Comments on: Naruto Vs. Cowboy Bebop: Blatant Plagiarism?

By: Teppic

Teppic — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:18:38 +0000

Ok, I have a luxury to be in all the cliques concerned here, as my interest in anime roots in CB (among other things), I use Naruto for entertainment purposes recently, AND I train Jeet Kune Do for a long time now, and with a diploma.

Here is what I know/think (some of this, some of this).

CB is one of the few quality anime that actually has quality martial arts included. I suppose someone in the staff is Bruce Lee’s fan, and I mean Bruce-martial artist’s fan rather than Bruce-actor’s fan… cause that makes a difference. Fights included in CB are original, they do not copy any martial arts film as-is, rather the Jeet Kune Do itself. That is just good and Kudos to the drawer for both skill AND knowledge on the subject he’s depicting.

Now Naruto… might have a good drawer, who has none or small knowledge on martial arts whatsoever. Knowing that the alternative would be lacking in realism, he instead copied from someone better oriented. Again, Kudos for Cowboy Bebop artist ;]

Overally, I don’t blame Naruto for taking the material from CB. It wasn’t a homage either, BUT…
…
…ultimately it IS a homage they didn’t intend to do. ;]

Amen.

By: BTKookies

BTKookies — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:47:07 +0000

Well it’s a fight scene so 1.No one cares (or no one SHOULD), and 2.Being that Neji is using an actual fighting style (not sure about CB) they can reasonable argue that they just based it off the martial arts.

By: Mac

Mac — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:02:49 +0000

Even if both are referencing a particular scene in a Bruce Lee movie, it’s pretty obvious that that Naruto sequence is an exact copy of the Cowboy Bebop sequence, even down to the timing of the frames.

Hell, it looks like the Naruto animators just painted over the Bebop fight.

By: RRP

RRP — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:38:55 +0000

Whether or not anyone plagiarized has nothing to do with the quality of Naruto itself. “I don’t like this anime so therefore what they did was wrong” has to be the stupidest argument I’ve ever heard. If the same people who are saying that Naruto is low for plagiarizing saw something like this against an anime they liked, they would be the ones defending it and calling it an “homage” to something or other.
Having an opinion is one thing, but unless you’ve done your research there is no point ragging on either anime without knowing the truth.
Also; the Cowboy Bebop manga came after the anime, and the manga version of that scene in Naruto wouldn’t have been exactly the same as in the anime. So there’s no point in trying to blame the manga-kas either.

As for the several people who have referenced this Bruce Lee movie… anyone got a name to it? Maybe we could find a clip and settle this once and for all.

By: Li

Li — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:08:08 +0000

Honestly, I doubt the Naruto animation team copied from Cowboy Bebop. It’s much more likely that both teams of animators used the same reference live-action video of people fighting to rotoscope/choreograph the scene.

By: BossManJack

BossManJack — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:20:51 +0000

Yooo, tell me the movie. If you’re still there.

By: Kal

Kal — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:22:19 +0000

…Something tells me that if this was just about any other anime besides Naruto, there wouldn’t be much fuss about it, and people wouldn’t be calling it plagiarism.

By: Mixup

Mixup — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:22:20 +0000

Yes, Crocodile got it right. This was covered waaaay back. The fight in Bebop is taken directly from good ol’ Bruce Lee, and my guess is that the Naruto animators did the same thing. That is – not copy Bebop, but copy Lee just as Bebop did before them.

By: Yooo

Yooo — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:29:07 +0000

You are ALL morons.

That is NOT plagiarism. That scene was from a popular BRUCE LEE movie, BOTH scenes were referencing that.

So to conclusion neither scenes are original. NOW EVERYONE SHUT UP.

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:41:28 +0000

Wow ok.

They BLATANTLY PLAGARIZED.

When I watch anime I should not for a SECOND expect to see the exact same thing twice.

I don’t care that Gainax was behind both of them. It’s just ridiculous. Naruto has no case.

There was a line and they crossed. No argument they suck. The Naruto Anime is horrible. Manga is great though.

P.S. I miss high quality anime. They are getting so lazy with the digital age. You have to admit.