Haruhi in the Beijing Olympics
A pamphlet in China for secondary school kids with information about the Beijing Olympics has a drawing of a girl on the cover that bears a strange resemblance to a certain anime character! She looks very similar to that Haruhi girl but I’m sure it’s only a coincidence.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:02 am
The land of copyright infringement and cheap rip-offs have, after recreating an entire Disney theme park ripoff, done the ultimate copy.
Then again, Suzumiya needs more pubilicity…. somehow….
January 26th, 2008 at 4:22 am
OMG IT’S PAKURI
January 26th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Figures China would do something like that :V
January 26th, 2008 at 8:02 am
obviously not a coincidence.
it’s China.
January 26th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
not all trace artists are Chinese lol…
January 26th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
“recreating an entire Disney theme park ripoff”
Pics or it didn’t happen.
January 26th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Hey rookie, get serious !
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/32638/
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1716
China loves to copy.
January 26th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
OKAY!
January 26th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
What’s the content inside? I’m interested to see the clones.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Their paint poisons little kids worldwide. Oh…
Tiananmen Square! 4/15/89~6/4/89!! NEVER FORGET!!
I say we (in the US) manufacture our own crap. We fired enough people here.
January 27th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
>>I say we (in the US) manufacture our own crap. We fired enough people here.
Only if you’re willing to give up your low, low prices. Evils of capitalism, but what can you do? The US economy is reliant on Chinese labor, a few bad products don’t mean ‘omfg china = bad.’
January 27th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
If all of America’s goods were manufactured in America, where do you think the pollution would go? In our air, water, and soil.
And about the lead thing… Generations of children played with lead toy soldiers painted with lead paint. The whole lead scare is overblown and used as a political tool. You know PVC electrical cables? Turns out there is lead used as a flame retardant. ZOMG Christmas lights and power cords will kill your kids! I saw it on CNN!
January 29th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Atleast, in the US, we only pull out our National Guard when riots get out of control. The Chinese government consider some pro-democracy rallies a “credible military threat” to them.
And as for “low prices;” you get what you pay for. It’s really hard to hold back the “knock-off / badly done” thinking about products from China. Since our government hadn’t been doing much regulating at their end.
January 30th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I hate buying PVCs or artbooks on eBay and getting a bootleg.
THough it’s kind of funny how I’ve seen people on some forums make the claim that ALL figures made in China are bootlegs…lol. Just watch those Maxfactory production plant videos.
There’s no sense in trying to move manufacturing back to America. It won’t happen unless there’s something that makes global trade impossible in the future. I work for a computer company that does some OEM work but mostly refurbishing, and it’s very difficult to compete while paying good wages. You can pay workers the minimum wage but you will get what you pay for. Factor in rising transportation costs… Basically it’s hard to compete with a cheap, new product manufactured somewhere in Asia and assembled in Mexico. Then there’s the next best thing - using cheap immigrant labor…. but that’s the reality. Griping about CHina and Mexico solves nothing, and protectionist policies will raise prices and kill consumer spending and stifle capitalism.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I say the USA should move their production back to their own soil. Or at least to Mexico. I think Mexico at least has better quality control than China, and at the same time it would stop the problem of inmigration.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:03 pm
it’s not a coincidence. remember china is brainless they don’t know how to make things with their own ideas.
remember china is best in:
1. copying
2. saying they did something when they didn’t
3. swearing
4. thinks their the best (when their not)
i hate ppl who copy other ppl’s idea.
even if their copying it sucks. i mean like even if they want to copy atless make it look like the real one right?
February 1st, 2008 at 12:35 pm
China is so integrated into the modern economy that if they pull out, it’s a global recession for at least 5 years.
…Until we decide to exploit Indonesia and India.
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:52 am
A coincidence? The only difference is that the shirt under the uniform is striped! Otherwise, it’d just be Haruhi.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:56 am
Well it seems racism is still all round the net.
Japan has long copied Chinese culture and items long, long before China did any copying. Hell almost the whole world copied China’s creations and made better. But a lot of it was due to trade.
However presently it’s true, there are many Bootlegs and the sort in China now. Yet people all over the world still buy them. If you Weeaboo’s know a thing or two, the Japanese has been professionals at copying in the present generations. The only thing is they tend to make it better than original mostly, so it’s let off.
For christ sake the haruhi copy is for school kids, it’s not like it’s not been done before. Here in UK when it was nearing Olympics, we were asked to make pamphlet on Olympics in High School, and people used Simpsons, Disney, Anime characters. Best one picked (which was Snoopy) and handed round school. So let it go dudes.