Ma is the horse.
Ren is the Citizen of His Country (His Country is the Strongest, the White (skeletons) are his enemy).
Obedience Till Death.
Period of exploration.

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The Eddie Murphy version would've made for a better rip-off.

* Disney sweeps several "coincidental" movies under a pile of campaign donations to extend copyright into eternity while Kimba the White Lion sheds a tear. *

although this is obviously a straight up, unashamed rip-off, i'll paraphrase Roger Meyer Jr. from The Simpsons

the honeymooners? flintstones
sgt. bilko? top cat
huckleberry hound, chief wiggam, yogi bear?
andy griffith, edward g. robinson, art carny

God, Gmork, you are such a dumb Republican. "Intellectual property" cannot fulfill even the most basic requirements of the word "property". The postmodern American conception of IP is nothing more than a blatantly manipulative legal fiction, haphazardly cobbled together over the past half-century or so in order to, first, colonize the creative landscape in favour of our richest corporate monopolies, to the detriment of all else (including not just the spirit of free competition but even, ironically enough, creator's rights), and second, to prop up dying industries whose business models are (at least at the executive levels) no longer sustainable in the face of advancing technology. Hey, it's OK when robots replace factory workers, but heaven help us all if an RIAA mogul loses one of his eight mansions on account of TPB!

Maybe China doesn't care about your precious intellectual property rights because they know these rights are a crock of shit, and they know you can't do a damn thing to stop them anyway.

blowhard

Here's a little article about it. Down below in the update it gives links to both this and the Gumball ones' wikis and some other cool information.

http://tinyurl.com/lsnc2pn

It looks like it's just a half dozen of very young animators who want to bring some life into what they describe as 'tacky' and 'trite' mainstream Chinese animation, working on a shoestring budget. Honestly, if it wasn't for the title of the video and the opening sequence, I wouldn't have necessarily made the comparison.

What's also interesting is w/r/t the Gumball one, the article says that although the show is new, some of those characters have been "in existence for some time." I don't know if that means pre-2012, or whenever Gumball came out, but I always thought that Gumball and Darwin looked.. well.. "Eastern" but not necessarily Japanese. Wouldn't it be weird (and cool) if Gumball drew inspiration from Chinese ad art?

Because the country itself doesn't make this stuff, individuals do, and they want to make things but don't necessarily have the wherewithal to make something completely new.

I don't think this is a complete ripoff; it's just "heavily inspired" by Adventure Time. But AT is heavily inspired by lots of things too. Where's the line between homage and ripoff?

Ya. It's not like this is the first time anyway.. Mighty Orbots, Gobots, Power Rangers, all the same show as Voltron really, which was originally two different shows, I think..

Wasn't Voltron kind of a Tranzor Z ripoff, too? I've never actually seen it, and only seen one or two episodes of Tranzor Z a decade ago but that was the impression I got.

It seems like it would be a hell of a lot more effort to replicate a show like Adventure Time then just come up with your own zany make believe buddy cartoon.

I pretty much agree at this point. I loved the show at first, but the new ones I've seen have really become this self-aware hip bullshit. Kinda like after your mom saw Juno and started quoting Ellen Page, it just wasn't cool anymore. Sorry mom, I still love you. :)

Sure there's derivative everywhere but outright cut and paste? That's just plain stealing.

But it isn't cut and paste. Those two look nothing like jake and finn.

True that. Look at the current crop of popular animated shows - many seem to have been heavily inspired by Asian anime and manga. (Even "Adventure Time".) ...Oh, and need I mention American animation cannibalizing itself ever since Felix the Cat? + any other medium in the pop culture and fashion world. Pop will eat itself.

Hey, they have to make up for all that back end in pasta, fireworks, gunpowder, tea and paper somehow.