Epic Fail is Epic!!!

[a1y_puff]

Yes, sorry, I'm so spamming your F-List today... but the other two are fics, so... this is my RANT OF THE WEEK! LOLz.

So... I know my fellow Indonesians might have bored with this topic, but really.. I didn't get the chance to rant, before, so please let me rant about NABURO? *puppy eyes*

For those who still don't know--though this has already become the topic in International forum as well--NABURO is a plagiarism of Naruto... or something. I'm not a Naruto fan, but this thing is... a total disgrace...

So anyway, this entry is basically me making fun of the EPIC FAIL-ness of whoever the author who thinks of themselves as a professional comic artist but could only came up with something like this. demonessryu said she also wanted to rant and so I'm posting this for her, also for bakafia_kawaii who wanted to know the LoLz but didn't want to touch this... thing...

By the way, there's someone kind enough to scanlate this thing so that non-Indonesian speakers can understand this and have a good laugh. All images posted here are taken from said scanlation--only up to chapter 4 so far--which could be found here: http://flooone.blogspot.com/

Thank them for they're sacrificing their eyes and money to even scanlate this thing XDD

Here's the cover~

Think it's crappy enough? Wait until you take a peek inside....



The ever-epic Author's Note. I have no idea what they have been researching for two years that resulted into this...thing... And it is said that it was done to CONTINUE Kishimoto-sensei's dream... I don't know what Kishimoto's dreams are, but I'm pretty sure they don't include getting his work plagiarized >.>


The main character... look, even the last name is 'Uzumaki'. Can you be more creative?


This is Koharumaru, Naburo's father (so we know that Naburo isn't even Naruto's son XDD).

The interesting fact about Koharumaru is that he has many different faces. Literally.

Like this one:

Gori from Slam Dunk, anyone? lolz

And these:





Seriously, make up your mind as how to how Koharumaru actually looks like >.>

So yeah, the artwork constantly changes in each page! I don't know of Koharumaru's (and his wife's) hair is supposed to be black or not, coz the colors keep changing.

...and you know what, they actually copy some scenes from other mangas... like (I heard) The Impeccable Twins (a manhua(?) from China), Great Teacher Onizuka, Slam Dunk...


...and Pokemon, perhaps? XD

Look at the TL's note, lol

I really don't know how could someone make, and publish something so...shameful. If it were me, I'd be embarrassed to death! Like seriously? *shudders*

Oh, some random stupidity I caught:
The SIX-TAILED KYUUBI

LoL, in some other pages, it has eight and seven tails. I counted.

And---Koharumaru changing name in the middle of the story...


Oh well... the petition to take this trash down is ongoing. I hope they will stop publishing craps like this.legally. I mean, COME ON!! There are many talented artists in Indonesia who want to publish their comics but find it hard because some publisher thought they aren't commercial enough--though now we have a publisher that takes in local comics and publish them--but publishing this thing is just... ugh...Even I can do better than this D:

I heard it's already out up till vol.4, and the price is TWICE the original Naruto manga published here--which is published by a different publisher than this, by the way.

Really... what people would do for money... >.>

---On a completely different (and random) note... I thik I lost some weights, yay! The jeans that wouldn't fit no matter what when I tried a few months back, can now slip easily up my hips and settle nicely around my belly XDD
I guess being kind of depressed and losing a bit of appetites has its benefits, lol

AAAAAND~!!! I'm totally in LOVE with the icon I just got from kencana_kencana. Isn't little Yuu just adorable? <3 *points at icon*

That's all for today. I'm totally hungry and I haven't replied to some emails which I've neglected for a week or so because of my failed internet...

Later, dearies~

Comments

[kencana-kencana.livejournal.com]

Soal Naburo, ya. Emang topik ini lagi rame dibicarain di forum manapun. Banyak fans Naruto yg ngamuk dengan adanya komik plagiat ini. Bahkan banyak yg menyumbang petisi untuk menghentikan Naburo. malah ada yg cemas, kalo Jepang sampe tahu hal ini, Naruto bakal stop terbit di sini.

[milkyxduckie.livejournal.com]

that's pretty... pathetic.

[demonessryu.livejournal.com]

I think I read somewhere that Naburo copied arts from Slam Dunk, Initial D, shoujou manga, and Chinese manhua. I'll try to look for the pic again but it's pretty obvious that it's fail.

