Nick Simmons plagiarized the manga Bleach

I first heard about this hot mess over in the live journal community bleachness. While some manga artists take inspiration from other artists and the lines of honoring verses stealing sometimes get blurred....this is flat out awesome drama. No doubt plagiarizing is never cool but this is epic.

The fact that it is happening to a celebrity's son makes it all the more juicy.




Here is a link that gives you a basic rundown on what exactly is going on. Nick Simmons (son of Gene Simmons) is accused of plagiarizing the manga Bleach in his work Incarnate. I say accused when really it is obvious he copied and possibly traced multiple panels.

The fact that I am not a Bleach manga reader and could immediately identify the plagiarism is laughable. Not only does this shame Nick Simmons but the publisher that backs him. Because not one person on that team realized OH MY this looks exactly like Bleach? Epic fail.

I am curious to see how this whole mess works out. Since he is the son of a rather rich man I doubt he will be heading to the poor house anytime soon. That and we don't know how Tite Kubo will handle this news. Whatever is the case....just wow. Someone was that pathetically desperate to copy one of the most read mangas in the world and didn't think they would get caught?!

There are almost no words.