Why isnt JJK criticized more for being a copycat of another anime?

Aug 30, 2022 12:17 PM

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>Naruto in favourites
>Asking why no one criticize jjk for coping other series

Firstly, why no one criticize Naruto for coping other Anime.

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Aug 30, 2022 12:18 PM

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So, if it has somewhat similar premise or uses two or three similar tropses, then it is 100% carbon copy?
Ok...

Aug 30, 2022 12:20 PM

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Why criticise when it’s more enjoyable than its copycats and I’m talking about both (anime+manga).

Aug 30, 2022 12:21 PM

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It doesn’t matter. It has great animations, ok characters and is enjoyable to watch. I’m personally still waiting for a real plot, but I guess it’s coming with the next seasons. It’s ok to copy if the result is good, that’s my opinion.

Aug 30, 2022 12:25 PM

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I'm confused. I was told that Black Clover was cheap copy of Naruto...

Aug 30, 2022 12:26 PM

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I mean it’s bc JJK Manga is way different than the Naruto Manga. Naruto doesn’t have 3 secondary mcs. It’s only Sasuke. In the JJK Manga it’s Yuta Fushiguro and Gojo as the secondary mcs.

Aug 30, 2022 12:27 PM

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Killer-King said:
>Naruto in favourites
>Asking why no one criticize jjk for coping other series

Firstly, why no one criticize Naruto for coping other Anime.

Damn you got them there.

Aug 30, 2022 12:28 PM

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CickNipolla said:
I know its mainly because JJK has a younger audience and its shonen, but still. Many anime such as Guilty Crown, Bunny Girl Senpai, Fire Force, etc all get pretty significant criticism for being " a copy of an anime before it". Jujutsu Kaisen doesnt seem to get all that much of this same backlash, despite it being arguably a 2021 remake of Naruto. 33% of the show is typical shonen tropes, 33% of it is just straight up naruto re skinned lol.

Its also funny to see people who have rated Naruto significantly lower than JJK

literally has naruto favorited...

lol thats a cope right there, do cope harder please.

Aug 30, 2022 12:28 PM

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CickNipolla said:
I know its mainly because JJK has a younger audience and its shonen, but still. Many anime such as Guilty Crown, Bunny Girl Senpai, Fire Force, etc all get pretty significant criticism for being " a copy of an anime before it". Jujutsu Kaisen doesnt seem to get all that much of this same backlash, despite it being arguably a 2021 remake of Naruto. 33% of the show is typical shonen tropes, 33% of it is just straight up naruto re skinned lol.

Its also funny to see people who have rated Naruto significantly lower than JJK

bro what, naruto is nothing like jjk what did you smoke man?!

Aug 30, 2022 12:29 PM

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Well, even if it does share similar aspects, that isn’t to say one can’t be better than the other. I mean, you could liken the inner demon trope to Naruto’s, yet many people I know prefer Sukuna being genuinely malicious unlike Kuruma.

Aug 30, 2022 12:31 PM

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who the hell cares the show is enjoyable and so is Naruto and that's it

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Aug 30, 2022 12:31 PM

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Even if an anime is similar, that doesn’t mean it should be criticized. Half of the time every anime takes after another. But people, for the most part, watch anime to enjoy it, not to critique it. If an anime is similar to one I already like, then that should be a plus to me.

Here is a good example:

The right mindset when watching an anime is hoping that it will break your top 10

Aug 30, 2022 12:31 PM

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Killer-King said:
>Naruto in favourites
>Asking why no one criticize jjk for coping other series

Firstly, why no one criticize Naruto for coping other Anime.

What anime has it copied?

Aug 30, 2022 12:32 PM

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Leedv188 said:

CickNipolla said:
I know its mainly because JJK has a younger audience and its shonen, but still. Many anime such as Guilty Crown, Bunny Girl Senpai, Fire Force, etc all get pretty significant criticism for being " a copy of an anime before it". Jujutsu Kaisen doesnt seem to get all that much of this same backlash, despite it being arguably a 2021 remake of Naruto. 33% of the show is typical shonen tropes, 33% of it is just straight up naruto re skinned lol.

Its also funny to see people who have rated Naruto significantly lower than JJK

bro what, naruto is nothing like jjk what did you smoke man?!

