{"id":66938,"date":"2021-03-31T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T09:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/?p=66938"},"modified":"2021-03-31T17:28:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T09:28:21","slug":"qoo-news-tokyo-babylon-2021-anime-project-cancelled-due-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/post\/66938\/qoo-news-tokyo-babylon-2021-anime-project-cancelled-due-plagiarism","title":{"rendered":"[Qoo News] \u201cTokyo Babylon 2021\u201d Anime Project Cancelled Due to Plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally scheduled for this April, the TV anime project of Clamp\u2019s classic sh\u014djo manga <a href=\"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/tag\/tokyo-babylon-2021\">\u201cTokyo Babylon 2021\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0is officially cancelled due to the recent plagiarism incident.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-212802\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/wp-corp.qoo-app.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20112005343851.jpg?resize=724%2C1024\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/wp-corp.qoo-app.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20112005343851.jpg?resize=724%2C1024 724w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/wp-corp.qoo-app.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20112005343851.jpg?resize=212%2C300 212w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/wp-corp.qoo-app.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20112005343851.jpg?resize=768%2C1086 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/wp-corp.qoo-app.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20112005343851.jpg?w=800 800w\" alt=\"\u6771\u4eac\u5df4\u6bd4\u502b2021\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Allegations of plagiarism emerged last November when the anime\u2019s character designs were an exact copy of a promotional photo of K-pop star Yeri from Red Velvet and a costume sold as a Volks doll accessory without permission. \u201cTokyo Babylon 2021\u201d was delayed from its April release date before this announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The production committee of the anime later revealed an official announcement that it has &#8220;lost faith&#8221; in the GoHands production because of this plagiarism. The committee apologized to the original author Clamp and fans, and promised to pursue the development of a new project of the \u201cTokyo Babylon\u201d manga as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-222832\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/wp-corp.qoo-app.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/21032905444891.jpg?resize=1024%2C857\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/wp-corp.qoo-app.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/21032905444891.jpg?resize=1024%2C857 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/wp-corp.qoo-app.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/21032905444891.jpg?resize=300%2C251 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/wp-corp.qoo-app.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/21032905444891.jpg?resize=768%2C643 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/wp-corp.qoo-app.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/21032905444891.jpg?w=1215 1215w\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"pre-register\"><a class=\"in-post-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/tokyobabylon2021.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Official Site<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"pre-register\"><a class=\"in-post-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tokyobabylon21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Official Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope the new project is still a TV anime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[773,19],"tags":[33,9857,3671,10059],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/21033109195543.jpeg?fit=1116%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8G4K-hpE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}