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Anime production studio Ixtl has announced on their official website that they fired illustrator Miyata So, the art author of Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse novel. Miyata is one of the key illustrators of adult game developer age and the original character designer of Total Eclipse series. There has been a suspicion of plagiarism in Miyaha's official illustration published on Animage magazine July issue.

Comparison between Miyata's illustration in question and the plagiarized ones
Comparison between Total Eclipse official hug pillow with Miyata's illustration and another hug pillow of Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica

The contours of the characters in Miyata's illustration seem to be copied from other works of Ikkitousen, IS: Infinite Stratos and To LOVE-Ru.

Source: Announcement by Ixtl (PDF file)

Not too surprising, well hope they learned their lesson this time.

i believe chihayafuru mangaka was also accused with that supposedly plagiarism

she later succeeded with chihayafuru manga though.

wow plagiarism is that bad? i mean they got the same poses but the character designs are so different anyway, i do not see the problem and worse he is fired and not just given a warning first

FYI anime/manga/VN companies: Stop putting so much pressure on your illustrators it leads to plagiarism.

He was warned twice. He had TWO chances,but he still continued to trace.

Thats because its a common practice there. Theres only so many poses + little time given for these posters to be drawn. Theres a lot of pressure so people take shortcuts all the time.

1. Copy
2. Paste
3. Change details
4. ?????
5. PROFIT!!
6. Get caught. :(

Oh I saw this on Sankaku. I had no idea what it was about then, but now I understand. Damn. Serious charges and I can't believe people on 2ch found out about it first.

Crazy bastards.

all the shit released these days look the same

That's a noob move.

It's not that easy, but still easier than doing it from scratch.

This is sad. He has a ton of great art so it's not like he doesn't have any skill.

RIP MIyata. I'll fap to Yui and Inia in your memory.

things just got serious.

He only plagiarized poses (character designs are not plagiarized), and only for a poster. Why fire him?

Prism recently went on hiatus due to the same reason too, only based on RL images (partly NSFW). It's so sad to read these things even though both authors have the ability to draw fantastically.

This guy wasn't talentless, Seems a bit too harsh to fire him.

lol who even cares, plagiarism isn't illegal anyways. If he gets the job done, what's the problem? The entire world is just a big bowl of copy pasta anyways.

Look at all these generic anime character designs, how come nobody gets fired for that? Or the generic stories and plot elements we've seen over and over again.

I'll be more surprised when you tell me that an element of anime is original.

Pff. It's not that I'm a fan of the guy's artwork, but these poses look like some standard ones you can find in some drawing manual. Pretty sure there are thousands of pictures with the exact same poses out there.