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2008 Olympic Mascots Based On Anime Date: 11/18/2005 |
| On November 11th, the 5 official mascots China will use to promote it's Beijing 2008 Olympic Games were revealed. In the wake of the announcement, there has been a growing sentiment and discusion on the internet in China that the design of the "Friendlies" actually imitates the design of Japanese Animation. Talk of appropriations and outright plagiarism of Anime characters has been flying back and forth on net message boards, and in web blogs. It turns out many of the rumors may have been unintentionally fueled based on the spread of a parody illustration created after the characters were unveiled. The creator of that image, Vancouver based Chinese cartoonist Little Iron said as soon as he saw the mascots he noticed they beared a resemblence to Japan's various color coded live action hero teams like "Super Sentai". He immediately drew up his parody illustration of the olympic characters in sentai style (with a little Sergeant Kororo and Saint Seiya influence thrown in) poses and released it to the web on the 13th. The debate contunues. |
| Source: Anime News Service |
