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Chapter 174 0174, Follow the trend

Penguin Comics Network's traffic hit a new high due to the exclusive release of "Feng Yun I".

Issues 123 of "Feng Yun I" have always been in the top three of the sales list.

The huge success of "Feng Yun I" gave hope to many comic practitioners.

The establishment of the Blue Star Village Alliance has led to rapid development of the world economy, diversified cultural needs, and the continuous expansion of aesthetic boundaries.

Chinese people are gradually entering a stage where they are able to accept comics as an art form. At the same time, the Internet has lowered the threshold for dissemination, expanded the content market, and the number of comics consumers has continued to increase, which has forced the supply of content.

In the past two months, original Chinese cartoons have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

This made domestic comic fans very happy.

"It is true that novels are more efficient when adapted into comics, but they always act on their own initiative and randomly add or subtract plots, which results in a huge difference from the original novels. It seems that there is no sense of immersion at all. This is also one of the reasons why the sales of Chinese comics cannot be increased."

"There should be more originality, more diverse themes, and richer genres. Otherwise, who would still read American comics?"

“Comics with oriental aesthetics are more comfortable to look at.”

"Coming from life and going back to life, the basic skill of comics is to draw materials and not stray far from life. The cultural treasures of our Chinese nation are extremely rich and inexhaustible. There is no need to imitate others at all."

"Among the 1.8 billion people, there are more than tens of thousands who are good at drawing comics and writing plots. They just haven't found the right direction."

……

The current good development situation shows that Chinese animation is on the rise.

In recent years, a number of excellent works have emerged, such as "The Great Confucian Hero", "A New Story of Journey to the West", "A New Story of Conferred Gods", "The Top of Immortality", "Don't Mess with Me, Overbearing President", etc., especially the emergence of the phenomenal work "Storm and Cloud I", which has found a model for the rise of Chinese animation, provided cases and experience, and attracted widespread attention.

This is the good side, of course, there is also a bad side.

That's "following the trend".

Today, a new comic called "Tianxia" appeared on the big cover recommendation of Penguin Comics' homepage.

The painting style is extremely similar to "Feng Yun I", and the setting is also quite similar, a fantasy martial arts story, two protagonists, and two magical weapons.

As soon as the first issue went on sale, the sales volume was astonishingly hot, winning the domestic comics online single-day sales championship.

This made the fans of "Feng Yun I" very angry.

[Meng Meng who is trying hard to lose weight]: Penguin Comics is too shameless. When it saw that "Feng Yun I" became popular, it immediately asked its comic studio to copy it.

[Luo Fanqie]: The most disgusting thing is that they deliberately put "Tianxia" and "Feng Yun I" in the same position for recommendation.

[The Sunset is Falling]: Is plagiarism so open and aboveboard?

[Heaven's movement is vigorous and never stops]: This is a routine operation of Penguin Comics. The first "Super Android" was copied from MD's "Superhuman". The protagonist's abilities are almost exactly the same as the superhuman "Rayman", with super strength, super speed, super endurance and the ability to fly.

[Yang enters the tiger's mouth]: Following the trend is essentially a learning instinct, but copying it directly is too much.

……

Someone even posted a post in the comics circle comparing the two comics.

Floor 1: Support Chao Yun Mu Yu in defending his rights!

2nd floor: After comparing them, there are indeed many similarities.

Floor 3: More than just alike, the curly-haired senior brother Xiao Lingtian and the long-haired junior brother Ye Gushang are exactly Bu Jingyun and Nie Feng.

4th floor: Plagiarism is shameful! Boycott Tianxia!
5th floor: To be fair, this style of painting and plot did exist before, but it just didn't become popular. 6th floor: There is nothing we can do about it. There is a line for judging plagiarism. As long as it is used properly, it is just reference.

Floor 7: Can what intellectuals do be called plagiarism?

Floor 8: Drawing is based on copying, not to mention comics or traditional paintings. To put it another way, the style of painting is like one person looking like another person. Can this kind of thing be said to be plagiarizing whom?
9th Floor: Be sensible. Although the painting styles and characters are similar, the plots are different.

10th Floor: If the plot dares to be the same, I’m afraid you will lose everything.

……

Many comic fans who saw this post joined the discussion.

at this time.

Zheng Rong's face turned solemn and a little angry. He came to Yunfeng's office, put the tablet on the desk, and said, "Take a look at this."

"What's wrong?" Yunfeng picked up the tablet computer, which displayed a cartoon.

Zheng Rong frowned and said, "Don't you think it's very similar to "Storm and Cloud I"? "

Yunfeng flipped through a few pages and said, "Hmm... to be honest, they don't look very similar."

Zheng Rong was stunned, then stood up and walked to Yunfeng's side, pointed at the tablet computer, and said, "Doesn't this look like Bu Jingyun? Doesn't this look like Nie Feng?"

Yunfeng smiled and said, "It's just the hair that looks alike."

Zheng Rong asked again: "What about the style of painting?"

“The style is somewhat similar, but it’s still far behind “Storm and Cloud I”.” In fact, Yunfeng knew what Zheng Rong was here for when he first saw the comic on the tablet.

Zheng Rong raised his eyebrows and said, "This is clearly a plagiarism of "Storm and Cloud I". How can you still keep calm?"

"Brother Zheng, calm down first." Yunfeng stood up, pulled a chair over, and said, "In the painting world, there is no such thing as plagiarism. For example, you can say that the storyboard, composition, and layout of a comic book constitute plagiarism, but if you say that an artist's style is plagiarized, this is too far-fetched. Moreover, according to this statement, from ancient times to the present, from the West to the East, there are too many painters and calligraphers who can be considered plagiarists."

Zheng Rong: “…”

Yunfeng changed the subject and said, "However, whether this comic is plagiarized from Feng Yun I, let me read on."

The first issue of the comic book "Tianxia" only has five chapters.

The story tells of Xiao Lingtian and Ye Gushang, who have been disciples of Tianmen for 18 years and have learned martial arts successfully, and stole two swords from their master and went down the mountain. These swords and swords turned out to be the Dragon Roar Sword and Phoenix Dance Knife that the major sects in the martial arts world have been looking for...

Zheng Rong couldn't help but ask, "How is it?"

Yunfeng shook his head slightly and said, "Although the hairstyles and weapons of these two protagonists are indeed very similar to Bu Jingyun and Nie Feng, and the painting style is also realistic + aesthetic, these few points alone do not constitute plagiarism."

The plot is indeed different from the entire story of Feng Yun.

Some of the settings in it are a bit like "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber", a novel by Jin Yong in the previous life on Earth.

Zheng Rong frowned and said, "It's really not considered plagiarism?"

Yunfeng nodded and said, "It can be considered as following the trend at best."

If you look closely at the comic "Tianxia", both the drawings and the plot are rather rough, and it seems more like something that was hastily produced to gain popularity.

It's just like the "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" which followed the trend of "Ghost Blows Out the Light", but the quality of "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" is still very good.

(End of this chapter)