I would say derivative work would sound better. Unless he openly stated that he made this on his own and openly deny all similarity as well, the term plagiarized sounds a bit...harsh. It look similar yes but it's not like he took the original work and just retraced everything, recolored it and stuff.
I would say derivative work would sound better. Unless he openly stated that he made this on his own and openly deny all similarity as well, the term plagiarized sounds a bit...harsh. It look similar yes but it's not like he took the original work and just retraced everything, recolored it and stuff.
All work have a certain reference to it.
I looked for an online plagiarism checker for images, but its really hard to do so, therefore from what I can see, it does not look COMPLETELY traced, but this is far more than derision. On top of that, this is from an eroge apparently, so its from a product that costs money, which is serious as opposed to just something posted on Pixiv. The situation is the same, the number of participants are the same, the actions are the same, the angle is the same, hell even positioning is the same, all its missing is the original's art style to be the same image. All of this considered, I think its safe to say that this is plagiarism and not just simple derision.