People don't really understand what plagerism is a lot of times and get confused about that unfortunately.
Plagerism is the act of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as your own. And Mashima definitely isn't doing that. He's putting his spin on some One Piece concepts for sure. But the two manga really aren't much alike aside from that.
So Edens Zero doesn't actually plagiarize anything. What it is, however, is derivative. Some people have a huge problem with derivative works. I do not. That just means it's based on another work. Most shounen is derivative to some degree. Almost all Isekai series are. Most "school club" series are. Edens Zero is just a little more upfront about that. He's taking fun ideas from all over and incorporating them into his own space adventure. I really like that about it.
And I think it's understandable if people don't like that too.
That having been said, I think, unfortunately youtuber type people tend to equate "I don't like" with "This is wrong". And there is absolutly nothing wrong with an author taking inspiration from another franchise and building thier own story on top of those ideas. Nothing about SAO was an original idea and that's ok too.
Yes, but for some that's how plagiarism is.
But it's mostly on FT in short that people are cruel with it.
When mashima winks / pays homage to another manga, haters say it's plagiarism, it's a shame and co.
The shot of shanks / gildarz, the corsair / oracion 6, the fight kioka vs erza etc.
There in EZ with erzy tribute to albator, the tribute tribute tournament to DB.
On the other hand OP is entitled to him, no problem it's never plagiarism, but you even have some who say that it's not tribute / wink.
Because it is OP who invented everything if we quote them.
As a well-known example, the kaihoken / gear 2, everyone sees the wink / tribute, but some other not say that its nothing to do with it.
You have those who troll and those who say / think for real.
Basically everything OP has done you have the right to use it in other manga, pirate, sea, animals humanoid, giant, samurai, robot, zombie etc.
In NNT some shouted because there are giant in it.
For EZ 1st chapter it was that, travel in space = sea voyage, found mother = found the OP.
And I do not deny it, Sun Jewel is the best arc that Hiro has made since Tartaros, but the issue here is sales, try to understand why both Edens Zero and FT 100YQ are decreasing their sales, especially EZ that are falling very quickly .
The only thing that occurs to me is that it is that people are not attracted to the west of the Edens Zero universe.
1. It is normal, in FT they did the same, that is more of people who like to annoy fans, after a while people would start taking these jokes as a real argument to criticize it, like the comparison between Gildarts and Shanks but Actually, it should be with King Raregroove, the majority thought that Mashima's first manga was FT and not Rave Master, I hope that with Hero's people are very interested in that manga.
2. The first 2 volumes of Edens Zero are very good, at least for me, although they were fast, they were necessary to show you the world of Edens Zero, basically it leaves you the foundations of what will be all the manga and the finish line. Guilst was the beginning of everything, I remember that this arc was very criticized for the high content of Fan service and the use that Hiro gave to women (the fact that they were left naked to converge in furniture I think they didn't like anything) and Let's not even talk about Digitails that Hiro escaped from Hermit's hands and past that they also criticized.
Those bad comments are very influential in the opinion and I think the Japanese are very inclined to those opinions and decide to look for other options (I think this is the real reason for leaving the manga).
Regarding the criticism that you shared, I saw the profile and is a fan of Dragon Ball, it is normal that he finds coincidences, that he called it plagiarism was a bit out of place that he left weight to his position regarding the tournament in Mildian and I take objectivity from the true sense of that arc that was to find information about Valkyrie and although we knew later, make a farewell with Homura.
Seeing that he also likes Jojo and Hokuto no Ken waits for them to publish volume 9 and will say that Laguna is a plagiarism of JoJo designs xD.
1: well no, unfortunately, we fan of Rave, we told these people to read rave to show them another mashima work.
They say they have read the manga and have come to tell us that it was just as crappy / bad / cliché / banal and co .and that the drawing is really ugly.
Even if we told them it was the first mashima manga.
2: At least for Guilst it will have had to last longer, saw the tension in it, I wanted to be more afraid for Rebecca.
Yes but it is not very professional, nor very neutral of the employee the term plagiarism even if it is parenthesis.
The fan (s) speaks of wink / tribute as for Erzy with Albator.
But this is already the case for Laguna XD, the haters have already said that it is a plagiarism of JOJO.
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