In August, the Korean comic "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" serialized on the Naver platform, after more than a month of serialization, finally announced that it would stop serialization and take down the shelves recently, and the plagiarism public opinion that was hotly discussed around it has also appeared since it began to be serialized, but because it is a Korean comic, we generally do not take the initiative to contact and participate in the topic, so we may not have heard much about the public opinion that this comic involves plagiarism actually lasted for more than a month, and the incident was also recorded in detail in Namuwiki. It's also easy to understand the ins and outs.
First of all, the title of the work has caused a little controversy, whether in Korean or English title "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" to search, often the first search is a 1958 American movie "Cat on the Hot Tin Roof", this old movie is adapted from Tennessee Williams in 1951 wrote a short story, although the two titles can not be said to be "plagiarism", but if the content of the work is good enough, you can also get netizens "tribute" evaluation, However, since the author did not do this, then the same title naturally "added fuel to the fire" for itself.
According to Namuwiki, this Korean comic plagiarism work involves three parts, including live-action movies, animations and comics, next, Xiaobian will briefly mention whether it is really plagiarism or tribute, it is up to you to judge. There is a drawing that is highly similar to a scene in the 1986 American film "Walk with Me" adapted from Stephen King's novel, and Korean netizens say that "the design of the trophy, the position of the picture and the overall composition are almost plagiarized", xiaobian feels that this is a little far-fetched, if only for this point, it is difficult to say plagiarism.
Then there is the point that everyone complains the most - copying the "New Century Evangelion" animation in the character design, family relationship, storyboard performance and scene, etc., so that Korean netizens directly call this Korean comic a parallel world without secondary impact, after all, EVA has a great influence in the world, just a little similar to the appearance of the character, may not spit too badly, after all, the anime character "bumping face" is normal, but if it involves too many similarities, including even a scene in which the character imitates The true heir of Asuka pinching asuka's neck, If you want to explain that this is a "tribute" no one will believe it.
And the last point is to directly copy the 1994 comic "Monster" picture composition, although it is redrawn, the characters are completely different, but the scene, composition, angle and even dialogue are almost the same, the author is afraid that it is not to give up the idea of his original content, these elements have no tribute at all, and it is not a famous scene, which must also be imitated, and it has to be considered plagiarism. After being testified by netizens many times, Naver's editorial department finally apologized under pressure, suspended the serialization and removed the work, and refunded the paid audience.
I don't know after reading the three points mentioned above, do you think there is plagiarism in this Korean comic?