Gojo is just Walmart brand kakashi tho mate

Aug 30, 2022 12:34 PM

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CickNipolla said:
I know its mainly because JJK has a younger audience and its shonen, but still. Many anime such as Guilty Crown, Bunny Girl Senpai, Fire Force, etc all get pretty significant criticism for being " a copy of an anime before it". Jujutsu Kaisen doesnt seem to get all that much of this same backlash, despite it being arguably a 2021 remake of Naruto. 33% of the show is typical shonen tropes, 33% of it is just straight up naruto re skinned lol.

Its also funny to see people who have rated Naruto significantly lower than JJK

if they copied your favorite then your favorite copied my favorite why isn't it being criticized more and not to mention jjk is more critcized for being a "copy" more than some of the ones you mentioned

Aug 30, 2022 12:37 PM

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Jjk was actually heavily inspired by bleach but whatever. It’s more original than other modern shounen that are actually copying shit

Aug 30, 2022 12:37 PM

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what part or rather aspect of naruto did jjk copy? I can see no connections between jjk and naruto at all other than being shounen

Aug 30, 2022 12:37 PM

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ImmortalRecon said:

Leedv188 said:

bro what, naruto is nothing like jjk what did you smoke man?!

Gojo is just Walmart brand kakashi tho mate

Kakashi is the single strongest character in his respective universe? His very existence keeps many criminals in check? Did I miss something?

Aug 30, 2022 12:38 PM

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ImmortalRecon said:

Killer-King said:
>Naruto in favourites
>Asking why no one criticize jjk for coping other series

Firstly, why no one criticize Naruto for coping other Anime.

What anime has it copied?

I won't go that far to call it "copy" like OP did. But, there are many similarities between Original Naruto and HxH.

Aug 30, 2022 12:38 PM

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Its clear that the author has taken inspiration from older gen Shonen like Bleach and Naruto even in character designs but that still doesn't mean that its a bad thing. I mean its not a ditto copy of other series. There is a different plot overall and its enjoyable nonetheless.

If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then its not a waste of time.

Aug 30, 2022 12:41 PM

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I can't anyone seriously when they say A has copied B because normally it's just a stupid comparison
Ex: A and B have MC with "similar" (normally superficially) personality so the one which came after is bad
Or C and D have school setting with comedy, therefore they must be the same

And sometimes those A and Bs are similar because it's a trend of stories or simply because not doing the "similar" thing makes the story worse

Aug 30, 2022 12:41 PM

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also, it came out right after demon slayer and virtually everyone i knew that was salty about DSs success was heralding JJK as a PROPER Shonen that would dethrone DS

Aug 30, 2022 12:42 PM

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Says the guys with naruto in his favs. As you said in the title one can also say that naruto is a copy of hxh

Aug 30, 2022 12:42 PM

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Killer-King said:
>Naruto in favourites
>Asking why no one criticize jjk for coping other series

Firstly, why no one criticize Naruto for coping other Anime.

naruto tends to get a lot of comparisons to dbz and hxh so not really true unfortunately

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Aug 30, 2022 12:42 PM

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-NirL said:
who the hell cares the show is enjoyable and so is Naruto and that's it

true there's only so many "original ideas" eventually there will be a "copy cat" that does it better or whatever who cares as long as you can enjoy it if not watch something else people really just want anything to feel different from everyone else 😮‍💨

Aug 30, 2022 12:43 PM

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Stardrake said:
I'm confused. I was told that Black Clover was cheap copy of Naruto...

in the same way sao inspired many isekai copy cats, shows like naruto and one piece inspired many shonen copy cats (fairy tail, jjk, black clover, etc)

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Aug 30, 2022 12:45 PM

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official_brown said:
Even if an anime is similar, that doesn’t mean it should be criticized. Half of the time every anime takes after another. But people, for the most part, watch anime to enjoy it, not to critique it. If an anime is similar to one I already like, then that should be a plus to me.

Here is a good example:

true majority of them want to be quirky and different
not like the others 🤣

Aug 30, 2022 12:45 PM

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ImmortalRecon said:

Leedv188 said:

bro what, naruto is nothing like jjk what did you smoke man?!

Gojo is just Walmart brand kakashi tho mate

first of all he is not. just because his hair has the same colour does not mean that they are the same character because they have nothing in common. and besides that, just because 1 character is 'the same' the entire anime is a cheap copy?

Aug 30, 2022 12:46 PM

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GUYS JUJUTSU KAISEN DID NOT COPY NARUTO!!! ITS JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT:

- Gojo is a carbon copy Kakashi
- 3 man team under the sensei, with an emo one, an energetic dumb one, and a tsundere female
- MC has a demon inside them
- Academy the students go to
- A bad organization wants to take over their body

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Aug 30, 2022 12:47 PM

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we'll omit the fact thay everything is literally a copy of something, but yeaaaah...

