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Slam Dunk Art Copied From NBA Photos?

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Hmm, always knew that Slam Dunk was too realistic to be true. Just joking. But nevertheless, according to Anime News Network, it appears that Slam Dunk creator Takehiko Inoue plagiarised NBA photographs (and not just one or two either). To see the comparisons between the manga art and actual NBA photographs straight away, you can go here.

The similarities are definitely too close for the allegations of plagiarism to be false. Too bad I don’t understand Japanese because the text in the site that displays the comparison is in Japanese. But the similarities in the pictures are self-evident. See it yourself.

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Howl Wins New York Film Critics Award

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

Howl Wins New York Film Critics Award
Nikkan Sports reports the New York Film Critics Circle has awarded Howl’s Moving Castle with a Best Animated Film award on the 12th. The prize of this society is known foretell future Academy Award winners. Spirited Away took this same prize in 2002…

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Not particularly new or exciting news, but since I enjoyed Howl’s Moving Castle, this particular bit of news became rather interesting.

In any case, whether or not it manages to win the Academy Award, I’d say it would stand a better chance compared to Chicken Little…

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