Huang Ling Yin Posted October 30, 2017 Posted October 30, 2017 The recently aired 3rd episode of Himouto Umaru-chan's 2nd season has attracted the attention of visual novel developer Palette Qualia (knowing for creating Otome Domain) due to it apparatelly stealing their eroge's UI with the concept of parody apparately being lost on the aggravated developer the UI from Otome Domain The visual novel scene from Himouto Umaru-chan’s 2nd season: The official Twitter account for Palette Qualia released a tweet on this matter: “A game UI screen has recently made an appearance in a currently airing anime work and we have received an inquiry that the game UI of our work “Otome Domain” bears an extreme resemblance to the one in the anime; currently, we are trying to verify the situation with the associated company and the matter is currently under investigation.” Despite the grim circumstances, many are suspecting nothing to happen considering the series has been making numerous parodies ever since its first season… Those online are naturally on both sides of the fence: “Ehh, I see where they’re coming from, but I don’t think they’re in the right here. Pretty sure this is in the clear.” “Its clearly a parody, I doubt they can do much about it since I would assume parodying something is legal in Japan.” “The material is far too similar for this to be parody.” “It seems Umaru is ruined now huh?” “It’s a parody.” “I thought I saw this somewhere before. As expected, this is plagiarism.” “The person who stole this is evil!” “It really does look similar.” “It looks similar, or should I say, they’re identical!” “Umaru-chan ripped it off. How sad.” Sauce Quote
Beichuuka Posted October 30, 2017 Posted October 30, 2017 Wait, this isn't even a VN, but a scene in an anime, right? People can't seriously be getting worked up about this. Quote
Infernoplex Posted October 30, 2017 Posted October 30, 2017 I agree with Beichuuka here. Why should we care about this? Quote
Fiddle Posted October 30, 2017 Posted October 30, 2017 Quote “The material is far too similar for this to be parody.” Quote
Narcosis Posted October 30, 2017 Posted October 30, 2017 2017, where people get offended by nearly anything. Quote
Nayleen Posted October 30, 2017 Posted October 30, 2017 Haven't seen the episode, but as usual "it depends" on whether the inclusion of the UI was parodic/fair use? Also: Meh. Haven't seen people bitch about the Gamers! intro, which even goes so far as to reproduce game mechanics. Quote
RedK Posted October 31, 2017 Posted October 31, 2017 10 hours ago, Infernoplex said: I agree with Beichuuka here. Why should we care about this? I disagree with you. I care. Quote
Beichuuka Posted October 31, 2017 Posted October 31, 2017 I'm not sure what he's agreeing with because I didn't say I didn't care. Quote
Infernoplex Posted October 31, 2017 Posted October 31, 2017 21 hours ago, Beichuuka said: I'm not sure what he's agreeing with because I didn't say I didn't care. Quite obviously: On 10/30/2017 at 2:50 PM, Beichuuka said: Wait, this isn't even a VN, but a scene in an anime, right? People can't seriously be getting worked up about this. What I said about not caring didn't necessarily mean I implied that you didn't care as well xD ... Quote
Beichuuka Posted November 1, 2017 Posted November 1, 2017 1 hour ago, Infernoplex said: Quite obviously: What I said about not caring didn't necessarily mean I implied that you didn't care as well xD ... I see how you can mean it that way, but the way you said it, people aren't going to read it that way. Quote
iamnoob Posted November 1, 2017 Posted November 1, 2017 Parody should reference the material, an easy example would be when references are made with a small *beep* censor in other anime or WcDonalds/Mcbonalds BragonDall ect... In the first place it was parodying VNs not Otome*domain so why steal Otome*Domain's art? They could have just as easily come up with some random UI screen. If the parody had something to do specifically with Otome*domain then I would be more likely to forgive them but this is a bit too much? Quote
Beichuuka Posted November 1, 2017 Posted November 1, 2017 I don't see why they wouldn't make it similar to an existing UI. It has way more value as a reference when people can go "Hey, I know where that's from!" than just some generic UI. Quote
Kenshin_sama Posted November 2, 2017 Posted November 2, 2017 On 11/1/2017 at 9:34 AM, iamnoob said: In the first place it was parodying VNs not Otome*domain so why steal Otome*Domain's art? They could have just as easily come up with some random UI screen. If the parody had something to do specifically with Otome*domain then I would be more likely to forgive them but this is a bit too much? Couldn't it have been made with the intent to parody Otome*Domain though? It doesn't have to state the name outright. Besides, it's not like they're losing money over this. For all I know, Palette Qualia might just be taking advantage of the situation and trying to generate conversation over the game as a form of marketing. Quote
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