Aug 30, 2022 12:47 PM

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dicevice said:

-NirL said:
who the hell cares the show is enjoyable and so is Naruto and that's it

true there's only so many "original ideas" eventually there will be a "copy cat" that does it better or whatever who cares as long as you can enjoy it if not watch something else people really just want anything to feel different from everyone else 😮‍💨

true look at gintama a show with no shame the plot is literally referencing other anime but it's still one of the G.o.a t.s

Aug 30, 2022 12:49 PM

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It’s also a copy of bleach just based on the premise/world

Aug 30, 2022 12:52 PM

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ok it is nothing like Naruto. and I'm not even a narutard and I EVEN KNOW THAT. in fact, I don't think it's a copycat at all. to me, the concepts in jjk are unique. even if they have some similarity , I just don't see how it could be a rip off. everything about it was unique in my eyes

Aug 30, 2022 12:58 PM

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security_desu said:
ok it is nothing like Naruto. and I'm not even a narutard and I EVEN KNOW THAT. in fact, I don't think it's a copycat at all. to me, the concepts in jjk are unique. even if they have some similarity , I just don't see how it could be a rip off. everything about it was unique in my eyes

The Concept of JJK is nowhere near unique, actually fighting curse/evil spirit/youkai, etc is pretty generic concept for anime/manga. It just that the overall quality of JJK(story, character, World building, power systems) is higher than most in the same genre. But the concept is quite meh, but manage to build such great story from pretty generic concept is amazing.

Aug 30, 2022 12:59 PM

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because the anime community has moved past it's whole "unoriginal=bad" phase

Aug 30, 2022 1:14 PM

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CickNipolla said:
GUYS JUJUTSU KAISEN DID NOT COPY NARUTO!!! ITS JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT:

- Gojo is a carbon copy Kakashi
- 3 man team under the sensei, with an emo one, an energetic dumb one, and a tsundere female
- MC has a demon inside them
- Academy the students go to
- A bad organization wants to take over their body

-The design is very similar, but their personality and role are different. Kakashi is more serious but he's just a strong ninja, while Gojo is way too relaxed but he's one in a lifetime monster who threaten the status quo

- Trios are bound to happen in anime, it's rarer not to have a trio, dumb energetic trope is bound to happen but i can't find Naruto (childish) and Yuji (slow to think) similar. Emos are bound to happen too, most anime have an emo, while Sasuke is the emo of excellence, Fushiguro is kinda apathetic.
Nobara isn't a tsundere

-Here you have a point, still it's isn't that strong, those have different backstories and reasons for the author to put them in

-They have to go to an academy, and? Didn't you have to go school? It's just a touch of realism

-I know too little to discuss this

Aug 30, 2022 1:15 PM

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It’s not a very good copycat if it copies numerous animes. At that point it isn’t a copycat it is its own thing.

Surprise surprise, everything everyone does in every form of art is heavily influenced by all sorts of things others do. Some more so than others. True artists aren’t tied back by pointless things like similarities to other works. They are only concerned with making the best thing they can.

My favourite example of this is the Bloodborne Old Hunters dlc. The Ludwig boss fight has a scene literally ripped straight from the Berserk manga and the fishing hamlet area is heavily inspired by Junji Ito’s work, particularly Uzumaki. At some point Miyazaki and his co workers probably thought up the idea of using a legendary scene from a legendary manga in there anime and they weren’t concerned with whether they had been the sole and only originator, only with what would make their own art the best it could possibly be. This only enhanced the game and made something new and brilliant.

Of course someone can copy but inspiration and similarities is not the same. Combining your experiences to create a story or piece of art is precisely what every artist does.

Aug 30, 2022 1:15 PM

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CickNipolla said:
I know its mainly because JJK has a younger audience and its shonen, but still. Many anime such as Guilty Crown, Bunny Girl Senpai, Fire Force, etc all get pretty significant criticism for being " a copy of an anime before it". Jujutsu Kaisen doesnt seem to get all that much of this same backlash, despite it being arguably a 2021 remake of Naruto. 33% of the show is typical shonen tropes, 33% of it is just straight up naruto re skinned lol.