Anyway, this actually raised a question on plagiarism because apparently there's parody law where it's not plagiarism if the original title/characters' names/etc aren't mentioned so I don't know about Naburo. Though this is obviously a plagiarized version of Naruto, it might actually be legal. Someone with knowledge on law should check though.

Regarding Shueisha, I actually think that there's no need to worry. It's not like this is the first time Indonesia has plagiarized something from East Asia and so far they haven't done anything. I doubt they would pursue a law suit on this or even withdraw Naruto from Indonesia. We have pretty decent manga market so they can't possibly want to miss that.

However, I think there's a chance that the mangakas whose arts are being imitated to sue. It's happened before with several Japanese mangaka where they were sued or at least got into problem with law because they (seem) to have copied the poses of pictures from some magazines without giving credit. The author of Slam Dunk once sued because of this and there are at least two yaoi mangakas I know who stopped working for a while due to law suit.

So bottom line is... Naburo sucks but unfortunately there's probably gonna be no legal moves done against this.

Also.... where's the damn petition to get Naburo out of the shelves??

[raatkerani.livejournal.com]

saw that manga at the book-store and could only sigh.
well, maybe the one creating it (he/she definitely not worthy enough to be called manga-ka) thought he/she wants to me a doujin ... hahaha...

[mitsu-syusuke.livejournal.com]

what a horrible imitation... *sigh

[ravient.livejournal.com]

ah ini komik... uda bosen ngedengernya.. nyentuh aj ga mau gw.. LOL

[crissixx.livejournal.com]

oh gosh, this is hilarious! i couldn't stop laughing when the many faces (and names) of koharumaru appeared.

[bakafia-kawaii.livejournal.com]

:)

I'm torn between trying to pull out my hair or to roll on my bed... I guess I will take the bed one, that way I won't go bald.

I'm trying so hard to hold myself now, or else I won't be able to stop laughing like a maniac in hysterical mode.

Epic Indonesian is epic.

[tacuma811.livejournal.com]

I'd never dare to publish crap like that! O_O If I would, I would never leave the house again! People will know it was you made that!

[yoshikochan.livejournal.com]

. . .

I made it thru about half the post, then it became too painful.

OTL

*chokes*

[ryuujidiceboy.livejournal.com]

Oww...that actually hurts. I'm not sure whether to scream in horror or laugh at horribleness of it.
Also, little Yuu is adorable!

[slashy-lady.livejournal.com]

At the moment I experience a cross between laughing my ass off and screaming in rage. This is a proof, I think, why people enjoys watching such fail!thing--so much fail and you know it would only lead to something bad, but, God have mercy, you just can't stop looking (and laughing/screaming)

...sigh~

[jayazz.livejournal.com]

Ugh... maybe they thought it was funny? Just a 'fine' parody? Because I can't believe that this thing could be done seriously... but then again, if it's a parody, one could have made it more elegant and funny =_= so mocking at Kishimoto's manga they ended with making fun of themselves.
Well, I hope that the 4th volume will be the last one D:
the more disappointing is that, as you say, good comics are not published =_="
(btw, we in Russia have some sort of plagiarized Harry Potter. It's called Tanya Grotter and is also very creepy. There was a scandal with it, but as far as I know, it keeps going T_T)

AMAZING...NOT

[halfmoon-smile.livejournal.com]

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

heard this before from Eila and got my eyes burnt in the same time*after googling*...poor my eyes XD

Entah kesurupan apa itu si author...g makin ga konsen sehabis liat gambar satu karakter aj bisa berubah2trus...apa si Koharumaru itu man with thousand faces? bahkan punya 'nama panggung' Kawashima. My prediction is si Koharumaru ini lagi dalam persembunyian dari gerebekan polisi. Untung namanya blm berubah jadi Kumiko...jadi banci dong dy=P

trus karya mana yang mau diplagiat? slam dunk? Naruto? ato Pokemon!? menentukan itu aja ga bisa. Kaenya risetnya harus diperpanjang jadi 1000 tahun so he/she/whoever can make up his-splatter-mind >(

Bukannya mau menghina karya anak indonesia, tapi daripada bikin malu gini, mending jangan jadi sok kreatif. Cuma karena segelintir orang tak bertanggung jawab dan tak berpikir panjang, nama Indonesia jadi taruhan...ckckckck...healthy check once in awhile, WILL YA!?!

eh, kesannya g kae marah y, padahal ngga ko. hahaha.