They seem very similar in the beginning, chunin exams=hunter exams, Kuprika=Sasuke, and I heard a lot of people say it's a rip off. I want answers with substantial evidence, not conjectures. Is there evidence that kishi ripped of hunter x hunter?
Is Naruto a hunter x hunter rip off?
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i can show many similar character and situations from other manga... goku= first part and early shipuuden naruto or vegeta=sasuke
Hunter hunter started roughly a year before Naruto I'm not mistaken. By then Kishi's rough draft and one shot for Naruto was already completed (after his work Mario was scrapped). I doubt Kishi threw out any of his original ideas and he just adapted them.
They ran simultaneously from what I know and given togashi's hiatus'... I doubt it.
They ran simultaneously from what I know and given togashi's hiatus'... I doubt it.
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i read the manga and it's very good, and i only read 8 chapters. imagine the anime, which EVERYONE says is one of the best animes
then why do alot of people call naruto a rip off
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Mostly for Naruto's several DB, DBZ references hidden within characters, personalities, and abilities. But we already know this and Kishimoto admitted several times that DB and DBZ is inspiration.
That's also inspiration ._. The anime company obviously likes that fight scene and decided to incorporate it into a fight in Naruto as a little easter egg to show their respect. It would be completely different if that fight scene itself was copyrighted, but it's not. Inspiration.
Cowboy Bebop is a CLASSIC and that COWBOY BEBOP : Knockin on Heaven's Door .
beautiful just beautiful.
The anime has lots of inspired fighting sequences . The manga has even more inspirations . *_*
Naruto inspirations: Trigun, Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, lots of things. Including myths Kishi likes to read. ^_^
If you read the post I quoted this gif really has nothing to do with Naruto in particular, rather the idea that there's no such thing as a rip-off.
Without delving in too deep (cause honestly I couldn't care less) a ripoff by definition is an imitation, and or copy of something. Whether or not it was copyrighted doesn't matter, this is a ripoff from a fight scene.
