A new scandal has knocked on the doors of the development company of Genshin Impact, myHoYoand again it is about accusations of plagiarism or lack of creativity. However, in this case the controversy did not arise around something related to the Paimon franchise, but rather was the most recent promotional video for Honkai Impact 3rd the one that immediately caught the attention of Asian viewers.
Before getting into the matter, Why don’t you take a look at the promotional video and try to identify what Internet users pointed out as “blatant copy”?
Well, if you couldn’t detect it, don’t feel bad. In fact, the criticism was started by a very meticulous user well versed in the subject, who immediately compiled the evidence in a video shared on the popular Chinese platform Bilibili. In this video, we can see that three segments (at least those detected so far) They are extremely similar (if not identical) to what follows:
The users They are still analyzing the promotional video further to see if they find any other similarities with another productionbut the current ones were already enough to attract comments from the community:
- «I think it’s fashionable to copy some opening and ending sequences, perhaps because they think no one will notice. Don’t they know that these sequences have their own director and staff and are considered “another anime”?».
- «These guys are always copying the Japanese».
- «“It is not plagiarism, it is a tribute,” say those who support this type of actions».
- «I am a player of this video game, but don’t think that I trust the development company much».
- «They almost went unnoticed, but the copy of Black Clover was too obvious, someone had to notice sooner or later».
- «I assume the sequences were made by the same team that made the other sequences, right? If not, I don’t understand how they were approved.».
- «I’m happy that these kinds of things are finally being noticed on the Internet.».
- «It seems that there is no copyright in China, I guess that’s why they don’t care about copying everyone.».
- «Even if a large company decides to use something as a “reference”, they should always be grateful for borrowing already produced material.».
- «Before Genshin Impact was released, people were already calling it a vile copy of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Do Chinese developers only know how to copy ideas?».
- «This company is always copying ideas or worse, directly stealing».
Fountain: Yaraon!
