General & Others At what point does "inspiration" become close to "ripping off"?
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Ideas are part of creativity. You see your surroundings and other work and your mind will come up with ideas that you can use.
Such trend is visible in every aspect of life.
Sports - upcoming generations often learn how to play by taking cues from their idols.
Movies - music - business models - they don't pop out of nowhere - we develops them by taking ideas from other piece of work.
I will give you an example - Einstein. His work is based on works of numerous scientists who came before him. He took inspiration and their ideas and mould in his own theory and came up with something so beautiful that we are still doing his homework
Inspiration sources are everywhere - it takes a hell of a creative mind to get idea from them. One major difference between people who succeed and who don't.
Oda definitely has taken countless inspirations but he hasn't copied them per se. He structured them as per his own story.
Nothing wrong with it. He can take multiple ideas and mould them according to his story and it will still be original because that moulding he did as per story is due to his own creativity.
If you want to see a rip off then go watch fairy tail.
Such trend is visible in every aspect of life.
Sports - upcoming generations often learn how to play by taking cues from their idols.
Movies - music - business models - they don't pop out of nowhere - we develops them by taking ideas from other piece of work.
I will give you an example - Einstein. His work is based on works of numerous scientists who came before him. He took inspiration and their ideas and mould in his own theory and came up with something so beautiful that we are still doing his homework
Inspiration sources are everywhere - it takes a hell of a creative mind to get idea from them. One major difference between people who succeed and who don't.
Oda definitely has taken countless inspirations but he hasn't copied them per se. He structured them as per his own story.
Nothing wrong with it. He can take multiple ideas and mould them according to his story and it will still be original because that moulding he did as per story is due to his own creativity.
If you want to see a rip off then go watch fairy tail.
It is a bunch of standalone ideas and concepts placed into a new setting spread out over 1000+ chapters. Big woop. I am going to take a wild guess and say that Caribbean Joyboy probably never fought 7 Warlords, 4 Emperors etc etc?
Nobody has copyright on mythology and Tom and Jerry doesn't have a monopoly on cartoon physics. None of this is "someone else's work".
Are we also going to criticise Oda for having Giants? Fairy like creatures in the Tontatta Dwarfs? Beast folk? Centaurs and a harpy? Where does this end?
Look, if you want to see how taking inspiration from various real life cultures and putting them together with fantasy elements ends up with a new setting, look at the setting of Warhammer Fantasy.
There isn't a whole lot of "pure" originality in Warhammer Fantasy. It doesn't rely on that. It takes a boatload of inspiration from the real world, blends some cultures together from different time periods, adds some fantasy races and the interactions between all these factions ends up creating a new world with a new history that entertains people.
Nobody has copyright on mythology and Tom and Jerry doesn't have a monopoly on cartoon physics. None of this is "someone else's work".
Are we also going to criticise Oda for having Giants? Fairy like creatures in the Tontatta Dwarfs? Beast folk? Centaurs and a harpy? Where does this end?
Look, if you want to see how taking inspiration from various real life cultures and putting them together with fantasy elements ends up with a new setting, look at the setting of Warhammer Fantasy.
There isn't a whole lot of "pure" originality in Warhammer Fantasy. It doesn't rely on that. It takes a boatload of inspiration from the real world, blends some cultures together from different time periods, adds some fantasy races and the interactions between all these factions ends up creating a new world with a new history that entertains people.
Naruto is the obvious choice the saninn are copy pastes of the character from the tale of jiraiya the gallant
Katakiuchi Kidan Jiraiya Monogatari tells the tale of a young lord from the Ogata clan named jiraiya who gains mastery of toad magic and fights alongside a slug princess named tsunade to bring down an evil snake spirit named orochimaru that had taken over the land.
Kidomaru Shares A Likeness And Namesake With A Character From The Kokon Chomonju
Kaguya is a rip off of Moon princess kaguya
Katakiuchi Kidan Jiraiya Monogatari tells the tale of a young lord from the Ogata clan named jiraiya who gains mastery of toad magic and fights alongside a slug princess named tsunade to bring down an evil snake spirit named orochimaru that had taken over the land.
Kidomaru Shares A Likeness And Namesake With A Character From The Kokon Chomonju
Kaguya is a rip off of Moon princess kaguya
Oda incorporates all those inspirations perfectly into his Manga to a point it becomes completely unique. Actually that's one of his greatest skills as a writer.
As for G5 nothing about it is really a copy. Oda represented Luffy's personality in the best way possible and is even willing to accept people declare that his Manga is going downhill because of that.
As for G5 nothing about it is really a copy. Oda represented Luffy's personality in the best way possible and is even willing to accept people declare that his Manga is going downhill because of that.