...Would this count as 'Fair Use'?

[HellCat]

Credit for digging this up goes to Neo-Era. Since he explains it better than I could:


Since I probably can't get away with posting this on the blog and there's been talk of it in the past on the GML, this goes here.

Once thought to be a butchering of one of the MSG movie trilogy films, Johnny Destiny, Space Ninja (aka Johnny Destiny, Space Ranger) is something most Gundam fans have only heard rumors about. Later, it was shown to be an actual 1979 Korean animation known amongst fans in Japan as Uchuu Kuro Kishi (I think a direct translation of its Korean title...in English, Space Black Knight) that featured ripoffs of MS Gundam character designs, with the main character wearing Char Aznable's mask and costume but, when he removed them, he was Amuro underneath.
http://nandakorea.sakura.ne.jp/img/kurokisi2.jpg ("]http://nandakorea.sakura.ne.jp/img/pakuri1-41.jpg[/url]
http://www.ifdfilms.com/Prev08_anim.htm

And don't miss what seems to be the video cover:
[url=") It's almost like getting a show to go with those bootleg toys you see all the time at dollar/pound stores. "Dozle hate puny Feddies..." :p

[Nobody You Know]

I'm no lawyer, but I don't think I'm going out a limb by saying that, by US Copyright, whoever did that would be sweeping streets by now.

By copyright codes over in that part of the world? Who knows? It's apparently perfectly fine to make blatant refrences to other works in your own (Please see the first episode of Dokuro-Chan... Or better yet, don't...), but I don't see this as being cool by anyone's standards at all.

On a related, but still seperate note...
L M A O ! ! ! ! !
Seriously, that %*&$ is great... Pure. Comedic. Gold.

[EscaflownePilot]

Who in their right freaking mind does a logo with gray and turqoise as the colors? What went through thier head, seriously?

Yeah, this is about the lamest and funniest thing I've seen in a VERY long time!

[Juu-kuchi]

That was beautiful

[Beat]

Korean animation rips off a lot of things.

http://www.dra-mata.com/misc/defendersofspace-back.jpg

That second panel? Inferno, genetic Autobot soldier turned superhero.

http://www.dra-mata.com/misc/Space_Gundam_V_Opening(korean_series).mpeg

That doesn't even need words.

So not only did they rip off Gundam, but the Orguss gets in on the plagarism as well.

[Juu-kuchi]

Does that even count as an opening, it was just a Macross Valkyrie striking various poses without even moving done to the music of children singing "Gundam WING!".

[Dark Fact]

Hold it right there! This is without a shadow of a doubt the work of Godfrey Ho! Those who have seen his "films" have stated that he takes many popular concepts like robots and ninjas as splices them to create "original" stories. His live action works involve splicing two movies into one all the while using washed up B-movie actors and his animated films are just scenes from various popular anime movies also spliced together. Joseph Lai is just one of his pseudonyms but there is no doubt that these films are produced under his studio.

Trust me on this one. Don't buy anything from this guy. If you thought Macek was bad with the splicing, that's nothing compared to Godfrey Ho.

[Nin-Nin69]

Veritech's, Char, and Leiji Matsumoto references make this quite an intresting court case.

[Jon T]

I've heard about this, and many other such 'films'. In fact, here's a link to an infamous Japanese page listing all of these abominations:

http://nandakorea.sakura.ne.jp/koreanime.html

From looking at the films, it's staggering to say the least just how many ideas, characters and designs that were blatantly ripped off in most of them. From obvious swipes such as super-robots from Japan like Grendizer and Macross Valkyries, to Diaclone toy designs (many of which went on to become Transformers), Castle Grayskull from He-Man, V'Ger from Star Trek: TMP, Tron, Batman, Iron Man, Storm (of the X-Men), Gatchaman, and many, many more blantant 'inspirations' all turned up in those 'films'.

According to that Japanese site (which has screencaps of most of this stuff), some of the later ones are live-action/animation combos. I can't even begin to imagine how awful they must be! I'm not expert, but it seems to be the case that when these films were made, the ideas and concepts of 'copyright' must simply not have existed in South Korea.

I'm not sure where Joseph Lai comes into the picture, but he's on the credits of the few English-language versions of some of these films, purporting that they were made in Hong Kong (which is obviously a lie, since they were clearly released in Korea years earlier!).

[Arxane]

According to that Japanese site (which has screencaps of most of this stuff), some of the later ones are live-action/animation combos. I can't even begin to imagine how awful they must be!
Well, for reference, you can check out Attack of the Supermonsters (http://badmovies.org/movies/supermonsters/index.html), which combined "suitmation, super-marionation, and animation" (???). The clip provided on that BadMovies.org website is quite amusing.

[Duke]

Well, for reference, you can check out Attack of the Supermonsters (http://badmovies.org/movies/supermonsters/index.html), which combined "suitmation, super-marionation, and animation" (???). The clip provided on that BadMovies.org website is quite amusing.I still remember Mystery Anime Theater 3000's hilarious riff on this movie. It was friggin awesome.

[Vu Man]

ROFLMAO that Space Warrior Black is friggin hilarious. Not even SD Gundam would stoop to that level of stupidity. Sayla is "Space Warrior Black's" sidekick now? His secret identity is Amuro? Char riding in on a wave rider to jump kick goons? Kycilia is now some sorceress and Dozle Zabi WEARING A ZEON UNIFORM is now some Frankenstein wannabe?

Mark Simmons needs to see this. And people in Korea actually enjoyed this stuff and took it seriously? Wow just, wow the ideas just boggle my mind. It's so ludicrious my mind cannot comprehend this.

[Nobody You Know]

Mark Simmons needs to see this. And people in Korea actually enjoyed this stuff and took it seriously? Wow just, wow the ideas just boggle my mind. It's so ludicrious my mind cannot comprehend this. I advise you to never research Korea's tendency torwards piracy, then. Your head will explode. Ripoffs so blatant that I can't believe anyone was never sued over them. My friend teaches English in Korea (think of it as selling ice to the Eskimos, only less honest), and he's told me about an aquarium that copies from the deisgns of Disney's parks, down to using their imagely everywhere. Another story involved a songbook for the students where most of the songs used tunes from the various Barney songs.

I get the feeling that this is just what people do over there.

[Beat]

And here I thought Taekwon V was the biggest offender, mostly due to the fact that it got 3 sequels and became something of a cultural icon in Korea.

http://www.medeasin.com/journal/03/0301/taekwonv.jpg

http://tn3-1.deviantart.com/300W/fs6.deviantart.com/i/2005/083/d/f/MAZINGER_Z_by_SUNZHINE.jpg

No similarities here folks.