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I wish I could learn more about the plagiarism scandal because honestly a few heavily references panels is not enough to be plagiarism. Artists use references (pics they don’t own copyright to, other peoples work, their own images, etc) all the time. It’s normal as long as the final work is different enough and in the context of this being a whole different manga with different art style and different story, I’d say it’s easily transformative enough. Especially when being a mangaka is so demanding and with such a huge time crunch. Actually there are entire books of references from all different angles of different people in different poses made FOR manga artists with full scenes or props. I haven’t seen a side by side comparison but tbh it’s different enough just from looking at the art styles and the body of work that this shouldn’t be an issue. It’s even normal for artists to copy both down and animated scenes from other anime and you can find compilations of studios literally copying other studios it’s just considered an homage. Like look at the chainsaw man op, is it plagiarizing all the movies it took from for the op? I bet those animators even drew over the scenes from the movie bc that’s a normal practice. I have to know if it’s a legal issue or a social media cancelation thing bc the truth non artists don’t get is there is a lot of stealing in the art world, the best teachers teach you how to steal and there’s even quotes about it. It’s very common practice