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I've been told my Yersai remind them of the Jakkai from SD
14 years ago
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Some of them have even gone as far as saying I ripped of the entire race design from Chu. I tell people that I made the Yersai two years before I started reading SD, and while I hadn't drawn them until after reading SD (and therefore was influenced by it), I had no knowledge of the Jakkai when I had made the Yersai.
The Yersai race seems to be an exact rip off of the Jakkai: They're both short, fuzzy, 'unique' (ie: crucial enough to affect the story; have intelligence equal to or greater than a humans.) seclusive, and have the same last naming ritual.
I actually got the seclusive and naming ritual from reading Lois Lowry's "The Giver". I really liked the government in it, changed it around a little to my liking, and it just happened to come out the same as the Jakkai's. This was two years before I had read SD, so yeah.
And saying they're the same because they look kinda similar is like saying Hobbits (Lord of the Rings) were ripped off from Ewoks (Star Wars) (or vice versa) because they're both small, seclusive, and wound up being the race crucial to winning (and ending) the major conflict.
Also, the Yersai were based off of fennec and arctic foxes. The Jakkai were based off of Raichu (a mouse). So there's that too.
Both comics start out with a female protagonist of a small furry species that is dead/dying of a dagger wound to the chest. The main character then meets a strange character in dark clothes whom, after some money related trouble, ferries her to a place to wait, wherein they meet a very uncouth, childlike character. After spending a short time there, the main character decides they really don't like the place. Suddenly another character flies in unexpectedly. That's as far as you have gotten, Kyte, and it seems very similar. Are you going to introduce a really large, drunk 'big brother' character next?
whoa whoa whoa, stop twisting my comic's depictions of events. Keith didn't judge Lumi's sins before taking her out of the hospital. And he only ferried her up till the last block because they got attacked. And Lumi doesn't hate the inn as much as Rhea hated the RotSD. She just hates the smell. And Lloyd. Because he's a jerkwad. And no, there's no big brother character who is staggeringly drunk.
Besides, SD is about (spoilers)the war between angels and demons. I think. Something about the angels and demons(/spoilers). And Snowfall is about trying not to get killed by deadly foundations and corporations. Right now at least. I'm not about to give away the whole plot point.
Their names seem awfully similar, are you sure you didn't rip that off?
The original name for the Yersai was Sionnach. My friend told me it was a pitiful name, and I agreed. So we went to a website that generated random strings of letters. We generated five letters, 'Yrsai', and added an 'e'. We did not have Slightly Damned in mind at all when we made the name. It was purely by chance.
In other news, I passed Ballerina Mafia (Immelmann's gag-a-day comic) in 'most readers this week' on The Belfry WebComics Index. Apparently someone posted my comic there, and now viewership is up
63.2%. And it keeps going up. I had always thought about doing it, but for some reason I thought Belfry didn't have a large userbase. Boy did they prove me wrong.
Anyway, that put's a check in the 'become more popular than Immelmann on a webcomic index site without sinking to pr0nstuffs.' Next on the agenda...'Become a better artist than Chu.'...Well damn, the day that happens will be a cold day in hell. Of course, I didn't think I'd achieve the former goal ever either. And Virmir gave me a check on 'get a more than decent webcomic artist to admit I'm better than them without bringing the matter up in a conversation.'
...It's a very long list, and it's called 'Things that will never happen, but would be really nice if they did.'
The Yersai race seems to be an exact rip off of the Jakkai: They're both short, fuzzy, 'unique' (ie: crucial enough to affect the story; have intelligence equal to or greater than a humans.) seclusive, and have the same last naming ritual.
I actually got the seclusive and naming ritual from reading Lois Lowry's "The Giver". I really liked the government in it, changed it around a little to my liking, and it just happened to come out the same as the Jakkai's. This was two years before I had read SD, so yeah.
And saying they're the same because they look kinda similar is like saying Hobbits (Lord of the Rings) were ripped off from Ewoks (Star Wars) (or vice versa) because they're both small, seclusive, and wound up being the race crucial to winning (and ending) the major conflict.
Also, the Yersai were based off of fennec and arctic foxes. The Jakkai were based off of Raichu (a mouse). So there's that too.
Both comics start out with a female protagonist of a small furry species that is dead/dying of a dagger wound to the chest. The main character then meets a strange character in dark clothes whom, after some money related trouble, ferries her to a place to wait, wherein they meet a very uncouth, childlike character. After spending a short time there, the main character decides they really don't like the place. Suddenly another character flies in unexpectedly. That's as far as you have gotten, Kyte, and it seems very similar. Are you going to introduce a really large, drunk 'big brother' character next?
whoa whoa whoa, stop twisting my comic's depictions of events. Keith didn't judge Lumi's sins before taking her out of the hospital. And he only ferried her up till the last block because they got attacked. And Lumi doesn't hate the inn as much as Rhea hated the RotSD. She just hates the smell. And Lloyd. Because he's a jerkwad. And no, there's no big brother character who is staggeringly drunk.
Besides, SD is about (spoilers)the war between angels and demons. I think. Something about the angels and demons(/spoilers). And Snowfall is about trying not to get killed by deadly foundations and corporations. Right now at least. I'm not about to give away the whole plot point.
Their names seem awfully similar, are you sure you didn't rip that off?
The original name for the Yersai was Sionnach. My friend told me it was a pitiful name, and I agreed. So we went to a website that generated random strings of letters. We generated five letters, 'Yrsai', and added an 'e'. We did not have Slightly Damned in mind at all when we made the name. It was purely by chance.
In other news, I passed Ballerina Mafia (Immelmann's gag-a-day comic) in 'most readers this week' on The Belfry WebComics Index. Apparently someone posted my comic there, and now viewership is up
63.2%. And it keeps going up. I had always thought about doing it, but for some reason I thought Belfry didn't have a large userbase. Boy did they prove me wrong.
Anyway, that put's a check in the 'become more popular than Immelmann on a webcomic index site without sinking to pr0nstuffs.' Next on the agenda...'Become a better artist than Chu.'...Well damn, the day that happens will be a cold day in hell. Of course, I didn't think I'd achieve the former goal ever either. And Virmir gave me a check on 'get a more than decent webcomic artist to admit I'm better than them without bringing the matter up in a conversation.'
...It's a very long list, and it's called 'Things that will never happen, but would be really nice if they did.'
Bignfluffy
~bignfluffy
Both of your main characters have names, obvious ripoff of SD. Next project: start a gag-a-day strip with better art than Chu's...
Johnny1974
~johnny1974
Thats a very unfortunate set of coincidences o_o I could see why people would make that assumption though. Still... Not very nice to call someones comic a rip-off >.>