Its also funny to see people who have rated Naruto significantly lower than JJK

In my opinion JJK is literally just blue exorcist with a few extra steps

But that fact doesn't make me criticize it. I watched and really enjoyed both, so it's fine by me

Aug 30, 2022 1:16 PM

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I love the show and I've totally never felt like it isn't worth watching infact it's one othe best new gen shounen

Aug 30, 2022 1:25 PM

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CickNipolla said:

Stardrake said:
I'm confused. I was told that Black Clover was cheap copy of Naruto...

in the same way sao inspired many isekai copy cats, shows like naruto and one piece inspired many shonen copy cats (fairy tail, jjk, black clover, etc)

Copy cats? like in what? only because it's a shounen doesnt mean that "copied" from Naruto, many shounen are more inspiried from Bleach or old shounen, you are talking like Naruto is some God tier, but it's not, it's mid and with too many fillers.

Aug 30, 2022 1:39 PM

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CickNipolla said:
I know its mainly because JJK has a younger audience and its shonen, but still. Many anime such as Guilty Crown, Bunny Girl Senpai, Fire Force, etc all get pretty significant criticism for being " a copy of an anime before it". Jujutsu Kaisen doesnt seem to get all that much of this same backlash, despite it being arguably a 2021 remake of Naruto. 33% of the show is typical shonen tropes, 33% of it is just straight up naruto re skinned lol.

Its also funny to see people who have rated Naruto significantly lower than JJK

Most likely because even if it is similar to Naruto, I have never seen the series before.

Aug 30, 2022 1:43 PM

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I wouldn't just say it copied NARUTO, but it is pretty true that there isn't a single original or unique aspect about it.

Aug 30, 2022 1:44 PM

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CickNipolla said:
I know its mainly because JJK has a younger audience and its shonen, but still. Many anime such as Guilty Crown, Bunny Girl Senpai, Fire Force, etc all get pretty significant criticism for being " a copy of an anime before it". Jujutsu Kaisen doesnt seem to get all that much of this same backlash, despite it being arguably a 2021 remake of Naruto. 33% of the show is typical shonen tropes, 33% of it is just straight up naruto re skinned lol.

Its also funny to see people who have rated Naruto significantly lower than JJK

The “demon” inside naruto was actually just a misunderstood puppy that would occasionally go on a rampage, usually against the villain. The DEMON inside itadori isn’t suddenly going to be friendly or help him in the slightest. In fact sukuna goes out of his way to fuck his day up every time he comes out. Other than this concept of a demon being inside of someone there aren’t really similarities outside both being shounen, and the concept is done infinitely better in jjk. Also the upcoming seasons of jjk will lean more towards seinin so you’ll likely be able to see a more obvious difference then.

Aug 30, 2022 1:47 PM

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CickNipolla said:
I know its mainly because JJK has a younger audience and its shonen, but still. Many anime such as Guilty Crown, Bunny Girl Senpai, Fire Force, etc all get pretty significant criticism for being " a copy of an anime before it". Jujutsu Kaisen doesnt seem to get all that much of this same backlash, despite it being arguably a 2021 remake of Naruto. 33% of the show is typical shonen tropes, 33% of it is just straight up naruto re skinned lol.

Its also funny to see people who have rated Naruto significantly lower than JJK

Well, new gen fanboys are really loud lately, and tbh they are still going around praising their “peak” Shibuya Incident arc (which is actually a really good arc, but ofc peak nothing) to understand the last few arcs have been horrible. But tbh there have been criticism about its copying, just that we already past this phase, that was the same with Black Clover, at the time it was incredibly criticized, but nowadays it’s regarded a good series, because in the end new gens are generally good series coverd with overhyping from fanboys

Aug 30, 2022 1:48 PM

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Killer-King said:
>Naruto in favourites
>Asking why no one criticize jjk for coping other series

Firstly, why no one criticize Naruto for coping other Anime.

Secondly, why no one criticize JoJo part 1 for copying Hokuto no Ken then?

Aug 30, 2022 1:53 PM

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I think that it's HxH re skinned (I mean the power system)

Aug 30, 2022 1:55 PM

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what the hell r u on? it's nothing like Naruto lol

Aug 30, 2022 1:56 PM

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cause one way or another every anime has that copy, inspired, same part 🙌🏻

I love the OG ones and the copied ones too

Aug 30, 2022 1:59 PM

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official_brown said:
Even if an anime is similar, that doesn’t mean it should be criticized. Half of the time every anime takes after another. But people, for the most part, watch anime to enjoy it, not to critique it. If an anime is similar to one I already like, then that should be a plus to me.

Here is a good example:

this is the peak mentality everyone should have

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