Imitation Is A Sincere Form Of Making A Buck

[Mulboyne]

Mari of "Watashi to Tokyo" wrote the other day about how the manga magazine Shonen Sunday is catching flack for publishing a story which seems to be a copy of the popular Death Note series. Called LOST+BRAIN, the series is coming under heavy scrutiny from Death Note fans and they don't like what they see. The images below compare frames from LOST+BRAIN (Called "Megabaka" here and on the left in the first selection) with those from Death Note:

[Mulboyne]

[bolt_krank]

I was just thinking - who cares ?

I looks the same - so what. The story will need to help it along too.

[ttjereth]

Death Note was the first "mainstream" manga I've read for non-work related reasons in 10+ years because people (Japanese associates) kept telling me how great it was.

I was thoroughly disappointed. Let's see if he copies the forumula too.

Interesting concept + ridiculous mystery elements/deus ex machina = thoroughly retarded end of series.

[Mulboyne]

Kodansha has issued an apology (Japanese).

It looks like I may have confused two stories here: Mari's blog spoke about similarities between Death Note and Lost Brain in Shonen Sunday whereas the images above are from "Mega Baka" in Kodansha's Magazine Dragon.