Reading from Teppei's description in Chapter 1, the main character of White Knight sounds like a flawless person, and almost everyone in the Jump office immediately like it.
Can't speak on Japan, but I know that plagiarism definitely is not looked favourably upon at all by Western consumers. Especially with the internet and the notion of people stealing "ideas", its a very big thing. Its interesting to see how this manga will handle it because it really is a kinda dodgy thing for the MC to do.
We are in 2020, there are themes worse than plagiarism that were successful.
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Using drugs isn't worse than plagiarism. That's just something stupid you do to yourself.
Drugs destroy more lives than plagiarism, not just those who use it.
You said 'using drugs', not selling it.
Dude, this whole discussion started because of what Rain said.
No. This whole discussion started WITH what Rain said, not BECAUSE of it. I'm sure people would've been talking about the series even if nobody had mentioned Japan. Because the discussion (most of it) is not about whether Japan likes or dislikes plagiarism, it's about people feeling uncomfortable with a MC who is committing criminal acts while also being portrayed as a good guy, or at least someone we are supposed to sympathise with. And that's something that has nothing to do with the number of chapters. because it's about the way he is being shown NOW.
There is nothing that you said. The rain said they didn't like it because of plagiarism.
That's what Rain said, yes. But that's not why people here on the forum don't like it.
I have no idea what you are trying to say here (are you using an expression from another language maybe?). 'Run a hand over the heads of the guys'? Do you mean petting them? Pleasing them? Reading their minds? Copying them? Misleading them?
Yeah, but those manga usually have something else to offer. Like a good mystery. Or humour. Or interesting side characters.
Yeah, I'm just going to repeat myself here:
What people on the forum think doesn't interest me. I am criticizing the Japanese.
It means to protect, you see that the person is wrong and still protect him.
The manga presented a good story, excellent art and good characters (even if you criticize the protagonist, the characters that surround him are good).
I'm not even interested in that, I just want to see the main character gets caught with plagiarism and the original author isn't okay with that (I'm really, really disappointed by the lame justification she gave him during the third chapter).
Look, no normal person would believe a time machine story. Her justification was at least plausible.
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Man, I didn't see any of that, since Rain came up with this story that the Japanese are hating the manga because of the plagiarism theme, people came up giving opinions on how the protagonist should behave and because of that they started to dislike of the work.
I don't really blame him for trying to do this, but the way it's going on I think it's forced.
Thanks for the explanation. (In my language, we say "to hold the hand above someone's head." I couldn't find a similar expression in English.)
Well, they certainly jumped to the resolution in this newest chapter. I didn't expect this to happen until, like, halfway the story.
