How it began
Anime & manga industries began in japan after the creators were inspired by the western animation; The Disney creation such as Mickey mouse, Snow white& 7 dwarves..Thus they began to borrow the ideas and started to improve it…. Which was not wrong at all, because they did not go against the copyright law… One of the best example is the western cartoon; transformers. The Japanese borrowed the ideas and put a lot of effort to improve on it and thus the anime; GUNDAM was created. For more information you can refer to Wikipedia.
The threat
Today, the Japanese animation have already reached to the audiences all around the world, be it in ASIA, EUROPE, AMERICA, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA….. and it is so successful that many of the anime series and even cosplay are conducted, like the “Start of the year 2008 Anime cosplay at Nanyang polytechnic in Singapore”. However there is a few "Asshole" who wanted to ‘steal’ it and claimed it that it is theirs. The few asshole apparently are from China and at the same time they are embarassing their country.
Fake haruhi(complete rip off)
Original Japanese haruhi
Look at the similarity between this two picture… the one below is the original Japanese anime, but the one above it is the “pathetic-copied” version. This is the typical characteristic of these people, only know how to rip off someone’s hardwork
The Effect
What will you think when you keep seeing this book in your daily life? Of course you will think that things exist as this way....just like how my beloved Haruhi is like.... FAT??? grr... i will not forgive the people who ruin my beloved Haruhi... of course, other anime otaku will also think the same way as me....
Piracy
Piracy is a hit in the world today.It is a one-sided benefiting, as the producer would face a lost, but on the other hand, the needy people can finally afford the goods…..its a topic whereby you cannot determine which one is good or bad. There are two kinds of piracy ; the Piracy is completely the same as the original, except for the selling price and the Piracy that modifies the content…. I supported the Piracy that is completely same as the original,even though it hurts the producer, but at least the people are not misguided by the wrong information… People who buys the pirated goods are usually those who cannot afford it but liked the goods very much….. and I believe that once these people are out of their cycle of poverty, they would buy the original ones….as it’s a basic characteristic of human to keep trying to buy something that they like…..
Anime & Manga Student
The students who like to watch the manga and anime are usually easily to be spotted in schools. They are usually alone…. Because their way of thinking is not suitable with their peers who favours the ‘hot’ stuffs in the Generation ME. However even they are alone, they’re not lonely…as the anime& manga will become their friends….. I can say that because I’m one of them, the one who’s always alone during my secondary school lives, wandering over my imagination- the world of anime…..however i did not shed my tears, as the anime& manga keeps me company… and I believe the others are also feeling this way….
ODEX
The Odex crackdown on Anime community in singapore last year was a holocaust… Even though I’m not involved in this downloading thingy as I had stopped 2 years ago, but I still do not support Odex’s action. This is because to us, students who liked to watch anime – anime are just like our best friends,because human friends just somehow cannot get along with us…. Taking away anime from us means taking our best friends from us…. And for that I believe that’s why the whole anime community rebel against odex…. I believe that the Anime community is not at fault at all, but odex do… because its their fault for firstly to start the crackdown by attacking Singnet, Starhub in order to get the victims for money without any warning at all…. Even if they were to issue warning, would the anime community agrees to it? I don’t think so, because if the warning are taken and we stopped downloading and watching anime online, odex could not compensate us…..
To put it simply because the anime series that they sold are in Extremely poor quality plus, they dubbed it….. in which dubbing the anime is the same as spoiling the anime, because we the anime-fans would prefer to watch it in Japanese language version, with or without ENGLISH SUBS. Why do we choose English? Its because it’s the language that is understood internationally, If other language is to be used It would be racist, as it indirectly tells the audience that “ hey you must learnt this language in order to enjoy this animation” for eg. Odex dubbed the anime in CHINESE with English subtitle….isn’t that it is not fair to the other races? The MALAYS, TAMILS, ANGMOHs ???? English subtitle is not the matter, but the audio does !!!!
