiarism Incident

On the brighter side, depending on the progress of the animation/dubbing, there's a very slim chance for schedule conflicts, and Aoi Shouta getting replaced by someone more capable! (OK, this is just a dream, but hope never dies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

(And seriously, chara designer, if you must plagiarize then why do it in such a blatantly obvious way, and with such popular sources?)

On the brighter side, depending on the progress of the animation/dubbing, there's a very slim chance for schedule conflicts, and Aoi Shouta getting replaced by someone more capable! (OK, this is just a dream, but hope never dies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

SHD wrote:

On the brighter side, depending on the progress of the animation/dubbing, there's a very slim chance for schedule conflicts, and Aoi Shouta getting replaced by someone more capable! (OK, this is just a dream, but hope never dies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Um...I’m a fan of Shouta Aoi. I loved his voice in My Next Life as a Villainess, and his songs for Kono Oto Tomare. I also listened to a song of his that was really good. I really wish you wouldn’t talk about him like this.

As a whole, we need to be a lot kinder to voice actors. Most of them are good people and they work so hard to give us memorable characters by voicing them.

SHD wrote:

On the brighter side, depending on the progress of the animation/dubbing, there's a very slim chance for schedule conflicts, and Aoi Shouta getting replaced by someone more capable! (OK, this is just a dream, but hope never dies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Um...I’m a fan of Shouta Aoi. I loved his voice in My Next Life as a Villainess, and his songs for Kono Oto Tomare. I also listened to a song of his that was really good. I really wish you wouldn’t talk about him like this.

As a whole, we need to be a lot kinder to voice actors. Most of them are good people and they work so hard to give us memorable characters by voicing them.

I'm hoping they'll re-think trying to modernize Tokyo Babylon and maybe try keeping it more of a early 90's period piece - that way they can just use CLAMP's original designs if they were that afraid of having their designs seem out of place and were stuck for their own modern inspiration.

Maybe it's presumptuous to say, but I feel like most fans of Tokyo Babylon would rather have something more close to the original's time period (I mean, there's an entire volume dedicated to a story about girls using payphones & party lines for occult purposes) and fashion sense. It could be an interesting approach to bring in newcomers too.

Saeryen wrote:

SHD wrote: On the brighter side, depending on the progress of the animation/dubbing, there's a very slim chance for schedule conflicts, and Aoi Shouta getting replaced by someone more capable! (OK, this is just a dream, but hope never dies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) Um...I’m a fan of Shouta Aoi. I loved his voice in My Next Life as a Villainess, and his songs for Kono Oto Tomare. I also listened to a song of his that was really good. I really wish you wouldn’t talk about him like this.

Aoi is a perfectly good singer. And he has a nice voice. And he's also a very bad voice actor. This is not a judgement on his character, or on you for liking him. This is just my opinion on his talents (or lack thereof), which I think I should be allowed to voice. I'm sure there's something or someone that I'm a fan of, which you dislike and think is not very good. And that is fine.

Saeryen wrote:

As a whole, we need to be a lot kinder to voice actors. Most of them are good people and they work so hard to give us memorable characters by voicing them.

And sometimes they work very hard and are still not good, and one is left wondering what could have been with a better, or more suitable, actor in the role. This doesn't mean the voice actor is a bad person, or that they're not working hard. It just means they're not very good actors, or at lest not suited to the characters they play. It's a thing that happens.

Fashion is also copyrightable

Huh. I could have sworn fashion was one of the few things that wasn't copyrightable - which is pretty much the only reason the fast fashion model exists.

Japanese protection law grants 20 years of design protection to registered designs. Protection for a design extends to the “shape, patterns, colors or any combination thereof,” or “graphic images in an article”

A design can only be granted protection if it meets three criteria. First, a design that was known in Japan or another country before an application has been filed is not eligible for design registration. Second, a design that is shown in a distributed publication or was made available through electronic communications in Japan or another country before filing for an application is not eligible to be registered. Third, a design must have not been easy to create. More specifically, if “a person ordinarily skilled in the art of the design would have been able to easily create the design based on shape, patterns, or colors, or any combination thereof” it would not be granted protection...

...Under Japanese Design law, designers pay an annual fee based on the years of protection: first year to third year costs 8,500 yen ($84), fourth to tenth year costs 16,900 yen ($166.87), and the eleventh to twentieth years cost 33,800 yen ($333.74)