krownklown said: . He wrote what was basically a one shot sometime in 2002 that was submitted for a prize, only later did he work on it as a webcomic.
The .hack games were already published in June 2002, meaning that the game had to be in development at least in 2001 if not earlier, as video games take a very long time to develop. The anime of .hack started in April of 2002, that was .hack signs, a major anime of the time, also I believe the way it works with anime is the episodes are not made weekly but months in advance, and released in their schedule slot meaning the anime was also likely made during 2001.
So with all due respect, have a guy who put some one shot piece of work to a prize sometime in 2002, versus a major multi media franchise that although released in the early to mid part of 2002, probably was in development in likelihood at least 2001 if not earlier.
So sure I was wrong because technically he put out something earlier,the lns didn't came out until 2009, and like I said even if I count the piece he submitted in 2002 it still probably is predated by .hack.
Also regarding SAO to Log you guys are missing the point. In order to copy something you don't literally have to copy it world for word, to still be called a copy. That is the point I made about changing the name of Kirto or his hair color. So yes the motivations of the characters are different, but I don't feel that is not to differentiate them. Why did log have to make them trapped there? You already had SAO where the characters are trapped, you already share the same setting, mmorpg, fantasy world, etc, so why go and further copy and make it that you are trapped there? That is what I mean by degrees, I am willing to say, you cant do anything about the setting, etc., but then why go that extra step and make the basis of your plot that the people are trapped and have to live in that world. That is what to me crosses the line. Like I said of course something is going to be different, you can't copy it exactly otherwise they would have been sued, but to me it copied it enough that I thought it was too similar. And I dont like SAO, so of course I wont like LH.
I am not sure what you want to proof with that unless you say the Reki Kawahara was an insider that could miraculously read through the entire plot of hack and watch all episodes before it aired.
Otherwise it doesn't matter one bit since when it was in the making xD
Sorry but it is a hard fact that Reki Kawahara published SAO as a Web Novel in 2002, if you wanna know the month it was in November, after he couldn't use it in the Dengeki Game Novel Prize competition because it had too many pages.
I am btw not saying that that SAO started before hack...I dunno where some people got that from, but simply that SAO is no ripoff from .hack because they came out the same year without any connection between each other; likewise .hack is no ripoff from SAO... |